Posted on 11/22/2022 9:13:26 PM PST by SeekAndFind
This week, The New York Times published a column by a left-wing academic (forgive the redundancy), John Della Volpe, director of polling at the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics.
In his first sentence, Mr. Della Volpe reveals his politics.
He described young Americans as "stressed and sickened by thoughts of their rights and democracy slipping away."
That is what Harvard and just about every other university tells America's young people: "Because of the Right, you should be stressed and sickened -- the Right is taking away your rights and destroying your democracy."
The terrible irony is that there is a mortal threat to Americans' rights and democracy -- but it is entirely from the Left. Ever since Stalin declared Trotsky a "fascist," the Left has labeled its opponents precisely what the Left itself is.
And it almost always works.
It is certainly working in America. Della Volpe writes: "According to the fall 2022 Harvard Youth Poll, a national survey I oversee for the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, 59 percent of young Americans believe their rights are under attack and 73 percent are troubled that the rights of others are threatened."
Whatever the Left says is essentially the only thing the majority of young Americans ever hear. For almost six years, the Left has called former President Donald Trump a fascist. The current president of the United States went even further, declaring that most Trump supporters are also fascists.
Yet, Trump was president of the United States for four years, and civil rights were not abridged nor was democracy threatened. As regards the illegal entry of conservative protesters into the Capitol in January 2021, Trump repeatedly called for a peaceful protest and respect for law enforcement (as evidenced, in part, by his now-restored Twitter account). And, let it not be forgotten, that unlike the violent left-wing protests in 2020, which almost no Democrats condemned, the Jan. 6 Capitol breach was virtually universally condemned by Republicans -- and the then-Republican vice president, Mike Pence, rejected the protesters' demands to invalidate the 2020 election result. Moreover, the Left called Trump a fascist for four years prior to Jan. 6.
As regards Trump's belief that the election was stolen, Democrats, including the losing presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, claimed Trump did not win the 2016 election. And it has been a common left-wing tactic for decades to illegally occupy state offices, not to mention college presidents' offices. In 2011, thousands of left-wing protesters took over the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison for four months. More recently, in 2018, protesters took over a Senate office building on Capitol Hill demanding rejection of Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court.
It is not conservatives who threaten freedom and democracy. It is the Left; its party (the Democrats); the legacy media (virtually all mainstream media); and Big Tech (Google, YouTube, Facebook, TikTok and, until now, Twitter). They are the ones who suppress dissent -- which, as I pointed out in my last column, is proof the Left lies, since truth-tellers have no need to cancel lectures, censor dissenters, manipulate search results, etc. The Left constitutes the greatest threat in American history to freedom of speech -- the most important of all freedoms.
Yet the young vote for the Left. According to Della Volpe, these were the findings of exit polls from the recent elections:
In Arizona, the Democratic senator, Mark Kelly, won a whopping 76% of the 18-to-29-year-old vote, while the Republican, Blake Masters, received 20%, according to a CNN exit poll. In Pennsylvania, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, the Democrat, received a lopsided 70% of the youth vote, compared with the 28% Dr. Mehmet Oz, the Republican, received. And in Nevada, Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto earned reelection against the Republican Adam Laxalt, thanks in large measure to young voters, 64% of whom voted for her, compared to Laxalt's 31%.
In short, it seems that young Americans voted for the people who are ruining their lives.
It is the Left that is primarily responsible for the unprecedented levels of depression and despair among young people.
The Left deprived children of school for nearly two years -- for no valid reason.
The Left ensured that young children not see anyone's face outside their home for nearly two years -- again, for no valid reason.
The Left frightens young people about their future -- through its hysteria over global warming -- in a way that no group ever before frightened young Americans.
The Left has destroyed the healthiest beliefs in a citizen's life -- especially in the life of a young citizen: Belief in God and belief in one's country. God, religion, patriotism and the national flag have all become objects of mockery.
The Left lies to them about everything -- from nonbinary genders to the founding of America to the extent of white racism in the country to opponents of the Left being fascists.
The Left works feverishly to prematurely sexualize children by talking about sex and the nihilistic falsehood of sex being "nonbinary" to children beginning in kindergarten.
The Left encourages taking children as young as 5 years old to observe and participate in "Drag Queen Story Hours" -- featuring men dressed as women reading and dancing for them, often in a sexualized manner, and then having some of the children do the same.
The Left works feverishly to diminish the authority and stature of parents, the most important people in a young person's life.
The Left has created the unprecedented explosion -- not only in America, but in recorded history -- of young people who think they are really a member of the opposite sex.
The Left corrupts young people's ability to think clearly by suppressing common sense dissent. Everyone knows it is grossly unfair for a man to compete in women's sports. But if a man says he is a woman, we are supposed to believe and to assert that it becomes fair. And any girl or woman who says it is unfair is threatened with expulsion from her team, the end of her chances for a sports scholarship to college and social ostracization.
Yet, they vote for their destroyers. Go Figure.
My smart, independent but brainwashed daughter has just got Covid. She is not only physically sick but going thru challenging cognitive dissonance. “I’ve had two boosters. I should not be sick”.
How many Conservatives who know this are still funding the leftist propaganda machine with their TV subscriptions?
There is an old movie, called Aliens, wherein the star asks a question
“Have IQ’s dropped sharply while I was away?”
Unfortunately the answer here for those expecting peace, democracy, and economic lift, who are voting Democrat
“Yes, yes, it most certainly has”
Sadly, recent studies strongly suggest the younger generation does have a remarkably diminished IQ.
stressed and sickened by thoughts of their rights and democracy slipping away.”
exactly what the rats ordered. A product of an education system that is a propaganda brainwashing mill.
Zero growth. Zero economic mobility. Zero actual physical mobility (travel restrictions). The return of serfdom and living in perpetual fear knowing that there are so many, often contradictory, laws that one is guilty of something, always, and the only thing preventing one's arrest is by having no thoughts other than to give full throated adoration to the state.
If only they had been warned...
Stolen election. Nobody really voted for anything.
The same was said of the baby boomers in the 1960s.
Then the majority of these leftist, hippy baby boomers voted overwhelmingly for Reagan in 1984.
Did anyone bother to read the actual poll results? First, Republicans are way undersampled at 516 respondents vs 789 Dems and 800 Independents. Thus any aggregate result will skew away from Conservatives.
Further, on the question "My rights are under attack in America today" 62% of Democrats AND 62% of Republicans answered YES; Independents answered YES 55% of the time. That's what gives us the aggregate 59%. The respective percentages for the concern for the rights of others are 81%, 69%, and 61%.
Thus, we have a tale of two or three cities.... but Praeger et al slime the lot. That's a great strategy - stereotyping. It's bad when the left calls us racists, but I guess it's ok when and old guy bashes the kidz in toto. Whoever dreamt up the strategy of "hey, let's keep calling anyone under 35 stupid - and then they'll start voting for Deplorables" is an idiot.
Continued sober analysis cheers one up. The Biden disapproval rating of 58% was in part driven by a whopping 94% disapproval rating from the Republican youths. In fact, if you look at the results by political affiliation the Republican youths are getting it right.
Every generation starts out idealistic and stupid. Then they grow up. The Boomers were drugged out hippies, GenX were depressed grungers, and so on...yet they elected Trump. The same is happening to Millenials as they age. But we geezers would rather blame youths for being youths, as we forget our youthful stupidity, say "but it's DIFFERENT today" as we listen to The Last Waltz on our Walkman.
Further, if you let the MSM think for you, as they interview GenZers who live in NYC and LA or D.C. (i.e. Where the MSM live) of COURSE you'll get a biased sample of pod-eating snowflakes. It's by design...they WANT you to have no hope.
It's time for the adults to be adults. Stop letting that the MSM and TikTok think for you. Across Scouts, coworkers, and friends, I find most youths to be pretty sharp. They know Joe is a loser, they own guns, they see the scamdemic for what it was, and they work hard. Sure, there are leftist people under 30 who think we have 12.45 years to fix climate change: they get put on MSNBC while the conservative kids work two jobs and listen to podcasts and stay out of the fray.
I don't know why Praeger wrote such an emotional, void-of-fact piece. Maybe he's got Post-election blues, and trying to blame someone for the lack of a Red Wave. Dude, we got the House, the RNC wasn't pushing hard, we were coming from a high baseline, the Dems lose Committee assignments, and we will have gridlock for 2 years. And it's not the kids fault. Take a Midol, put on a manpon, and look at actual data - they tell a different story, Dennis.
The young are proving WHY no one should be voting earlier than 21 years of age-—and maybe not until 25.
I doubt it indeed if they haven’t learned to reason by now they will never will stoned and zoned in action.
Prisons have more younger people the ever before.
I agree with almost everything you stated.
Except, IQ’s are really dropping. That is real. You have been lucky enough to be around the kids that have been selected out by motivation and different parents/life experience.
I don’t think this time is like the past. Critical thinking skill have evaporated in the new generation, they don’t solve problems they expect someone to do it for them.
They may be upset with Biden, but they have NOT learned that the lies that got them to accept Biden in the place. They don’t understand that ‘loan forgiveness’ ‘pot for everyone’ ‘free healthcare’ is old fashioned vote buying that makes everyone worse off. Older generations figured it out, I don’t know about the new ones.
To backtest our competing theories, here is a sampled list of Boomer student demands....
....and now GenZ student demands...
I see no measurable increase or decrease in critical thinking, intelligence, or awareness that free stuff isn't free. The only improvement, is in presentation (which is really due to computers).
I'm not saying today's idiotic youths are better or worse than prior generations' idiots. They're different..but that's nothing new. The hippies and grungers were different, but their cries of "ban the bomb" and "divest" were equally misguided, and precursors to "12.73 years left." Similarly, today's pod-eaters' demands for bespoke pronouns is simply the demon-spawn of hyphenated surnames and ridiculous first names.
Where I DO see deterioration, is in how the GenZers and Millenials regard authority IN GENERAL. Prior generations disregarded authority, challenged authority, and mocked authority. Today's youths OBEY AUTHORITY. Their unquestioning loyalty to the CDC, Fauci. Global warming peddlers, and the like is breathtaking. I sort of WANT the kids to mock the elders. The way how many in this generation masked and vaxxed up, was troubling.
Again, painting with broad brush strokes covers up the strengths of young Deplorables. Thankfully, the youths with whom I have contact, who generally lean right, as also aghast at their pod-eating brethren. I have hope.
Wow. That was enlightening, and thanks for the effort.
So, I give in to you that these behaviors haven’t changed.
I will put to you that intelligent free thinkers always ask why. As you said, a new generation accepts.
the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics, polled 59 percent of young Americans believe their rights are under attack and 73 percent are troubled that the rights of others are threatened.”
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The poll is a sham to coverup rampant Dem voter fraud.
Hard to believe these spoiled young brats living off their parents suddenly becoming conscientious voting citizens worried about someone else’s rights.
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