Posted on 11/07/2012 6:14:47 PM PST by BelleAl
I spent a great time talking to my sweet, but sometimes clueless daughters about the impact of this election. They tend to see themselves as more progressive - pro gay marriage, global warming, etc... (before you guys flame away, please know I did my best -- this is college academic influence on them). The sense I get from them and from my conversations today with friends and acquaintances, is that there seems to be a overwhelming atmosphere of regret or to be more graphic and explicit...an oh s__t, what did we just do attitude.
I don't see an in-your-face hurrah jubilation like 4 years ago (except among the DBM)...just a quiet, somber reaction. I wonder if you guys are sensing that and if so, is it registering in Washington? The dynamics are definitely different this time around and I hope it is seen as unsettling to those in power. I'm feeling an edge, a vibe of unrest, uncertainty.
You are correct! :-)
That's the really strange thing. All my kids have an outstanding work ethic and understand there is no free lunch. They've all worked jobs from age 13 or so. They are all getting good careers started in this horrible economy. They will take any job to get started and never complain about starting at the bottom. Daughter #1 is completely on her own with an excellent marketing position after finishing grad school last June. Daughter #2 graduated last June with her BS degree and is working 3, sometimes 4 jobs in the field she loves. We shove them out and they know they have to make their own way in the world.
The peer forces, forces of "educators," forces of media and entertainment are very powerful and have corrupted their critical thinking skills when it comes to society at large and how and why civilizations succeed or fail.
I'm still hopeful they will come round as they age and begin to really understand the world around them, especially as things continue to deteriorate. I know in my 20s I was ignorant of existential threats to our civilization and it wasn't until my 30s I really came around.
That's why I'm cutting them some slack.
Our experiences are very similar. My daughter were nicely conservative, veered libertarian with the gay issues, now just plain lefty. We cannot discuss politics any more. What I am resenting most is the smug, holier-than-thou attitude. She works at being respectful until it comes to politics, then you can see her swallowing her tongue.
Have any of your lib friends’ kids turned conservative or is it only a one-way street? I’ve only seen it go that one way.
How do you ‘unfriend’ on FB? I don’t want to quit because many of my ‘friends’ are family, out of town adult nieces and nephews with kids who I would never hear about but for FB updtes and pix. But I have totally had it with some and don’t know how to go about unfriending individuals.
“Our experiences are very similar. My daughter were nicely conservative, veered libertarian with the gay issues, now just plain lefty. We cannot discuss politics any more. What I am resenting most is the smug, holier-than-thou attitude. She works at being respectful until it comes to politics, then you can see her swallowing her tongue.”
This is the exact case with my middle daughter — read Atlas Shrugged — bent libertarian — but now leaning left. Just.don’t.get.it. Thank God she at least didn’t vote for Obama! Your description of the superior attitude is right on — and I’m the one accused of not being open-minded by her!
My family is all in the Tyler area, and west Texas (Odessa, El Paso). I think Texans ought to make a concerted effort to get Austin back, because like a bad virus, once those liberals infect your capital, they start spreading.
“How do you ‘unfriend’ on FB? “
I don’t unfriend, I just block their posts from showing up on my newsfeed. That way they can rant and rave to no avail with respect to me. It’s like I have my fingers in my ears and I’m saying — I can’t hear you! Only they can’t see this.
I only do this for obnoxious posters — those whose purpose is not to share an opinion, but to spread propaganda.
The clash between the Left and Sharia can’t come soon enough for me because at that point something’s gotta give. Right now we have two bullies, may they turn on and destroy one another and sanity and prosperity return to this great nation.
“I think Texans ought to make a concerted effort to get Austin back,”
My opinion of Austin is this. They have great pride in being weird and are so in great numbers. But, here’s the catch... if everyone is weird, doesn’t that become the new “normal.” It’s easy to be “weird” when everyone else is. To me, weird is different, not like everyone else.
Find them in your newsfeed or on a posting they’ve made (or in your friends list), as you hover over their link, a popup shows them as “Friends”, there is a menu item under that to “Unfriend”.
You can also just stop getting their news in your feed, by unchecking “Show in News Feed.” If they are relatives, that might be the most prudent option since then you can still go over there and see what they are up to without having it in your face every single day.
I feel the same. I told a group of ‘tackle-box heads’ (people with more earrings, nose rings, tongue rings, etc) that they ought to wear a suit once in a while to really stand out. They looked like I threw dog poo in their face.
Thanks. It was just an ex girlfriend of one of my sons who’d just posted one too many stupid “I vote my crotch” statuses, who was just delighted that Mitt lost. Don’t need that in my face any more.
Thank you for your reply. After I posted I feared it was in error, since your name is OT, I considered the possibility you might be an Israel hating Jew, rather than an America hating Christian.
Just out of curiosity, and I know I have no right to demand an answer, who did you vote for?
Did you write Jesus Christ in? I couldn’t find Him anywhere on my California ballot.
She may smarten up quite a bit in the crucible of the next few years.
Oh, and, you misspelled “epitaph”...
Feel better now?
Probably not. Nor does a soul in the world care.
Your moniker is apt.
One of my father’s favorite sayings: Too Smart Too Dumb.
The democrats did a masterful job at creating ‘fear’ among the youth. Fear of the loss of abortion rights and fear that Romney wanted them all barefoot and pregnant.
They ‘feared’ a return to the 50’s. It made no sense.
Agreed.
The structure is not in the document, it is in human nature.
the Constitution is actually flawed in its balance of powers because the balance is not inherently stable.
Yes. It was (hmmm, past tense, was) a pretty good attempt to set up a system where the instability rocked between the branches in a sustainable fashion.
“Oh, and, you misspelled “epitaph”...”
I would accept ‘Christian’ as both an epithet and an epitaph.
You might want to invest in a thesaurus however if you don’t know the difference, or be more careful if you do. Some people could and would construe that as a threat. I recognize your utter and absolute impotence however so no worries here.
I would LOVE to help!
Perhaps some FReeper knows a semiconductor fab in Austin that would be willing to hire a Californian, thinking they are getting a liberal, but instead get me?
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