Political delusion sends young people running toward avoidable danger

American Thinker ^ | 18 Nov, 2021 | Nadra Enzi

[MtnClimber]

Although leftists love to say they’re doing things “for the children,” the ideology they’re selling encourages young people to take dangerous risks.

The past several years have seen me contemplating those children who came of age after Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri. They are now older teens and young adults who watched George Floyd’s death and the January 6th, 2021, protest in DC., two events that undoubtedly confirmed their hatred for conservatives. These milestones created the type of hubris that led several individuals to presume they could beat an armed teen in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last year with impunity. This was a classic, and tragic, political delusion.

Millennials live in an era in which their parents can’t spank them; teachers are assaulted on live stream; police officers are humiliated; and self-defenders are demonized as vigilantes for prevailing in ideologically charged confrontations. I’m acutely concerned about a generation whose unrealistic sense of immunity from consequences sends them into life-threatening situations. Such delusion promises high-profile trials and highly destructive uprisings.

I fully support political development, not political delusion. More dead or wounded young people isn’t my idea of “progress.” My safety advocacy started during the institutional implosion Black America experienced during the crack cocaine era. Sudden gun battles and tales of woe at neighborhood association meetings became commonplace.

That tragic, sweeping loss of life, followed by the relative sense of safety Black communities carved out since then doesn’t make me cavalier about millennials’ lack of restraint. My generation lost victims who were caught off guard, as compared to today’s youth, who are doing fatal versions of Charge of the Light Brigade. This mindset isn’t sustainable no matter how much it’s enabled by officeholders.

[MtnClimber]

[neverevergiveup]

So true, as history has taught us over and over.

[Nateman]

Our very right to self defense is on trial. Imagine believing you can take on an armed citizen with only a skateboard with no consequences. Two new Darwin award winners and a few more who should have joined them.

[snoringbear]

Because the trial will be going into its third day today I’m not optimistic about an acquittal from this jury. Thinking the best we can hope for is a mistrial ruling by the judge or barring that a hung jury. My guess is this will go to an appellate court where he will be acquitted.

[exnavy]

Conservatives were not responsible for the two events mentioned, democrat policies were.

[noiseman]

Skateboard dude learned a valuable physics lesson in his final seconds. F=ma. Skateboard dude’s weapon of choice had more mass than Kyle’s, but Kyle’s weapon had WAY more acceleration.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

“ Conservatives were not responsible for the two events mentioned, democrat policies were.”

I was not at all enough impressed by the writer to want to read more. The idea that the media which children were watching was horribly politically biased, seems completely lost on her/him/it. Yet, this is what should be of concern to parents.

At this point, reality is the only tool that Conservatives have. We can only hope that enough of them are so stupid as to try to take a gun from someone by its barrel.