Posted on 11/09/2022 4:22:44 PM PST by simpson96
John Della Volpe, a hard-Left pollster and author of a deathless tome entitled FIGHT: How Gen Z is Channeling Their Fear & Passion to Save America, is claiming that his favorite age group saved the midterm elections for those who love skyrocketing inflation, open borders, rising crime, international ridicule and brinksmanship, and accelerating authoritarianism. Della Volpe tweeted, “One thing I know already. If not for voters under 30 … tonight WOULD have been a Red Wave.(snip)
What he is crowing about is the apparent fact that the voting group with the least life experience and the most recent subjection to the Leftist indoctrination that dominates America’s educational system ended up voting as it was brainwashed to do. Gee, that’s terrific, if you like evidence of the success of the relentless propagandizing of a vulnerable and impressionable captive audience, but neither John Della Volpe nor anyone else should be proud of it. What it shows is not that the Leftist case is compelling or persuasive; it shows that patriotic Americans have been far too complacent in allowing public schools to become centers of Leftist indoctrination and hatred of our own nation and heritage.
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Many, if not most, of the Gen Z-ers who voted overwhelmingly for the Left will, as they get older, come to realize how foolish and wrongheaded they were to support socialist internationalism and the managed decline of the United States. But others will never wake up, and will applaud that decline as retribution for centuries of alleged racism and colonialism. Even as their own cities and towns become ever more squalid, poor, dirty, and dangerous, they will continue to think of themselves as righteous for having chosen all that. That pride will be all they have left.
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The demographic least likely to vote? I doubt it.
True, but the cowardice of authority in the 60’s was a very big contributor. I taught school in Fairfax County Va in 1968-69 before entering the armed service. At the high school I taught at there were definite ‘student power’ actions but the administration didn’t budge and by the second semester the activities had dissolved. While on leave at the end of 1970 I visited this school. Same building , different school. The people at Dept of Ed HQ had decreed ‘liberalization’ of rules. The tight dress code was eliminated so the students were an unwashed or half dressed mob, girls with mini skirts and crop tops, males with dirty cloths and hair to the shoulders a ‘student smoking area’ created which meant class skippers had a permanent congregation area, internal controls were gone so in the middle of a class time the halls were swarming with drifting students. Because ‘elective’ courses were now in place students often had ‘free periods’ in their schedule so it was impossible to know who was or was not really on ‘break time’. The Vice Principle who I had gotten to know pretty well said he was retiring in June and the whole secondary system was now a zoo. This happened in many institutions, authority figures just behaved irresolutely or just plain gutlessly. The President of SF State U in California was the only university president that essential treated student mobs as illegal strikers and brought in the state police who stayed on campus for months. He was execrated but did not care. He was unique. So we have had a half century of consequenceless disorder and the Gen XYZ or whatever the hell it is is now dominated by crazed fools. I only hope I live long enough to see this rotten culture collide with something really big and unpleasant. But those to blame are the so called authority figures circa 1970 who were just cowards and gutless.
They are the ones who are going to have to pay the bills that the Democrat spending will produce.
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