I will predict within three years that the girl scouts end up splitting up into two organizations. I’ll even go as far as predicting the boy scouts do the same within six years. We are living in the environment that existed in 1850...with two nations trying to exist in the same sphere.
“I’ll even go as far as predicting the boy scouts do the same within six years.”
GS I can see. We’re pretty involved in BSA and I don’t see much of a PC invasion there. I have no quibble with your two nations statement—it is true. It’s just that BSA seems to reside almost exclusively in the decent nation.
I seriously doubt that. I have found that most parents of girls in Girl Scouts are oblivious to the PC orientation of the organization. Even if they do know about some of the issues, they insist that the questionable practices are not occurring in their local group.
The National organization which affects all of the actual girls very little, except to sell badges uniforms and other and logo merchandise, imho
The regional Councils, which are going the way of National, little real functional impact on us except to manage registrations, offer some programs, and manage our camps and properties - which many Councils are selling off as fast as they can find loopholes around the bequests that left those properties to the girls
And then there are the troops- most of us still try to adhere to traditional values and programs. We adults recognize that the reason girls join GS is to camp, not to sell cookies- cookies is only a means to pay for girls to pay their own way to go troop camping. For many of us our “happy place” is around a campfire after dark. Once you do that, it is hard to not want it for your daughter
We are flooded by girls wanting to join GS, and lack leaders to lead troops and teach them to run their own troops as teens. 1,200 on girls on waiting lists for troops in my region alone.
“We are living in the environment that existed in 1850...with two nations trying to exist in the same sphere.”
And the outcome is likely to be the same as the four years following April 12, 1861.
Perhaps not quite as dramatic, but just as uncivil.
We’ll likely discover Real Soon Now just how far the LIEberal/Socialist/Marxist/Fascist bastards who would impose their will on us and rule us are willing to go.
And, we’ll also discover what the push back will be.
Interesting call -- unfortunately, considering the analogy and its consequent resolution. Worth keeping an eye on.
FWIW, though, I don't think BSA is going anywhere; I doubt they'll break up, and the pseudo-scouts orgs will probably just decay into intake atria for catamitic seraglios and totalitarian paramilitary groups and lose any pretense of actually standing for something.
Vice is pretty reliable that way -- of doing away with the waystations and middlemen and "getting down to it" fairly directly. Those guys won't be out in the woods long.