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Victor Davis Hanson: Young Westerners — Deprived or Decadent or What?
NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE ^ | August 18, 2011 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 08/18/2011 10:14:45 PM PDT by neverdem

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1 posted on 08/18/2011 10:14:50 PM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem
Hanson is probably the sanest man in America.
2 posted on 08/18/2011 10:19:43 PM PDT by stripes1776
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To: neverdem

It is my opinion that the children of welfare society’s feel trapped.
They have all kinds of assistance, but have mamas that teach them “this is your life”

They hate who they are and they lash out against the evil rich.
I don’t know how to put it in words, but our underclass is going to erupt in 2012 when Obama is defeated.They feel helpless with no prospects for jobs, and others feel shame that they haven’t been raised with the aspiration of jobs, so they lash out at anyone that has “More”

We are sitting on a powder keg her in America.
Wittiness the flashmobs.


3 posted on 08/18/2011 10:30:20 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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These flashmob kids all have 4g and iphones, they have xbox, AC, a roof and food, but they have no HOPE.

Obama is a dismal failure.


4 posted on 08/18/2011 10:34:53 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: neverdem

These rioters have a three word mantra regardless if race: “It Ain’t Fair”.


5 posted on 08/18/2011 10:34:53 PM PDT by JimSEA (The future ain't what it used to be.)
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To: JimSEA

And the truth is, they’re right: it ain’t fair.


6 posted on 08/18/2011 10:47:19 PM PDT by icanhasbailout
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To: mylife

“They have all kinds of assistance, but have mamas that teach them “this is your life””

Such is the crux of my life; let me share a part of my life with you.

When I was growing up I was basically brought up to have little to no expectations that I was going to do well. It wasn’t that something was wrong with me, but I grew up conditioned to not make much of myself for some odd reason or another. So, I have gone through life struggling all the time against it and now I’m on SSD.

Here’s the kicker; during the past two/three years I have been fianlly breaking the thought pattern and making something of myself. I’m on SSD right NOW, but I recently began work on brokering a deal for an investment client I found through networking and then it’s only a matter of time until I end up sealing the deal and getting millions in commission. The problem has not enitrely been me, but my upbringing and parents who have brought me up to be nothing, not something.

Well, my mother died in May 2010 ( a blessing since she was very unstable and negative ) and I am breaking away from my father’s control (he married my domineering stepmother when I was six) and I know now that if I’m going to lead a healthy, productive life, I am going to have to end up moving away from him. Put frankly, I know how these kids feel. They have the ability, they just constantly have people trying to ‘put them in their place’ and keep them there.

All I do know is that there are too many people fixated on ‘staying in their place’ and many parents who led disappointed lives and for some reason, don’t want their children to lead happy and productive ones as a result. They are actively sabotaging their children becacuse of their disappointments in life and don’t wnat their kids to have what they didn’t.


7 posted on 08/18/2011 10:51:07 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: icanhasbailout; JimSEA

No one told them that life in general isn’t fair and you have to sacrifice in order to get what you want.


8 posted on 08/18/2011 10:51:55 PM PDT by Niuhuru (The Internet is the digital AIDS; adapting and successfully destroying the MSM host.)
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To: Niuhuru
Who would tell them that? Their welfare-dependent single mothers? Their absent fathers? Esteem-building, non-educating government schools?

These kids are given none of the benefits of civilization (e.g. literacy, a moral code, economic opportunity). They are essentially feral human beings who live in a cage of poverty, ghettos, and government. It is unrealistic to expect them to behave in a civilized manner, when they've never actually seen a working real-life example of how it is done.

9 posted on 08/18/2011 10:57:27 PM PDT by icanhasbailout
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To: Niuhuru

They condition us to be content with crumbs, And they also condition us to hate anyone that has more.

Good luck with your venture.


10 posted on 08/18/2011 11:13:34 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: icanhasbailout

In general, I believe you are correct.


11 posted on 08/18/2011 11:14:44 PM PDT by mylife (OPINIONS ~ $ 1.00 HALFBAKED ~ 50c)
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To: neverdem

There ate one million young people in Madrid right now, most of whom raised thousands of dollars on their own, to see the Pope.
No violence, zero drama, one million in one place, just to hear the message of how to conduct their lives in a good way. No interest in GOOD youth. But they are there and they are together this week.

EWTN is covering it.

No one else is covering it.

One million (no celebrity can draw that size crowd)
compared to two thousand in London.

Not a blip.


12 posted on 08/18/2011 11:21:10 PM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

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Phooey


13 posted on 08/18/2011 11:23:02 PM PDT by stanne
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The press DID cover it—but there focus (the press I saw) was on the people who were protesting because of the economic cost to the people in Spain—they were mad that the Pope was coming because they had to pay a lot for the security.

Our press glorifies the dysfunctional (since Jerry Springer and Kinsey) and they disparage and ridicule anything Christian or Orthodox Jewish. They have been trying to destroy morality since Marcuse and the Universities kicked out the Classics in the 60’s which teach Honor, Courage, Duty and Wisdom. They put in The Beats and dysfunctional, illiterate “books” like ones that glorify gang rapes and girls masturbating or boys -—or like Burrough’s who writes about sodomizing “hanging boys”.

The intellectual Marxist elites (Marcuse) have been intentionally corrupting the children with the curricula—to kill all morality and create entitlements and victimhood (Sex Ed is put into curricula to destroy sexual morality (Eakman)—so they will have ACORN type thugs—mobs to destroy the society so they can take total control.

Kids who get involved in sex early have difficulty with family, never have long lasting relationships are disloyal, superficial, and shiftless, and their kids are stupid and uncivil with no healthy role models. Herbert Marcuse and their sick homosexual mafia who frequent the Bohemian Grove (Kissinger) want to redesign man and destroy the family unit-—so they can create total chaos and use mankind and the world as their playground. They are evil.


14 posted on 08/18/2011 11:56:33 PM PDT by savagesusie
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To: icanhasbailout

“Feral human beings” - great description.


15 posted on 08/19/2011 12:39:01 AM PDT by MonicaG (God bless our military! Praying and thanking God for you every day. Thank you!)
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To: Pontiac

Bump for later


16 posted on 08/19/2011 12:46:32 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: mylife
The most left-wing president ever elected cannot give the deadbeats the stuff they want. All of the takers just thought if they elected a generous enough leader, their troubles would be over.

Now that Marxism is a proven lie, and with Obama soon to be tossed out on his big ears, there will indeed be wholesale rioting.

The failure of socialism and redistribution of wealth is now so demonstrable, there is growing despair that opportunity demands you get off your ass and work. They don't like having to work.

Obama was supposed to pay their car loans and put gasoline in their cars.

17 posted on 08/19/2011 2:04:24 AM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority (Where is the middle ground on insolvency of the United States government?)
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To: mylife

“I don’t know how to put it in words, but our underclass is going to erupt in 2012 when Obama is defeated.They feel helpless with no prospects for jobs, and others feel shame that they haven’t been raised with the aspiration of jobs, so they lash out at anyone that has “More” “

I think every group in the US is hoping for a real change, and it is obvious to all that Obama’s change is not for the better. The flash mobs are a great example of what our underclass acts like with Obama in office; he’s made it clear that he expects no improvement on the jobs front (the dopey ATM comment was to me his first indication that he knew the job market would remain stagnant for some time). The underclass has no choice but to accept whatever the state provides them, regardless of which party is in power; for the most part any threat is limited to the urban minority reservations. These flash-mobs seem to be happening only in areas where these “youth” have been before.


18 posted on 08/19/2011 2:15:27 AM PDT by kearnyirish2
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To: neverdem

Just my tag. Says it all.


19 posted on 08/19/2011 2:32:30 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: savagesusie

Susie, you have explained it perfectly. That is exactly what is going on and they ARE evil. Marxism is about destruction, period. Once they have destroyed a society in order to install their philosophy they then destroy themselves.

Marxism proposes that the masses will rise up in rebellion against those who have more, but the masses don’t rise up unless lied to and agitated to do so. That is what we are seeing.

Black Liberation Theology is a big part of the agitation and it is preached in most black churches.


20 posted on 08/19/2011 6:38:41 AM PDT by Mind-numbed Robot (I retain the right to be inconsistent, contradictory and even flat-out wrong!)
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