Posted on 09/04/2013 6:29:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
We're trying our best in the NHN household. My 11 YO son is very conservative, and I continue to teach him history as the opportunity arises.
When he was in 1st grade, his teacher remarked to me that "he knew more about The Alamo than I did."
This summer's history lesson revolved around Route 66, the "Mother Road", as our vacation spent a few days on IH-40 from Amarillo to Kingman AZ. Of course, we stopped at the "Standin' on the Corner" park in Winslow, AZ. There's a statue of a man standing on the corner, with a flatbed Ford parked nearby.
Since it was just the two of us for most of the trip, we had many hours to just talk, and he asked dozens of questions about the history and significance of Route 66.
I can't recall a more enjoyable vacation in my entire life. A week in Southern Utah, six national parks/monuments, horesback riding in Monument Valley and Bryce Canyon, canyoneering outside Zion NP. The trip back took us through Williams (train to Grand Canyon), Sedona, and Tombstone (more history).
The young people might be leaning away from liberalism, but they are headed toward apathetic primal decadence. Every man does what is right in his own eyes.
That’s because they realize that a third party elects Democrats (hopefully, they realize it).
He’s lucky to have you! And vice versa :)
I homeschooled my offspring and it turned out well. Sensible, conservative, employable, thrifty, devout. So there are glorious exceptions!
Take it eeeea-sy! /eagles
After going 52% Nixon versus 46% McGovern in 1972, the under 30 vote went 51% for Carter against Ford and this was after Watergate and the pardon, when Carter was seen as the more conservative by many Americans, the boomer vote of 1976 was nothing like the 66% youth margin for Obama in 2008.
“...breathlessly ignorant.”
I agree. How can such a people remain free?
The yute are deceived and buy the lies. This cannot last indefinitely. I expect an economic downturn due to the liberal fiscal policies. Dependents of the state will starve and pay the penalty for their lack of foresight. Then all those guns and all that ammo will permit some to protect themselves from the massive civic unrest that will follow.
The question remains: who will be the bigger threat? Rioters or the govt which try to restore order?
Except that isn't really true in voting.
In 1972, with the GOP running Nixon, with the draft and the Vietnam War, 13,000 people arrested in DC, all the 1960s stuff that people remember, the under 30 vote went 52% FOR NIXON, 46% democrat.
“They’ll always believe that socialism works, but the right people have never run it.
Millennial Techies are the worst because they believe that the missing piece....modern computer technology....is the thing that will FINALLY allow Socialism to be run properly.
Just as soon as SAP releases that Five Year Plan Management module... “
With SAP you would also have to apply 1,000 note corrections, decipher the German comments in the code, and learn how to understand the mispronunciation of the English language by SAP Support as your calls get routed around the world.
Unfortunately the same is true for all software companies.
If there ever was a "Me" Generation.... hooo boy this is it!
Just like the “Singularity” replacing God.
“So you expect, within your lifetime, to develop 100% accurate models of the human brain AND the ability to download human biological software into computers AND that we’ll have the memory and power to run the simulated you forever ...”
They expect to create immortality in their lifetimes (i.e., they’ll never die), though such a thing has never existed before and may not come to be.
But believing in God, which does answer how the universe was created, is worthy of derision.
Worse . . . you're absolutely looney. Or stunted.
I have a friend, 61, who spouts off the weirdest ideas. Even when you try to argue, she is too wedded to her defenses. An activist in her younger days, she never outgrew it. Very distorted thinking.
Her mother & sister are the same way. Liberal households tend to be female-dominated.
18 and 30, attributed to Churchill but dont think he said it.
Yep.
And every single one of them are on antidepressants.
BTTT!
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