Posted on 05/19/2014 4:45:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
Wishful thinking, I’m afraid. I’ve known plenty of 20-somethings who throw around the words “green,” “sustainable,” and “solar power,” like they’re magic talismans. They know no history and although, for the most part they know communism failed, they are unable to connect what they expose with the supposedly dead communism. When I speak to them the words that float to the top is useful idiots.
Sure about that?
Only if the lies are mentioned on Survivor or Dancing With The Stars. Otherwise, keep dreaming.
Well it confirms what I have ALWAYS, ALWAYS believe that, when you “are 20, and you are not liberal, you do not have a heart. When you are 40 and you are not conservative, you do not have a brain.”
They've outsourced procreation to Mexico.
Liberals hold all the cards where cultivating new voters is concerned.
Schools, MSM, everything!
That is very seductive to young, impressionable and gullible minds.
That’s THEIR excuse, but I wonder what excuse a grown adult can have for accepting Liberal BS... after all, we DO have to work.
Not really.
Young people will reject the Demonrats just like the Deutsches Junnvolk, the Bund Deutscher Mädel, and the Hitlerjugend rejected the Nazis.
In fact, people need to accept reality: the world works the way the world works, and every person has a sin nature, so we are all inherently "the bad guy" and nothing is going to change that.
Small, weak government minimizes the volatility and risk of bad people doing bad things and thereby breaking society. That's my approach to the world -- it's why I am a Conservative -- but anyone who engages in magic thinking (and the schools have churned out millions of such people) will simply focus on the "fact" that the world "ought to" work a certain way.
Don’t count on the subtle “re-educations” of a computer game do sufficiently re-orientate the mindset of the young. Only the very violent computer games are adequate to shift attitudes, perceptions, and lessons absorbed, and none of that is in a positive manner.
An individual may recognize that taking some portion of resources at your disposal, and investing time and effort to convert these resources into some product of greater value, then exchanging these products for more of the supply of the original resources, is a winning game. But arguments that the proceeds of this transaction are “sinful”, or that obtaining additional resources is “exploitative”, serves to completely negate the valuable lessons gained from seeing reward for effort, or to search for new resources to expand and multiply the utility of the product or service provided.
The artificial inhibitions planted in the minds of our youth serve only to assure that certain logic patterns are never established, or those that are established do not coincide with the realities of the Universe.
I doubt that young people will “see the light” until their teachers and instructors stop brain washing them into believing the crap they push.
I doubt that young people will “see the light” until their teachers and instructors stop brain washing them into believing the crap they push.
> Maybe we should rename the Millennials “the Suckers.”
Add Hollywood and the MSM to the pile...
I agree with you that Minecraft is not really educational as to conservative principles. Anyone can tell that the computer game could give infinite resources, if it were programmed that way. Scarcity, in the game, is a choice. Because it makes it fun. But the world isn't like that -- supply and demand is a real thing -- it's reality, not something added for "fun".
In the movie "Elysium", there seemed to be the notion that rich people in orbit had access to infinite healthcare -- but poor people on earth had nothing. In the end, things change and all the infinite healthcare from orbit becomes available to all the billions of poor people on earth. How fabulous!!!! Well, that's like re-programming Minecraft. Voila! Look at your resources now!
A lot of young people think that this world right here is like "Elysium" -- the solution is just redistribution of the infinite resources. But that is not the case, and I certainly don't think Minecraft is helping anyone learn Conservative values.
The difference is, which you completely ignore is that the German youth were forced to join these organizations. American youth are not forced to join any organizations
Wishful thinking indeed.
The writer fails to see how deeply the atheist/Marxist brainwashing is after 12 - 16 years of government schools and continual forced refreshing by media and government (which are really the same today).
Not only is it deep, but it is wide, covering virtually every area of life.
Yes, they will hit reality in a few areas, like debt and employment.
But most will still turn to the Marxist cesspool for most of their thinking.......
> I doubt that young people will “see the light” until their teachers and instructors stop brain washing them into believing the crap they push.
There are still a lot of Christian conservative teachers that do not push the crap hence the reason I believe Common Core was created - to standardize the indoctrination material and ensure that all teachers are forced to shove progressivise ideologies down their throats to achieve Agenda 21 type objectives.
“you’re a good person” and “you matter”
if you support liberalism.
That’s the selling point of the left.
And it’s very powerful with young people who don’t know that they “matter” because they are made in the image of God who loved them so much He sent His Son to die for them being NOT a “good person”.
Nonsense. I had my conservative “conversion” at about 15. And was the grandson, and political protege, of my County Democratic Party Chair. . .
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