Posted on 03/06/2017 7:39:54 AM PST by rktman
The 2016 presidential election was America’s first test run of the effects of safe-space parenting.
Its results were disheartening at best.
The scene outside the Javits Center in New York City could have been taken straight out of “The Walking Dead.” As I walked past a cordoned-off portion of the street around the time it became clear the glass ceiling would remain intact, I was forced to step over a disoriented, sobbing woman splayed out on the ground while being interviewed. Her appearance was not dissimilar to Rick Grimes in episode one, season one of the apocalyptic zombie show.
What she said was the only indication of what had truly happened: “His … his words just really hurt me.”
That sentence has stayed with me these past 118 days. She was rendered immobile by the actions of a man she had never met or interacted with. His words elicited the same reaction in her that people who have gone through real trauma exhibit.
The product of safe space parenting is a spineless inability to handle even the most minute negative situation. Emotional growth is stunted at the five-year-old level.
I’m only writing about this now because I assumed almost four months after President Donald Trump won the election, people would be back to normal.
My assumption was wrong.
If a person is never allowed to fail, they have no way of coping when it happens. It’s the same problem that occurs when parents sterilize everything because they don’t want their kid to get sick. An immune system that has never had to fight off a cold is ill-equipped to mount a defense once that child inevitably becomes ill.
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Wimps. My generation was in junior high during Watergate. We dealt with it.
Come to find out NOW that MS-—>Hillary was in on the prosecution of things. What a story this is!
Well, I do take exception at her “..results were disheartening at best.” comment. A lot of us were YUGELY heartened by the results. Trump won BIGLY because most common everyday folks are YUGELY fed up with the current/recent past governing body.
My millennial children all cheered when the election results came in. New York liberal elites do not represent an entire generation.
As it was intended to be..................
And she was FIRED by the Dems for being DISHONEST....................
You ought to be ashamed of yourself, feeling happiness at the suffering of liberals!
(Now, I want to see it too when you are done!)
The one child our family considers sort of a "Mommy's Boy" pulled two tours in Iraq as a US Marine 0311 (Grunt). You got low standards buddy...
Just the same, I don't blame the parent(s) alone - add in the *skools*, TeeVee shows and other mass media as part of this Formula for Failure.
FWIW, this whine/cry/sob Snowflake Generation is a relatively small part of the population....just an annoying part shoved in our face by a complicit media.
That’s why I posted “most” so kids like yours could be excluded from what appears to be a lot of kids. Maybe it’s mostly “fake news” releases.
We have brought this all upon ourselves. We have created a new generation where an non accomplishment is considered an accomplishment and should be awarded. A generation that does not create, a withdrawn iPod, Video/Computer Gaming group that has everything provided for them. A going nowhere group, letting foreigners take jobs they should be qualified to handle. Can I say LAZY? non-motivated? Non-creative? Half educated? Maybe I’m just blind? Can’t find honest, trustworthy,drug free, hardworking skilled employees? Geeze, what could possibly be wrong? (Rhet.)
This is from Saturday in Lake Oswego OR. I saw another guy there who was foaming at the mouth screaming about “genocide.” Later, he burned an American flag.
19 year old Boomers were trudging through the infested Jungles of Vietnam. Millenial snowflakes collapse at the sight of the word “Trump”. Pathetic.
I was one of six kids.
We lived near our grandparents, and were very close to them.
They survived the Depression AND WW II, and were willing to talk about it.
In my first job I worked with/became close with a lot of WW II vets.
Your observation is correct. Today’s safe-space kids with helicopter parents never get exposed to anything like that.
Notice my enlistment date. I often ask certain individuals what they were doing in ‘67, ‘68, ‘69 and ‘70.
In college and thereafter I identified with my folks’ generation and not mine, because of the Vietnam War. I would rather have worked for a CPA firm, but learned from these WW II vets it was my turn. The children around me said they would not fight in an immoral war. That implied that they would be the first to volunteer for a moral war. The men I knew fought the “good war”, but never indicated to me it was moral. Others said they could never bring themselves to shoot another human. The men I knew, were like me, much more concerned about being killed or seeing friends die.
I see this mess with the “Snowflakes” as a multi-generational problem that began at Woodstock. Woodstock highlights the worst generation this country produced until those Baby Boomers formed breeding pairs. They achieved self-actualization through moral exhibitionism and militant self-absorption, while ignoring the nobility their parents from the Greatest Generation displayed throughout the Depression and WW II.
These Boomers have an unprecedented focus on self. They seek policies of moral diversity/perversity, and material comfort to transform the country from the Arsenal of Democracy into just another Gulag of apostasy, greed, and dependency.
They begat through multi-generational psychological incest a legacy of ideologically mutant children and grandchildren. These Boomer offspring have become the “Snowflakes” of present times. These descendants are contra-educated to abhor the Constitution, the virtuous and valorous founding of our country, and classical liberal principles found in values of the Enlightenment. They are perpetual children are without essential humanity; empty, ignorant, feckless, emotional, overactive, and under challenged.
Note of correction, in re-reading my post, I noticed I brainfarted. I only served 22 years in the corps, not 26.
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