Posted on 04/23/2017 4:42:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.—C.S. Lewis
An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything into an empty head. — Eric Hoffer
Our kids are no longer taught about patriotism, morality, honor or self-reliance. Theyre not taught economics. Theyre not taught about the Constitution. The boys arent taught to be men and the girls arent taught to be women. In fact, if you find kids who know anything about these subjects, it is almost certainly because their parents bent over backwards to jam that knowledge into their heads.
Our society used to inculcate these values in schools, church and via our entertainment. It was a different and, in many ways, better world. Liberals try to portray everything that happened in Americas past as evil and backward, but when you look at statistics like these from Charles Murrays outstanding book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, try and tell me that this country hasnt gone downhill in the values were teaching our kids.
To get a sense of how different attitudes were in the 1960s, perhaps this will do it. These ever-married women were asked, In your opinion, do you think it is all right for a woman to have sexual relations before marriage with a man she knows she is going to marry? …Eighty-six percent said no.
Starting in 1970, marriage took a nosedive that lasted for nearly twenty years. Among all whites, ages 30-49, only 13 percent were not living with spouses as of 1970, Twenty years later, that proportion had more than doubled, to 27 percent — a change in a core social institution that has few precedents for magnitude and speed.
As the late, great Andrew Breitbart said, Politics is downstream from culture. Is it a shocker that millennials lean to the Left when they constantly have liberalism shoved down their throats by their schools, their favorite musicians, and Hollywood? Is it a big surprise that 51% of millennials do not support capitalism when we allow honest-to-goodness communists to teach them in college and liberals are publicly extolling the virtues of socialist hellholes like Cuba and Venezuela?
The Greatest Generation grew up storming Normandy and fighting the Japanese across the Pacific. Meanwhile, many millennials of the same age feel unsafe if someone they disagree with speaks at an event they dont have to attend on their campus.
Oh, and morality? Kids today grow up being told that morality is wrong because morality demands judgment. As Hugh Hewitt said, My analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or absolutely good, as sin or virtue, puts liberalism into a horrible position because its founded on no judgment on anything. As a result, any faith that is seriously practiced or understood is a challenge to the politics that depend on constituencies that would rather not be told that their choices are bad and their lives are not virtuous.
Additionally, as my friend Evan Sayet noted, everything liberals teach to kids is backward.
In the sixties, American kids were dreaming of building rocket ships and going to the moon. Today, theyre trying to figure out what gender they are and which bathroom they should be using. Its not an improvement.
This is where snowflakes come from. Its where the victimhood mentality comes from. Its why so many kids think theyre entitled to have whatever they want based on what we can only assume is the sheer gratitude the rest of us should have for their very existence.
As someone who has millennials working for him, I can tell you that theyre not a doomed generation. Theyre not all snowflakes. They can be just as successful as past generations of Americans.
However, to make that happen, we conservatives cant just keep going with the flow because its easier. We have to teach young Americans about the values that have made this the most successful, prosperous nation on earth.
To start with, we need to begin challenging the victim mentality liberals push on millennials. As I write in my brand new book, 101 things All Young Adults Should Know, Dont ever feel sorry for yourself. Dont ever seek pity from other people. Dont ever play the victim, even if you are one. Why? Its a mentality. If you wait for someone else to solve your problems, youre usually in for a long wait. Even if you do get help, you probably wont like the help you get. Hammer that message home to your kids. Also, buy a copy of my book. In fact, buy 30 and give them to all your kids friends.
Lets cut off the funding of state run colleges which discriminate against conservatives. Furthermore, if liberal kids keep tearing up Berkeley every time conservatives want to speak, then maybe Trump should send in the National Guard to keep order and protect their First Amendment rights.
Weve also got to teach our kids about capitalism, Christianity, and love of country, because that is what this nation was built on. Snowflakes may melt when the going gets tough, but kids who are taught good, conservative values will stand tall even when its not easy.
Great quote:
We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst.C.S. Lewis
Those who love their children HOME SCHOOL.
Instead of education we make men hating men and women hating womanhood. This is akin to islamics not educating anyone but grieving about crusades.
They deatroy their own lives and will blame the rest of us endlessly
Go to just about any school or university you want and you will find “teachers” brainwashing anyone they can.
True more than it isn’t.
This is still uncomfortably secular. Where are the bible maxims?
Excellent point
This is really getting old. I applaud anyone who is able and qualified to home home school. I was not one of them. Besides there was no such thing as home schooling in the late sixties, the seventies and the eighties.
I also wish we would not further the misrepresentation of illiberal people as “liberal.” This rhetorical sleight of hand crowds out the biblical, godly liberal person who serves God with his liberality.
Snobbishness can be ILliberal no?
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Our kids are no longer taught about patriotism, morality, honor or self-reliance. Theyre not taught economics. Theyre not taught about the Constitution. The boys arent taught to be men and the girls arent taught to be women.
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Just had a long conversation about the above with someone yesterday. Liberals and communists have been in ‘higher’ education a long while & have infiltrated public schools (K-12) as well. The kids won’t “turn out” if they are sent to these people to be “indoctrinated”, not educated. For too many (not all), public schools are a baby sitter while mom/dad work. The only way to truly take the country back is to get the kids out of public schools & home school them - bring back morals, values, patriotism, true historical knowledge, and teach them to be ‘real’ men and women who respect each other & understand the role that each has in God’s creation. I could go on, but unless we get our kids back, this ‘snowflake’ mess will be the ruination of the country, no matter how many jobs Trump creates, etc. The Left & especially Obama, who accelerated the process the last 8 years, has done a stellar job rotting out & chipping away the foundation on which this country was built.
Sums it up perfectly!
For almost a century, leftists, including the fifth-column media, have been poisoning the minds of young Americans, at least the susceptible ones. This leftist poison includes HS world and American history books filled with liberal lies and Commie claptrap about socialist causes, the League of Nations, and the United Nations.
As a single Father, I couldn’t “home school”, but I “Schooled” my son’s teachers and school principals. They didn’t like me much, but they didn’t successfully indoctrinate my son.
I schooled him by example and insured he was active in Scouts. He made Eagle.
Thanks to the piss-poor teachers, he didn’t go to college. He got a job throwing feed at the local Tractor Supply store...a fine company! Now, at 24, he is an experienced store manager, on track for advancement. He has told me this year how my “home school” lessons now make sense.
We all home school. We must also “school” the public schools! They don’t have the balls to defend their corrup values.
There is no such thing as an "honest-to-goodness" communist.
~ MM ~
Bingo ... since they're already trashed the term "liberal" and are in the process of trashing the term "progressive" .. I just call them Radical Lefties, let them wallow and revel in the shit they've created.
~ MM ~
That methodology prepared us for the highjacking that was to take place. Goebbels would be proud.
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