Posted on 05/04/2021 5:58:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
Editor's Note: This piece was co-authored by David Goetsch.
Leftist politicians, President Joe Biden, Marxist professors, the mainstream media, historical revisionists and the entertainment industry all play a role in hoodwinking young people into favoring socialism over freedom, enterprise and self-determination. However, the most important factor in the susceptibility of young people to the false promises of socialism is their parents. Turning the youngsters of today into the socialists of tomorrow begins in the home. This is why, with apologies to Willie Nelson, we offer this warning: Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be socialists.
In our upcoming book, "We Didn't Fight for Socialism: America's Veterans Speak Up" (to be released in July), we make the critical point that parents are often unwittingly complicit in the acceptance of socialism by their children. This happens when helicopter parents shield their children from responsibility and accountability during their formative years, accept mediocrity instead of encouraging excellence, and do for their children what children should do for themselves.
Not surprisingly, when children raised this way come of age, they are open to a nanny government taking the place of their helicopter parents. Knowing this, socialist advocates such as Biden and his fellow Democrats promise them taxpayer-funded care from cradle to grave. Not surprisingly, the concept of nanny government resonates with young people who have been pampered by their parents.
A lot of parents in America give their children latitude without responsibility. They also give them material comfort without requiring anything from them. Ironically, many of the parents who make these mistakes were once poor or middle-income youngsters themselves. Because of this, they had to work long and hard for the material advantages they now enjoy. Not wanting their children to suffer the hardships they endured, these parents make the mistake of over-providing for them materially -- resulting in idleness, bad attitudes, poor decisions and unacceptable behavior.
Too many well-meaning parents give their children what children should be required to earn. This is a mistake because an ironic trait of human nature is we appreciate more what we earn than what we are freely given. When children are required to contribute to the family in meaningful ways and earn what they receive, they are better prepared to function outside the home when they come of age.
Shielding children from the realities of life doesn't help them; it harms them. Letting children learn to cope with consequences while they are young and able to grow from the experience is the best way to prepare them for life outside the protective cocoon of the parental home. Is it any wonder when children raised by helicopter parents develop an aversion to responsibility and accountability and acquire an entitlement mentality?
It should come as no surprise when young people raised by helicopter parents are hoodwinked by the false promises of socialism -- promises such as free college tuition, free health care and student debt forgiveness? Is it any wonder young people who have never been required to work refuse to get jobs, even though most employers have "Help Wanted" signs in their windows, are paying well above minimum wage and are offering hiring bonuses? Their parents conditioned them to expect to receive everything they might want without having to work for it. Pandering politicians in the Democratic Party reinforce this unhealthy perspective by promising to pick up where the parents left off.
Young people who don't learn personal responsibility and accountability in the home are sitting ducks for the false promises of socialist ideologues. Unprepared, thoroughly indoctrinated young people who choose socialism over capitalism are just doing what their parents taught them to do.
The big problem is that if they are socialists, they obviously have not grown up.
Too late. The country is lousy with socialists. And most of those mommas encouraged their babies to be oh so open and tolerant socialists.
We’re on the decks of the Titanic, strike up the band.
Many people just don’t like to be referred to as socialists, but when they tell me they proudly voted for the likes of Obama,Biden,& others of that bunch, then I get the idea that they embrace socialism. They think I was foolish to vote for the conservative Republican candidates. We can already see how that turned out. Obviously, they would not want to be told they have not grown up either. We might be surprised how many of these folks would like to think of themselves as proud Americans, yet they have voted for socialists & still go so far as to think that Obama was one of our great presidents.
Here is a set of books to teach your children about economics, the law, and all sorts of things that the socialists don’t want them to know.
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Socialism explained:
1) America is capitalized and greedy, yet half of the population is subsidized.
2) Half of the population is subsidized but they think they are victims.
3) They think they are victims yet they elect those who govern them
4) They elect those who govern them, but the poor keep getting poorer
5) The Poor keep getting poorer, but they have thing that other people in other Countries can only dream of
6) They have things that other people in other Countries can only dream of, but they want to be like these Countries.
Just MORE PROOF LIBERALS ARE STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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