We Are Losing the War for Our Children

Townhall.com ^ | December 9, 2021 | Armstrong Williams

[Kaslin]

Over the past two decades, so-called designer drugs have infiltrated the U.S. from South America and China, harming, poisoning and killing our country's youth in droves. MDMA, ecstasy, fentanyl and other opioids provide a rapid escape for young people from the reality of the world around them. Tragically, for far too many, that escape becomes permanent.

Something particularly distressing that I discovered is the impact that unnecessary procedures have on children. Around 80% of knee operations performed each year are entirely unnecessary. Apart from the long-term medical consequences of knee surgery, which often result in subsequent operations and restricted mobility for the rest of a child's life, it also results in drug addiction. Highly addictive medicines such as Oxycontin and Percocet are given to children as young as 13 years old. They need more of a fix as soon as they complete their doctor-prescribed dose, which leads them to cheaper and more powerful alternatives such as heroin. That is exactly what is happening throughout the nation today, with so many people dying as a result of drug overdoses.

Even more so, sadness and anxiety have ensnared our country's youth in a vise-like grasp. The erroneous reality of "likes" and "views" has caused young people to continuously compare themselves to morally bankrupt influencers who went to the top by happenstance. These influencers provide a polished version of themselves but never the reality. In turn, young people yearn for their lives and looks and become depressed when it becomes unattainable. Drug usage falls squarely in line with this issue as well, for their inability to achieve perfection or their desire to emulate their role models' actions leads them down a dark path of self-destruction and, sometimes, death.

These lethal chemicals are readily acquired from other students and opportunistic drug dealers, particularly on college campuses. Worse, anxiety medications such as Xanax and "study medicines" such as Adderall are readily obtained via duplicitous university physicians. As a result, children develop dangerous addictions to deadly substances that can lead to further drug usage and experimentation. The normalization and common acceptance of these drugs also has far-reaching effects, leading those who would otherwise not be predisposed to taking the drugs inevitably doing so out of pressure, necessity or the expectation that the normalcy of the drug's consumption should give them safe passage to ingesting it as well.

Our youth's role models do not assist either. Rappers such as Lil Nas X and Future rap about pervasive immoral conduct and extravagant drug usage. To millions of shouting fans, youth anthems like Future's "Mask Off" repeat the mantra, "Percocet, molly, Percocet." Are these rappers unaware that they are promoting the normalization of lethal and harmful narcotics among innocent children? On the other hand, Lil Nas X raps about having sexual relations with Satan, even posting a violent music video about it. While they are certainly within their rights to espouse these dangerous ideals, it goes without saying that one ought not to light a cigarette in a child's mouth.

What we are seeing in our country is nothing short of a moral decline of epic proportions. We are dying morally and physically. Much is made of the fatal COVID-19 outbreak, and rightly so, but with all the attention that COVID-19 receives, shouldn't we be concentrating just as much, if not more, on the soaring number of young children dying of drug overdoses in our country? Consider why the mainstream media seems to be unconcerned with the drug overdose epidemic that is claiming our children in droves. Apart from an annual headline, they devote little effort to this subject. Their hushed tones are overwhelming; their silence is deafening; and their carelessness is deadly.

Regrettably, the Biden administration may be fostering increased drug distribution and usage in the nation through his policies and activities. So many drugs enter the nation through the southern border, which resident Joe Biden has largely opened for free access. Our government's flagrant ignorance of a critical problem affecting our population shows a clear dereliction of their duties; they have voluntarily allowed citizens of the country, those who they have sworn to protect, to die at the hands of drugs while simultaneously giving every bit of help they can to foreigners who have little legal justification for coming to our country. Biden was chosen to safeguard our nation inside and outside. Now there is a battle being waged against our children, and we are losing miserably. It is time to act, Mr. President.

[Bon of Babble]

Unfortunately, many of our young males see no other option.

They are brainwashed into hating themselves by the education system, locked out of colleges, locked of career-type jobs and promotions - and are called supremacists, terrorists and told they are the greatest threat to American democracy.

Just lost a nephew-by-marriage to fentanyl overdose. Father of five that couldn’t kick his habit.

[RKBA Democrat]

So much to say about this article, but I’ll keep it brief:

- this is mostly a problem in all the usual areas. Culture matters. Cultural separation and divorce is the longer term solution.

- the author assumes the national leadership cares and this is some sort of bug. It’s not. It’s a feature.

- parents, especially those of boys, need to have “the talk” about how parts of the society hate them and will do what they can to destroy them or even kill them. Boys need to be doubly cautious in how they live and the risks they choose to take.

[sauropod]

Adderall is a controlled substance. Doctors are monitored for their dispensing rates and who they are dispensing to.

[Organic Panic]

“Losing?”

We lost that war a long time ago.

[1Old Pro]

The failure of states, in cooperation with a GOP President and Congress, to reform K-12 will insure the death of our republic. Yet the GOP elected officials do nothing year after year after year. Heck, the idea of choice, competition and vouchers came about 30 years ago, crickets.

[Elsie]

LOSING?

Try LOST!!!

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In the last nearly 50 years, over 62,000,000 future Americans citizens, prisoners if you will, entrapped in their mother's wombs, were put to death by various means that even the Nazis did not use on the Jews!!

[Elsie]

Yet the GOP elected officials do nothing year after year after year.

So?

The minutemen that formed this nation belonged to no political party!!

Rise up, Patriots!!!

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See this first word???

It is WE!!!

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,

 that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,

 that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--

 

That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,

 deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --

 

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,

 it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,

 laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form,

 as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

 

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;

 and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable,

 than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

 

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design

 to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government,

 and to provide new Guards for their future security.--

 

Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;

 and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.

 

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations,

 all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States.

 

To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

[Albion Wilde]

Adderall is a controlled substance. Doctors are monitored for their dispensing rates and who they are dispensing to.

Many, many boys were diagnosed with ADHD in the 90s going forward by lazy and man-hating school administrators, often without the parents' input; and parents were pressured to accept this as "reality" and put the boys on Adderall or other stimulants. The anti-boy crusade by feminists punished their natural boistrousness, restlessness, physicality or linear thinking.

By the time they get to high school or college, they are established in the minds of parents and teachers as permanently ADHD, when in fact, many who were misdiagnosed will have worked around many of the so-called symptoms—and now, they can sell parts of their prescriptions to other kids. This practice is particularly lucrative in colleges. That's why the article called it a "study drug"—it is used by students to pull all-nighters before an exam.