Great piece. It shows there are still some people who can think.
What concerns me is knowing millions of public school kids are being brainwashed into becoming good little socialists....uh, excuse me....liberals.....and I'm wondering what kind of voting block they're going to present in a decade or two.
85% of the Christian kids attending public schools are losing their faith by high school graduation. We fool ourselves if we believe conservative principles will continue to prosper once the majority of voters become politically correct robots.
Don't worry so much. I was in high school on the first earth day. The left was giving it everything they had back then, and lots of young people bought into it... for a while.
Brainwashing doesn't work, at least not in America. Rebellion is too much a part of us. There are too many alternate sources of information.
It's hard for people who didn't grow up in the '60s and early '70s (much of what is called "the sixties" actually happened in the period from 1970 till about 1974, when Nixon was driven from office) to realize how totally pervasive the counterculture became during those times. In movies, on TV, on the radio... even the commercials, even the public faces of the biggest consumer products corporations in the world... from every direction, came the message: you are a new generation... your parents are phonies... everything you've been taught about America is a lie... tear it all down and start again, we at the Coca-Cola company are pulling for you!
Guess what? It didn't work. A lot of the kids who went through that went on to pull the lever for Ronald Reagan, if not in 1980, then in 1984.
I have total confidence that the kids today are no different. Even the ones with the piercings and the tattoos... don't conclude too much from appearances.
As I've said here before, America is the greatest teaching machine, the greatest tool for discovering the truth, in human history. Every day, the lessons of human nature are revealed to millions through the functioning of democracy and freedom here in America.
Our success results from the degree to which our founding fathers understood human nature, which will never change. Kids today are no different from kids 35 years ago, or from kids who will be born in 2026.
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What concerns me is knowing millions of public school kids are being brainwashed into becoming good little socialists....uh, excuse me....liberals.....and I'm wondering what kind of voting block they're going to present in a decade or two.
85% of the Christian kids attending public schools are losing their faith by high school graduation. We fool ourselves if we believe conservative principles will continue to prosper once the majority of voters become politically correct robots.
Wow, great post, USA Girl. Of course, the fact that my wife and I have homeschooled our daughter through 12 years - she just graduated - might have something to do with my enthusiasm for your post. It vindicates our efforts. It has really been a tough 12 years, but it is worth every bit of the toil and committment.