What I think it is, is something called resolve.
My high school age niece engaged me in a bit of an argument a few days ago. She’s a great kid, but as so many of us at that age, she has a childlike view on life, meaning that she is pretty liberal at her age.
She demanded to know of me why these Tea Parties didn’t show up when Bush was in office. I reminded her that we tossed the Republicans for blowing money in the 2006 elections. She wondered why no tea parties in 2008. Again, I reminded her that we had an ELECTION, and that is where people registered their anger.
She wonders why we had Tea Parties in 2009, after Obama took office and I explained to her that it was because it was NOT an election year and we wanted to be heard. I reminded her that the rallies early this spring were to stop HC legislation in advance of this year’s election. Now, you see few rallies. This is because we are resolute. We have our game plan and will execute it.
I tried to explain to her that Pelosi & Reid, without a Democrat as president were not as dangerous (given the veto threat), but that those clowns with an Obama in the White House are absolutely toxic.
She’s a kid. She doesn’t get it. I can’t make her understand we could be looking at inflation and taxes that will kill her future.
She doesn’t understand that we’re fighting for her. :(
I constantly remind my four young adult children that I am fighting for them and their generation. They are all Rush babies and completely conservative in their viewpoints, however, I cannot get them to understand that they should be as mad as I am.
She will be fine as soon as she gets a job and starts paying taxes. That shock tends to concentrate the mind.
If she is making good grades in school, try the story about fairness being dolled out by the teacher. Maybe after reflecting on this story, the left side of the brain might not hold as much sway (or whatever the side is)
An economics professor gives his students a stark lesson in socialism:
An economics professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student, but had once failed an entire class.
The students insisted that socialism worked since no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said, “OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism.”
“All grades will be averaged and everyone will receive the same grade.”
After the first test the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who had studied hard were upset while the students who had studied very little were happy.
But, as the second test rolled around, the students who had studied little studied even less and the ones who had studied hard decided that since they couldn’t make an A, they also studied less. The second Test average was a D.
No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around the average grade was an F.
The scores never increased as bickering, blame, name calling, all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for anyone else.
To their great surprise all failed. The professor told them that socialism would ultimately fail because the harder people try to succeed the greater their reward (capitalism) but when a government takes all the reward away (socialism) no one will try or succeed.