Because of my work, I know a lot of people in your daughter’s age bracket. I would hazard a guess that their social liberalism is mostly a function of their age, and hope they eventually grow out of it.
Totally agree.
Begin rant ;)
I’m actually a ways through writing a book on critical thought and the lack of it/results thereof, today. As you well know as a teacher, critical thought was among the first casualties in the PC war. The two simply cannot coexist, therefore the libs, via the education system, removed the concept and curriculum from schools.
The Communists said it long ago...”We may not get you, but we’ll get your children” (paraphrased). And so they have.
The modern parent faces a 24/7 onslaught from every quarter designed to make kids think they are insane. Everything we grew up with is considered taboo/wrongheaded/evil/opressive/hateful. Hell, many so called conservatives right here on FR buy into a piece or three of their nonsense from time to time so what chance does a ‘mind of mush’ have?
How can we expect any other outcome? Things the libs preach sound great to a person unable to critically think,even grasp a given issue. Kinda like if you grew up in the middle of the Sahara desert and suddenly saw the Pacific ocean. The mind reels and has nothing to compare it to - no way to make sense of it. That’s what many of the young people today face. They have had a life filled with liberalism from all quarters and simply “know” no other way.
Example - Homosexuality
24/7 coverage/propaganda that Gay is normal/right/good and opposition to it is Hitlerian... at best. TV/movies/music/school/teachers/sports figures/comics/video games...every aspect of society in Liberal America pushes that.
So, unable to critically think it through, the kid says, “Well, 99% of everyone is cool with it and mom and dad aren’t. I have gay friends and I ain’t giving them up so parental units must be nuts just like I’ve been taught.”
They are never taught the problems associated with it, the consequences/deadly outcome et all. Given only one side of the issue (because they are convinced by the above that parents are wrong) and never having been taught to think critically, they cannot process it. It’s like the ocean to the desert dweller.
Now consider that all such liberal propaganda techniques follow that and like paths in all subjects. The end result is an army of likeminded idiots taught from the earliest age to be what they are. Sheep. But then reality, as always, rears its ugly head. They lose a job over an offhanded ‘gay’ comment or that friend dies of aids. Suddenly the bubble pops and they are shocked/hurt/confused/POd.
“How could this happen? TO ME??? I’m special...everyone told me so! Bad things aren’t supposed to happen to me!”
And so the path to a more conservative thought process and critical thinking as a whole begins.
I rant,therefore I is ;)