[Steely Tom]

I heard Rush's segment yesterday about the article that said that some (significant) number of young people would gladly move to another country (and leave the United States behind) if they could find more economic opportunity there.

At first I found it depressing.

But then, later in the day, I was thinking...

I grew up in the 1960s and '70s. If someone had polled the teenaged and early-20s baby boomers about "would they leave America if they could," I bet at least as many would have answered as the millenials did in the survey Rush quoted.

That time period was very chaotic compared to today. Riots in every major city. Multiple political assassinations - two a time span of less than three months in 1968.

The draft, the campus riots, the baby-boomer demographic effect... when you add it all up, the typical baby boomer thought the USA sucked.

The type of survey Rush quoted might have placed the number at 75%, I think might be a plausible guess.

Teenagers and most 20-somethings are ignorant. Always have been, always will be.

[Wallace T.]

One person turned the chaos of the 1960s and 1970s around: Reagan. The only candidate who is even worthy to tie his shoelaces is Ted Cruz. We have also had over a quarter century of intensifying liberal dominance of academia, the Fortune 500 companies, and big entertainment. With the exceptions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, all the state governments have surrendered to the Federal mandate to the marriage of same sex couples. (I do not count Texas, whose governor and attorney general issued little more substantive than strongly worded statements. Pro bono legal representation will not protect local officials from fines, civil asset forfeiture, or Federal civil rights criminal prosecution, if they lose in court.)

A RINO or Democrat in the White House in 2017 will not end the long march of the Left. A RINO will only slow the rate of decay. It is not inconceivable that Bernie Sanders may be our next President, in which case we can count on more intense persecution, even beyond Obama. Never give up hope, but our odds of surviving as a relatively free nation are grimmer than they were in the 1970s.