I hate to tell you they all pretty much have been indoctrinated that socialism is the way to go. Its heartbreaking. They don’t know any bettter. The baby boomers were not paying attention to what their kids were being taught.
I sent her Dr. Carson speech from the presser this morning about the nature of socialism. I am sick to my stomach that a beautiful child as she is is so indoctrinated.The parents seem to be OK with her views.
You’re so right! I’m a boomer and I plead guilty to what you said. I trusted that the public school system was teaching my kids the same civic awareness, love of God and Country that I was and that my parents before me learned. It’s only now, looking back, that I realize I should have said something the first time I heard them mimic something not quite right. That I should have turned the PTA upside down the first time the school system started teaching things that only we, as parents, should be teaching our kids.
My children are all productive adults with mostly Conservative views. But the processes by which they arrive at their most important decisions seems to rely entirely too much on the constant cacophony of media and social site consensus. They have little idea how the history of this nation plays into what’s happening today because they’ve been taught so little of it. What they have been taught is that all things are relative and that everyone can have their own reality if they choose. I have no excuses for not doing what my father did for me in insisting that I learn how fortunate I was to be an American and that I could do so because a lot of blood had been shed so that I could. He taught me that war was bloody and ugly and heartbreaking but necessary especially if we weren’t vigilant in guarding our freedom.
It looks like I didn’t spare them after all. The trust that I taught them to have for our government to always have it’s people’s interests at heart isn’t justified any more. The enemies that I lulled them into thinking were nowhere near us and our safe little bubble are among us, especially in our halls of government. But I was too busy being a proud American enjoying the most prosperous and peaceful time after WWII. Now it looks like my grandchildren will never even dream what I got to live because I didn’t protect it. I can hear my Dad saying “I told you so. Why didn’t you tell them?”
You’re so right! I’m a boomer and I plead guilty to what you said. I trusted that the public school system was teaching my kids the same civic awareness, love of God and Country that I was and that my parents before me learned. It’s only now, looking back, that I realize I should have said something the first time I heard them mimic something not quite right. That I should have turned the PTA upside down the first time the school system started teaching things that only we, as parents, should be teaching our kids.
My children are all productive adults with mostly Conservative views. But the processes by which they arrive at their most important decisions seems to rely entirely too much on the constant cacophony of media and social site consensus. They have little idea how the history of this nation plays into what’s happening today because they’ve been taught so little of it. What they have been taught is that all things are relative and that everyone can have their own reality if they choose. I have no excuses for not doing what my father did for me in insisting that I learn how fortunate I was to be an American and that I could do so because a lot of blood had been shed so that I could. He taught me that war was bloody and ugly and heartbreaking but necessary especially if we weren’t vigilant in guarding our freedom.
It looks like I didn’t spare them after all. The trust that I taught them to have for our government to always have it’s people’s interests at heart isn’t justified any more. The enemies that I lulled them into thinking were nowhere near us and our safe little bubble are among us, especially in our halls of government. But I was too busy being a proud American enjoying the most prosperous and peaceful time after WWII. Now it looks like my grandchildren will never even dream what I got to live because I didn’t protect it. I can hear my Dad saying “I told you so. Why didn’t you tell them?”