Millennials want to be socialists or communists....

[Annie]

Not such a surprise... it's a symptom of too much ease and plenty without any significant work or hardship. Idealism without realism.

Get ready for the ride, folks, we're not going to be able to stem the tide, unfortunately. The next generation is being strongly and intentionally indoctrinated. The left controls nearly EVERY institution of higher learning.

I am so afraid for all our children and grandchildren that you are right. There will be a time when our children's children's children will speak fondly of the freedoms lost and only spoken of in hushed voices. I am the point now where I only hope I'm not here to see it -- but things being what they are, I actually might be here for a good part. Unfortunately I don't think it will be another 75 years before things are well, not good for the average person. It's already impossible to live on one paycheck ... When I left high school I did fine on my one check -- nobody required 3 months' pay worth of advance deposits and a half dozen references to move into a small but decent apartment in an okay part of town. Kids now are in debt up to their eyeballs before they pull out of the driveway for college. A life of slavery to debt is only the beginning...

 

[tRidiot]

A life of slavery to debt is only the beginning...

So true.... so true.

Everyone now has the high end cell phones, the newish vehicles, fancyhomes, big screen TVs, broadband piped into the house with WiFi housewide - and if any of these things break down, the wailing and gnashing of teeth is almost unbearable.

I really fear for my son. We're raising him with values we feel are important, but so many of his friends and students he goes to school with... wow. We were talking with him just yesterday about how many of our adult friends we have quit hanging out with or even seeing at all because their KIDS were such a bad influence on OUR son. It breaks my heart to think how many of those kids are going to grow up thinking everything is going to be handed to them, and have little to no appreciation for the hard work and hardship their parents endured just to provide those things.

We all want more and better for our children than we had.... but in so many cases, it is that very attitude that leads to them being crippled.

 

[Annie]

So true.... so true.

Everyone now has the high end cell phones, the newish vehicles, fancyhomes, big screen TVs, broadband piped into the house with WiFi housewide - and if any of these things break down, the wailing and gnashing of teeth is almost unbearable.

I really fear for my son. We're raising him with values we feel are important, but so many of his friends and students he goes to school with... wow. We were talking with him just yesterday about how many of our adult friends we have quit hanging out with or even seeing at all because their KIDS were such a bad influence on OUR son. It breaks my heart to think how many of those kids are going to grow up thinking everything is going to be handed to them, and have little to no appreciation for the hard work and hardship their parents endured just to provide those things.

We all want more and better for our children than we had.... but in so many cases, it is that very attitude that leads to them being crippled.

Isnt it the truth? My boys were relentless when they were growing up that I was a terrible mom because I wouldnt buy them everything they saw and they had real consequences for the things they did -- both good and bad.

All 3 of them came back later once they were out on their own and thanked me for not "letting them be like their friends" -- friends who were now junkies disowned by their families, in prison or some kind of legal trouble, or who were still living at home in their late 20s still making crappy grades in college. It is amazing to me that a parent can't see what they are doing to their child. I know some kids go that way no matter what the parents do. Mine did their gutlevel best to try and grow up to be degenerates but I wasn't having none of it. "Thank God we feared you more than we feared looking like dorks, Mom" ... Lol

 

[aarondhgraham]

I'm 67 years old now and I'm weary of being an activist,,,
I've spent my entire life fighting for the 2nd amendment and personal freedom in general.

Call me whatever you want to,,,
But I'm tired of it and have all but given up.

If this is what the young people really want,,,
I say let them have it.

I'm too close to the grave for it to have any huge effect on the remainder of my life.

When the America I grew up and have loved dies,,,
I'll pop another beer and hum Taps for it.

Aarond

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[tRidiot]

I understand that sentiment. I'm not that far along yet, but by God, I do get tired of being vilified at every turn and on every television show, network, college campus, etc. I'm tempted to also say, "Let them have what they want."

I'm afraid for my boy, though.

 

[Tanis143]

All hope is not lost. There are several cores of young children being brought up with good values and believe in America. One thing to think about is they do not get the exposure that all these left leaning kids get due to the mass media being mostly liberal. But, I agree on the fact that a fair amount of these kids are being raised as spoiled brats. I see it day in and day out when I'm work. Thankfully I still see plenty of kids who are respectful and parents who are actual parents.

 

[Annie]

I'm 67 years old now and I'm weary of being an activist,,,
I've spent my entire life fighting for the 2nd amendment and personal freedom in general.

Call me whatever you want to,,,
But I'm tired of it and have all but given up.

If this is what the young people really want,,,
I say let them have it.

I'm too close to the grave for it to have any huge effect on the remainder of my life.

When the America I grew up and have loved dies,,,
I'll pop another beer and hum Taps for it.

Aarond

.

You've spelled out my whole take on this thing, too. I won't roll over if "they" ever come knocking on my door but by the same token it's no longer my fight to fight. My grandpa said much the same thing when I was 12 and he was fighting what we did not know at the time was lung cancer. In the 60s the treatment was worse than the disease itself. I've had a rough couple of years and joke about living to a hundred but honestly, that is my biggest fear. I don't wanna live that long -- hell, some days I don't even want to live 'til lunch.

 

[TerryMiller]

All hope is not lost. There are several cores of young children being brought up with good values and believe in America. One thing to think about is they do not get the exposure that all these left leaning kids get due to the mass media being mostly liberal. But, I agree on the fact that a fair amount of these kids are being raised as spoiled brats. I see it day in and day out when I'm work. Thankfully I still see plenty of kids who are respectful and parents who are actual parents.

I need to chime in with Tanis143 on this one. I'm not so certain that the younger generation(s) are lost. There are those out there like Charlie Kirk (I think that is right) and Candace Owens with TurningPoint that are helping to educate some of the young. They are literally going to colleges and setting up a booth at which they engage the young college students.

There's also the adage that I think still runs true that "people tend to be socialist when young, but when they start working for a living, they become more conservative." Depending on whether the young in charge of social media continue to be biased against conservatism, the younger ones as they learn could very well start helping educate others on social media.

So, call me an optimist, but I do have hope.

 

[TerryMiller]

To add to the above, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could very well be in for an education. Not only has she learned that newly elected Congress-critters don't get paid until they actually are sworn in, but Liz Peek is out there with an editorial regarding the "learner's" desire to do away with fossil fuels and go strictly to alternative fuels.

Ocasio-Cortez Backs Green Policies that Would Hurt the Poor and Cripple Our Economy

Once the young idealistic socialist learns from her superiors in Congress (yes, even from the likes of Pelosi) that her ideas have no merit, she may begin to temper her rhetoric.

 

[Dale00]

A fair percentage of college students have been idiots for quite sometime. Things have just snowballed a bit the last couple of decades and metastasized into other elements of our society. Reality does set idiocy straight sooner or later.

I read elsewhere that a sizeable percentage of young adults are economically conservative in ther saving and spending habits. This, and the countertrends evident here in the heartland, gives me hope for the future.

I was watching some conservative wonk who laid out the future: The working and business class flee California to Texas. As things continue to fall apart the liberals flee Calforina and turn Texas liberal. The working and business class flees Texas and moves to Wyoming or elsewhere. The liberals follow them there and mess that state up also. But by then California is depopulated so the working and business class move back there and build it back.