Young People Will Reject Liberalism's Lies
By Kurt Schlichter
TownHall.com
When the whole shoddy edifice of the progressive
project collapses under its own dead weight, it will
largely be because the liberals forgot to breed
enough mindless minions to keep shoring it up. The
left has always depended on a never-ending parade of
credulous children to revitalize its dwindling ranks
as the march of time and maturity depletes them.
Liberal youth would grow up, look around, realize
how progressivism is a disaster, and largely stop
buying into the nonsense.
But now, young people are wising up earlier. This is
bad news for liberals, but great news for America.
Our youth – those in college and younger –
are starting to reject the nonsense pushed by
the progressive clown car of communism-lite. This
presents an opportunity for the most
counterintuitive of alliances, that of those
entering adulthood and those of us who entered it
long ago and are now reaping the benefits of
liberalism’s shameful transfer of wealth and power
to those of us who have already made it on the backs
of those just starting out.
We need to distinguish the youth from the older
Millennials, who are famously infatuated with The
One. And we even need to distinguish among the
Millennials, because some of that generation have
rejected the value-free values of their cohort. In
particular, we must note those glorious Millennial
warriors who have served their Nation in war. Their
selfless service has justly earned them a place of
honor in America’s Valhalla, where the heroes of
Lexington, Iwo Jima and Ia Drang await their coming
to the places at the table their courage has earned
them.
But the rest of the Millennial generation just needs
to be slapped.
Maybe they will learn too, albeit through
the magic of pain. Maybe it’s too late.
Regardless, their younger brothers, sisters and
gender-indefinite siblings have seen the
Millennials’ eager embrace of progressivism repaid
with the expectation that they will bear the full
cost of the political payoffs liberals promised to
more useful and wealthy Democrat demographics.
People like me, an established trial lawyer in the
bluest part of the bluest state. Obama has been just
awesome for folks like me, and that unjust
awesomeness has been paid for by a Millennial
generation mired in debt and unemployment. But it
often seems that this travesty bothers me more than
it bothers them.
Maybe we should rename the Millennials “the
Suckers.”
Yet the generation behind them doesn’t seem so
thrilled at the prospect of subsidizing the lavish
lifestyles of left-leaning coastal professionals via
eternal toil at breakfast beverage stands. Good.
It’s great to see young people getting mad at the
gigantic con liberalism is running on them.
Why are young people getting less liberal? First, we
need to understand that they are not necessarily
getting more conservative. Remember, these young
people are just emerging from 13+ years in the
liberal conformity factories of the progressive
educational complex. They’ve been trained to hate
conservatives; they’d think a conservative was the
equivalent of the antichrist if they knew who Christ
was.
But look at it from their point of view. All they’ve
seen in their young lives is liberals lying to them.
They are not stupid. They are just unwise, both
because they are young and, in many cases, because
they were raised by glorified man/womynchildren who
confuse helicoptering with parenting.
They see the lies. They understand that it’s a bad
idea to come out of college with $250K of debt and a
double major in Marxist Pottery and Selective
Outrage. They hear from their liberal overlords
about open-mindedness, tolerance and rights, yet see
these same liberals foaming at the mouth to root out
any dissenting views and sacrificing due process on
the altar of political correctness. They know a
kangaroo court when they see one, and they see the
offending marsupials are bitter liberal feminists,
sophomore race hustlers, and cowardly university
administrators without the intestinal fortitude to
tell these leftist lynch mobs to go back to their
dorms.
These are children of the Internet, versed in social
media, used to a free-wheeling, no-holds-barred
electronic frontier – and they understand that every
progressive from Obama on down is slobbering for a
chance to rein it all in. Look at the NSA
revelations; what can be tracked, inevitably with
these eager Thought Policepeople, will soon be
controlled. These young people have endured the
soul-deadening nightmare of liberal thought control
all through their real life school years – they
don’t want it in their virtual lives too.
And, operating under the radar, is a cultural
subversion of the liberal paradigm. For example,
those crazy kids love their Hunger Games. It’s not
exactly a portrait of a world Milton Friedman might
design; it seems an awful lot like one the liberal
DC/Hollywood nexus would enjoy.
Then there’s this fascinating, conservative video
game called “Minecraft” that all the kids are into.
I got a quick briefing on it before shooing some of
them off my lawn.
It warmed my heart. Minecraft allows kids to create
virtual worlds, limited only by their imagination
and their willingness to work. The thing is that the
resources don’t simply appear – you have to obtain
them. The kids can work or barter to get the
resources they want. It’s pure capitalism. And it
even has bad guys that try and steal one’s resources
or destroy one’s creations, so you have to defend
what’s yours.
It’s kind of like real life. Don’t think of it as
a time-sucking game. Think of it as training. These
young people are being trained – often for the first
time – that work leads to rewards, that capitalism
works, and that sometimes you need to deal the pain
to dirtbags.
The kids are gravitating to cultural phenomena that
can function as Conservatism 101. Let’s hope it
takes. And this could even be good for the
Millennials. These Obama-loving saps will have a
whole new, younger generation to sell artisanal teas
and espressos.