August 29, 2016

How Did We Get Here?

It seems like only yesterday that we had a nation that prided itself on its strength, its productivity, its ability to differentiate between good and evil, and its obvious preference for the former. Today, when you look around, you find a younger generation that is far more concerned with how it feels than what it does. We have youngsters who demand their rights, but refuse to step up to their responsibilities. They demand that their education, such as it is, be paid for by others and insist on all the freedoms they see as their birthright, but show little or no interest in defending them. They insist on voting just like every other adult, but they feel no shame or even embarrassment at remaining on their parents’ health insurance until they’re 26 years old.

It seems like only yesterday that we had a nation that prided itself on its strength, its productivity, its ability to differentiate between good and evil, and its obvious preference for the former.

Today, when you look around, you find a younger generation that is far more concerned with how it feels than what it does. We have youngsters who demand their rights, but refuse to step up to their responsibilities. They demand that their education, such as it is, be paid for by others and insist on all the freedoms they see as their birthright, but show little or no interest in defending them. They insist on voting just like every other adult, but they feel no shame or even embarrassment at remaining on their parents’ health insurance until they’re 26 years old.

In the past, people that age were married, working and raising families, if they were lucky. Others were battle-hardened veterans risking their lives in defense of their fellow Americans.

How and why did all this take place? It was a combination of things. An imperfect storm, if you will. Most of our current problems can be traced to the youth revolution that took place in the 1960s. It was the decade in which adults abdicated their power and authority. The kids insisted they knew best. Whether the topic was politics, religion, ethics, fashion or pop culture, the kids, who had been raised to believe they were the be-all and end-all, insisted they held the moral and intellectual high ground.

It was the first time in the history of the world that kids and their parents insisted on changing places. But the worst was yet to come. That’s because the ignoramuses went on to have children and grandchildren. Those kids were brought up in schools that no longer educated, but only indoctrinated. The influence of the feminist robots who wound up being school teachers extended even beyond the curriculum. It became commonplace for six-year-olds to be suspended for such offenses as turning their Pop Tarts into shapes resembling guns or for merely pointing their fingers and going “Bang! Bang!” So it came as no surprise that when the tots got to college, they couldn’t bear even hearing from those who had rebelled at the brainwashing and actually learned to think for themselves.

The papers, magazines, movies and TV shows, available to them were nearly all owned and produced by like-minded propagandists. Their brains had been so completely washed and spin-dried that even Stalin might have been astonished to see young people swallow the superiority of Muslims over Christians and Jews, and the sacred regard in which they hold urban blacks and illegal aliens. It was inevitable that most young people would feel themselves alienated from the history, values and traditions of America.

These young ingrates have been raised during the decades when PC speech is the only speech allowed on college campuses. What’s more, the kids feel entitled to silence those they oppose, knowing full-well that gutless college administrators will not lift a finger to defend the Bill of Rights against the young fascists who hold it in contempt.

When you add to all that the fact that their electronic toys limit them to communications of 140 characters, it’s easy to understand why these youthful zombies are happy to follow behind a Bernie Sanders, a Hillary Clinton or any other Pied Piper who panders to their greed and pretends to take them as seriously as they take themselves.


Democrats love to point to a lack of civility on the part of Republicans as one of the most obvious differences between the two parties. What makes the ploy so pathetic is that they often get away with it because, one, the media is complicit in the lie and, two, their voters exist in a bubble in which only their own talking points are provided with oxygen.

So it is that every insult uttered by Donald Trump is broadcast far and wide. If Trump calls Hillary Clinton a liar, even though she has proven herself to be a world-class fibber over the past quarter of a century, the media pretends he has launched an attack on motherhood.

But when Obama told John McCain and the Republicans in Congress to sit down, shut up and get out of his way, the media played it up as a president eager to get things done. In June, 2008, Hillary Clinton explained why she was still running in the primary even though Obama had the nomination all but locked up, she mentioned that Bobby Kennedy had been murdered in June of 1968. Clearly, she was suggesting that she might still be the nominee if only someone would take a shot at Obama. Naturally, rather than point out that Mrs. Clinton was hoping to be the beneficiary of an assassination, the media bit its collective tongue.

As for Obama, he didn’t hesitate to liken those in Congress who opposed his nuclear deal with Iran to Iranian hard-liners, simultaneously comparing Republican lawmakers to jihadists, while ignoring the fact that he had just handed $150 billion and a pathway to a nuclear arsenal to those very hard-liners, those being the only kind that exist in Iran.

Finally, in another example of the sort of civility that Democrats are so well-known for, former Ohio Governor Ted Strickland (D) who is currently running for the Senate, commented favorably on Justice Antonin Scalia’s death because the timing of it was beneficial to a piece of pro-labor legislation. What’s more, the comment drew laughter and applause at an AFL/CIO campaign event.


Thanks to renewed interest in the illegal machinations of the Clinton Foundation, Republicans are demanding the Justice Department conduct an investigation. For obvious reasons, Attorney General Loretta Lynch is reluctant to do so. In the meantime, the left-wing spinmeisters are all over the media, insisting there is no smoking gun connecting Hillary to any wrong-doing.

Of course there’s no gun, smoking or otherwise, you can place in the hands of Bill, Hillary or Chelsea. Mafia dons never pull the triggers, either. With the Clintons, it’s always their capos — people like Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin, James Carville, Loretta Lynch, Lois Lerner, Terry McAuliffe and Rahm Emanuel — who handle the messy jobs.

As everyone knows, when you want to find out who gives the orders, you don’t go looking for smoking guns.

You go looking for smoking bank accounts.

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