By Kurt Schlichter
Monday, May 19, 2014
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.
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