Column: Larry Elder is the Black face of white supremacy.

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It's all relative Reynholm. The biggest sin progressives do is to commit millions to public spending which conservatives claim end up meaning the country is in greater debt.

I think there are creative ways progressives can do both if we cut the defense/security budget by 10% it would make a massive difference to the checklist of things the electorate want.

conservatives know that a reduced MIC budget means more available for social programs which they hate. that is one of the real reasons they support a huge MIC.

Setting aside the minor detail that Fnord had nothing to do with my post - The fact that so many people of that age feel so strongly about something suggests that the educators of those people are either encouraging, or at the least not "challenging" the views these people are picking up, which is supported by the fact so many lose those views once exposed to the real world, whilst those who remain insulated within the educational system tend to be the ones who retain and propagate them.

My apologies to KraftieKortie and Fnord for writing the wrong name! Senior moment, I guess.

I completely discard the conservative position that these thoughts are planted in the young. I watched my children grow up, and I watched how their thinking evolved. We taught them to think for themselves, and so did their teachers. They reject a LOT that my husband and I believe, and a lot that their teachers believe - if they even know what their teachers believe (many very carefully did not share). But youth is naturally idealistic. They spend their young years being taught to share. To be nice. To be generous. Those are the prevalent values both liberal and conservative families teach to their children. When they first start to see despair and unfairness, they instinctively see it as "bad." They also tend to be much closer to the lessons of history. There are many, many explanations that make a lot more natural sense than the indoctrination line.

Today's American youth also bear the scars of never knowing a world where there was no 9-11. Never knowing a USA that was not at war. Never knowing a world where weather disasters were not prevalent. Never knowing a world that promised them a life that would be better than their parents. And never knowing a world without regular lock down drills at school in fear of some madman shooting them up. They are more anxious than any prior generation, more depressed, more often diagnosed with learning disabilities, and ANGRY.

My children may lose their passion to the grinding work of living adult life, and they may learn the value of incremental change over revolution, but it isn't like they will turn everything they believe on its head.

I don't buy the company line. It's an excuse. I have no patience for the attempt to find proof to justify a conclusion you already want to reach. Conservatives want to blame the educational system for turning people against their ideas instead of taking a good, hard look at the problems with their ideas.

I grew up conservative, by the way. I remember taking the pro-life position in a current issues debate at school, and I was persuasive. What is funny is that real life flipped me into a liberal. I heard real life experiences from other women, and saw how things I once believed could never be the right answer in any of those stories. We are all more products of our cumulative life experiences than we are of someone else's politics.

Agreed, but having been the major superpower for such an extended period has made many Amerians arrogant and entitled without realising it.

And yes, having kittens because of Trump is a rather first world problem when you consider people are having full-grown tigers as a result of Xi.

To compare the two is ridiculous.

This reminds me of a sign I saw:
"Smile, things could be worse.
So I smiled, and sure enough, things did get worse."

Not “right out of college.” Rather, it’s a gradual process. But it usually happens.

I’m not a conservative. My views very akin to European Social Democracy.

I have friends who are conservative. But none of them are of the QAnon Trump variety. It’s maybe as much of an insult to call me a conservative as it is to call me a socialist.

I’m very much a “student of history.” I do find that people do tend to become more pragmatic and less idealistic as they live their lives in the rat race.

I hope I don’t give the impression that I’m a conservative.

Teachers allowed the MAGA hats because this is America and you can wear whatever you want.
Nobody was sexually harassed
The Black Hebrew group was not verbally attacked
They were from a Catholic Hight School so if they want to protest abortion they are free to do so.
The boys did not attack or surround Mr Phillips. He went out of his way to engage them and get into Sandman's face.
I'm starting to think that you just enjoy the misinformation you indulge in that is the only reason I can see for your refusal to look at the facts.

The biggest sin of the Progressives is using black people as trophies to show how "anti-racist" they are.

Until the Trump years, refugees were supposed to be able to apply for asylum. That changed when Trump decided to keep out black and brown people from what he called $hithole countries, like these people.
If someone gallantly makes a dangerous journey to escape poverty and violence in order to become Americans, then that's courage that should be rewarded.[/quote
Being a refugee is not a permanent status. They can apply in any country so why must it be the United States?
If they are suffering persecution and/or abuse in their own country refugees should apply in the nearest country to their own. The US has a lot of house keeping to do in regards to the entire immigrant/refugee system.

I was under the mistaken impression that the zoomers would be like us boomers and "grow up". The mistake of mine is the classic assuming that because it was it always will be. The hippies turned if not into yuppies got something resembling their parents. The changes they brought to the corporate world was for the most part superficial such as casual Fridays maybe a bit of yoga during lunch hour. The graduates of "woke" elite universities are "woke capitalists" using their $$ to muscle government for radical change. Companies using their money to muscle governments is not new, it is the American way. The difference previously the corporate dollar was used to changed government policy for the financial benefit of the said company now it is being used to support Black Lives Matter, change who is allowed in what bathroom, etc HR departments at important companies are not trying for equality of opportunity but for equity.

Is this because these corporate leaders were "brainwashed" at college, their young employees expect this activism, their target market expects them to be woke, or all three? I am not sure.

Maybe reality/consequences will hit and the zoomers will eventually become more conservative. So far I see no evidence of this happaning.

Research takes effort.

Don't forget the skooling system which usurps parental responsibilities and indoctrinates the impressionable minds of the children under its hostage-taking care.

Meh, blah, blah, blah.

Do I sniff self-flagellation, "Sanctimony, Self-righteousness, and Virtue-signalling" in the air? <satire>

The "This is America" argument doesn't hold water with me. I spent 12 years in a conservative private catholic school in the 1970s and early 1980s and even back then/there, the school administrators never forced or pursuaded children to get involved in politicised rallies or wear hats that contravene school uniform promoting a political party or move around without teachers policing our conduct/behaviour.

It's clear to me the catholic boys school had a bad reputation already with their cohort of boys reportedly racially abusing other schools at basketball games and they didn't want the extra scrutiny/bad press so collaborated with the legal defence team's version of events to make them look squeaky clean.

https://www.indy100.com/discover/maga-h ... eo-8739981
https://hellogiggles.com/news/woman-cla ... assed-her/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... orial.html

As I said, you only have to google to find out (it really doesn't take much effort). Cause and effect. When the school openly supports a president who brags about mysogyny then that breeds a permissive culture among boys who feel emboldened to act accordingly while wearing their new messiah's logo on their heads.

Fixed the quote problem for you. (I think.)

Yeah, that wasn't Trump's finer moment, silly bastardo.

The problem with illegal refugees, here in Australia, is that many are not valid refugees at all.
Many/most are *economic* illegal immigrants.

The problem I have for even valid refugees is that they usually have the option to go to refugee centres closer to where they are.
This may or may not be a good interim situation for some, I'll admit that.
But consider the people who have done the right thing and are pushed to the back of the queue because of queue jumpers.
The left side of politics seems to ignore these people, for a reason I cannot fathom.