“….An intellectual hatred is the worst/ So let her think opinions are accursed./ Have I not seen the loveliest woman born /Out of the mouth of Plenty’s horn/ Barter that horn, and every good/ By quiet natures understood/ For an old bellows full of angry wind?”
— WB Yeats, from “A Prayer for My Daughter”
Hiw I wish we were back in the days when it didn’t seem to matter, too much, who won the presidential election. Not really. We were all on the same side, we all wanted peace and prosperity, after all.
When B.Hussein Omega talked about “fundamentally changing” America, we didn’t even jump, didnt feel the hypodermic sliding into our vein. We just thought: wouldn’t it be nice, a lovely gesture, to have a black president? There, now!
Have you noticed that “peace and prosperity”, is exactly what the Left hates and wants wants to destroy —no: is destroying?
Maybe it’s too late; maybe I’m wrong, maybe, once again, it doesNt really matter who we elect. We’re headed for the garbage dump no matter what.
ST UnWoked & UnVaxxed! 
It does matter who we elect!!!!! We are not headed for the garbage dump no matter what, we have a choice.
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Exercising choices, registering dissent with respect to received wisdom, is a part of what the Founding was/is all about. And we are the minority now, so we need to show what minority rights mean. We need to watch for wobbliness on the state/municipal/local fronts, too. Hold them accountable!
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Um, we don’t know that we are the minority: we don’t know that we are the majority either. The minority and majority change with pretty much every election. Nothing can be taken for granted: nothing can be known for certain either.
Minority rights mean jack all if the majority don’t believe in them. Being a permanent or even relatively long term minority is not an option in this situation.
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We may be the silent majority to *ourselves*, but a lot of us are starting to ‘age out’. Even the best-raised critical-thinkers among the young are feeling besieged – and edging closer to that glass of brightly-colored, non-carbonated soft drink. I’m not focusing on the merely political here: that’s only the final and smallest engagement of the battle. We’re in a battle for America’s heart and soul, let alone votes. Another bright spot, tho’, Thomas Sowell turned 90 last week, and published another book; on the success of charter schools in minority communities: RAH! It’s a close run, but we are not done yet.
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“We may be the silent majority to *ourselves*, but a lot of us are starting to ‘age out’”
This may be true according to polls, but polls have been highly unreliable as of late, and those doing the polling are cooking the books. Please, Nanda, don’t buy into a narrative that we don’t know for certain is true. I repeat, being a minority is simply not an option.
A certain highly vocal number of young people are obviously far more leftist and radical than young people used to be: whether they represent the majority of young people remains to be seen. I suspect that they don’t, but at this point, no one knows for sure.
Being in the minority is not an option: in this situation, it is not possible to be a good minority, in this situation being part of the minority just means we will be totally crushed. If we don’t defeat them at the ballot box, or in the streets, we will not show them anything; they will show us. Defeat is not an option.
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I’m not buying into a “narrative”, ma’am; I’m. reporting what I hear and see among young adults I helped raise – whom I thought were not susceptible…The COVID mandates are another camel’s nose under the tent of acceptance of top-down control. The mix of complacency and triumphal assurance emanating from certain quarters on both sides of the divide does little to ease my mind. Theater concocted to appease/“fire up” one’s base(s), so that they can shout at each other isn’t helpful. Neither are the canned, prepackaged town halls and”moderated” debate formats in use now. Not to mention the made-to-order’news’ aggregators available all along the spectrum….I weep for the demise of the virtuous, informed, critical-thinking people to whom the *idea* of this republic-not a democracy-was bequeathed. I wonder more and more if we who remember what it has been like will be enough to keep it? (I’d better get some sleep. Hasta entonces.(See you around.)
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“I’m not buying into a “narrative”, ma’am; I’m. reporting what I hear and see among young adults I helped raise”
Virtually all of the young people I know are conservative, and they live in Massachusetts. And I know a lot of them. So, my report from the ground is very different from yours: this is why our own perceptions cannot be trusted. Kind of like the democrat lady in New York City who couldn’t believe that Nixon won because no one that she knew voted for him.
The young people I know may not be typical, but then again, the young people you know may not be typical either. We just don’t know, and we just have to live with the fact that we don’t and can’t know. We shouldn’t be making definitive statements on things that we don’t and can’t know.
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