I am skeptical that our efforts as conservative parents to produce conservative offspring will materialize. Even with the best of intentions, the odds are not in our favor to successfully counter the Democrat-Media Complex, the educational system, and pop culture. That doesn’t mean there aren’t success stories (some in my own family), but I hear more about the failure and the disaffection it engenders in conservative families.
Conservative parents have learned the hard way that how your kids turn out depends on a host of factors that, at some point during the maturation process, are way beyond our control -- friends, personal experiences, a particular book or documentary, brain chemistry, friends, a teacher/professor/boss, personality, a romantic relationship, college activities, pop culture, hobbies, and…friends. Usually, it’s not one but an amalgamation of several factors and presto chango! The kid who was once the lone conservative arguing at the lunch table, now thinks David Hogg and AOC are bitchin’.
We see them everywhere -- the emaciated college-age vegans working at Starbucks, hysterical young girls pounding on Supreme Court doors, attractive anti-Semites leading the charge in Congress. I’m sure some of them had conservative upbringings -- you cannot assume they were all raised by liberals. Yet, in her reporting about out-of-control liberal college students some time ago, I heard Laura Ingraham link their behavior to their upbringing. Only a parent whose children hadn’t yet attended high school could make such an absurd connection. We can try but we cannot guarantee what our children will believe.
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3 comments:
The left hijacked the entire public education system decades ago.
This makes ones political stance sound like racial purity or religious belief. I'm conservative but seldom agree with all points conservative and seldom consider it a defining lifestyle or adhere to it cultishly as a dogma. I have the freedom and the free will to decide for myself where I stand. I don't expect family, friends or my own offspring to adopt my point of view as long as those that they do they can intelligently justify and defend from their individual point of view.
We have all been indoctrinated in one way or another but it should not divide us it's the very thing that has smothered Democracy. We survive all these politics and politicians we should not let their hysteria divide us a families or a Nation. No of us get out alive anyway we should be living OUR lives.
Good thing we heard about antisemenism again. I had almost broken free from the brainwashing. I'm sure others were close as well. That would have been scary.
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