An exercise for
readers over 40: Close your eyes and
remember stories and phrases you’ve heard on the news over the last year.
Protests against the
war. Anguish that we’re in a
quagmire. The establishment is evil and
motivated only by greed. The government
is “The Man” and out to get you and take away your liberties.
The Era of free
love. Drugs and Rock and Roll. Anything goes. If it feels good, do it. Simon and Garfunkel on tour. Radical parents abrogating their
responsibility by living in a commune.
Teens rebelling against their staid, stay at home Moms and boring bring
home the bacon Dads.
Open your eyes, no,
your nightmare isn’t that you were having a 60’s flashback; the nightmare is
that it’s 2004 and the Radical Left is back with a vengeance. The target is the same as it was forty years
ago, our values, our history, our core as a society, and our children.
Today, on the liberal
warfront, it’s blame America first, get to the nearest protest, call the War in
Iraq a quagmire and basically call the president a liar.
On the home front,
it’s almost more insidious, our kids are the biggest victims. Sex and violence marketed to our teens. The decency line is not blurred, but
obliterated on our movie and television screens. Music advocating violence, music videos that
go past soft porn, being performed by “singers” barely out of their mouseketeer
ears.
Two changes from the
60’s equation is that today, teens are no longer rebelling against stay at home
moms, but rebelling to GET attention from parents who aren’t paying attention
because their either rich and famous and don’t have time, or are busy climbing
the corporate ladder and don’t make time.
Children aren’t being dumped in the commune but dumped on the nanny.
Study after study has shown the damage done to
children in the post-liberation Era.
Parents have forgotten how to communicate with their children or worse
yet, never took the time to learn.
Instead of family time together, they have let video games and MTV raise
their children. We were involved in our
neighborhoods, not cast adrift nor isolated from our neighbors. We volunteered, looked after the seniors,
joined the PTA.
Working moms and
divorce, lack of personal involvement with our children’s education and their
day-to-day life are the biggest factors in troubled youth. Our children have become mirrors of who we
have become as a nation. They see our
lack of involvement, our lack of concern except in a superficial, polite
cocktail party way, and they mirror the behavior they see.
And if you’re working
or just uninterested, the bottom line is that you are not there to monitor the
filth your children are being exposed to everyday in our media, in our school
yards, in our neighborhoods or to provide them with proper day to day
guidance.
A recent report came
out that stated 1 in 6 teenagers drive while smoking pot. Ecstasy (the new LSD), heroin, pot and
cocaine are frying young minds. Many
parents are woefully unaware of the current drug problems in their middle class
neighborhoods.
So, what’s the good
news? Well, here it is
Parents are taking
their children’s education back. They
are sick of the public school indoctrination protocol and are putting their
kids in private school or home schooling.
They are writing the FCC and complaining about a lot more than Janet
Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction and Howard Stern (both laudable complaints). They have spent 300 million dollars to go see
a movie about Jesus Christ. They are
returning to church. They realize that
the current climate is not indicative to raising a stable, solid, loving human
being without proper, wholly engrossed parental guidance.
The bad news is that
the mainstream media, the Liberal Elite, and the
They’re coming after
our lifestyles, our belief system, and our core existence. They want to relive the sixties, all over
again. We can’t afford to relive the
sixties, and we can’t afford to let anyone who advocates for sixties policies anywhere
near the center of power in this country.
The polls suggest we
are a divided nation, you hear it all the time.
Ever since
We are not divided on
gay marriage, abortion, the War in
The Liberal elite in
this country in all areas are running hard and they are running scared. They can read, and everyday they are reading
that their numbers are down - on television, in the music industry, in the
movie theaters (unless you are Finding Nemo or Jesus) and they are down for the
count in the nation’s capital. However,
numbers are up for Fox News, Christian television and radio, movies (Finding
Nemo and Jesus) and conservative talk radio.
And in our nation’s
capital, the Democrats know this all too well.
They lose vote after vote, voting against
This is the most
important election this nation has seen since the sixties. The stakes are enormous, for our safety, our
security, our historical values, and our children.
It’s time to vanquish
the sixties and everyone who represents that ideology, once and for all. We’ll continue to let the
We have nothing to
lose but our soul if we fail. We don’t
think it’ll be close at all.
The vote for family
will win in a landslide. The sixties and
all the radical extremes they represented will be gone for good.