The Left is the Real Problem

THE LEFT IS THE REAL PROBLEM

Generational blaming won't fix anything

by Les Govment

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Generational labels have never meant much to me. Heck, I went through nearly 4 decades of adulthood oblivious to the fact that I was born in a year that is considered part of the Baby Boom years. I always thought that Baby Boomers were folks born about 5-15 years before me. And I feel like I probably have more in common with older Gen X-ers than with older Boomers.

Having disclosed all of that, I have to ask: Why should generational labels even matter to anyone? The stereotype of a generation doesn't apply to the whole generation, or even a majority of it.

I've been watching Lauren Southern's videos since 2017. She's insightful, articulate and wise beyond her age. When I started my Twitter account in 2018, Lauren was the first person I "followed."

In her thoughtful video, Why Young People Won't Work, Lauren admirably held out an olive branch to Baby Boomers. So, I was puzzled when she made this statement in a more recent video:

"A lot of adults pretend to have this moral superiority to the younger, more woke generations, simply because they had the privilege of not growing up in a culture and schooling systems that both they and the other adults in their generations broke."

While I agree that there are bad things in our culture and that public schools have been degenerating, the notion that older generations (Lauren didn't specify any generation or age range) broke our culture and schooling systems is mistaken-- quite mistaken.

The cultural decline in America (and other Western Nations) has spanned generations and much of the decline can be blamed on elements in the entertainment industries-- which have a decades-long history of feeding young people morally degraded pap in the form of music, film, video games and other things in pop culture. Don't get me wrong here. I'm not saying that all music or all film or all video games are bad. There still are good films and music being produced, and some good video games, too. But clearly, a sizable portion of things being produced by the entertainment industries are bad and have been a bad influence on teens and young people for decades. And that cannot be pinned on any one generation or on older generations.

Concerning education, the main problem there is that lefties of various stripes have come to dominate a large number of the public school systems in America. That infiltration of lefties happened gradually over several decades. So, clearly the problems in education cannot rightly be pinned on any one generation or on older generations.

If you're Gen X or younger, and you think things will get better when the last Baby Boomer vanishes over the horizon into The Great Beyond, you're headed for a big disappointment. The range of problems in society today were not brought about by any one generation, but instead, are the product of poor choices made by ordinary people-- and bad policies made by politicians-- over the course of several generations. Badly-bent liberal ideas and left political ideology were/are the most common elements driving those bad choices and policies. It's not a generational thing.

As Lauren herself said in, Why Young People Won't Work: "We need to unite together against the real enemy here." //





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