Quote: Americans rode in wagon trains across this country, tossed the Brits’ tea in the Boston Harbor, outfought the superpower of the 18th century to get our freedom, pounded the Indians, Mexicans, and Spanish into the ground to fulfill our Manifest Destiny and then for an encore, we saved the planet in WWI, WWII, and the Cold War. Our pioneer-pilgrim, hard-fighting, gold-mining, wagon-training, gun-fighting ancestors were so hard, Kid Rock's American Bad Ass should have played when they walked into a room. We conquered a continent, built the Hoover Dam, went to the moon, and not only did our Olympic athletes refuse to dip our flag to Hitler during the 1936 Olympics, we made the most evil man who ever lived kill himself in fear before we could get to him.

That's the stock that Americans come from, which begs an obvious question: What the hell happened to us?

How did the toughest, most independent society since Sparta turn into a wuss factory full of people who've never had an adventure in their life outside of a video game? We now have an entire grievance industry full of losers who spend all their time complaining that they're "offended" by everything from the name of the Redskins to the "Patriarchy" to politicians using "violent language" like "crosshairs" and "job killing." Can you imagine a member of the Greatest Generation complaining because a Japanese soldier called him a mean name? Do you think the wagon trains on the Oregon Train were more worried about "isms" or trying to avoid dying of dysentery and being scalped?

So back to that central question: How did Americans get so soft, so fast?

There are a lot of answers to that question. The military has gotten smaller; so fewer people serve; a lot of manly professions have faded away; our society has economically prospered to the point of decadence even if many people don't realize it; liberalism encourages wimpiness and failure....we could go on and on. However, the biggest problem we have is that we're systematically teaching our kids to be wusses.

The problem is that it doesn't matter how pretty, rich, or gifted you are; life is a pile of bricks coming towards you at 100 MPH and no matter how smart you are, how hard you work, or how often you do the right thing, it's going to clip you ever so often. You're going to lose a job, someone's going to die or decide he doesn't want to be your friend any more, you're going to have a stretch of bad luck, your hard work will be unrewarded, you're going to face financial stress, people are going to laugh at you -- no matter how charmed your life may be, it happens to EVERYONE.

Is this how we're going to prepare our kids for those unhappy eventualities?

Quote:1) Ban "Bossy:" This is the hot new idea on the "Left." Apparently if we "ban" the word "bossy," little girls will all grow up to be decisive leaders or something.

Quote:2) Microaggressions: This is a bit of popular silliness that has taken off on college campuses. Basically, since liberals are having trouble finding any overt racism to complain about, the general idea is supposed to be that someone is committing a "microaggression" against you by denying that he’s a racist, sexist, or even just by annoying a minority in some way.

Quote:3) Trigger Warnings: ... Translation: instead of encouraging people to talk to a friend, get therapy, or just get over whatever is bothering them, it's everyone else's responsibility to warn others that they might be saying something that could trouble the legions of easily offended left-wing groups out there.

Quote:4) Zero Tolerance Gun Policies at Schools: After Columbine, it's understandable that schools might be on the alert for weapons at school, but they've cranked things up to Salem-Witch-Trial levels of hysteria. There are kids who've been suspended for saying the word “gun,” chewing a Pop Tart into the shape of a gun or in the latest case, there's a girl being threatened with expulsion for having a razor blade in her possession for as long as it took to get it away from a kid who was trying to cut his wrists.

Quote:5) The Self-Esteem Movement: There is actually a basic formula for building self-esteem. You find something you have talent at, you work at it, your ability is recognized and you feel better about yourself. However, we've moved past that formula and may have become the first society in history to almost entirely disconnect self-esteem from accomplishment.

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawki.../page/full

It's the basic left wing plan for indoctrination. To bring about the utopia, you have to start with the kids.

Conservatives need to get control of the educational system.

http://takimag.com/article/never_trust_a...z3EP3YqEhg

Quote:Conservatives like to talk about the causes of Western Civilization’s downfall: feminism, loose morality, drug abuse, Christianity’s decline, reality TV. Blaming civilization’s downfall on lardy hagfish such as Andrea Dworkin is like a doctor diagnosing senility by an old person’s wrinkles. The fact that anyone listened to such a numskull is a symptom, not the cause, of a culture in decline. The cause of civilizational decline is dirt-simple: lack of contact with objective reality. The great banker-journalist (and founder of the original National Review) Walter Bagehot said it well almost 150 years ago:

History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.

Every great civilization reaches a point of prosperity where it is possible to live your entire life as a pacifist without any serious consequences. These ideas don't come from a hardscrabble existence in contact with nature's elemental forces; they are the inevitable consequence of being an effete urban twit removed from meaningful contact with reality.

(10-01-2014 10:30 AM)EverRespect Wrote:  

Quote:5) The Self-Esteem Movement: There is actually a basic formula for building self-esteem. You find something you have talent at, you work at it, your ability is recognized and you feel better about yourself. However, we've moved past that formula and may have become the first society in history to almost entirely disconnect self-esteem from accomplishment.

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawki.../page/full

I think this is the worst.. Without it the otheter aspects are pretty toothless.

(10-01-2014 10:36 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  It's the basic left wing plan for indoctrination. To bring about the utopia, you have to start with the kids.

Conservatives need to get control of the educational system.

+1

Too many females teaching. But hey, in order to get men in the profession you have to pay. Increased $$= Higher Quality Teachers

tbh, I blame parents.

(10-01-2014 03:02 PM)South Carolina Duke Wrote:  

(10-01-2014 10:36 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  It's the basic left wing plan for indoctrination. To bring about the utopia, you have to start with the kids.

Conservatives need to get control of the educational system.

+1

Too many females teaching. But hey, in order to get men in the profession you have to pay. Increased $$= Higher Quality Teachers

Haven't teachers historically been mostly females?

Yes and that's a real issue. The results are that females can't identify with a male child, (except for the ones that rape them in Middle or High School and never go to jail for it). They expect them to be "girls" and attempt emasculate any red blooded American boy for acting like a boy.

(oops I said boy, am I going to reprimanded?)

(10-01-2014 03:02 PM)South Carolina Duke Wrote:  

(10-01-2014 10:36 AM)oklalittledixie Wrote:  It's the basic left wing plan for indoctrination. To bring about the utopia, you have to start with the kids.

Conservatives need to get control of the educational system.

+1

Too many females teaching. But hey, in order to get men in the profession you have to pay.

Pay has gone up. That's not the issue.

http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/187585/

Quote: Increased $$= Higher Quality Teachers

Not necessarily. Pay has gone up significantly.

I have had conversations with business associates that say that they would teach if they could make "real money". I agree with them.

(10-01-2014 03:04 PM)Doctor Krieger Wrote:  tbh, I blame parents.

I agree here as well.. Most parents need to by whipped along side their children!

(10-01-2014 03:24 PM)South Carolina Duke Wrote:  I have had conversations with business associates that say that they would teach if they could make "real money". I agree with them.

So? Supply and demand. Teachers now make above the local median pay level in many areas.

(10-01-2014 03:15 PM)South Carolina Duke Wrote:  Yes and that's a real issue. The results are that females can't identify with a male child, (except for the ones that rape them in Middle or High School and never go to jail for it). They expect them to be "girls" and attempt emasculate any red blooded American boy for acting like a boy.

(oops I said boy, am I going to reprimanded?)

+1000

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