tmacklin wrote:This is the end result of the "free and pubic education" envisioned by Marx and Engels in their masterpiece of delusions, "The Communist Manifesto".
Welcome to Nirvana children, and drink your Kool-Aid. it's all for you.
Yeah, the libtards are using all this school shooting stuff to their maximum advantage-- what is it they say, "never waste a good crisis?" They're whipping the kids up into a frenzy over this stuff simply to further their gun control communist socialist nonsense... and of course the schools are the perfect breeding ground, because kids are too naive and inexperienced to realize they're being played like a violin and manipulated by these people. The libtards have had a stranglehold on education for decades, and it's top to bottom now... Used to be just the "long hairs" and whack-job ultra-liberal professors at colleges back in the 60's... now it's at every level top to bottom... They got control of the National Education Agency and it spread like wildfire. I know when my sister was in college back in the 90's, even a conservative school like Texas Tech, she had to take a "theory of education" class which you *MUST* pass in order to get a teaching certificate, and basically it's a filter to make sure that NOBODY who doesn't spout the ultra-liberal "party line" is allowed to become a teacher... the class was taught by an ultra-liberal and you WOULD *NOT* PASS unless you bit your tongue, suppressed your *true* beliefs and ideas, and just spouted back the "party line" verbatim and rote, and "acted" like you actually believed it. Questioning their "wisdom" is simply not permitted... So it is with these friggin' liberals... Logic doesn't count; only blind fanaticism and dedication to their ideas du jour...
Keira evidently had a hard week at school, because she and Betty evidently spoke with the school counselor, I found out tonight after I got home... Of course I'm not getting any *specifics*, just a lot of generalistic nonsense, "somebody said something that was hurtful among Keira's friends and someone got their feelings hurt..." Whatever the fvck that means...
Keira is all stressed and blurted out that one of her friends has been having some crap going on at home or whatever and had a total bawling meltdown in school because she struggles and is trying to do well and they scheduled 3 tests tomorrow before Spring Break. I was like, "what the h3ll do yall have to be 'stressed' about-- your seventh graders for pity's sake! Yall are too young for that-- you get stressed your senior year of high school, and in college, and on the job-- not in friggin' SEVENTH GRADE!" Course that was exactly the WRONG thing to say according to my wife. I don't get it... WTF do jr. high kids have to get STRESSED about?? Her friend is supposedly suicidal... and according to Betty that's not uncommon at that age... Then of course Keira blurts out that they're scared in school, scared of getting shot up, scared of not doing well, stressed because of that, and because, and I quote, "We're going to have to solve all the problems of the world that the older generation has created-- solve the gun problem and the pollution problem and the environment problems and the social problems" and all that sort of crap.
"Okay", I said, "Let's just back the truck up... First of all, you're spouting the same liberal bullshit that they've been indoctrinating you with. I told Keira many times since before she ever started going to school that she would be taught a LOT of things that were flat out WRONG, or were contrary to our values, our beliefs, and our freedoms, but which were taught because they were popular mantras of our socialistic society. So that should come as no surprise to her, but evidently their BS is sinking in more than it should. Secondly, all these "problems" have been around a VERY VERY long time, practically as long as the world has been around, and THEY WILL CONTINUE TO BE. MOST of the problems we have are either because of or exacerbated by the flawed, Godless, socialistic, humanistic, no-absolute-right-or-wrong, jingoistic culture that has taken over this country, primarily fostered by the ultra-liberal left-wingers and their "anything goes" ideas when it comes to right and wrong, but "my way or the highway" when it comes to having views or beliefs different from their own...
Everybody wonders aloud "how can this happen??" after all these school shootings and other stuff, but they cannot accept or face the answer. Conservatives, particularly the "older generation", have pointed out that "in their day" kids often had a rifle or shotgun on the gunrack in the back window of their pickup truck they drove to school. They had shooting sports IN SCHOOL and nobody went on a rampage or got PO'd and ran to the truck and went on a shooting spree. They had fistfights at times and sometimes folks got their ass kicked, but they licked their wounds and went on with their lives, not decided to go on a killing spree because "somebody was mean to them and they gotta get even and die trying!" SO, what's changed??
Well, for one, video games. Back in "my day" (as an about to turn 47 year old) we had video games, but it was "grab a pocket full of quarters and head to the arcade" video games, flying little 2D dot-matrix spaceships blowing up Asteroids or shooting down incoming nuclear missiles or shooting Space Invaders, or jumping little frogs across freeways without getting flattened out (too many times) or jumping a little Q-bert thing with a snout and legs around a pyramid made out of cubes or whatever... or racing sh!tty looking little cars... And when you ran out of quarters, you ran out of video games! Not now... No, nowdays kids have what was the equivalent of a NSA supercomputer back then in their bedroom, fitted with virtual reality goggles or a wall-size flat screen, headphones, and interactive game controllers and they run around in a 3D world that the military could only dream of having for training special operators back then, and these kids run around killing people and blowing sh!t up all day every day when they're out of school and after they get home in the first-person immersive shooter games... Their parents are in their own little worlds for the most part and dump them in front of the TV and video games, while they do their own thing. Kids have every form of communication known to man but don't know how to actually communicate with anybody, and they take whatever is said or done in "cyberspace" as the be-all, end-all of life, like it matters half a hoot in hell to anybody...
The schools and society teaches them that life is worthless, just here for the now, there are no repercussions-- just hit the "reset" button, life is cheap, life is meaningless, there is no absolute right and absolute wrong-- it's all moral relativism... get knocked up? Have an abortion, BOOM! Reset button! Smoke dope and get hooked on the hard stuff, no problem, it's not your fault, we'll send you to rehab on the gubmint dime, BOOM! Reset button, no repercussions, no problems! The liberals kicked God out of the schools, and when God is kicked out, the Devil rushes in to take his place! Now they openly mock "prayers and condolences" as a worthless gesture... Meh, then okay... *oops you said word #2 off if that's how they feel about it. After all, if there's no absolute right or wrong, then how can they pass judgment on someone who decides to kill a bunch of people-- after all, it "seemed right to them" to do it, right?? That's where moral relativism and teaching life is cheap gets you... Even if you don't believe in spiritual things versus humanistic things...
So Keira tells me they're having all these talks (indoctrination sessions) about the school shootings and showing speeches from the superintendent and all this other nonsense... it's the full-court press. They're showing them the news (again, another segment of this sick socialistic society and bankrupt culture TOTALLY owned and controlled by the libtards, who after the social justice warrior types whip up the kids into a frenzy over gun control and get them all "activist" on other parts of the socialist agenda, the media scumbags are always there and willing participants to get it all on film and throw it all over every form of media known to mankind, after of course putting the "correct" liberal spin on it, and spoon-feeding it to the masses), to keep them scared and stressed so the indoctrination will sink in better, all under the guise of helping them "feel safe" at school.
Thing is, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS "SAFE", not anymore. Our generation had to come to terms with it... after all, as we were vividly shown by "The Day After" and all the other news "special reports" and stuff back during the War Scare of '83; I vividly remember that's when I "really" learned about hydrogen bombs and what they could do and what it meant-- Peter Jennings showing what would happen if they nuked Chicago, all there at 8pm... I remember leaving Grandma's house that night to go home and expecting the bomb to go off any moment and blow me away like the people in the news special... We ALL knew we were at the mercy of some guys sitting under the Kremlin with their finger on "the button" who could send a missile winging our way and in 30 minutes vaporize us off the face of the Earth... or worse. Even the "safest" of us out far from any cities were 30 minutes from having the world end as we knew it, everything poisoned by fallout and killed by nuclear winter... We came to terms with it, over time, and went on with our lives, for as long as they lasted. The world didn't go up in a mushroom cloud, things got better (for awhile) and we all started to feel something we never had, "SAFE"... then terrorism came home to our country, and now every nutcase on the planet capable of doing so seems set on getting nukes, and there's not a lot we can do about it without igniting full-scale wars around the globe to stop it, so... what then?? Now we've got the home-grown nutcases, these progeny of a spoiled generation that was "entitled" to everything, free of repercussions, taught life was cheap, disconnected from reality and each other, yet connected with every electronic device known to man, indoctrinated in Godless socialistic morally relativistic drivel so they are AMORAL, and without faith or hope, stressed, and trained to be killers by playing first-person shooter video games 24/7... and of course afflicted by the natural predilections of teens-- an unusual fascination with the occult, feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt, lack of mental clarity and self-control, impulsiveness, a feeling of invulnerability, and generally an incapability to see "the big picture" or the "long term" and having no sense of repercussions or responsibility for one's actions because they were never really disciplined for doing wrong in any serious way-- it was always "excused" or given a limp-wristed "kids will be kids" response. Then we wonder "where was GOD in all this?" after we kicked Him out and our worthless bankrupt society and culture does everything in it's power to denigrate right and truth and PARTICULARLY God and instead put everything into the hands of humanistic moral relativism...
Is it REALLY any wonder how or why this happens?? Oh, but let's go for the kneejerk reaction, after all it's what the socialist libtards want, and it can't make things any worse, only better-- OUTLAW GUNS!!! But wait, every school zone is ALREADY in an "guns are outlawed" zone, same with illegal drugs which are outlawed in school... yet of course OUTLAWS DON'T CARE that it's outlawed... dope pushers still push dope IN SCHOOL, and if someone is intent on bringing a gun to school to do harm, they will. If the wildest dreams of the libtards came true tomorrow, and edicts came from "on high" irreversible and inarguable, stating that "all guns are hereby outlawed" and they had storm troopers going door to door to search every home in the US for guns with gun-sniffing dogs, and if you didn't voluntarily give up every gun you own instantly upon their arrival you'd be thrown in prison for 20 years, guess what-- we'd STILL have people getting killed with guns for the next 50 years at least... Probably MORE than in recent times because criminals with a gun would KNOW that everybody else is "unarmed" and thus be much more brazen in their actions. Nutcases would still get guns, or would go on killing sprees with trucks or cars like our "enlightened" socialist bretheren in Europe suffer when the latest Muslim nutcase decides to go on a jihad in gun-free Europe, and drives a van through a crowd of people and kills as many as possible. The nutcase in Las Vegas, had every gun been outlawed 20 years ago, he would have just rented or stolen as big a plane as he could get his hands on; he was a licensed and trained pilot, and he'd have flown it into the crowd and killed at least as many as possible. In a way they were lucky he used guns, because he could have inflicted MUCH more death and destruction by flying a plane loaded with explosives or just a couple extra barrels of gasoline in the compartment behind him into that crowd at full throttle at a low angle to the ground to 'skip' it through the crowd as it broke up and exploded on impact... he COULD have killed HUNDREDS if not a couple thousand people and hideously maimed many more than that...
But NO, guns are the quick and easy solution, the simplistic non-answer which gives the liberals what they want, more control over everyone else. And they're MORE THAN WILLING to use kids as their pawns... they have no moral qualms about that-- no moral qualms about ANYTHING that I can tell... And kids are inexperienced and naive, and naturally drawn to "rebel against authority"... the pimps in the media show up at all these protests and every idiot with a camera points it at these "spontaneous protests" and every empty suit and talking head infesting the airwaves comes on spouting liberal propaganda and putting the correct liberal spin on everything, and kids see that and are drawn to it, some just because "hey, lets get a free day out of school!" and others "let's stick to 'the man'" and others because they buy into the simplistic non-answers the libtards peddle to them like a drug "get rid of guns and YOU'LL BE SAFE!!!" A few out of genuine conviction, most out of sheer ignorance of the facts and inexperience with reality...
Liberalism isn't just a mental illness or a disease, it's a RELIGION... one which you MUST unquestioningly believe or else you're an INFIDEL who MUST be silenced and stopped. It's every bit as pernicious and extremist as the Muslim religion of death... totally incapable of reasoned discourse, disagreement, or tolerance to opposing viewpoints. Christ came, as he said, "that they might have life, and have it more abundantly". That's why he doesn't command his followers to force others to convert or kill them if they refuse (unlike Islam), but "he who believes and is baptized shall be saved, he who believes not shall be damned" (damned in eternity by God Himself who will sit in judgment of the wicked and the just). Liberalism will brook no disagreement, accept no compromise, tolerate no opposition to its core beliefs...
That's why this country is falling apart and will continue to do so. As I told Keira, "don't worry about it-- none of these "problems" will EVER be solved-- there's too much money in 'the status quo'... and the most important thing in life to learn is, if you want to understand WHY something is the way it is, then "FOLLOW THE MONEY!" Like racial problems (another issue "the older generation" created that her and her generation will "have to solve" as she put it) they will NEVER be solved, for one simple reason-- the MOMENT that they are, then Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton and Quanell X and all their ilk are OUT OF A JOB... therefore, they will CONTINUE to foment discord and disharmony and keep everything stirred up forever, because that's their POWER BASE, the source of their wealth, power, and prestige. Keira and I are studying the New Testament chapter by chapter, and I've learned a lot along the way in teaching her... EVERYTHING that happened in Jesus' life and the reason he was SO hated and despised by the Jewish leadership, so much so that they used the Roman leadership to do their dirty work for them, was because he was a THREAT to the Jewish leadership's POWER, PRESTIGE, AND AUTHORITY. Jesus taught men should have a personal relationship with GOD, as his Apostles carried on the message, "We have but ONE High Priest, the Lord Jesus, who prays and makes intercession with the Father on our behalf"... If JESUS is our high priest, what need do we have of a High Priest in the Temple, or a Pope or Grand Presbytery or cabal or Southern Baptist Convention or whatever?? WE don't. How will those organizations like the Sanhedrin and the scribes and Pharisees and the High Priest keep their positions of power, authority, and prestige, and the wealth that comes with those things, if everybody is TRULY equal?? Can't have that, so let's kill him! Problem solved! (yeah, right...)
Then to shift gears a bit, for those not spiritually inclined, we had the Godless Communists and their dream of a "worker's paradise", the old dream of a "socialist utopia" where we are ALL EQUAL and brother workers, comrades all and brothers in arms, nobody any higher or better than anyone else. Sounds good... BUT someone *still* has to be in charge... and guess what?? The Party bosses in charge STILL get more and better food, nicer accomodations and luxuries, and ride around in fancy limousines or staff cars while everybody else walks or rides a bicycle, or files onto the tram or subway. They don't stand in line for hours at grocery stores with bare shelves, to buy a dry loaf of bread and some withered vegetables and perhaps a snip of meat if any is available... no they return home to sumptuous meals prepared for them, fine wine, luxuries of a spacious home , not a cold-water one-room flat like their "brother workers"... "Meet the new boss; same as the old boss..." It's the same in our own society, "free" as it is, so long as "money talks, everything else walks". No wonder it's all falling apart... we're copying the same system that's been an abject failure every time it's been tried. Nothing new under the sun...
Later! OL J R