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Over at American Greatness. A sample
What surprises me more today is not that so many people are wrong, but that so many are afraid to be right.
We learn by our mistakes. But if we deny them, we learn nothing. Too many of the children and grandchildren of the “Greatest Generation” have learned the wrong lessons. Never mind, for the moment, whether they are politically Left or Right. How can they sleep at night knowing they have done little or nothing to counter so much evil? What sort of world do they think their children (or, if they are skipping the responsibilities of parenthood, their nieces and nephews) will be faced with? Or do they even ask such questions? I don’t think so.
The Baby Boomers, of whom you have heard too much, let their moment slip. Their Alamo was never fought. They did not “change the world.” Their slogans wafted away with the pot smoke at Woodstock and Altamont. Their vigor was spent on drugs and rock’n roll. They took safe jobs and bought nice houses and learned more from Martha Stewart than from either Friedrich Hayek or Karl Marx. They voted away their integrity on the promises of politicians who never even bothered to earn their trust. So, when the sheriff came for help, they had their excuses.
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