Despite an unemployment rate at nearly 12 percent, young people came out in droves to support the president in 2012. Barack Obama beat challenger Mitt Romney by 24 points amongst voters under 30, and there is growing worry within the party that conservative ideas will be totally out of favor within a generation. Why are young people turning to progressivism? How can conservatives change hearts and minds?
In his book “Letters to a Young Progressive,” Mike Adams writes that the liberal “education” of college kids across the country is producing a generation of unhappy, unimaginative, and unproductive adults. Adams came on ‘Wilkow!‘ Thursday to discuss why America’s young people are falling into this path, and how it can be stopped. Watch a clip from Thursday’s show below:
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Grand design
Feb. 15, 2013 at 12:31pmSold on Socialism? Yes! It’s taught in schools by Socialists, it’s preached in churches by pseudo-socialists, it’s taught by our government by Socialists! Therefore, yes! They are sold on Socialism!
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JACKTHETOAD
Feb. 15, 2013 at 10:39amOf course it is. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the new North Korea.
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flipper1073
Feb. 15, 2013 at 10:03amThis story is Dropping fast,
I quess the Blaze doesn’t Like the way the Discussion is Going.
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B-Neil
Feb. 15, 2013 at 8:45amI don’t belive, sold on it, is the right phrase. Brain wash through our current Edjucational system fits the bill better. It’s sad but true. There is only one way to put the train back on track and everybody with a clue knows what that is.
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AUsername
Feb. 15, 2013 at 8:30amthe most liberal generation is the baby boomers who want their entitlements that are unsustainable and want goverment to take care of them like babies in their old age. Based on voting to we see the millennial had highest percentage of votes for the most conservative candidates in the primary while baby boomers had the most votes for the most liberal candidate in the primary.
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flipper1073
Feb. 15, 2013 at 6:19amThis is NOT by Accident the Progressive Movement
has been taking over the Education System for Decades.
Text Books, Teachers Unions, Curriculum.
Started in Universities worked it’s way down to Kindergarden.
The Children are Not being Educated They’re being Indoctrinated..
They Don’t teach American History (what really happened)
They teach Revised American History.(History that fits their Agenda.)
They Teach Man Made Global Warming as Fact.(It’s Not It’s a HOAX)
They Teach Evolution as Fact (It’s Not it’s No More Provable Than other Theories)
Face it they Don’t Teach Children to Think. They Teach Children to Accept
what they Say without Question.And it’s By Design Not Accident.
If You Send your Children to Public School Please Teach them at Home to
Not accept Everything they’re Told. But to Question everything. Just because a
Teacher Says it Does not mean it’s TRUE.
So Yes they are trying to Raise a Generation of Progressives.
The Only Thing Standing in Their Way are PARENTS !
and in my case Grandparents. Talk to your Kids an Grandkids.
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marybethelizabeth
Feb. 15, 2013 at 8:44amHere’s how the conservatives try to guarantee an ignorant populace that they can exploit, from a recent Paul Krugman article:
Last year the Texas G.O.P. explicitly condemned efforts to teach “critical thinking skills,” because, it said, such efforts “have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.”
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tool4rage
Feb. 15, 2013 at 8:58amHey Marybeth, did ya know there are progressive repubs, too? Teddy Roosevelt (R) was one of the originals. Being G.O.P. does not necessarily make you a conservative.
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objectivetruth
Feb. 15, 2013 at 9:03am@marybethelizabeth
Critical thinking skills don’t interfer with parents teachings.Most conservatives teach their children critical thinking skills from a young age.There was something hidden in the jargon of the bill.Be it the age brackets of the teaching.The actual curriculum which may not have focused on critical thinking skills but instead was a massive act of propaganda and brain washing.Just as evil, disguised as good, is still evil, so to is propaganda disguised as truth, critical thinking.
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marybethelizabeth
Feb. 15, 2013 at 9:41amObjectivetruth.
You are making stuff up, rationalizing and discarding the facts. Stop with the maybe this and maybe thats. To many of the spokesmen for the conservative cause, Glenn Beck and the rest, are filling you head with what ifs and if onlys. But those things don’t exist . Stick with what is real.
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marybethelizabeth
Feb. 15, 2013 at 9:51amTool4rage you are right. Progressivism is a Republican legacy.
That’s why Glenn Beck, Andrew Wilcow, and others are wrong when say that today’s progressives are rooted in the past. For today’s progressives it’s just a marketing slogan.
If my last name was Dalton, it doesn’t mean I’m a stage coach robber.
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objectivetruth
Feb. 15, 2013 at 10:09am@marybethelizabeth
I have criticalo thinking skills.Its why I answered how I did.I didn’t read the bill.Forgive me here but I don’t live in Texas.Their laws don’t affect me.In my state the reasons I gave would be the reason it was defeated.You see it requires someone to read the bill unlike obamascare.Obviously the Reps in Texas did and defeated it.
Rather than give opinionated and uninformed statements as to where and how I think maybe it would do you good to actually read something I’ve read rather than pretend you have.You would then see I don’t get my talking points from beck but from my entire lifespan and everyone and institution whom I’ve had contact with.
Oops I’m sorry you were projecting unto me your own vices of not being able to think for yourself.How does it feel to be told how to think and what to believe.I’d think you would get tired of it.
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marybethelizabeth
Feb. 15, 2013 at 10:44amObjectivetruth
You apologize and then attack me?
My opinion was not uninformed. I read what you wrote.
Still, apology accepted.
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objectivetruth
Feb. 15, 2013 at 10:59amMarybethelizabeth
You go on and on acting like you are a therapist.No one is discarding facts nor making up anything.This lovely little pretend act of yours ,that you are still sane and no one else is, is irritating to a fault.All of us see through you.Why can’t you accept that?What I wrote to you wasn’t exactly an apology.You know it wasn’t.You just want to seem like the good guy.By alledgedly pretending you accepted a non existant apology.So tell me does that get you points with your handlers?Your shrink?You know where you are always the _______.
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Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
Feb. 15, 2013 at 3:46amNo, they’re not so much sold on progressivism as they are disgusted by conservatives. Not by conservatism, but by conservatives. They don’t know what conservatism is, and they probably never will, because conservatives are too busy arguing against gay marriage, trying to refute the theory of evolution, and spewing contempt for environmentalism and threatening to dismantle the EPA and return us to the days when rivers caught fire. As long as conservatives make a spectacle of themselves staging this freak show of stupidity, the kids aren’t going to bother to check out the handful who devote all their time to talking seriously about important issues and see if any of them are smarter than a bucket of chum.
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flipper1073
Feb. 15, 2013 at 6:50am@ XYZ
Conservatives Don’t hate Gays.They just Support the Sanctity
of Marriage.
Show Me the Prove of Evolution or Man Made Global Warming I’ll listen.
You Don’t You just want people to Believe without Question.
Also Show Me ANY Government Agency that has Made Things Better ?
“Government Isn’t the Solution to the Problem. Government is the Problem”
Ronald Reagan.
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objectivetruth
Feb. 15, 2013 at 9:29amSadly you really believe this.Hate to tell you this not all conservatives are overly religious.Although many have faith and some religious training.God much as you hate to hear that word loves the sinner simply not the sin.I don’t believe in collective sin any more than I do collective salvation.It is a individuals choice.It isn’t mine to make or judge[well other than for myself or if I had small children-mine are all adults]
No conservatives wish to see the rivers on fire.They are who helped to start the EPA.Many were rural individuals and farmed.They didn’t want corporations destroying thier land and water supplies.In essence their livelyhoods.We have gone to far the other way which also wasn’t be accident.Yes the Muslim Brotherhood and hezbelloh have had their hands in the EPA for along time.Why do you think they are currently strangling any energy projects?They want us dependant on them.This way they can force their will on us.Wake up while you still can.
http://www.wnd.com/2007/11/44660/
Do some more homework on your own about this women Waheeda Tehseen.Then you tell me again that they aren’t the problem rather than conservatives.
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Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
Feb. 15, 2013 at 3:02pmflipper1073
Yeah, that’s it. Keep it up. That’s exactly the kind of stuff I’m talking about. You’’ll win the kids over for sure if they read that.
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Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
Feb. 15, 2013 at 3:24pmobjectivetruth
I never said that all conservatives are idiots. All I’m saying is that you are doomed to failure as long as thinking conservatives are too timid to tell the idiots that they are idiots.
I also believe that God loves the sinner but not the sin, I just don’t believe that you know better than I do what is or is not a sin. And one thing I know for sure is that an argument based on unquestioning faith that some old book is the word of God and meant as the book of rules for all people everywhere forever is not going to win over anybody who, like myself, does not share that belief.
Yeah, I know that conservatives were historically as important as liberals in the environmental movement, but some of them today ARE virulently anti-environmental. I know that because I read this website every day and see them mindlessly regurgitating talking points fed to them by big business via the RNC. I see that, but I don’t see you telling them, “Shut up, stupid. You’re not helping.”
And the kids aren’t going to be impressed when you point to some guy on the internet as a source for a crazy theory that Islamic extremists have infiltrated the EPA. The kids live on they internet and they understand better than the credulous dolts who repeat this kind of stuff that some guy on the internet is not a credible source of information.
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objectivetruth
Feb. 18, 2013 at 2:46pm@Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh
Its not a crazy theory .Its a fact.She was taken to court and removed from the US.There are other stunning examples of the same type of behavior.This is still a crazy theory to you?I guess we all are nuts with tin foil hats on our heads then.Don’t you understand what stealth jihad is all about?Its sort of like the frog being boiled alive slowly.Its been done so slowly you and many others can;’t see what others like myself see clearly.There was also a axis between the nazi party and the muslims in world war two.Is this just a theory too?No its not.They have working quietly behind the scenes for years.Reading what you wrote tells me it has been more effective than even I had imagined.I guess the scars on me from one of their plots is just crazy too.
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Nlitend1
Feb. 15, 2013 at 3:02amHe said that pre-k for everyone is bad idea—too marxist. He followed that up by saying he remembers when things used to be merit based. So even though pre-k for everyone may have a massive positive impact on our country, you object to it because it would be available to people who can’t afford it. Did I hear this wrong, or is this an actual point of view from someone who calls himself an academic? I disagree with communism because of many reasons, like the fact that it is inefficient…I don’t hate communism based on the fact that it is communism and communism is bad. There should be some substance to your hate people.
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DLV
Feb. 15, 2013 at 10:46amI disagree with communism and all the death it’s caused over the 20th century. Now one could point out that Christians did the same thing during medieval Europe. I would point out by saying those people were not real Christians and instead hijacked Christianity to use as a power grab. They did nothing Jesus taught.
Additionally, this article helps provide evidence to what I was speaking of earlier, that through the educational system people are becoming more progressive. If it’s not the professors, why are young people becoming more progressive is such droves?
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Nlitend1
Feb. 15, 2013 at 4:55pmThey are more progressive because society becomes more tolerant (less ignorant-fearful-hateful) over time. It is progression that causes progressiveness because new generations benefit from the conflicts of the past and over time racist/sexist/other attitudes become unacceptable in mainstream circles. If you keep children home (homeschool) and have them avoid these progressing attitudes you can try and stunt this effect…as many conservatives are trying to do. But they have to avoid science and all the other advancements as well, because they must maintain the belief that being gay is choice, and being a woman makes you a second class citizen, and being black makes you more likely to commit crime. All false according to fact, all true according to backwards 1950′s ideals.
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DLV
Feb. 15, 2013 at 11:20pmNL- Ouch I don’t want to be rude here but this is just… wrong on so many levels especially on what conservatives. I’ll try to break it down on the most logical way possible.
“They are more progressive because society becomes more tolerant (less ignorant-fearful-hateful) over time.”
I beg to differ. Society is only more tolerant on what it wants to be tolerant of. Again, notice how people are becoming less tolerant of Christians even as Christians are probably at one of the most peaceful (at least in terms of violence) in their history. So no we are not becoming more tolerant people are just accepting more twisted views. You say tolerant but yet the liberal left is not tolerant of gun owners, christians, people who believe in small government and liberty and most importantly people who disagree with them. So yes, this is wrong. I can see how you might think we are becoming more tolerant but is and always will be tolerance of what people like and what they don’t like will be off limits. Onward…
. If you keep children home (homeschool) and have them avoid these progressing attitudes you can try and stunt this effect…as many conservatives are trying to do.”
Studies have shown homeschoolers get higher grades than public school people. In fact, we seem to be going backwards here again as dropout rates are still quite high, obviously in more ghetto areas. Again parents homeschool their kids so they wont have deal with the crap public school brings… Cont
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DLV
Feb. 15, 2013 at 11:31pm“because they must maintain the belief that being gay is choice”
Still have yet to find the “gay gene.” and I would like to see the science of a homosexual brain and a heterosexual brain and who is born with what. I think people aren’t born gay it’s far more about sociology. From a religious standpoint, it could be as well that some people are born to deal with this temptation. But going back to my original point, my cousin is gay, however, it’s pretty obvious if you look at his life how he got there. He only has sisters, his father died when he was young and he only has female friends. With no masculinity in his life, it’s obvious to see how he got gay.
“being a woman makes you a second class citizen”
Lol few Christians believe being female is second class. It’s about roles and it has always been about roles. For instance, Jesus was submissive to the father but they were both equal both god. God put males and females on this earth as equals but with different roles. That is it. women aren’t stupid, dumb or second class. I don’t know where you get this but it’s wrong. It’s about roles. Roles, roles, roles.
“and being black makes you more likely to commit crime.”
Again, the color of your skin has nothing to do with being a criminal. statistically blacks are more likely to be criminals but again this is due to sociological and financial situations. Easily explainable and now self-respecting Christian would believe this.
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DLV
Feb. 15, 2013 at 11:40pmFinally…
“All false according to fact, all true according to backwards 1950′s ideals.”
This is one of the most annoying. If I had a time in America to go back to besides our founding, it would be the 50s. It was the golden age of America. Capitalism was booming, we had a great president, America was family, religiously orientated etc. The only thing bad about it was the racism. If we had 50s morality without the racism, our morality would be in awesome shape by our standards. In fact, I say modern America is horrible, disgusting and filthy and we need to get back to 50s ideals. There were a couple of other problems with the 50s, but racism was the big one though. However, the reason why I say modern america is so bad is because…
We think murdering babies is okay for the convenience of the mom without teaching sexual responsibility…
We accept gross behavior under the flag of tolerance. Honestly where does it end. Will bestiality become accepted at some point? and if it isn’t accepted, why shouldn’t it? Why is homosexuality okay but beastility isn’t? If it’s just about love as homosexuals claim then people should be able to marry their pets since it’s “love.”
Our morality is quite relative now with no true foundation.
government has never been bigger, debt has never been bigger, and the threat of tyranny has never been greater. Seriously, if you think this is a great time to live, there needs to be a serious debate because it really isn’t. We are in
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Nlitend1
Feb. 16, 2013 at 12:56am@DLV
It’s hard to reply to that much, so I may miss some stuff. First, bestiality is different because it is not consensual. Neither is marriage to children. Polygamy has a longer argument against it but if you want it ask a mormon, they should know why it is wrong.
So the 50′s was better–except for the racism thing? And, the sexism of the 50′s, that was fine? Zero women in the military, zero women CEOs, zero women in politics. What about domestic violence? What about sexual harassment? What about all the laws we have made to protect women that they didn’t have before? Did you know black people got the vote in 1868, but women didn’t get it until 1920? You obviously really love your religion, and while I don’t object to you feeling that way, I do not. Your religion and the laws in it have been reinterpreted from time to time, and it has progressed to a point that you no longer stone people, and you no longer get killed for working on the sabbath. In some Christian denominations even women can become pastors. The 1950′s may seem ideal to you, but that is because you are a straight white man. I know this because you’d have to be a white man to think the 50′s were ideal. If you were anything else, you would realize that those strong traditional values don’t apply to you. You wouldn’t be able to succeed in any of the ways that you can today. By the way, you are smart for 18yrs old, but your knowing a lot is tricky. You think you know the 50′s? look into it, before
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Nlitend1
Feb. 16, 2013 at 1:22ambefore you make your bold proclamations that it was so great. Also, there is no intolerance towards christians, that is just your relative point of view…by that I mean, you think anyone disagreeing with your religion is intolerance and persecution…ask matthew sheppard about persecution, ask the gays in Uganda about it, ask a black man who is over 30 years old or a black man of any age who lives in Mississippi, ask anyone who isn’t white and male how they are treated…I promise you, you white male christians still have it pretty good. There is so much information backed up with science and fact that clearly proves that as a whole, we are better off as a people in 2013 than we were in the 50′s. It’s not the technology or growth in efficiency either, I’m talking about the social aspects of our society. How we treat each other, our levels of education and knowledge, our tolerance of others, our equality as a people, etc. Since you are white christian man, you may feel like our values have shifted, and to a degree, they have. Understand that is because your bible does not synch with equality and acceptance, but maybe one day it will. It may feel like you are being persecuted but that is only the rising up of others to your status. You are young and much more willing to intelligently discuss/disagree with my points, but all those older white men won’t dare read this far, and when they respond it is to dismiss me. Basically, you seem smart enough to escape this fate.
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Nlitend1
Feb. 16, 2013 at 1:46am@DLV I should add…your answer that women are not 2nd class citizens, that it is roles, is something an academic would call institutional sexism and it’s a big part of your values. In the 50′s, we had s lot of institutional racism that was defended similarly…”it’s roles”, “know your place”, even “separate but equal”. Basically, your bible used to condone, even encourage if you read it right, slavery, segregation, and all of the values of racism. They chipped away at these institutions for a while and today you think it’s ridiculous that your skin color causes you to be a deviant. A lot of good christians with strong values don’t agree with you. They also think women have roles, primarily because they can cite it from the bible law, and of course because they think men are superior. They don’t think women can do the same things men can, but somehow they think they are equal? Really? Oh, men can’t do women things as good either…now we’re equal. Huh? You’re saying a man can’t wash dishes as well as a woman, that is ridiculous. OK OK, let’s call it roles, men shouldn’t do this stuff, and they shouldn’t do that stuff…because bible. That makes sense if you are 10. And that’s why it is almost impossible to convert someone to christianity after the age of 18…and why they spend tons of money trying to convert 4-14 year olds to bible. And say that professors indoctrinate?! I got 4-14 thing from TBN earlier tonight. They had a missionary on and he laid out t
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bekhiet1
Feb. 15, 2013 at 2:45amIf you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain. – Winston Churchill
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Nlitend1
Feb. 15, 2013 at 4:28amThis is taken out of context…he did say this, but conservatives weren’t bat-sh1t crazy back then. I’m not making this up, there is a ton of evidence that supports this.
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Gonzo
Feb. 15, 2013 at 7:52amA ton of evidence that supports that conservatives are bat **** crazy? I think you are living proof of just the opposite being true.
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DLV
Feb. 15, 2013 at 11:55pmNL- with all due respect, you’re not helping your case at all, when you say things like this. You’re just giving evidence to people that liberals are the irrational ones.
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Nlitend1
Feb. 16, 2013 at 2:37am@DLV
I’m not a liberal. I’m a conservative, or at least I was before we weren’t allowed to be rational.
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media-bias-steals-elections
Feb. 15, 2013 at 2:07amYoung people believe what people tell them, that’s why the rich hate blogs like this, because it gives them something to think about? The rich are scheming you out of your money, your assets, look at your deductibles, look at your limititation clauses in the contracts, look at your rising property, personal, and other taxes?
Meanwhile, their main cheer leader has you hypnotized with his tax the rich speeches? If I am wrong, I am willing to be embarrassed, and if I am right, you know what to do, not be silent, change the way things are going to be, start voting differently, start demanding the media to be accountable?
Start being an American?
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Fla.Patriot
Feb. 15, 2013 at 2:32amMedia, I like your posts, I really do, but if nobody else here will say it, I will. What is up with the question marks at the end of every sentence? It’s a little nerve wracking. Is it your keyboard? I’d be able to kick in $10 or $20 bucks just so I could read your opinion without it hurting my head. Really, do appreciate your thoughts, and usually agree with you, but it’s been buggin me for awhile. Sorry, don’t mean to be mean or anal about it, just really kind of wondering whats up with that?
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media-bias-steals-elections
Feb. 15, 2013 at 4:06amReference: President Obama’s Directives: Quote:
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/23-01-2013/123541-bolshevik_america-0/
Anyone who’s read Solzhenitsyn knows how the KGB employed informants and quotas to counter anti-revolutionary measures. The American government is already preparing itself for revolution, with CDC concentration camps and the ability to create martial law, and removing constitutional laws enabling the American people to change their form of government if they so choose. This new network of required informants is yet another step in the direction of repressive regimes reminiscent of the former Soviet Union. Given the pretense of spotting people before a crime is committed, this is probably only the start.
End partial quote.
There are amazing similarities between Russian and American newspapers, I believe once we can agree that supporting Islam, supports the religion of Islam, we will be heading in the right direction?
Russia is licensing military air defense manufactoring to Brazil, avoiding “selling reporting requirements in treaties”?
The question is always more powerful then the opinion? When the reader is forced to answer a question, they become activists? Putting a question mark at the end of a question really annoys people that want to sue you, because it is impossible to claim you have ill will against them, because you don’t?
Blogs ask questions, readers answer them?
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objectivetruth
Feb. 15, 2013 at 10:12am@mediabiasstealselections
No its meant to provoke people into thinking for themselves instead of being used for the collective.Being told how to think and what to think.
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k8ti
Feb. 15, 2013 at 1:55amGet them jobs so they can pay all those high progressive liberal taxes….things will turn around!
Really though, the future of Conservatism is going to be in the Libertarian party, just wait…it will outgrow the democrat party easily.
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Witness1974
Feb. 15, 2013 at 12:44amGive them awhile to live under ubiquitous progressivism; they won’t like it so much.
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The Big Mick
Feb. 15, 2013 at 12:22am“Is the Next Generation Sold on Progressivism*?”
Yes.
And you can’t outvote them.
NOW what do you do?
*my semantically accurate usage for the “terminological inexactitudes” “progressive” “liberal” “left” is:
Commiequeer.
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The Big Mick
Feb. 15, 2013 at 12:24ammy apologies for the dual post. computer glitch
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The Big Mick
Feb. 15, 2013 at 12:18am“Is the ‘Next Generation’ Sold on Progressivism”?*
Yes.
And you can’t outvote them.
NOW what do you do?
*my sematically accurate usage for the “terminological inexactitudes” “progressive” “liberal” “left” is:
Commiequeer.
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