In previous generations, the rebellious youth were always a topic of consternation for the old folks. They don’t listen! They drive too fast and talk too loud. They wear funny clothes and don’t respect their teachers.
But something has changed in the last few years that should have the older generations far more worried than they would have been in the past.
A recent Morning Consult poll found that only 16 percent of Gen Z’ers are proud to live in the United States. Millennials were only somewhat saner at 36 percent.
These numbers should set off alarm bells. In the last ten years, there has been a sharp decline in national pride. It is not an accident. It’s a deliberate attempt by the left to destroy American patriotism and replace it with their ideology. In 2013, 85 percent of Americans said "extremely or very" proud to be American. Today that number is 63 percent. It wasn’t until 2016 that that number ever dipped below 80 percent, sometimes being in the high 80s and 90s. That’s a collapse.
This is not an accident. The indoctrination happening in our schools have resulted in this kind of opinion among the young.
The numbers show a complete lack of knowledge of the rest of the world. What the kids are learning in school in the U.S. is that the freest country in the history of humanity, the country that has set the example for democracy and for freedom and has been a beacon of hope to people all over the world is meh, not that great.
The kind of privilege that it takes to hold that opinion is mind-boggling. It means this person was taught to believe that the immense advantages that they have through the sheer luck of being American are not that important. They do not know the struggle people across the world still go through to be free or how desperately people want to be Americans. The haters were taught to take for granted the freedom and liberty that is their birthright.
In the last few years the left has successfully taken over curriculums in public schools across the country. They push the idea that America is just not that great. They force the 1619 Project onto curriculums. They remove discussion of the founding fathers or of American history in general. All education is geared at the idea that America is a terrible place.
Aside from being wrong, it’s deeply myopic. The people who push this idea think they are worldly. But worldliness involves knowing something about other countries and not being so shortsighted about your own. These are people born on third base and thinking they’ve hit a triple.
Deep down, Americans are a very patriotic people. Yes, even the young people. But they’ve gotten to where admitting it is not permitted. Millennials and Generation Z are the first generations raised with "cancel culture," and with that a forced conformity of thought. To break with the pack, with your teachers, and say that America isn’t just great but the greatest, is simply not allowed. Wrongthink can lead to bad grades or harassment by their peers. It will take some bravery for the young people to overcome what is happening to them. And it will take standing up for ideas they know to be true but have been told so long that they are not.
More than that, it will take the older generations doing more than just tsk-tsking these kinds of numbers. They have to educate the young people in their homes or in their lives about the miracle that is the American experiment. The miracle needs maintaining, and it needs a continued effort to ensure its success. Cancel culture and the push of leftist conformity will be destroyed eventually. The older generations have to be in the fight, and can’t just give up on the youth to make that happen.
I think Crowder was in the wrong, solely because of his lack of discretion, but that's just me. Myself, I would have kept quiet, and let my actions speak.
I didn't realize Crowder was a millionaire, so I suspect his next move will be to set up his own network. The costs to startup are low, but those costs tend to mushroom over time as the platform scales up, and they mushroom quickly.
There is also the time commitment to manage the thing — unless he has those skills, he may want to hire someone to handle it for him. Responding to this from yesterday.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Within a decade, the U.S. went from cracking down on marijuana use to becoming a $47 billion industry.
But the road to having dispensaries on every corner, the smell of weed smoke freely in the air and criminal records expunged didn't happen overnight.
It took a couple of states leading the charge - Colorado and Washington in 2012 - to then ripple into near nation-wide legalization.
There are now 21 states where cannabis has been legalized for recreational use. Every corner of New York City, for example, is an assault on the nostrils with people lighting up a joint as early as before or just after their morning commute.
However, not everyone is on board with the marijuana revolution. Doctors and advocates have highlighted concerns about excessive use of cannabis in high risk groups, especially the youth.
DailyMail.com has examined when exactly America's war on drugs changed, the challenges the industry faces and the future of the billion-dollar business.
#1
The war on drugs failed. Time for a new approach. The drug gangs gained a lot from the war on drugs by making their product expensive and profitable. Now we're stealing their thunder.
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Arguably Prohibition gave rise to organized crime, and so, too, did the "war on drugs" (or exacerbated the growth of organized crime).
Impacts on health? You mean like alcohol, cigarettes, and perhaps even junk food (whatever that means)?
Sorry, but I want to consume, smoke, imbibe, or ingest whatever I want. My body, my rules.
#3
Sorry, but I want to consume, smoke, imbibe, or ingest whatever I want. My body, my rules.
OK, just don't ask everyone else to subsidize those transplants and medical support later on that are required to put off the big reaper for things that are attributed to what ever you wanted to subject your body to.
#5
Anyone who believes marijuana does not crush human initiative need look no further than the Libertarian Party. All the potential good that the libertarian project entails is lost in the obsession with weed.
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All the potential good that the libertarian project entails is lost in the obsession with weed.
#7
Transplants? Medical support? Lol. You people literally have no idea what weed or what it does. How embarrassing.
On the off chance you were talking about smoking, the weed is pure and without the toxic chemicals that are added to tobacco. At any rate, edibles are where it's at. No stench, no inhaling, no muss no fuss. The last time I was with my brother, he had gummy bears impregnated with THC. Eat one and you're good for hours.
#8
/\ Having worked with a "stoner" I fail to see your optimism. Marijuana, like alcohol, can be a debilitating crutch for some people and it "may be their body their choice", which I totally agree with, but when it becomes "their medical bills MY pocketbook" I start running out of sympathy quickly. YMMV, that's my view for what little a personal opinion is worth.
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"I got baked and forgot to get a job / healthcare / annual checkup."
Recipe for sorrow.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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OK, just don't ask everyone else to subsidize those transplants and medical support later on that are required to put off the big reaper for things that are attributed to what ever you wanted to subject your body to.
I believe insurance companies have actuaries who can at least recommend how different types of behavior will affect your premiums. At least that's how it should work. As far as harmful substances go, I think if you consider the toll that is taken by obesity and diabetes, sugar would rank right up there with heroin. But in our culture people are constantly encouraged to eat cake, ice cream, donuts and cookies. To each their poison I guess. But I would agree that we shouldn't be asked to subsidize healthcare for people whose habits are unhealthy and I still think we should secure the border and take military action against Mexico's drug cartels.
I always thought it was ironic that people who can legally smoke tobacco wanted to put marijuana smokers in jail. As old as I am, I've seen a lot of people, many of them people that I still miss today, get sick and die from smoking tobacco. You can debate all day about which is worse: tobacco or marijuana. It's probably best to avoid both of them.
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in states with legalized recreational marijuana, there have been significant increases in juvenile psychosis
the medical path by which THC leads to marijuana psychosis is still in the early stages of investigation but there is little doubt that this is happening
THC concentration in for-sale marijuana is far higher than it was 30 or 20 or even 5 years ago
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one of the difficulties with researching the issue of marijuana psychosis is that marijuana sold is highly variable in its purity
several dozen potential psychoactive compounds are in raw marijuana and when it is smoked the number of compounds doubles or triples
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Though the weed debate has been going on since long before COVID vaxx, the trajectory is the same. On one side, true believers who call anyone who says differently uninformed conspiracy zealots.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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#15
Like what the craft beer IPA industry did, trying to 'out Hops' each other.
#16
Life and health insurance often set your rates according to your smoking status and sometimes your alcohol consumption, would make sense to price policies according to cannabis use too.
#17
"Sorry, but I want to consume, smoke, imbibe, or ingest whatever I want. My body, my rules."
Okay - I can play that game:
If you don't get your daily cardio for a healthy heart then develop cardiac and heart problems - FO and die.
If you dont wear your seat belt and get into an accident - FO and die.
If you dont wear your helmet and wreck your motorcycle or bicycle - FO and die.
If you dont heed the warning and fall off the top step of a ladder, FO and die.
If you are a daily drinker or smoker and those habits catch up to you - FO and die.
If you eat a lot of sugary snacks and drink a lot of soda and develop diabetes - FO and die.
If you don't moderate your diet and become a fatty fat fatso - FO and die.
If you dont look both ways crossing the street and get hit by a car, FO and die.
If you run with scissors, trip-fall and impale yourself, FO and die.
If you dive into the shallow end of the pool, knock yourself out and start drowning, FO and die.
If you get a STD via sex without a condom, FO and die.
If you lift with your back and not your knees, and ruin your back, FO and die.
Basically if you do anything I don't like and it effects your health negatively, and it's not a behavior I engage in, and the opposite is beneficially good for you, be like Jesus or FO & die.
Those are the rules, right? So long as they are applied equally, I think we can agree.
#18
Positions harden on this issue in mid- to late adolescence, then are only changed if one knows someone who became addicted or became a murderous paranoid schizophrenic.
Constitution spells out the requirements for President, and impeachments and bogus lawsuits do not disqualify Trump, so I think there is no way in hell he does not run.
Biden on the other hand... I dont think any of us thought he would be the candidate in 2024. Harris was the heir, but never figured it out and still doesnt poll well.
#4
Biden’s done. I suspect Harris has come around and will follow orders… for two years. Electing her might take even more cheating than they think they can get away with, so expect Gavin Newsom to be the 2024 selection. Doubt either Trump or DeSantis can beat him, though ‘maybe,’ if they ally early and strongly.
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I usually never watch/listen to podcast over 5 min. I stayed for the whole hour on this one ...worth it.
Here's the points I took away.
The FDS gets 68% of its funding from Big Pharma
Statins only give you a 1% benefit from preventing cardiac issues
The tide is finally turning on this whole pandemic issue and the truth is starting to get out about the danger of the jab and how big Pharma knew it and went ahead anyway for profits
Points most people here knew anyway but this Cardiologist form the UK bring the receipts.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
