The blood of 20 dead children wasn’t even cold before President Obama took to the podium and said this is a teaching moment for more gun control. The mainstream media took his cue, and it’s been a 24 hour blitz of rants against loose gun laws ever since.
Only Fox News focused on the victims, bringing ministers, doctors and crisis workers on the air to counsel the victims and, indeed, the nation. No doubt the drive-by media will accuse Fox News of doing this to avoid the gun control issue. How crass can you get?
In the immortal words of Obama’s old pastor the liberal icon Reverend Wright (referring to 9/11), “…we have only ourselves to blame. We asked for it!” In reference to the current tragedy, it’s our liberal education system that’s to blame more than anything and the global liberalization of society at large. Here are 10 highlights:
1. No exercise in school
School districts everywhere have all but eliminated physical education classes to save money. Kids need exercise to relieve stress. They need the rough and tumble schoolyard environment to learn how to solve disputes and work things out without intervention by adults.
2. Teachers teach the tests not the kid’s aptitudes
Federal funding focuses on passing standardized tests. Teachers are forced to spend most of their classroom time teaching this rote list of facts. Teachers can’t teach to their class to get them involved and interested. This dehumanizes the students and tells them they mean nothing to society at large.
3. Violent video games (TV shows, movies, videos, comic books) marginalize violence
The pace of modern visual media is breathtaking. A single three minute music video can have more violence than a feature length movie 20 years ago. The violence is stark, brutal and often glorified (not to mention done at 60 beats per minute). Kids witness an average of 200,000 murders on TV and in movies by age 18.
4. Fast food diets doled out by drive through families
The first image most kids recognize is the golden McDonald’s arches. They spend more time at Mickey D’s than in their own family kitchen. They eat an average of 5 burgers and 7 orders of fries a week. They’re jacked up on caffeine and energy drinks. Their families are too.
5. Social media nullifies face to face communication
50% of young adults in Japan have never had sex and have no interest in the opposite sex. If their birth rate remains this low the Japanese race will be extinct in 250 years. Japanese youth unifersally prefer virtual friends to “real” friends. Eighty percent of human communication is done non-verbally via body language. Our kids miss all of that.
6. We’re putting our entire national debt on them
Kids aren’t stupid. They follow the news. They know the hurt the economy has put on their families. They know damn well we have a $16 trillion national debt and that they are the ones who will pay for it – in diminished government services, fewer national parks, bad roads, bad infrastructure, bad everything.
7. No-out baseball mentality teaches “no-problemo” consequences
If kids don’t learn how to take striking out on the softball field how are they going to learn how to take disappointment as adults? They’ll end up just like their parents who are more tormented by losing that T-ball game than they are.
8. We’re giving all our entry level jobs to illegals
100,000 young adults enter the work force every month. During that same average month, 100,000 illegals cross the border, 100,000 green cards are given to illegals already in the U.S. and 100,000 permanent “high tech” visas are given to foreign nationals. Our economy only creates 100,000 jobs a month. Guess who gets them? Not American kids, that’s for sure.
9. The culture of narcissism
Heroes in movies never lose. Celebrities are perfect. Politicians never admit defeat. Leaders are never humble. Role models dance after scoring a touchdown, flaunt their bling and their obscene wealth.
10. Marketing clothes, food, electronics and music directly to youngsters
The whole machine of marketing zeroes in on kids, the younger the better. We teach them fashion and brand loyalty from the time they can walk. We depend on them for the rest of their lives to be driven by style, status, ego and envy to buy our brand name products.
We even use our kids to market our political agendas to a grieving nation in shock.
