Giving it all away

Everybody's doing the totalitarian tango:

The kids who once sought liberation from the Man’s stultifying grip are now rushing into his arms for protection against the specters of racism, misogyny, and transphobia. Even more shocking, their teachers and professors, who fought for free expression when they were students, are eagerly acceding to their demands.

For an outstandingly condescending example, see University of Chicago professor Eric Posner’s recent Slate article, “Universities Are Right—and Within Their Rights—to Crack Down on Speech and Behavior.”

Posner’s article rests on a laughably flimsy premise: students are children, not adults, and left-wing speech codes are necessary to shelter their precious little brains. He ignores the reality that as recently as 50 years ago, teenagers were getting their hands dirty in factories, fighting in wars (hang on—some of them still are), getting married, and having babies (well, that too). Our glut of kids living at home into their 20s is an historical aberration.

But the mollycoddling of Millennials has far darker implications than the legions of basement-dwelling man-boys playing Call of Duty. We can wince at student unions banning Robin Thicke’s soulless R&B song “Blurred Lines” for its “rapey” lyrics or demanding “trigger warnings” on class syllabi, but the problem is that these crybabies are allowed to vote. And more important, they’re enforcing their pearl-clutching views on everyone else.

It's a perfectly understandable outcome in a culture which idolizes victimhood. In their warped, propaganda-sodden little brains, if you're not a victim you're an oppressor. From their first days of elementary school until they graduate from college (and tell daddy they like school and want him to pay for a post-graduate degree), a single, overpowering message is hammered into their heads day after day: Victim = Good, Not Victim = Bad.

Since the demographic in question consists almost entirely of the soft-handed spawn of the white middle class, none of whom have ever missed a meal, they are neurotically driven to do everything in their power to make themselves feel like Victims, or at the very least self-appointed champions of Victims. That means demonizing others for their views, especially if those views can be pigeon-holed into a politically correct hotbox like "police racism" or "war on women" or some other illusory nonsense which will fit onto a protest sign or into a snarky Tweet. Their culture is one of reaction and emotion, not thoughtful insight or analysis of consequences. That makes them mentally weak and easily manipulated -- exactly what the power brokers in the Democrat Party are trying to breed.

Lyndon Baines Johnson once said, "I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next two hundred years." Now Obama and the modern Democrats are gunning for the middle class white vote. At the rate we're going, in another generation they'll have it.

Freedom can never be taken, only given away.