Author: RogerG

That’s right, this whole march in DC has all the trappings of a leftist jihad for a grand social revolution. Do you really think this is only about gun control? Lefty platitudes were wafting through the air like pot smoke in a Denver park. Demonization was rife, and lefty banalities had pride of place. Prudence and caution are not the stuff of youth politics.

Why is it so? Young people are flash-point thinkers. Thought seasoned with knowledge and experience is lacking. They think in extremes and superlatives, and react strongly to what they last saw or heard – very understandable for a witness to a massacre. But wise policy doesn’t arise out of the traumatized and incompletely schooled.

Half-digested buzzwords like “restorative justice” and “white privilege” were bandied about like a beach ball on the Florida sand. These kids are in the process of being mentally scarred from anything approaching serious contemplation. They will react with harsh words and contempt for anyone who disagrees, and it may forever stay with them. There are few things more dangerous than a young person filled with poorly-understood righteousness.

Watch this clip of the shouting down of Professor Bret Weinstein for emailing his disagreement about an activist-led “Day of Absence”.

Or this famous display of close-mindedness and shrieking directed at Yale Sociology Professor Christakis.

Don’t think for a moment that the March is a kids-and-their-parents thing. This isn’t youth soccer. It is big money and big adults ginning up the whole affair. If the kids are the spokesmen, they deserve to be challenged. As for the adults cheering on the spectacle, they need to be outed.

My rights are too important to be left to the immature and brazenly self-righteous.

Check out the photos of the ubiquitous outstretched clenched fist of David Hogg and others throughout history.  The emphatic, incendiary gesture commonly goes with youth activism.  It usually indicates a troubling stridency.

RogerG

Data mining on Facebook was placed on the list of evils by anyone traumatized about the 2016 election.  Since Trump’s campaign momentarily dabbled in it, it’s satanic, conveniently forgetting St. Obama did it in 2012.  The difference between the two approaches is matter of degree, not kind.

I’m referring to the 2016 election in the title. If you happened to be a loser, the election drove you to madness. Some couldn’t get over the numbers and fled into escapism. For them, the whole thing was as legitimate as the finishes at a mob-run racetrack. In psychology, it’s called “denialism” – a rejection of reality.

For the psychologically marred, nearly everything is recruited to deny the victor his spoils. Regarding the 2016 result, it was Russia “stealing our election”, Comey’s testimony on Hillary’s awkwardly unlawful behavior, the rise of the “deplorables”, and now Facebook skulduggery.

Somehow, data mining on Facebook has joined the ranks of numbers running. Obama’s people did it in 2012 and they were called wunderkinds. Trump’s people do it and it becomes one of the dark arts. Yes, in 2012, people volunteered their friends’ lists while 2016 Cambridge Analytics bought their’s. In both cases, no friends were asked, and it was simply like ending up on a direct mail or phone list. It’s much-a-do about nothing.

Russia didn’t turn the election. They succeeded, though, in sowing the discord exhibited by Nancy Pelosi and company. As for Hillary’s Comey problem, that was self-inflicted. As for Facebook, Trump’s people found it wanting and used the better RNC data.

Don’t worry about Facebook, they will find way to monetize data mining.

Eventually, for all the enraged Dems out there, you’ll have to come around to accepting that a sizable chunk of the electorate in 2016 had enough of Obama’s revolution. Now, you’ll channel your rage for the midterms and vote to misgovern yourselves … and ourselves. And so it goes.

RogerG

The following is a Facebook exchange about my latest post – “CNN’s Little Red Guards” – on both my blog and Facebook page.  Check it out.

Respondent: Mao’s Red Guards? Good Lord. Take a chill pill, Roger, and stop stuffing so much wood into the stove. Go cross country ski for ten miles.

RogerG: Chill pill? Good Lord, Seth. A 17-year-old witness to a shooting spree does not a pundit make. That CNN lynching didn’t do anything but add a few more nominees for Warhol’s 15-minutes-of-fame museum. Now it turns out that the public employees and their bureaucracies in the vicinity, for whom our dependency would grow if gun-control zealots have their way, failed massively — from the FBI on down. It’s becoming increasingly obvious that the model for the Broward County Sheriff’s Department is the California DMV – or maybe Caltrans. All the talk about robust nix lists, gun bans, licensing, expanded gun restrictions, etc., will be executed by the same people who can’t manage a downtown office, can’t restrain an out-of-control 18-year-old, can’t maintain the roads, won’t neutralize an active shooter, and is more concerned about public employee perks than job performance. Good Lord, Seth, get a grip. Layered security is the key: armed outside the buildings and armed inside the buildings.

Respondent: the Red Guard analogy was overwrought. Come on.

RogerG: No, not overwrought but dramatic — because kids are attracted to the dramatic. It’s in their DNA, so to speak. Their mental immaturity shows as unleavened opinions of stark over-simplicity. The Action Jackson of the Hitler Youth, Fascist Youth, and Mao’s Red Guards resonates much less among almost anyone old enough to have kids, a spouse, a mortgage, and freighted with the responsibilities of life. Kids occupy that space of free-wheeling innocence. Their opinions have a scent of irresponsibility about them while anxious to get on with the frenzy of the “movement”. You’re wrong in dismissing this cross-cultural predilection for blunt opinions and fevered activity. They are prime recruits for utopia-mongering, whether it be one of blissful equality or a nanny state managed gun-free existence. In a nutshell, they’re as crazy as moonbats.

And so it goes.

RogerG