Why I Do What I Do

I should be taking it easy, not spending hours researching, writing and posting articles and attempting to answer the lies with the truth. There are so many of them out there – people who bite the hand that feeds them, people who enjoy prosperity bought by others, people who enjoy freedoms paid for by courageous men and women who believed in “duty, honor, country”. They make me sick, but, for the sake of my grandchildren I have to confront them. If they are allowed to tear down their country even more, if they are allowed to force a surrender to the Islamists who want us all dead, they will drag down my grandchildren along with them.

What is wrong with people who hurl obscenities and death threats at the president of their country or who work to undermine his policies as so many have done? So, they don’t agree with a decision made by the Congress and the President to try to prevent weapons that can kill millions and oil resources that fuel the free world from coming under the control of terrorists. They have a right to disagree, but they don’t have a right to obstruct and undermine the policies of a legally elected government.

What is wrong with people who still want to argue about a decision made by the UN in 1947 that Jews in the Mideast since the dawn of time and those still alive from the holocaust should have their own country? After four wars that were unsuccessful attempts by Arab countries to invade and exterminate the Israelis, after thousands and thousands of barbaric terrorist atrocities carried out by Islamists against Israelis, what is wrong with people who see some kind of moral relativism between the parties, and say that Israel has no right to exist? And after the fiasco of Oslo, who can ever believe anything a Palestinian leader has to say.

What is wrong with the American media that they see some kind of moral relevancy between countries like Iran and Syria – and the free world? For more than 1000 years the Islamists have been trying to spread their religion by conquest. After World War II the renewal of that effort started again with the hostage taking in Tehran in 1979 and went on to many acts of terrorism against non-Muslims over the years. Just since 9/11, the Religion of Peace website has documented 7978 major acts of Muslim terrorism as of this writing.

I think a recent study of American college students goes a long way in explaining why so many young and middle age Americans have failed to grow up and see the world as it is, rather than as they wish it to be. Not only have they been fed a diet of multiculturalism nonsense by their teachers and professors, their parents have also failed to raise emotionally mature adults.

For today's kids, everything is all about them
One study blames parents for a failure to say, 'No'
By Barbara F. Meltz
THE BOSTON GLOBE (Excerpts)
Sunday, April 01, 2007

“With a recent study showing that today's college students are the most narcissistic and self-centered in decades, a small chorus of professionals is offering a bold response: We have no one to blame but ourselves.

"Things went too far," says psychologist Jean Twenge, lead author of the study and a professor at San Diego State University.

What she means is that parents overcorrected for the harshness of a previous generation that preferred children to be "seen and not heard." She points to the soccer trophies that coaches hand out to all team members just for showing up rather than to a few for outstanding athleticism, and to a song taught in a colleague's daughter's preschool to the tune of "Frère Jacques": "I am special/I am special/Look at me."

"If you're that child, it's not surprising that pretty soon you start to believe it," says Twenge, whose new book, "Generation Me," examines feelings of entitlement among young Americans…..”

“Today's college kids are in the ditch called narcissism in part because the popular culture glamorizes the drive for pleasure above all others. " 'More! Fast! Easy! Fun!' " Walsh says. "That translates to parents as an allergic reaction to our children's unhappiness and an inability to say no for fear it will destroy their self-esteem."

Discipline deficit disorder — a term he coined — is the result. "The symptoms include impatience, disrespect, inability to delay gratification, self-centeredness and rampant consumerism. Guess what? Those are also the characteristics of narcissism," says Walsh, author of "No: Why Kids of All Ages Need to Hear It and Ways Parents Can Say It."” Boston Globe

I guess we’ve made a fine mess of things. When the greatest generation returned from World War II, they were obsessed that their children should not suffer the hardships they suffered as children of the depression. They forgot that overcoming hardship builds character, and making things too easy results in adults that act like children. We’re paying an awful price for this in the vulgarization of our society and of our political discourse and in the disintegration of our political relationships. Please add your voice to mine in attempting to reverse this terrible direction.