Dana:
It’s the way of life that kids get saddled with their parents’ collective neuroses and shortcomings, which later in life are euphemistically referred to as “baggage”. Of course there varying degrees of these shortcomings we transmit to our children, various levels of anxieties and traumas that spill over on them and impact their lives. But after seeing the reaction of so many parents to the election results, I have to wonder, where are the adult parents? Because the reactions I’m seeing are anything but adult-like. And further, why are these child-parents ignoring the wisdom of age-appropriate conversations and assuming that young children are capable of understanding and processing adult matters?
I’m confused by all of this post-election hysteria taking place. Call me a simpleton or out of step with modern parenting, but I believe it’s safe to say, if you can’t cope with an election not going your way and are on a crying jag as if you lost your job and can no longer put food on the table or provide your children with a roof over their head, you are one pathetic excuse of a parent. If you are so traumatized at seeing democracy at work, that you are seeing a therapist or calling a suicide prevention hotline to cope with Trump being elected, then what possible strength can you offer your children to survive YOUR trauma-drama? After all, you’ve clearly demonstrated you are but a child yourself. And not in the cute way like when parents play silly kid games with their offspring. And if you are spending your time writing little post-it notes of pain on the subway walls, how do you plan to teach the fundamental truth to your children that life doesn’t always go the way you want and to learn to accept disappointment with grace and maturity? This used to be called being an “adult”.
It appears we are raising a generation of emotionally stunted neurotics who will lack the necessary tools to reach maturation and be able to face disappointment with a vigorous “Oh shit, that didn’t go the way I had hoped,” and then look ahead toward the next challenge on the horizon. Of which there will be many. Perhaps keeping it short and to the point would be best for every parent involved:
But then there are those “parents” so filled with hate and incapable of coping with disappointment that they are looking emotional basketcase in the rearview mirror.
Raise them nurture them teach them respect for anerica then send them to some leftists university to be brainwashed by leftists professors
Of those posts that are actual words from actual young children (not adult children), the ONLY way kids come to these conclusions is by devious parents abusing their responsibilities and indoctrinating their own kids with their propaganda. To what end? Is the kid going to vote? (well, among liberals, I guess I wouldn’t rule it out)
No, it is merely immature semi-adults externalizing their own frustrations and saddling their kids with a lot of concerns about things that simply are not true. And the lies simply continue; I saw the leader of CAIR this morning saying he was concerned with Trump being elected because he has said he is going to ban all Muslims from entering the country. Is he one of these children that have been misinformed or is he guilty of spreading more malicious lies with the sole intention of provoking cultural conflict?
Liberals don’t care how much consternation, worry, fear and violence is created by their political lies, even when it harms their own children.
get a grip-life will go on. excuses for failure, doubt if a liberal knows the meaning of the word brave.
Hannah Arendt was a brilliant author. In her book The Origins of Totalitarianism one should read chapter 13- Ideology and Terror: A Novel form of Government.
The following applies to the liberals and the demorats:
“We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time,or as the greatest criminals” Joseph Goebbels