Patriot Retort:
Kids! I don’t know what’s wrong with these kids today.
You want to see the Hot Take of the Day?
Actually, this probably qualifies for Hot Take of the Year.
Here you go:
And she means it too!
This is the problem we have when History becomes the least taught subject in public schools.
Ya get kinda dumb!
Listen kids, modern-day teenagers cannot be compared to people of the same chronological age from the 18th Century.
I can’t believe I have to explain that!
But I tried.
SNIP: Guess what! Patriot Retort is celebrating its 3rd anniversary!
We live in an age where “I’m never gonna grow up” comes out of the mouths of grown ups for goodness sake
The new definition comes from obama, where “children” stay on the parents health insurance until age 26.
Mozart wrote his first symphony when he was eight.
And just what is it that you do for a living Rachel “Speedy” Gonzales?
James Monroe might have been 18 in 1776, but he didn’t serve as President until 1817 … do the math (Monroe was a very good patriot, but he was no James Madison)
… & NO ONE will ever compare little Hogg boy to the Marquis de Lafayette, who at age 13, became a commissioned officer in France
There is one thing that was as true in 1776 as it is today:
If you act childish, adults will treat you as children.
I have it on good authority that Aaron Burr didn’t get his first iPhone until he was 14…
Yea and there were no safe spaces or welfare
or i-phone.A man MADE his way in this world
back then or starved!
HEY! Wait a minute baby….. I was told that if one didn’t grow up by age 50, one didn’t have to!
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
Fortunately for the young Founding Fathers, the teachers of the day exercised their students in Greek and Latin, so that their pupils could meet the rigorous entrance requirements of colonial colleges.
Studying the stories of Greece and Rome was the core of the colonial curriculum. The Founders learned very early in life to venerate the illuminating stories of ancient Greece and Rome. They learned these stories, not from secondary sources, but from the classics themselves. And from these stories they drew knowledge and inspiration that helped them found a republic far greater than anything created in antiquity.
Those colleges stipulated that entering freshmen be able to read, translate and expound the Greco-Roman classical works.
Their studies focused on the heroes of the Greek and Roman antiquity, endowing them with a patriotic passion and an appreciation of self-government.
Spencer Roane By Joe Wolverton
http://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/spencer-roane/
Yeah, those that couldn’t make it by age 20 became democrats….I mean they became crooks, thieves and deviants.
Not to mention Liars. But I merely repeat myself.
Jefferson, Republicanism, and the Problem of Size and Scale
https://vimeo.com/83268208
Two weeks ago it was all about women in power, now it’s about kids ruling over us.
I shudder to think what they will come up with next…
If any of our modern dunderninnies – COMBINED – were HALF of ANY of those men… I might… MIGHT… give them the time of day.
Maybe the dunderninnies should ask, why their opinions are diametrically OPPOSED, to the thoughts & actions of THOSE MEN. HMMMMMMMMM… 😳
And yet, the framers of the constitution, in their wisdom, stipulated 21 as the minimum age to vote.
Tony R, if they could have seen in the future they probably would have made the minimum age 35.
Yeah, and there was a time you had to be a land owner to vote.
Like….you a dog in the fight.
James Monroe was in the Continental army until 1781. He didn’t enter into politics until 1783, when he would have been 25 – still young, but not a high school kid. We allow 18 year old kids to fight in the military today.
Lafayette was likewise in the Continental army at age 19. Burr and Henry “Light Horse” Lee were both in the army during the Revolutionary War. As were Hale and Hamilton. None of these men entered politics until 1782 at the earliest.
Ms. Gonzalez proves through her ignorance why I don’t take political direction from high school kids. All of these persons cited by Gonzalez served in the army during the Revolution, as do many 18 – 21 year olds today. Notice she didn’t cite Jefferson (33), Franklin (70), Gwinnett (41), Hancock (29) or Sam Adams (54) – all signatories of the Declaration of Independence – because these folks don’t support her narrative.
Finally, 1776 is when the Declaration of Independence was signed. The Revolutionary War lasted six years, and the Constitution was not ratified until 1789 when Monroe would have been 31 and Hamilton 34. These were extraordinary men, but not exactly the “Red Dawn” rag tag bunch of high school kids Gonzalez would like people to believe.
But, they lacked tide pods back then
deplorable dude – haha! Compare and contrast: in the days of yore, 26 was middle aged; today, 26 is still “adolescence,” and you are still allowed at that age to be on your parents insurance.
I therefore propose new voting rules. If you are not living on your own and have an insurance card with your name on it as policy holder, you cannot vote. Doesn’t matter how old you are. If you cannot take care of yourself and participate in the economy, you can’t have a ballot come election time.
Thank your parents for not raising an adult. Thank your education for dumbing you down.
And, back then, if you were 13 and not in college, you were a dunce.
Real college, not the indoctrination centers we have today.
I keep reminding my boys that they are middle aged right now while they are in their 30s, considering our family health history.
What, all of you expect to live past 100?
This life is shorter than you think. Even if you lived 1,000 years – it’s nothing by comparison. Plan for eternity. The only choice that really matters.