American Thinker:
By Andrea Widburg
It turns out that being raised around the fallout from crazy people may affect your political views. I say this because a new poll shows that there’s cause for optimism about the younger generation.
That’s actually not news to me. Four anecdotes explain why.
First, the fact that I was a child during the hippie era is one of the reasons I’m a conservative today. During my formative years, trips to Haight Ashbury exposed me to what happens when a society abandons the norms I still remembered from the pre-hippie era. We went from well-groomed, polite, nice-smelling people to wild-haired, filthy, stinking, scary people lying in their own filth. I was a Democrat because that’s how I was raised, but deep inside, I always knew where Democrat policies led.
Second, a decade ago, I found myself on a plane trip sitting next to an up-and-coming junior executive in his late 20s. He explained that his goal in life was to marry a woman who would be a stay-at-home mom for his children. He’d been raised by a single mother as a latch-key child and didn’t want to repeat that experience for his own children. more
THERE ARE SOME GREAT YOUNG AMERICANS COMING DOWN THE TRACK, AND I’M CELEBRATING EASTER AND THEM WITH ELVIS SANDWICHES FOR EASTER:
TOASTED SOURDOUGH BREAD
PEANUT BUTTER BOTH SLICES
COVER ONE SLICE WITH CRISPY BACON, THE OTHER WITH BANANA SLICES
BUTTER THE OUTSIDES AND TOAST ON THE SKILLET
THANK ME LATER ❤️
HAPPY EASTER, DUDES AND DUDETTES!!!
🛑 Heroes and Villians have the same back story 🛑
Batman: My parents were taken from me, the world hurt me, but I’m going to stop it from happening to others, because I know how it feels.
Joker: Accidental death of wife and unborn child, falls into vat of chemicals. Is going to hurt the world for what it has done to him.
“Hurt people, hurt people.” That is, the villians hurt people.
▪️Your father was an alcholic, and you are going to stop it or repeat it?
▪️You were raised terribly, so you are going to be better to your children, or copy that behavior?
▪️No one trained you at work when you started, so you are going to address that frustrating error from now on, or you are going to whine, “Why am I training him? No one trained me!”
▪️You are going to abort your children because your mother aborted you?
Eccentric family.
Berkeley CA 1970’s alternative high school, rebellious teachers from the east coast. No classes or building. Rode a van all over SF Bay area. Met many strange people. A wild ride.
Yes, I escaped, am grateful and conservative.
If You Are Not a Liberal at 25, You Have No Heart. If You Are Not a Conservative at 35 You Have No Brain
I didn’t know the words/labels at the time, but I knew I was not a “liberal”/”progressive” at the age of about 12. I was the cohort of Generation Jones (the very tail end of Boomers). My best friend’s oldest brother was a dirty, smelly, stupid hippy who thought he was non-conforming and sticking it to “the man” man. I saw through his bilge right off. He was “different” alright. The exact same “different” as all his friends, right down to his Birkenstocks and his headband. He was more conforming than he thought; worse, really. He was conforming to a lot of stupid ideas that weren’t even his own!
…plus they all smelled of patchouli. Gag!
It may have been an old Post or Look magazine, from around the mid 1960’s, that had a cartoon of a hippie couple looking at their clean-cut little boy who was wearing clean and neat clothes. One hippie was asking “Where did we go wrong?”
I know of 3 young ladies that would have jumped at the idea of being a kept woman but they have missed their opportunity window as they all are in their 30’s. All three are beautiful high maintenance women. That is their problem. No man wants a high maintenance woman no matter how good she looks.
Having pretended to be a jeweler for forty some years, I can say “High Maintenance” can be defined by some of the “clients” I had.
With the poor smuck standing next to her in front of one of the cases…
Her – It’s the wrong size!
Me – Looks to me to fit perfectly.
Her – The diamond! The diamond isn’t big enough!
Wondering how many marriages I thought were doomed from the start and was correct each time.