The Pink Flamingo :: Pat Buchanan Is Right (In the Wrong Way)

Our American Culture is in danger.   I will give that much to Pat Buchanan. America as the America I grew up in and as it exists today is in serious danger, from within. I will also give Pat Buchanan that much. But, that’s where my agreement with him ends because it isn’t immigrants and illegals who are destroying the nation. The great irony is the Hispanic culture is probably what is going to end up saving us as a nation. No, our nation and culture are endangered – by the Baby Boomers (of which I am one).

THE FAILURE OF THE BABY BOOMERS
Where did we go wrong? First, there was a general rush to put our children into day care. We were so busy protesting and ‘doing our thing’ that we forgot there were basic rules of civilized behavior. We forgot manners. We forgot courtesy. We forgot to teach our children these basic standards of civilized behavior. Our generation was going to save the world. Instead we became so busy with the superficial and getting ahead that we became worse than the “Greatest Generation” of our parents. Just look at the first Baby Boomer President. Bill Clinton is a fine example for us, isn’t he?

Women of our generation went to work. There’s nothing wrong with that, but along with going to work, we put our kids in day care.   We started ignoring them the way our generation claimed we were ignored. Then the Gen X’ers grew up.

X DOES NOT MARK THE SPOT
As bad as we were as parents, I think the “X”ers are even worse. Once again the kids are trotted out to day care. Marriage has become passé, families have been torn apart, if they existed at all. Dinnertime became a way to sit in front of the TV, if it wasn’t at Micky D’s or some other fast food joint.

Manners? What manners? We don’t need no stinkin’ manners!

TOO MUCH DO GOODING
Naturally because I have no children I can harp on this subject all I want. Seriously, there has been a failure of parenting, not out of neglect, but out of over parenting. Boys were coddled. A child can’t ride a tricycle without a helmet. A child must sit in some form of car-seat until they are 4 feet, nine inches. According to these guidelines, my 18 year old niece should still be in a booster seat. There is the food pyramid. Kids aren’t allowed to have fat in their diet. They are required to exercise. Now reports say because there is not enough fat in their diet and too much exercise without proper “old fashioned” nutrition, these kids are going to grow up to have tremendous bone problems and osteoporosis.

Doo-gooders have attempted to take every form of risk out of life.   Kids can’t play dodge ball. They can’t play tag. Just about the only thing they can do is have sex and go get pregnant. Boys are not allowed to grow up and be men. Want to get rid of a baby – fine, have an abortion.

Consequently children grow up without values. Their parents have none so why should they? Their parents divorce, then shack up, not giving a rip about the safety of their off-spring.   Who needs marriage? Why else do you think we have such a high rate of child abuse? Like Dr. Laura wrote in her blog today

“…Thirty years ago, nearly 80% of America’s children lived with both their Mommy and Daddy, who were married. Now, only two-thirds of them do. Of all families with children, nearly 30% are now one-parent families, up from 17% in 1977. The net result is instability, neglect, and the likelihood that children will be in homes with adults who have no biological tie to them.

Children living in homes with unrelated adults are nearly fifty times as likely to die of inflicted injuries as are children living with their bio-parents. (Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, 2005). Children of single parents had a 77% greater risk of being harmed by physical abuse than children living with both parents (National Incidence Study, 1996). Children living in stepfamilies, or with single parents are at higher risk of physical or sexual assault than children living with their bio-parents (University of New Hampshire’s Crimes Against Children Research Center). Girls whose parents divorce are at significantly higher risk of sexual assault, regardless of which bio-parent they live with (Family Law, Washington and Lee University).

It is righteous to judge the lifestyles of people who have children, because the results of their choices can result in harm (psychological, physical or sexual), as well as death to innocent children….”

ANIMALS ARE BETTER PARENTS
I keep talking about Mommy Cat and her babies. She is the best feline mommy I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen quite a few. She is like a lioness protecting her young, devoting every moment to them. She cherishes her children. It’s too bad parents aren’t like that today.

Last week I was listening to Ben Stein on FOX. He mentioned that parents no longer discipline their children, making animals better parents than the average parent today.

WHAT STARTED THE RANT
There are several reasons I started on this rant. The first is the fact that there are many young men in our country who are in their early twenties and are nothing more than boys. They have been so coddled by their mothers and so neglected by fathers who forgot to be fathers that they are little more than children. They aren’t taught how to handle disappointment, heart-ache, and set-backs. Their reactions when these things occur is to get drunk, do drugs, or do even worse. Video games have taught them that life is cheep. Lack of religious background had given them no hope for the future. There is nothing for them. Why not kill then be killed?

For the past three days I’ve been accosted by very young teenage drivers. They are rude. They have no values. They don’t know the rules of the road. They are rude. They don’t care what they do or who they do it too. They’re nothing but second generation day care where the laws of the jungle apply to survival.

DON’T CARE ABOUT AMERICA
Their parents are so busy shaping up, paying attention to their appearances and behaving like a nation of sluts that they’ve forgotten the important things. They don’t care about their country. Heck, they don’t even vote. They have no love of country. They teach no love of country. And even worse – they don’t care about their souls and the souls of their children. Indeed, they have truly become godless.

BRAINWASHED BY POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
Young people today have been so brainwashed by political correctness, there may be no hope for them or for the future of our nation. We currently live in the most powerful nation in the history of civilization. The problem – the generation of high school kids growing up today have no love of country. They have been taught that other nations, other cultures are greater than our own. There is nothing wrong with valuing other cultures and having respect for others, BUT – one must learn to treasure one’s own – or all is doomed. In that respect, Pat Buchanan may be correct. Unless something drastic occurs we are indeed a doomed nation.

THE EXCEPTIONS
The kids who are going to excel are the ones who have been home-schooled, or sent to private schools where they are taught VALUES. Their generation is being propped up by young men like Matt, Eric, Jason, & Scott who have answered their country’s call by volunteering to protect this nation. They are now going to become the backbone of their generation and the hope for the future. There are young people like my niece Rachel who battled riots, terror and incoming Al Qaeda in Kenya to document war crimes.

WHAT IS NEEDED
We need parents who are MARRIED and who love and respect one another. We need men who know how to be fathers and women who know how to mother at least as well as Mommy Cat. Families need to go back to church. They need to learn to love their nation. They need to learn manners, respect and how to say “Please, thank you, yes ma’am and no sir”.

Kids need to be taught limitations. They need to be taught to serve, not to be served. They need to be taught respect for others. It is the only way they will learn to respect and honor themselves. They need to be told if they go out and get pregnant they are going to face the consequences of having the child put up for adoption or they need to be forced to marry the father of the child.

Parents need to lead by example. They need to stop being the great “I Am” and start being Mom and Dad. They need to be like my friend Floyd who raised two heroes who are now serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. When they come home, he goes to Iraq.

Children need to be taught by example to respect other cultures within the United States. They need to know that just because someone is Hispanic or Black, or Native American that they are not worthless nor more important than anyone else. Kids need to know we are all equal and that there are consequences for racism and hatred.

They need to be taught how to love by being loved and how to give by being receiving.

We need decent schools with decent teachers. And – the better teachers need to be allowed to teach, not be tossed around by administrators who don’t know how to run a school and are afraid of their own shadows. We need more teachers like my friends Alicia and Raymona. We need more Judy Beattys and Jim Pucketts.
Lindsey has introduced a bill that would allow parental rights for education. It’s a long time in coming and may solve some of the problem.

ROCKWELL’S AMERICA NEVER EXISTED

My father grew up in Never Never Land in the 1920’s and 1930’s in Minneapolis with a huge loving family. He was sheltered, coddled, and treasured. His father lost everything during the depression. My father went to work when he was 7 years old and never really stopped until a few years ago. He grew up in a very religious, almost self-righteous culture where a few of their friends thought it was a abject sin to even bring in the paper on Sunday, let alone even touch a bottle of alcoholic beverages. He had no idea homosexuals existed until he joined the Merchant Marines after watching Bogey in Action on the North Atlantic. It wasn’t until the 1950’s and he and my mother were married did he learn about lesbians, after she explained a cousin or two to him. He never consumed an alcoholic beverage until about 20 years ago and then under protest. (The irony here is he is a natural wine critic). He is still making the comments that if he had known his wife (my mother) even drank spirits he would never have married her! I bring all of this up because the other day he made a comment that the America he knew was falling apart, not because of immigration but because of the immorality and illegitimacy of the younger generations. I think I startled him by telling him the Norman Rockwell America he grew up in never actually existed.

PAT BUCHANAN IS WRONG
People like Pat Buchanan and other far right extreme conservatives are longing for the days of Norman Rockwell’s America – days that never existed. They are trying to force an America on us that never was. In doing so, they are promoting hate, racism, and ignoring what may just be the greatest hope for this nation – the values and love the “normal” Hispanic family unit has for one another. People like Buchanan, Limbaugh, Malkin, Coulter and the like are forgetting that this nation is a magnificent melting pot. If our cultures would be allowed to blend, if we could be allowed to learn about the best of each culture maybe we could save our nation. If not – we’re doomed, and I’m afraid the conservatives are the ones who are dooming us.

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