This is slightly off-topic, but I must confess to being complicit in the Obama mania myself. No, I didn’t vote for Obama–my cat would grow feathers before I’d vote for such a charlatan. As disgusted as I am with his administration, I can’t say I’m surprised.
My complicity is less obvious, but perhaps worse. I grew up with “greatest generation” parents, but failed to communicate their ideals to my own children. Not because I didn’t find them important–I fully understood how fortunate I was to have grown up steeped in them. My error was not realizing how hard I had to work to communicate them. I assumed that they were so self-evident that no thinking person could possibly believe anything else. My parents never discussed these ideals directly…it was just part of who we were. Despite the obvious indoctrination of leftist ideas in the media, the schools, etc., I STILL underestimated how powerful their influence was. Since I just dismiss leftist ideas as so much hooey, I foolishly assumed my kids would, too.
It wasn’t cowardice…it was naivete. My children–all of whom voted for Obama–are all young adults, so I’m hoping they see the error of their ways as they grow older. Perhaps my beliefs had more of an effect than I realize, but I’m not so sure. I wonder how many others just assumed that the younger generation would absorb their grandparents’ ideals through osmosis as I did. Hopefully, others had more brains than me. Let’s hope so, or we are so screwed.
