A GENERATION LOST

What has happened to this new generation?

          Do you remember a time when decency reigned in this country?  Oh, for sure, people had differences of opinions, beliefs and value systems but overall we treated each other with respect and that was especially true when it came to young people and adults.  As a child (and I use this term broadly to include small children all the way up through high school age), you respected all adults whether they were your parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, teachers, police officers, librarians, etc.  You may not have always agreed with the adults but you never argued with them, cursed at them, berated them, ignored them and outright bullied them.  Just the thought of doing any such things would frighten and repulse you.  Unfortunately, those feelings and opinions are no longer recognized or adhered to by today’s youth.

          As most people are well aware of by now, just this past week in upstate New York a 68 year old grandmother who worked as a school bus monitor was maliciously and repeatedly maligned and bullied on a school bus by 12 and 13 year old students.  Foul language was repeatedly hurled at her, derogatory remarks about her weight were spewed upon her over and over again, reference to “stabbing” her was uttered in gleeful laughter, and when she cried, insults increased.  Not one ounce of compassion was shown to her.  Not one student stood up to her defense.  Not even the bus driver did a thing.  How is it that our youth of today have grown to be so callous, so uncompassionate, so hateful and so disrespectful to what should be so precious and so dear?

Political Correctness and Child Protective Services: Destroyers of the Family.

          As I have written in prior posts, political correction has done a massive amount of damage in how our society has and is evolving.  Nowadays it is nearly impossible for a parent to teach their children about what is right and what is wrong and what is real truth and what is absolute lies.  Why?  Because the political correctness bandwagoners loudly scream out foul play.  To them, nothing is wrong and anything or anyone teaching otherwise is teaching hatred.  So, from this warped thinking comes a generation that is being reared with no value system – no concept of right and wrong – and most certainly no understanding of consequences to actions.

          But the political correctness craze is not the only factor in the downfall of today’s youth.  Child Protective Services (CPS) has also played a huge role in the degradation of the values of youth when it comes to their interaction with their fellowmen and especially as they relate to any adult authority.  Again, as I wrote about in an earlier post, CPS defines “anything” that makes you feel uncomfortable as being an act of abuse.  If a teacher tells you to do a homework assignment and that makes you feel uncomfortable, then the child is to deem the teacher as an abuser.  If a parent asks a child to clean up their room or tells him or her that they cannot go out late at night or that they cannot wear a questionable outfit, then that child is free to make the determination that the parent’s limitation on them is an act of abuse against them.  If a child works and their boss tells them to do something that they don’t want to (which makes them feel uncomfortable) then the boss is considered an abusive person.  The list goes on and on to the point that anything any adult does or says is to be considered “abusive” by the youth of today.  Since the youth see all adults as abusers, they believe that they have no obligation to show any of them any respect, any compassion and certainly not any feelings that the adults are even human beings.  CPS has instilled in them that they are all powerful, all mighty and that the world should revolve around them and their wants and, of course, that they can do no wrong.  It is under these brainwashing concepts that the students onboard that New York school bus treated the bus monitor as they did.  They believed it was their right and their prerogative to treat her as they wished since she was, in their eyes, a non-human, invaluable thing that deserved what she got for their misconceived determinations that she was an “abuser” of their freedom to do whatever.

Don’t be fooled by hollow apologies.

          Since the video of the bullying of the bus monitor spread throughout the airwaves, the students involved in the incident have come forward, crying that they were sorry for what they did.  Don’t believe them.  They’re not sorry for what they did but are sorry that their “fun” was received with shock and outrage.  Some have received a lot of threats in return.  I do not condone those threats but I do condone the treatment they are receiving as at least a showing of consequences for their actions.  I hope in time that their faked apologies today will, in the long run, after their consequences die down, impact them enough to make them want to become better human beings themselves.  After all, they won’t be youths forever and will one day sit in the bus monitor’s seat as an adult, a parent, a grandparent.

What we must do to change the course of the youth.

          We, as adults, cannot sit back any longer as our youth slip away into darkness and corruption.  If we want the youth to change, we have got to stand up against a society that is warring against our value system.  Stand up against political correctness, make CPS accountable for the acts that they have aroused, be firm in teaching right and wrong.  Point out what is real truth and what is falsely indoctrinated into them.  BE PARENTS – not submissive friends afraid to act because if you, as parents, don’t act then this generation will truly be lost forever.

Chris Broome

Politically Incorrect!