I used to joke that I wore bangs for a long time because I had the word “mark” stamped boldly across my forehead.
A reference to the fact that I can be pretty naive sometimes.
Naivete isn’t the worst thing in the world. It’s basically the comfort that comes from believing that people are generally good.
It’s not malicious.
That doesn’t mean it isn’t dangerous.
If the people aiming at the target, harbor nefarious objectives; boundless determination; laser precise aim; and a seemingly bottomless quiver of arrows, then the mark is quick and easy prey to the predator.
The good news is, the danger of naivete is fairly well mitigated with a healthy dose of knowledge and some basic common sense.
There’s a reason the Democrat Party in this country specifically targets the youth with their endless social justice campaigns. It’s not because the youth are broadly kinder and more magnanimous than their older generation counterparts.
It’s because, whether they choose to acknowledge it or not; they have less knowledge and experience in the real world. They’ve seen less corruption in their lifetimes and they have a substantially reduced likelihood of ever having been victimized by precision marksmen with ill-intentioned financial and political objectives.
That doesn’t mean they’re less intelligent.
But it does mean that they are significantly more vulnerable to corruption and propaganda by virtue of their inexperience.
That’s nothing any young adult wants to hear.
It doesn’t matter.
It’s the truth.
Truth doesn’t yield to your feelings. (Or to your opinions.)
As much as you don’t want to hear it, it’s what you need to know if you want to reduce your risk of being not just targeted, but hit and mortally wounded by political sniper fire.
The wounds to your ego that this article may produce, are superficial; but the real and present dangers that you face from the predators you don’t recognize as such, are catastrophic.
This generation is sure they’re saving the world right now by wearing facemasks and social distancing and allowing local businesses to be shut down. It’s nice that they want to save their neighbors and their families. That doesn’t mean that’s what’s actually happening. Nor that the people who are telling them that it is, are doing so for the benevolent reasons they claim.
If you really want to save the world and your elderly parents and grandparents, the best thing you can do is get informed.
The sooner the better.
A good place to start might be putting your egos in check and realizing;
-That you’re not nicer or smarter than your parents just because your teachers and the mainstream media told you so;
-That you’re not the first generation to ever be concerned about slavery, poverty, immigration, intolerance, religious dogmatism, greed, racism and deadly diseases;
-Though you might be the first generation in 100+ years not to know or remember that communism is always the ultimate destination of socialism because they both necessitate a power class responsible for the “distribution of wealth”;
-Once the power class is in place, all of the wealth flows up; the work flows down; you are at the bottom;
-No one who doesn’t produce for the power class is worth their resources to feed, medicate or protect;
-The power class is very much already in place and comprises the uber-wealthy Washington and Hollywood elites who insist that it’s your parents who are the blind, selfish, greedy and uncharitable class who need to be reined in;
-The corporations you think you’re fighting against are the same people feeding you the social justice narrative that have you voting for their governmental partners in crime to lord over you;
-Corruption spans the political spectrum. Republicans are complicit; but the toxic narrative is fueled, and the radical policies and violent behaviors are advanced and facilitated by the Democrats;
-The only people actually being corralled and squeezed for tax dollars under the Democrat policies are your parents (and eventually you); never “the rich guys”.
-If the Democrats actually thought that black lives mattered, they wouldn’t create perpetual governmental dependency while ridiculing strong families which are the fundamental social and financial building blocks of any enduring society;
-And they wouldn’t entice young alleged to be social justice warriors to set on fire, the already poverty torn cities that minorities live in;
-Agenda 21 is not a conspiracy theory. It’s an actual plan to dismantle personal property rights and urbanize suburbs through absurdly named “sustainable development” programs. Don’t Google it. Look at your own local town or city or state development projects and funding grants, and see who’s getting filthy rich and who’s losing their ability to retain and maintain their own properties;
-Organizations and policies aren’t kind; people are;
-You can’t change your gender; but you can sterilize yourself trying;
-Bicycle lanes aren’t about reducing pollution; they’re about curtailing travel;
-Criminals don’t obey gun laws;
-People who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it; pay attention to who is pulling down statues and controlling the formal education system and wonder why;
-The Proud Boys didn’t burn any cities down;
-People willing to march in the streets in vagina costumes and pussy hats, and watch and perform pornography labeled as “pop music videos”, probably aren’t really that offended by crude comments made by a then 40 year old man 30 years ago;
-Eyewitness accounts from your parents and grandparents count as history lessons;
-If the United States were such an awful country, people wouldn’t risk their lives to come here; but if you leave the borders open, the dangers the immigrants are fleeing are following them here; there will be no place else to run;
-The people telling you to follow the science, are making it up as they go along to fit the narrative that facilitates their agenda;
-There’s no such thing as free college. No one is paying off your loans except you – You might pay it off with monthly payments, or you might pay it off with stifling future income taxes; but there are no rich guys being taxed on your behalf to pay for your overpriced social justice license; that’s just not how politics or government work;
-Pharmaceutical companies don’t know you. They’re in the business of making money. If using Remdesivir makes them significantly richer than using Hydroxychloraquine, they’re damned well willing to let you die and pay their power class funded mainstream media mouthpieces enough to spread the lie about which one allegedly works;
There are countless lessons to be taught and learned far beyond this little blog post. They all start with a mind open to what you might not know. Get informed. Take the target off of your back.
There is no shame or guilt in naivete.
Willful ignorance is another story all together.
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