Here's an important question: if one were to run an ad that encouraged the youth to vote, whose cause would it help? It is becoming increasingly clear that the liberals will overwhelmingly reap the benefits of a youthful vote.
Today's youth is bombarded with ultra-liberal views from a pre-pubescent age. I would have no problem with it if people were actually given a neutral set of choices, debated and discussed it, and chose a stance. Instead what we see are children being taught from a very young age that one's rights are more important than what's right. If it feels right, do it, so long as it comports with some vague societal standard that shifts from one generation to the next. The problem with blind liberalism, then, is not simply that there's no moral compass, it is that most adherents can't see why they even need one in the first place.
Liberalism is concerned with rights at the cost of morality. The liberal is constantly worried about his rights being infringed upon, never for a moment examining whether enforcing his right is the moral thing to do. He'll do anything to get what's fair, but maybe that's not what he really needs. Besides, who's moral values, and what moral values are we supposed to enforce in a secular society? The religious person is ready with an answer, but I often wonder what the agnostic/atheist has to say about morality. I would tell that person to look within himself to find the answer, but I'd be afraid that they have never thought about it seriously enough to give an answer.
The problem, then, is that these people often give the appearance of intelligence, societal progressivism, and elitism. Yet it's all an empty shell; nothing is holding up those beliefs other than self-interest. A conservative is criticized for being stagnant and for going against social progress. True, some conservatives may be very close-minded. But a true conservative will do not what is popular by today's standards, but by what is right under some form of objective moral guidepost that won't change in 10 years.
I pray that those well-educated conservatives can offer their views upon today's increasingly one-sided society so that at the very least, liberals can be given the chance to make an educated decision between at least two viable alternatives.
Today's youth is bombarded with ultra-liberal views from a pre-pubescent age. I would have no problem with it if people were actually given a neutral set of choices, debated and discussed it, and chose a stance. Instead what we see are children being taught from a very young age that one's rights are more important than what's right. If it feels right, do it, so long as it comports with some vague societal standard that shifts from one generation to the next. The problem with blind liberalism, then, is not simply that there's no moral compass, it is that most adherents can't see why they even need one in the first place.
Liberalism is concerned with rights at the cost of morality. The liberal is constantly worried about his rights being infringed upon, never for a moment examining whether enforcing his right is the moral thing to do. He'll do anything to get what's fair, but maybe that's not what he really needs. Besides, who's moral values, and what moral values are we supposed to enforce in a secular society? The religious person is ready with an answer, but I often wonder what the agnostic/atheist has to say about morality. I would tell that person to look within himself to find the answer, but I'd be afraid that they have never thought about it seriously enough to give an answer.
The problem, then, is that these people often give the appearance of intelligence, societal progressivism, and elitism. Yet it's all an empty shell; nothing is holding up those beliefs other than self-interest. A conservative is criticized for being stagnant and for going against social progress. True, some conservatives may be very close-minded. But a true conservative will do not what is popular by today's standards, but by what is right under some form of objective moral guidepost that won't change in 10 years.
I pray that those well-educated conservatives can offer their views upon today's increasingly one-sided society so that at the very least, liberals can be given the chance to make an educated decision between at least two viable alternatives.
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