November 8 and its aftermath revealed to me that I
am just so tired of these democrats and their candlelight vigils against the
evil Trump Administration, harassing our electoral college voters and their undisguised
contempt for tens of millions of Americans, with no effort to temper their
response to the election with humility or empathy.
I can’t be like them, and I don’t want my kids
turning into them.
I am tired of their unexamined snobbery and
condescension.
I am tired of their name-calling and
virtue-signalling as signs of supposedly high intelligence.
I am tired of their trendiness, jumping on every
left-liberal bandwagon that comes along (transgender activism, anyone?) and
then acting like anyone, not on board is an idiot/hater.
I am tired of their shallowness. It’s hard to have
a deep conversation with people who are obsessed with moving their kids’ pawns
across the board (grades, sports, college, grad school, career) and, in their
spare time, entertaining themselves and taking great vacations.
I am tired of their acceptance of vulgarity and
sarcastic irreverence as the cultural ocean in which their kids swim. I like
pop culture as much as the next person, but people who would never raise their
kids on junk food seem to think nothing of letting then wallow in cultural
junk, exposed to nothing ennobling, aspirational, or even earnest.
I am tired of watching them raise clueless kids
(see above) who go off to college and within months are convinced they live in rapey, racist patriarchy; “Make America Great Again” is hate speech; and
Black Lives Matter agitators are their brothers-in-arms against White
Privilege. If my kids are like that at nineteen, I’ll feel I’ve seriously
failed them as a parent. Yet the general sentiment seems to be these are good,
liberal kids who may have gotten a bit carried away.
I am tired of their lack of interest in any form of
serious morality or self-betterment. These are decent, responsible people, many
compassionate by temperament. Yet they seem two-dimensional as if they believe
that being a nice, well-socialized person who holds liberal political views is
all there is, and there is nothing else to talk about. But there is!
I am tired of being bored and exasperated by
everybody. I feel like I have read this book a thousand times, and there are no
surprises in it. Down with Trump! Trans Lives Matter! Climate deniers are
destroying the planet! No cake, we’re gluten-free!
These are good people in a lot of ways. But there
has got to be a better way.Last Sunday’s sermon mentioned 1 Peter:18-19, “For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors.”
This may be obvious to you, but secular liberalism does seem empty
in some way, despite all the things my educated, middle-class liberals should be
grateful for.
If that’s what’s been handed down to me, I want more, especially
for my precious kids. I’m trying.
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