A good brother, friend, and correspondent shared this with us. Although it has two more items than our usual “Baker’s Dozen” ™ reasons and ideas, we thought that all fifteen are worth sharing.
Our publication today is late, courtesy of a 12+ hour power and communications outage caused by unusually high winds across the Black Hills. We will share that in a commentary soon, with our understanding and thoughts of why such things happen.
Lovers of liberty need to educate and recruit people of all ages and backgrouds, but younger generations are (or should be) a significant target for recruiting efforts and are key subjects for teaching about liberty, prosperity, peace, and the real characteristics of government.
15 Foolproof Ways to Make Younger People Resent You
1. Tell them their problems aren’t real, or that they’re spoiled for complaining about a world wrecked by mass immigration, DEI, and the collapse of cultural Christianity
2. Insist the world really hasn’t changed that much, or that—if anything—it’s actually even better than it was
3. Ignore the advantages your forebears left for you and insist your successes were 100% the result of bootstrap-pulling
4. Use the youth’s laments as an opportunity to explain how much smarter, harder working, and better you were at their age
5. Have Hezekiah’s “At least I got mine” attitude (2 Kings 20:19)
6. Refuse to take any responsibility for your generation raising the generations that are allegedly dumber, lazier, and worse than yours
7. Make money and status the highest goods in life, turning them into outmatched competitors rather than successors
8. Mock them for not knowing the things your generation stopped teaching (cursive, stick shifts, etc.)
9. Mock them for accepting the participation trophies your generation invented for them
10. Don’t patiently listen to them and offer wise, Scriptural counsel, but rather tell them every story about yourself you can think of
11. Insist that the highest moral good is maintaining the status quo and not rocking the boat, no matter how bad the status quo is
12. Team up with your enemies to oppose the young when they rock the boat in an effort to fix the cultural decline
13. Insist that the way you’ve always done things is the only way things can be done, regardless of the results
14. Chide them if they want to get married young and have more kids than you did
15. Refuse to train them to take your place someday, especially when it comes to letting them have input on decisions
Although our anonymous correspondent and contributor addressed this to a christian audience, this applies to lovers of liberty and political matters for anyone of any faith. But only for people who truly believe in the value and fundamental nature of the non-aggression principle. Unless we have and practice a fundamental moral stand that embraces that concept, we are not going to solve the political and social problems facing the world, the Union, and our individual States. Rather, we will be part of the problem.
The Price of Liberty 
Les Miserables – 21st Century, American style
Which is worse: a horrific sentence for a relatively minor crime, or being wrongly convicted of a crime? Horrible as a sentence of years in prison for, example, stealing a loaf of bread is? We suggest that wrongly being convicted is far, far worse. Either way, the long term penalty is one of the reasons that our English-derived, American justice system is supposed to be “innocent until proven guilty.” (Unlike the Continental system heralded by not just the monarchies as in Spain, Germany, and France, but adopted by the democratic systems which replaced the monarchies.
Although the protagonist of Les Miserables did commit a crime, the French justice system made his entire life miserable, just as the overall French government and its cruelties and tyranny made the general populace miserable.
We are in that situation today.
The George Floyd case tore America apart in 2020.
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