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Zero of the 17s will.

 

I'm hearing A LOT of "these kids will be turning 18 soon!" giddiness, as if kids do not turn 18 every single year.

 

I commented on one of his posts and now I'm blocked.

I must have triggered the snowflake.

 

Easy there, Wooderson.

 

One can read things many ways, of course - and, again, I’m pro gun control - but I read that sentence differently than you. Not charitably, per se, but also not coming from an idiot.

I think he’s put off by the tone of the kids. In the sense that it’s a policy debate and I have to pretend these kids, masterfully galvanized by advocacy groups, are sui generis on this topic, I guess I’ll get fatigued soon, too. But I know why it’s kids. It’s very effective. Adults - especially millennials - imbue children (themselves grown old) with a special insight they do not have, and, thus, make a deeper impression.

But, anyway, I can see what the guy’s reacting to. The stridency. The I’m-a-victim-so-HEAR-ME culture.

 

Which is why I wrote 2, 6, 10, 14. Because usually what happens is kids get activated late in high school, then they roll off to college, where it’s time for four years of socialization and revelry in personal freedom. (At least along American kids. Foreign students come to college and mean business.)

The right’s best hope is that these kids, like most American kids - and arguably most kids around the world - prefer self-actualization and personal enlightenment and consumerism in adulthood over communal power. You know, the whole “I would give $2,000 to political cause X, but I’d really love a new minimalist kitchen with granite countertops, so...”

The best defense conservatism has is consumerism. If our collective youth ever looked around and said “y’know, I don’t think I need a $3000 engagement ring and $42,000 wedding” we’d be in for something.

 

Then they get married, buy a house, have kids, start saving money, decide they really want to hold on to that money . . . and turn conservative.

 

If they're 18 by voting day, which is what I was going for.

 

I stand corrected.

 

Well, you were technically correct. I should have been more clear. I'll cardio another mile this week as punishment.

 

I responded to a FB poster who said the same thing by telling him that a woman having an abortion posed no threat to MY kids in school.

They grumbled how I was against freedum and ended the discussion.

 

It does sound odd, but once the lock down is announced they grab something and are ready to throw it. So either they are in the corner cowering or they are in the corner ready to fight back.