I stumbled on this blog through through the Twitter maze. The excerpt is from a Blog called The Jen. I thought this excerpt shows a very thougthful perception of a young woman on a political quest.


My generation hates soccer moms and all that they stand for. They sneer at the traditional values that the members of the Right so often hold dear. They are almost exclusively children of divorce, infidelity, abuse, R-rated movies, and cynicism nurtured from the womb. They are not voting because they want to preserve the values that they see fail every single day. The failures of our parents and authority figures to uphold the truth of goodness and virtue that they preach have much more far-reaching effects than we can know. This isn’t a rebellious, teen angsty POV. It is an abhorrence of the hypocritical image so often associated with the religious and the virtuous, because the attempt to be more enlightened and a good person is no longer enough.

The common excuse of being human and failing doesn’t matter to this scarred and often childish generation. This has evolved into a preciously held belief. We can’t believe in marriage, love, happiness, and virtue (look at our examples of that epic fail) so as usual, people must find something to believe in. The Anti-values Belief. When you believe in being “groovy” with everything, being PC about everything and accepting all forms of relationships and life, it leaves little room for disappointment and failure. Everything is cool.

And this is where the Left makes its grand entrance. Liberals are associated with beliefs that are harder to pin down and harder to be scarring hypocrites about. Scarring was the key word there. The environment, animals, civil rights, women’s rights, seemingly against big business, a more hippie, earthy, open approach to life…who doesn’t care about these things today? The requirements from our country, both economically and politically, to fulfill some of the more idealistic dreams of the Left don’t factor in with my age group. Instant gratification, remember, not a ton of forward thinking. Half of us secretly believe we are headed to some kind of alien Armageddon, for crying out loud. You see how ridiculously easy it is for this generation to walk into the libs camp and act like they were destined for it? We were raised for it.

There are less differences than one might think between the Right and Left. This is an arguable point but I would deviate from this point far too much if I went into specifics. The party differences are at the core and issue related and people are forgetting that. What seems to be the new thought and new common belief is that the differences are more emotional and more personal. What I mean by that is, our two parties seem to be divided more along lines that have less and less to do with the real issues and more to do with the surface politics, the perceived faces. Each day the parties seem to polarize more along these new, ill-defined fault lines.

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