…And that, says Steve Green, is according to SCIENCE. Part of this is the old chicken and the egg conundrum: do unhappy people gravitate to Woke political positions, or does going Woke doom you to a life of misery and dissatisfaction? One thing needs to be kept in mind though: these poor kids didn’t raise themselves.
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I’m very concerned about the current younger generations, Gen Z and their young siblings. I remember being that age; everything is dark hyperbole, tragic, no hope in sight and that was 50 years ago before wokeness was in full control of the schools. These kids have been systematically propagandized to believe junk science regarding the weather, misinformed about the history of the founding of this nation, misled by the voices of race-baiters like BLM, Hamas supporters and their mouthpieces in the media, and medicated and shuffled into therapy sessions since they first set foot in a classroom at the tender… Read more »
Bill has it right. Conservatives are much more likely to voluntarily give time and/or money to people and causes. I highly recommend the book “Who Really Cares” by Arthur C Brooks. He says he was a lefty (he used the word liberal)who tried to prove liberals were generous and conservatives stingy, and proved the reverse. He split the populace into 4 groups: Conservative Religious, Conservative Secular, Liberal Religious and Liberal Secular. His findings: Largest and most generous group: Conservative Religious. Second largest and second worst at charity: Liberal secular. Third largest and second most generous: Liberal Religous Smallest group and… Read more »
I’ve never heard of anyone studying this topic to the point where evidence supports a conclusion. Thanks for posting that and … What I find most intriguing about that data is the fact that the worst, stingiest, most avaristic, most uncharitable yet smallest group is secular Conservatives. THAT is the group the Left also aims most of its criticism towards in an attempt to paint the rest of us with the same brush. I strongly suspect that if you took that study even further you’d find that even though they claim to be Conservatives that smallest group would also be… Read more »
You are welcome to this info. Not sure how I got a hold of it. I love to share it when I can. And you are correct if I remember right. The Secular Conservatives were most self centered and just about everything you cited as bad traits. …. Except for racist. He only investigated charity and generosity for the groups, so that never came up. And he made the point that each group had its exceptions. And if you notice, Religion was what tended to make the biggest difference. Again, if I remember right, the Religious Liberals weren’t too far… Read more »
I’m fairly comfortable projecting that the real racists would be in that fourth, smallest group too. Because that would include the dark side of what calls itself Conservative but is not. People like the Klan, Neo-Nazis, etc. that the Left always tries to assign to Conservatism. If you ask those sorts of people they’ll tell you they’re Conservative but they’re not. I honestly don’t think someone could rightfully consider themselves a Conservative without the element of Judeo-Christian Faith of some flavor. The whole concept of what our Founding Fathers declared to be the origin of the rights of man involves… Read more »
Like the alleged chicken/egg “dilemma.” We know the chicken came first from Genisis 1:24-25 (God-haters notwithstanding), the wokeness is a conscious choice, and is clearly the cause. GI/GO. Bad choices result in harmful consequences.
Will the woke ever awake?
What’s wrong with you people? I managed to shield all of my family from the consequences of “wokeness”.
Psych.
Just kidding.
They’re all a mess about “the crazy” inhabiting their world.
I’d say that this is a classic “healing power of AND” situation. It may be that the depressive mindset prompts the wokeist attitudes, but then, holding those attitudes deepens the depression and so on and so forth. It’s recursive.
Steve, I don’t know if it was intentional or not, but your wrap-up just perfectly described Greta Thunberg!
Well, she’s autistic, so that’s a bit of a mitigating factor.
I’d say it may better qualify as an enhancement.
The shame of the Globalist Agenda Pusher’s staging her forward like an A.I. Bot!
Fyi : From what people have told me and an online test I took, I’m mildly Austistic. I sometimes have social issues, mainly when I’m in a party that has no theme and I’m told to mingle. I don’t do very well. Told I’m rude and interrupt, but I see worse in my opinion and they are not told they are rude. I don’t “get” it.
But my general attitude? Happy goofball.
Fyi : From what people have told me and an online test I took, I’m mildly Austistic. I sometimes have social issues, mainly when I’m in a party that has no theme and I’m told to mingle. I don’t do very well. Told I’m rude and interrupt, but I see worse in my opinion and they are not told they are rude. I don’t “get” it.
But my general attitude? Happy goofball.
I don’t know if I agree that going woke is causing more anxiety and depression among children. If you look at everything that is being thrown at kids — that humans are destroying the Earth, that white children are oppressors due to their skin color, that one can change their sex on a whim, that the USA is the leading global oppressor — it’s little wonder they’re sad and afraid. What positive, steadfast ideals are they being taught? It used to be that if you did something stupid at school, only your fellow schoolmates knew about it. With social media… Read more »
Yeah I think that for older people, already with certain attitudes, woke gives them a label for the things they already thought. For the younger adults and children it is not a chicken and egg problem but as Bill mostly put it, they were pushed; they did not become this way themselves.
Steve, excellent definition of woke!
I like Bill’s too; “offended by everything and ashamed of nothing.”