First, do you really think that people who disagree with you politically “wish America ill”? That’s your starting point? If you want to have a dialogue or change a mind, don’t start off sounding like your headgear is made of foil. Second, awareness of a history–a full history–is not dishonor. Whitewashing history is significantly more disrespectful.

Your third paragraph, you again call people who disagree with you politically “destructors,” which, again, c’mon. You realize that the reason Obama was elected in the first place was because the Republicans were CRAZY for 8 years. It was not apathy that elected Obama, it was relief.

Also, what is this “Traditional Americanism” that is under attack? I’m 33. I don’t know what America you are nostalgic for, but I haven’t seen a significant shift in what my day to day life is like.

Your implication that you have had it easy…that may be your personal story, but I think it’s pretty arrogant to suggest that your story reflects an entire generation. And when you talk about apathy…sorry, but, guy, same as it ever was. Do you think teenagers in the 80s were politically active? And that was when St. Reagan was in office.

I am deeply disturbed by your idea that Americans have to agree with you or are somehow Unamerican. This doesn’t seem like the thoughts of someone who seeks out facts sans spin, but someone who steeps themselves in an extreme right wing agenda. Your understanding of people who come from an impoverished background is certainly fascinating in its complexity.

I want to make a quick point since you brought up the “sense of entitlement” and the Occupy movement specifically. I was not an Occupier since I have a job and I hate camping. But I did sympathize with a lot of their points, especially the growing income disparity between classes (which apparently should never be discusses). I bring this up because on this site there was a mini freakout when Hostess went out of business and the writers blamed the unions and this same sort of Unamerican blah blah blah. What was never mentioned was that the CEO of Hostess had given himself a 300% raise, which is just as much a problem of entitlement, if not more, don’t you think?

As for younger generations not understanding the sacrifice of those who came before, I don’t agree with that premise. For Veterans Day last year I went to a local high school assembly where kids from three schools performed patriotic songs. There were two guest speakers afterwards, the Attorney General of our state (who is now running for Governor as a Republican) and a state senator (also a Republican) both of whom made overt political statements to that captive audience. I know that Republicans love to politicize patriotism, but I kind of think that to use an occasion like that to score political points kind of shows what their version of patriotism really is.

This generation claims to have so many problems (ADD, Bullying, Bi-Polar, Etc. Etc. Etc.) when I attest that if their purpose was to gather food, work for freedom, think to stay alive, then the problems they spend so much time feeding while doing nothing would be MUTE…

Darling Phil, this is your ‘educated youth’- $120,000 in debt for a Marketing Degree to land a $30,000 per year job selling your generation that Hollywood Hollow Man crap.

For the rest of your life you will be indentured servents to stupidity arrogantly void of self-respect, self-responsibilty and commonsense. Life for you and your generation will be so miserable you will one day be on bended knee praying God’s forgiveness and the gentleman He is, He will forgive.

I believe it is too early to judge the apathy of our generation, although I believe that our apathy is ending quicker then it normally would. While a lot of them are showing an invariable amount of what I consider ignorance on the foreign policy front because of the lack of major wars that are perceived as a threat to us and because of media coverage of those that do exist along with the understandable blowback from young military men exhausted from wars fought with inherently flawed rules of engagements. They, however, are often more extreme in the area of limiting government power then the average older conservative is.

Of course, this paradigm is only entrenched because of the entrenchment of the promotion of marxist sentiments and policies through the guise of progressive “forward thinking” intelligentsia in our “government reeducation camps” also known as public schools and university professors.

I can assure you, if we go down this road enough, everyone will end up a conservative out of necessity, but it will likely be too late at that point. There is a difference between compromise between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, and compromise between Thomas Jefferson and the English Crown. I fully believe the founders would find this government just as injurious and unjust as the one they fought a revolution to separate themselves from.

If everyone applied themselves and actually voted…It may be an entirely different story. Fact is, liberal young people rarely vote in my experience.