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8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: The U.S. Crushed Youth Resistance

Tuesday, August 11, 2015 8:24
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WANT TO KNOW WHY TODAY’S YOUTH DON’T FIGHT BACK?

I’ll tell you why. Most of them are INCAPABLE, because they lack the intellectual resources to do so. Do you really think that a public school system and public university system that are completely dependent on big government money, aren’t going to push a big government liberal (socialist) ideology? Give me a break. I wasn’t the least bit political when I entered my undergraduate studies in 1994, but I remember VERY clearly even back THEN, the way College Republicans were treated at my liberal arts “indoctrination center of higher learning.”

I went to college back in the dark ages when men still were required to use the mens room and ladies were still required to use the ladies room. We weren’t as “evolved” back then, as today’s liberal boobs.

WHAT DO YOU SUPPOSE THE INDOCTRINATION CENTERS ARE PUSHING INTO THE WORK FORCE THESE DAYS?

LET’S TAKE A LOOK:

DISGUSTING ISN’T IT?

TODAY’S KIDS ARE TAUGHT WHAT TO THINK, NOT HOW TO THINK.

ENJOY THE ARTICLE BELOW WITH THE 3 VIDEOS ADDED BY ME!

 

Alternet.org writes: Traditionally, young people have energized democratic movements. So it is a major coup for the ruling elite to have created societal institutions that have subdued young Americans and broken their spirit of resistance to domination.  

Young Americans—even more so than older Americans—appear to have acquiesced to the idea that the corporatocracy can completely screw them and that they are helpless to do anything about it. A 2010 Gallup poll asked Americans “Do you think the Social Security system will be able to pay you a benefit when you retire?” Among 18- to 34-years-olds, 76 percent of them said no. Yet despite their lack of confidence in the availability of Social Security for them, few have demanded it be shored up by more fairly payroll-taxing the wealthy; most appear resigned to having more money deducted from their paychecks for Social Security, even though they don’t believe it will be around to benefit them.  

How exactly has American society subdued young Americans? 

1. Student-Loan Debt. Large debt—and the fear it creates—is a pacifying force. There was no tuition at the City University of New York when I attended one of its colleges in the 1970s, a time when tuition at many U.S. public universities was so affordable that it was easy to get a B.A. and even a graduate degree without accruing any student-loan debt. While those days are gone in the United States, public universities continue to be free in the Arab world and are either free or with very low fees in many countries throughout the world. The millions of young Iranians who risked getting shot to protest their disputed 2009 presidential election, the millions of young Egyptians who risked their lives earlier this year to eliminate Mubarak, and the millions of young Americans who demonstrated against the Vietnam War all had in common the absence of pacifying huge student-loan debt.

Today in the United States, two-thirds of graduating seniors at four-year colleges have student-loan debt, including over 62 percent of public university graduates. While average undergraduate debt is close to $25,000, I increasingly talk to college graduates with closer to $100,000 in student-loan debt. During the time in one’s life when it should be easiest to resist authority because one does not yet have family responsibilities, many young people worry about the cost of bucking authority, losing their job, and being unable to pay an ever-increasing debt. In a vicious cycle, student debt has a subduing effect on activism, and political passivity makes it more likely that students will accept such debt as a natural part of life. 

I’m sorry, but I need to interject for a moment. Do you think it is the fact that kids coming out of school today are saddled with debt that is the biggest problem, or could there be another issue even more serious? How about the fact that kids come out saddled with the debt mentioned, but for all that debt they acquire there, many have little more to show for it than four years of SELFIES at a giant disco with books?

Is it possible that the liberal arts collages many kids go to spend FAR less money on EDUCATING the youth, and FAR more money on INDOCTRINATING them and paying for cushy professor salaries, insane administrative costs, and faculty retirement benefits second to almost none?

 

LET’S SEE WHAT THE STUDENTS ARE LEARNING:

2. Psychopathologizing and Medicating Noncompliance. In 1955, Erich Fromm, the then widely respected anti-authoritarian leftist psychoanalyst, wrote, “Today the function of psychiatry, psychology and psychoanalysis threatens to become the tool in the manipulation of man.” Fromm died in 1980, the same year that an increasingly authoritarian America elected Ronald Reagan president, and an increasingly authoritarian American Psychiatric Association added to their diagnostic bible (then the DSM-III) disruptive mental disorders for children and teenagers such as the increasingly popular “oppositional defiant disorder” (ODD). The official symptoms of ODD include “often actively defies or refuses to comply with adult requests or rules,” “often argues with adults,” and “often deliberately does things to annoy other people.”

Many of America’s greatest activists including Saul Alinsky (1909–1972), the legendary organizer and author of Reveille for Radicals and Rules for Radicals, would today certainly be diagnosed with ODD and other disruptive disorders. Recalling his childhood, Alinsky said, “I never thought of walking on the grass until I saw a sign saying ‘Keep off the grass.’ Then I would stomp all over it.” Heavily tranquilizing antipsychotic drugs (e.g. Zyprexa and Risperdal) are now the highest grossing class of medication in the United States ($16 billion in 2010); a major reason for this, according to theJournal of the American Medical Association in 2010, is that many children receiving antipsychotic drugs have non-psychotic diagnoses such as ODD or some other disruptive disorder (this especially true of Medicaid-covered pediatric patients). 

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3. Schools That Educate for Compliance and Not for Democracy. Upon accepting the New York City Teacher of the Year Award on January 31, 1990, John Taylor Gatto upset many in attendance by stating: “The truth is that schools don’t really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions.” A generation ago, the problem of compulsory schooling as a vehicle for an authoritarian society was widely discussed, but as this problem has gotten worse, it is seldom discussed.

The nature of most classrooms, regardless of the subject matter, socializes students to be passive and directed by others, to follow orders, to take seriously the rewards and punishments of authorities, to pretend to care about things they don’t care about, and that they are impotent to affect their situation. A teacher can lecture about democracy, but schools are essentially undemocratic places, and so democracy is not what is instilled in students. Jonathan Kozol in The Night Is Dark and I Am Far from Home focused on how school breaks us from courageous actions. Kozol explains how our schools teach us a kind of “inert concern” in which “caring”—in and of itself and without risking the consequences of actual action—is considered “ethical.” School teaches us that we are “moral and mature” if we politely assert our concerns, but the essence of school—its demand for compliance—teaches us not to act in a friction-causing manner.  

 

4. “No Child Left Behind” and “Race to the Top.” The corporatocracy has figured out a way to make our already authoritarian schools even more authoritarian. Democrat-Republican bipartisanship has resulted in wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, NAFTA, the PATRIOT Act, the War on Drugs, the Wall Street bailout, and educational policies such as “No Child Left Behind” and “Race to the Top.” These policies are essentially standardized-testing tyranny that creates fear, which is antithetical to education for a democratic society. Fear forces students and teachers to constantly focus on the demands of test creators; it crushes curiosity, critical thinking, questioning authority, and challenging and resisting illegitimate authority. In a more democratic and less authoritarian society, one would evaluate the effectiveness of a teacher not by corporatocracy-sanctioned standardized tests but by asking students, parents, and a community if a teacher is inspiring students to be more curious, to read more, to learn independently, to enjoy thinking critically, to question authorities, and to challenge illegitimate authorities. 

 

COME ON, DOES IT LOOK LIKE CRITICAL THINKING IS DEAD?

5. Shaming Young People Who Take Education—But Not Their Schooling—Seriously. In a 2006 survey in the United States, it was found that 40 percent of children between first and third grade read every day, but by fourth grade, that rate declined to 29 percent. Despite the anti-educational impact of standard schools, children and their parents are increasingly propagandized to believe that disliking school means disliking learning. That was not always the case in the United States. Mark Twain famously said, “I never let my schooling get in the way of my education.” Toward the end of Twain’s life in 1900, only 6 percent of Americans graduated high school. Today, approximately 85 percent of Americans graduate high school, but this is good enough for Barack Obama who told us in 2009, “And dropping out of high school is no longer an option. It’s not just quitting on yourself, it’s quitting on your country.”

The more schooling Americans get, however, the more politically ignorant they are of America’s ongoing class war, and the more incapable they are of challenging the ruling class. In the 1880s and 1890s, American farmers with little or no schooling created a Populist movement that organized America’s largest-scale working people’s cooperative, formed a People’s Party that received 8 percent of the vote in 1892 presidential election, designed a “subtreasury” plan (that had it been implemented would have allowed easier credit for farmers and broke the power of large banks) and sent 40,000 lecturers across America to articulate it, and evidenced all kinds of sophisticated political ideas, strategies and tactics absent today from America’s well-schooled population. Today, Americans who lack college degrees are increasingly shamed as “losers”; however, Gore Vidal and George Carlin, two of America’s most astute and articulate critics of the corporatocracy, never went to college, and Carlin dropped out of school in the ninth grade. 

 

6. The Normalization of Surveillance. The fear of being surveilled makes a population easier to control. While the National Security Agency (NSA) has received publicity for monitoring American citizen’s email and phone conversations, and while employer surveillance has become increasingly common in the United States, young Americans have become increasingly acquiescent to corporatocracy surveillance because, beginning at a young age, surveillance is routine in their lives. Parents routinely check Web sites for their kid’s latest test grades and completed assignments, and just like employers, are monitoring their children’s computers and Facebook pages. Some parents use the GPS in their children’s cell phones to track their whereabouts, and other parents have video cameras in their homes. Increasingly, I talk with young people who lack the confidence that they can even pull off a party when their parents are out of town, and so how much confidence are they going to have about pulling off a democratic movement below the radar of authorities? 

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7. Television. In 2009, the Nielsen Company reported that TV viewing in the United States is at an all-time high if one includes the following “three screens”: a television set, a laptop/personal computer, and a cell phone. American children average eight hours a day on TV, video games, movies, the Internet, cell phones, iPods, and other technologies (not including school-related use). Many progressives are concerned about the concentrated control of content by the corporate media, but the mere act of watching TV—regardless of the programming—is the primary pacifying agent (private-enterprise prisons have recognized that providing inmates with cable television can be a more economical method to keep them quiet and subdued than it would be to hire more guards).

Television is a dream come true for an authoritarian society: those with the most money own most of what people see; fear-based television programming makes people more afraid and distrustful of one another, which is good for the ruling elite who depend on a “divide and conquer” strategy; TV isolates people so they are not joining together to create resistance to authorities; and regardless of the programming, TV viewers’ brainwaves slow down, transforming them closer to a hypnotic state that makes it difficult to think critically. While playing a video games is not as zombifying as passively viewing TV, such games have become for many boys and young men their only experience of potency, and this “virtual potency” is certainly no threat to the ruling elite. 

 

OUR FOREFATHERS FOUGHT AND DIED FOR OUR RIGHTS…

LOOK HOW WELL THOSE RIGHTS ARE TREASURED…

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“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed down for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” – Ronald Reagan 

 

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  • Tell you what, Mr. Poster!
    Let’s see what happens with young ameriiiSCUMS once the Military draft is brought back to Life by the WAR MONGER Leaders of the the jew-nited Fraudulent Fascist states of TORTURE, MEDICAL and MILITARY TERROR!

    And, it will, because volunteering recruits ARE WAY, WAY, DOWN right now!

    I BETCHA they can FLASH BANG to death your entire economic structure in a matter of days!
    AND remote control DRONE USE, with home made 1 Lb. Plasticque Care Packages, flown to ALL of the HOMES OF YOUR war mongering, Caucasian judeo-christo-KILLER leaders!
    We will see how good your government Health Insurance is then, USA WAR MONGERS of congress!
    All your Youth needs is a little prod, and I am SURE you WAR MONGERING KILLERS will do so!

  • Neuter them through education, GMO, and vaccines then entertain them with computers, video games, social media and porn the so-called bread & circus act.

    Meanwhile their enemies get meaner and more armed by the day and resent the easy fat life they themselves have been brainwashed into thinking white people stole from them.

    Keep pushing them in the same direction and you will have, my fiend, what the Bible calls a day like no other, so terrible it is prophesied that it has never happened before and will never ever happen again.

    A blessing will be taken away and replaced by a scourge!

  • Student loan debt is a serious issue for myself, and everyone I know. I’m currently paying $400 a month (which is my minimum payment) and will continue to do so for another 9 years. This payment constitutes a massive portion of my take home pay (about 30%). I’ve consulted a financial adviser who informed me I didn’t have any options except to get a better job. Since I only have an education and no work experience, yet, no other jobs will hire me.

    I wouldn’t recommend anyone go to college and I wish I hadn’t either.

  • Re; 8 Reasons Young Americans Don’t Fight Back: The U.S. Crushed Youth Resistance
    The School System spent a long time teaching little white kids to dress, dance, act like blacks, they Dumb-ed down little white kids to the black level, they are teaching little white kids to be Fagots, they have and are training little white kids to be government Rats, are forcing little white kids to be politically correct so no one can Talk About The Actual Root Problems Causes, (so with this being the Reality Trashing White Youth For So Long), why would any one ask, or state reasons why there is no Youth Resistance in the US, without bring out these facts)?
    There is another FAST MISSED IN THIS ISSUE, it is not the young who have the DUTY TO EFFECT A RESISTANCE IN AMERICA, IT IS THE OLD WHO HAVE THE DUTY TO RESIST-TO FIGHT THE GARGAGE, [the US government-jew's-liberals and their Tools], TRASHING THIS NATION, WE THE OLD LET IT HAPPEN, We The Old Have The Duty To Fight To Fix It, ALSO WE THE OLD HAVE LITTLE TO GIVRE UP, [We Are Old], it takes real Garbage to say the young should fix the Problems WE THE OLD Created, Real Complete Garbage, (in other words a common American).
    In about 1965 the US government with the Expressed Stated Intent to break up White America into fighting factions so that Americans Could Never Effectively Challenge the US Government and the Jew’s who were coming to Own-Control It by that time, (jew’s acting from under slimy rocks not out in the Open), they changed the US Immigration Policies from almost all White to Almost All Non-White, (for the completely Stupid this is still going on).
    How to fix this, [Other Than A No Bag Limit Hunting Season], I don’t know, but what I do know is that the Rot At the Top Must be Removed in order to fix the bottom and it is, Again, We The Old Who Let This Happen AND WE THE OLD Who Have The Duty To Fix It, Not The Trashed Little Children THAT WE HAVE PUNKED. (Trapper).

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