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I think this just completely nails it. Another of the World's Biggest Entitlement Programs. Besides the GOP's belief that it alone has this mysterious entitlement to the White House - as some sort of Bizarro World "birthright," this would be its corollary - that only Caucasians have this "Divine Right" to rule.
There are SOOOOO many old, rancid world-views that have yet to die out with the older Anglo generation - but hopefully WILL die out with them. I can see its passing in the faces of my kids and their friends:
All the young people who just don't get how gays are somehow bad.
All the young people who just don't get why a woman isn't allowed to be master of her own body, or of her own personal destiny whether it's in the home or in the workplace.
All the young people who just don't get why the rich aren't more obligated because they have more and are thus more able to shoulder more of the weight of what goes into building and maintaining a great nation that supposedly offers equal blessings for ALL.
All the young people who just don't get how the only proper definition of a family simply MUST be one headed exclusively by Alpha Male with Secondary/Subordinate Female.
All the young people who just don't get why the health and long-term survival of their planet is somehow unimportant or irrelevant.
All the young people who just don't get the prejudice thing because they're truly color-blind, because they've all grown up with classmates and friends - equals and peers in all things - who were everything from appetizer to dessert: Black, Latino, Asian, Middle-Eastern, Native American, Mixed-Race of every flavor, and of course, White too.
My kids and their friends have all grown up in that kind of environment, where they've seen, heard, tasted, touched, and LIVED WITH the true Melting Pot. It's neither strange nor foreign nor scary to them. It's what IS. They move freely in that world without even giving it a thought. And they see the whack-jobs in the upper age brackets and low-information/low-education groups for exactly what they are.
As much as I despair in my own generation's flaccidness and failure to fight back and follow-through, and the ridiculous and outmoded prejudices that rule those who are being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st Century when they'd be far more comfortable with the 17th Century (or even farther back than that!), it's my children's generation that gives me some hope. Their collective mindset is just COMPLETELY different, utterly flexible, much more fully-grounded in reality, and totally adaptable to changing times and changing demographics. Mainly because they ARE that change. Fewer and fewer of them are shackled to that old shit.
The dinosaurs eventually died out, too. I look forward to the day when our human dinosaurs have faded into history as well.
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