New Year's Absurdity: Mother Jones Starts 2022 Off With A Braindead Bang
The things leftists believe are often frightening, but for the most part boil down to the truly hilariously false. You know, like the belief that the government printing trillions of dollars and pouring them into the money supply via un-funded spending doesn’t cause inflation. Or that big pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer really have your best interests at heart. Things like that.
The leftists who write for Mother Jones serve as one of the myriad propaganda megaphones for the Democrat Party in America not only cling to such mad beliefs, they invent them for consumption by the army of ignoramuses and idiots who make up the Democrat voter base. They are among the thought leaders of the left, the literary alpacas who write the braindead talking points for the flock of sheep who mindlessly vote anyone with a D next to their name on the ballot.
Leftist thought leaders like those at Mother Jones always need to come up with a boogeyman to cast as the villain for any inconvenient social phenomenon they see rising that might interfere with their political party’s overarching goal of obtaining and maintaining power. The creation of boogeymen is, after all, the central driving principle of leftist god Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals when you think about it. It is in fact the central driving force behind leftism today.
So, some leftist over at Mother Jones named [checks notes] Mark Ulriksen decided he was going to write a commentary on the current social phenomenon of Millennials becoming increasingly conservative these days. Now, for anyone who is not a braindead leftist, this very real trend we see in the polling and voting data over the last few years is very simple to explain: Millennials are growing up, you see. They’re getting older - the oldest among their generation have recently begun to turn 40.
What’s the old adage? “If you’re not a liberal when you’re in college you have no heart; if you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 40 you have no brain.” Something like that, right? Right.
The simple truth with the Millennial generation is that it is no different than any other generation that has come before it. As its members have grown out of childhood, they have given up childish dreams, which is what liberalism/leftism/socialism and all the other -isms of the political left boil down to. They’ve gotten their educations, gone into the workforce for the most part, started getting paychecks and marveled at how much the government takes away from them in every pay period.
Why, their leftist professors who never gave up their own childish dreams never told them that part when they were brainwashing them back at Liberal Tech or Leftist State U. What a wake-up call that was.
Then, they started having kids and began to see how utterly screwed up our government-funded education system is. They went to the same schools, but were too young and childish-dreamy back then to notice the rank mediocrity and educational squalor happening all around them. But now it’s their own kids’ lives that are at stake, and they are horrified by what they see. They’ve started to wonder how their own baby-boomer parents could have been so uncaring as to send them to such schools. Even worse, they have come to understand that it is their own tax money, taken from them in every paycheck or home mortgage payment they make, that is funding all of this mediocrity and squalor.
Anyone with a lick of common sense understands that it is these and many, many other real-life experiences that everyone whose life goals exceed becoming a lifetime ward of the state inevitably endure that results in people tending more towards conservative political views as they grow older. It is the natural progression of things. It explains why craven Democrats want to change voting laws to let 12 year-olds vote, and why most Republicans would prefer the voting age to be more at the 30 year-old level.
Of course, no one who writes for Mother Jones has a lick of common sense - common sense is a job disqualifier on the political left - and Mr. Ulriksen is no exception. Plus, he needs a boogeyman, after all, and it’s hard to cast the natural process of aging and gaining knowledge and experience and perspective in that light.
So, being the braindead leftist he really is, Ulriksen surveyed the landscape of the American experience today, no doubt spent seconds or perhaps even minutes analyzing the array of potential boogeymen he came across, and decided that the boogeyman he would use to explain why Millennials are becoming increasingly conservative as they age, just like every generation that came before them has done, must in fact be…
Dennis Prager. More specifically, Prager U, the series of conservative thought videos Prager maintains at YouTube.
I swear I do not make this stuff up:
Here’s an excerpt from this unintentionally hilarious essay:
In the weeks after Donald Trump was elected president, Americans flocked to the internet with pressing questions. Some inquired about immigration to Canada. Others Googled “sanctuary city.” A few wanted to know what a “manafort” was. And millions were newly curious about the Electoral College, which for the second time in recent memory was going to contravene the will of the majority. What was it? Why was it? Could electors defy their voters’ wishes?
People turned to the New York Times and the Washington Post, Fox News, and even the Constitution for answers. But few sources were as widely consulted as “Do You Understand the Electoral College?” a five-minute video hosted by retired lawyer and television pundit Tara Ross. Her genial lecture, illustrated with colorful cartoons and pop-up text—”pure democracies do not work”—can be found at Prager University, an online video portal curated by the conservative talk-radio host Dennis Prager. The Electoral College video had about 850,000 views before the election, says Allen Estrin, Prager’s producer and consigliere. “Two weeks later, it had 50 million.”
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Since 2012, PragerU has posted nearly 300 similarly digestible videos. Some of them dabble in topics like parenting or financial advice, but most cover core conservative doctrines. Delivering tidy arguments without the Limbaughesque acid reflux, they have accrued, collectively, just over 1 billion views—nearly 700 million in 2017 alone, according to marketing director Craig Strazzeri.
At PragerU, police are not biased against black men, and man-made climate change is debatable. You’ll find takes on animal rights (against), the $15 minimum wage (against), the gender wage gap (doesn’t exist), and why the South turned Republican (nothing to do with race). Prager has hosted a few dozen videos himself, including “Just Say ‘Merry Christmas,'” his take on the “war on Christmas” genre, and “He Wants You,” an apologia for men who ogle women. He personally approves every item, edits every script, and courts “faculty,” including heavy hitters such as Dinesh D’Souza, Steve Forbes, and former White House press secretary Dana Perino. Some presenters, like Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, are credentialed. Others, like comedian Adam Carolla, merely speak with the confidence of people who are.
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Ulriksen might as well have just written something like “Hey, Millennials! I found your boogeyman! It’s Dennis Prager and Prager U, and yeah you’ve probably never even heard of him, but I swear he’s the boogeyman that’s turning you all into those ghastly conservatives! So go out to Twitter and Facebook and demand Prager and Prager U be cancelled and de-platformed so you can all go back to voting for Democrats again!”
It would have made just as much sense as the 3,000 words or so of scurrilous nonsense he convinced the editors at Mother Jones to print, not that they needed much convincing. Because they’re every bit as braindead as Mr. Ulriksen; else, they would not be working at Mother Jones. See how this works?
I would say that this is what is wrong with our society today, but hey, Mother Jones has been printing braindead leftist screeds just like this one for well over half a century now. Honestly, I’m glad they’re able to do it, because this is in reality what makes America great: The ability to be hilariously wrong about literally everything you believe is a sacred American right enshrined in our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
If you want to be a mindless leftist who goes through life finding boogeymen lurking around every corner to explain away the consequences of your own stupidity and bad choices, then you are free to do that. Mother Jones is your intellectual home, just as CNN and MSNBC are no doubt your favorite “news” channels.
It’s a free country. Let’s hope we can keep it that way. Otherwise, all the braindead leftists making a living at Mother Jones will have to go find a real job.
That is all.
Reading your article reminded me of the following truth: “when I was young & stupid, I was very young & very stupid”. My great Mom gave me that kernel of wisdom when I was twenty-something and she was right!