2013年8月6日星期二

Why is the Washington Post in trouble?

Young people do not at all think they have a future economically. They see themselves burdened with student loan debt that they can never repay. They see themselves in many cases with degrees that don't matter to anything.  You have the Democrat Party -- Obama exempted -- the Democrat Party, news media focuses on pessimism, they focus on what's wrong, by definition.  Everybody in this country is inundated with negativity at every turn.  Newspapers, television, movies, TV shows, songs, whatever, the negative pessimism is there, and young people are just obsessed.  The number of Millennials, that the age group now up to, 18 to 25 I think right now, living at home still.

And the first thought that I had about this was I recall what Steven Rattner said as Obama's first car czar.  He's Little Pinch Sulzberger's best friend in New York, Steven Rattner.  He's an investment banker of sorts.  He's worked at Lazard, wherever the liberals need a Mr. Fix It, this guy goes there.  He was talking about Detroit.  And he said, "Aside from participating in elections, the people of Detroit are no more to blame for what happened to their city than people that don't live there."  And I said, "But isn't that the point?  They voted for it, they are responsible for it!  What do you mean, aside from participating in the democratic process, they're not to blame?  They voted for it!  The people in Detroit voted for it!"

I'm sorry to yell.  I know I'm scaring 25-year-old women.  They voted for it.  Well, the Millennials voted for this.  So when I hear that they're depressed because they don't think they have a future, they don't think they have an opportunity for a future, because there isn't a growing economy, there's no place for them, there's no opportunity,iphone 5 back cover I get frustrated. And I say, "Yeah, well, you voted for it!  When are you gonna wake up and realize that you are partly to blame.  You voted for this."

Then I remember the Limbaugh Theorem, where Obama is not held accountable for any of this, especially among people that voted for him.  He's constantly campaigning as far as people that voted for the guy are concerned.  He feels the same way as they do.  He's worried.  He's pessimistic.  He's trying to fix it.  But then intellectually, and this is the trap I fall into, intellectually -- by intellectually, I mean, thinking about it.  They elected it, and they're living it.  When they voted for Obama, they thought the exact opposite of this was gonna happen.  I'm sure they thought they were voting for a brighter future, sunshine, lollipops and roses. They thought they were voting for panacea, utopia or whatever, and they got the opposite of what they wanted.  And there was a part of me, "You're all pessimistic, I don't feel sorry for you.  You voted for it; live it."  And it's frustrating that they don't see that.

It's frustrating that they're not asking themselves if they're partially responsible for this.  And I get nuts, I go crazy wanting to know why these young people that are very smart haven't figured out that voting for liberals and Democrats is what's making them pessimistic.  And then I catch myself, and I remember that African-Americans have been voting for Democrats for 50 years and haven't seen why they're in such a mess, so why should I expect Millennials to see it?  And practically every other Democrat special interest group is in the same boat.  They've been voting for Democrats for years under the premise that the Democrats are gonna protect 'em, elevate 'em, get even with their enemies, and all that happens is their lives get worse, they become more dependent.  And yet they never blame the Democrats.

So I asked myself, why am I asking the Millennials to understand what they've done?  Well, that then dovetails into a discussion of the Republican brand, where I think it is safe to say that as we sit here today -- anything can change in politics obviously -- but as we sit here today, young people and women are just closed-minded when it comes to the Republican Party.  They're not even willing to listen, so firm are they in their mind that the Republican Party is evil, rotten, uncool, unhip, whatever.  So you could almost say it boils down to a sense of personal responsibility.

Why is the Washington Post in trouble?Could part of the answer to the question be that the reporters, the people that work there who put out the product don't understand why their paper is such a mess?  You think they're asking themselves what they're doing wrong?  Guarantee you they're not.  They think they're great.  They're elites, after all.  They're special.  The paper's in trouble 'cause you're stupid, you're not smart enough to see how good it is, how brilliant they are.  It's not their problem.  So you combine all of these things, the sense of personal responsibility, the desire for utopia, panacea, the belief that Obama's the guy who's gonna deliver that, combined with the Republican Party is a bunch of old-fashioned, stuck-in-the-mud, uncool, fat white guys, and where are we?  We've got utter pessimism out there.
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