We had zero tolerance in the 80's. Nothing new. My wife's a teacher and the biggest problem with the Millennials and following generations is that parents won't let their children be stressed, upset, challenged, not included, etc... My wife has had parents tell her that they never want to see their child struggle.
Kids today can't even deal with the simplest of emotions and if they are required to they are told they are a victim.
My wife was accused of bullying a student because she read off a list of kids that made the A honor roll. She then read off a list of kids that made the B honor roll. The parent of the kid who complained to the principal was on the B honor roll. The parent said that her daughter was in tears because she was publicly shamed for not being on the A honor roll.
I started high school in 1980 and there was some of that starting, I don't think it really got going until a bit later. Also the first Millennials started school around 1985.
There is that coddling parents now do too. My SO and I have noted there are a lot fewer kids on bikes now than when we were kids and the few who are have helmets and sometimes knee and elbow pads. We had none of that when we were kids and we knew nobody who was killed on a bicycle. I did break my wrist on a bike (chain came off and went into the spokes going downhill) and I know a classmate who was killed on a motorcycle when he was 17, but nobody was killed on a bicycle we knew. Yet there is all this paranoia about it.
There was also a story a couple of years ago where a parent was arrested for child endangerment for letting his kids walk home a few blocks from school. If they did that when I was a kid, everybody's parents would have been in prison. My mother was one of the most overprotective of all the parents I knew (she was pretty messed up mentally) and I was allowed to walk to and from school. When I got to 14 I was even allowed to walk a mile to the bus stop, and ride the bus to the mall which was about 20 miles away. And we lived on the border of East LA, a pretty rough part of Los Angeles. And I stood out as one of the few white kids around.
I certainly don't, either. Neither do the authors of the book, it seems to me. The way I framed my agreement with a certain "view" of history may have been confusing, since I haven't fully specified what that was. The part that I found compelling was the whole idea that history has a certain cycle that tends to repeat through that particular succession. But any direct connection between that theory and any given interpretation of current events is in the eye of the particular beholder who subscribes to that interpretation.
Yup. The author is pretty reasonable from what I remember. He speculated loosely on what the future might hold, but his purpose was more focused on reporting the history than what might happen.
The momentum is swinging left of the 'Left'........or at least left of the Democrats much more centralist position than years past. In the 2016 primaries Bernie received more votes from young voters of all demographics than both Hillary and Trump combined received from the same age group. Those voters are 4 years older and there is a new, younger wave behind them for 2020. But it isn't just the young voters. And it isn't just frustrated Democrats. Republicans are shifting too. Did anyone else happen to see the crowd at the Fox Town Hall with Bernie last night go crazy in support of Medicare for All when Bret Baier asked the audience if they would really want to shift their current coverage to Medicare for All. It was a big surprise and disappointment to the Fox hosts that thought they had actually set that question up for a big disappointment for Bernie.......and yet the overwhelming majority of the people in their audience actually wanted change. Here is the short video clip of that exchange. It was a real mic drop moment:
Fox News hosts underestimate popularity of Bernie Sanders during town hall – video
The Republicans have completely lost the health care fight. It was a political Stalingrad, but they are now in the position of Germany's 6th Army.
My SO and I talked about Bernie being top of the polls right now. He wouldn't be my first pick for nominee, I think he's too much of a one trick pony to be a great president. But he wouldn't be a bad president either. If he turns out to be the choice of the Democratic primary voters, so be it.
