By Rich Kozlovich
One of the writers at American Thinker posted an article entitled, My daughter’s mean girls, saying how her 29 year old daughter's "wide circle of friends" use Facebook to stay in touch, but found she became a pariah when they discovered she voted for Trump. Now she's struggling to understand them and find common ground, and it's not working, and she's deeply hurt. The author, her mother, is troubled not knowing how to help. I responded in the comments section, and here's my response with some edits.
Okay, I have the answer for you, but you will have bear with me.
Let’s lay some foundation with this: Wisdom is the application of knowledge and understanding, and Winston Churchill is alleged to have said anyone under thirty who’s not a liberal has no heart. Anyone over thirty who’s not a conservative has no intelligence.
Here’s the way the brain works, and it’s in three steps.
Step One: Up until the age of ten or twelve, depending on who you read, the brain is structured in such a way as to understand languages. That’s foundational.
Step Two: Then the brain restructures itself to gather, store, collate, and correlate information more easily.
Step Three: Then the brain restructures itself again for the purpose of utilizing all that’s been learned, aka, understanding, and that doesn’t take place until after thirty. But there’s a caveat to that. The willingness to accepting the intellectual and emotional transformation, which is what Leftists refuse to do and never get past stage two, and which is why your daughter will never break through.
Leftists are nuts and any attempt to find that “bridge” is an effort in futility. By the standards of yesteryear your daughter is still a child growing up in a culture that's entirely too accepting, and too critical of traditional values, and culture is king. However, she’s on the border of step three. Tell your daughter to just move on and find friends with whom she has shared values, and the sooner the better.
Thomas Sowell, who I think is one of the world’s finest thinkers, considered arguing with a leftist a complete waste of time. And he’s right. They suffer from a serious case of ignorance, and are arrogant in their ignorance. Ignorance is fixed by learning. Refusing to learn is stupidity. You just can’t fix stupid. Life is too short to waste it on stupid people, they’re just an unending source of torment. The sooner she grasps that and moves on the happier she will be, and after she’s in her thirties she’ll realize that.
In the mean while, ask her this. Would she marry someone who thinks and acts like these leftist friends? If not, then why would she want to have them as friends?
I got a big thumbs up reaction from readers to that comment and this reply from Kay Fiset:
I was involved in my industry's affairs for many years, and the Executive Director of our national association, who has now passed, and who I actually liked, once said to me that I say unkind things. I responded saying the truth isn't unkind. It's just the truth. And the sooner this young woman grasps and accepts the truth, the better her life will be.
