{"id":37939,"date":"2019-02-20T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T06:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37939"},"modified":"2019-01-20T09:23:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T14:23:21","slug":"qotd-conservakids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/02\/20\/qotd-conservakids\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Conservakids"},"content":{"rendered":"

For some unfathomable reason, conservatives always seem to get excited when a moderately articulate post-puberty pundit comes along and parrots some simulacrum of conservative doctrine \u2013 except it almost always ends up like when my retriever-corgi mix tries to walk on her stubby back legs and we gasp in delight, \u201cLook, Bitey thinks she\u2019s people!\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not a criticism of young people; it\u2019s a criticism of us grown-ups, and a recognition of reality that keeps biting us on the Jeb. We need to dispense with the cute kid conservative novelty acts and understand that our ideology \u2013 unlike liberalism \u2013 is not based on feelings and preferences but is instead drawn from a wisdom and understanding of human nature that comes only from hard-won life experience. That\u2019s not to say young people should sit down and shut up \u2013 far from it. They have valuable insights we need to hear, especially from worlds they uniquely inhabit, like colleges or the company-level military. Sometimes they have done in-depth study and reporting on specific issues, including writing books. That\u2019s earned<\/em> expertise, not some mere knack for viral ranting, and that\u2019s not what we are talking about here.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s our own fault for letting them represent us to the world \u2013 maybe we do it because they flatter us by offering a dim reflection of what we believe. But when they recite conservative chapter and verse for us, that\u2019s all they\u2019re doing \u2013 reciting. It\u2019s not ingrained, it\u2019s not seared into them through study and experience. It\u2019s a stunt, a parlor trick. One of several reasons we conservatives need to stop putting them out there is because most conservatives have a youthful liberal phase and the kid who delights us today by mimicking our views will likely take a misguided off-ramp or two along the road to adulthood.<\/p>\n

Kurt Schlicter, “Enough of the Precocious Conservakids!”, Townhall.com<\/em><\/a>, 2017-03-23.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For some unfathomable reason, conservatives always seem to get excited when a moderately articulate post-puberty pundit comes along and parrots some simulacrum of conservative doctrine \u2013 except it almost always ends up like when my retriever-corgi mix tries to walk on her stubby back legs and we gasp in delight, \u201cLook, Bitey thinks she\u2019s people!\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,41,13],"tags":[431],"class_list":["post-37939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-conservatism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9RV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37940,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37939\/revisions\/37940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}