{"id":41375,"date":"2020-02-14T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T06:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41375"},"modified":"2020-02-14T09:22:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T14:22:37","slug":"qotd-canadian-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/02\/14\/qotd-canadian-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Canadian youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 25px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Based on my own experience, people my age have no business deciding the future of this country. Obviously there&#8217;s the knee-jerk socialism inculcated by public schooling, and Canadian media. It seems to be a passing attachment, however, and is often shaken by getting a job, and realizing that <em>earning<\/em> money is hard work, and is remarkably unrelated to the unquestionably sordid practice of stealing from poor people. <\/p>\n<p>More pernicious, and ultimately, in my view, far more dangerous &mdash; should my generation ever locate their polling stations &mdash; is a poisonous, systemic anti-Americanism. The young people I know hate the United States, and hate Americans. Many people have seen the infamous poll released last June which indicated that 40% of Canadian teens viewed America as &#8220;evil.&#8221; Many people were surprised by the results. So was I.<\/p>\n<p>I thought the number was low.<\/p>\n<p>The average youth voter, in my personal experience, has, at most, three political principles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Equality is good. (Usually interpreted as equality of results&#8230; equality of opportunity is probably &#8216;racist&#8217; and &#8216;greedy.&#8217;)<\/li>\n<li>Everything is relative. &#8220;Good&#8221; and &#8220;Evil&#8221; are anachronistic terms devoid of meaning &#8230; they&#8217;re just, like, your opinion, man. <\/li>\n<li>George Bush is the living embodiment of all that is Evil. He is, literally, the anti-Christ, and he feeds on the blood of puppies and minorities. Plus, he thought our Prime Minister&#8217;s name was Poutine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joel Fleming, <a href=\"http:\/\/joelafleming.blogspot.com\/2005\/01\/youth-vote.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;The Youth Vote&#8221;, <em>Joel Fleming<\/em><\/a>, 2005-01-06<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on my own experience, people my age have no business deciding the future of this country. Obviously there&#8217;s the knee-jerk socialism inculcated by public schooling, and Canadian media. It seems to be a passing attachment, however, and is often shaken by getting a job, and realizing that earning money is hard work, and is [&hellip;]<\/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":[6,53,41],"tags":[668,769,956,289],"class_list":["post-41375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-georgewbush","tag-jeanchretien","tag-millennials","tag-polls"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aLl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41375","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=41375"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55001,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41375\/revisions\/55001"}],"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=41375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}