Andrew Wilson at The American Spectator offers a piece about his entrepreneur sister and her small business and what she hears from her four kids about the pervasiveness of political correctness in modern American colleges and high schools.
One level of her concerns has to do with her wedding-and-portrait-photography small business, which has seen a decline in sales over the last four years. The other has to do with the insidious effect that political correctness, both the social kind and the formalized, classroom kind, have had on her children. They dismiss her concern about the dire economic circumstances this country faces. They're also formulating their views on the current election season based on peripheral issues such as homosexual "marriage" rather than the obvious front-and-center matters like the national debt and Iran's nuclear program.
I know from interactions with my own step-granddaughter as well as my niece-in-law and various friends that this lady's situation is all too typical. There are still an alarming number of Americans, most of them young (but not all), who think this election is no more important than any other and that America's problems are within the range of the historically normal.
Yes, polls are encouraging now, and that's fabulous. But there will be a large swath of the American public that will howl and sulk after the election should the current trend continue, rather than pitch in and restore the nation and the culture. They won't see the new circumstances as the return of a climate of possibility, but will instead focus on the squelching of their myopic set of small and bizarre concerns.
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