Again, I have been allowing a fairly wide berth to the boys, since each of them, in differing ways — is expressing some post-traumatic stress related irrationality (and especially so, in writing about Gaza / Israel). The one most afflicted — and most often — has seemed to be… Paul Mirengoff.
But now Scott Johnson launches a mostly loony burp-fest about how the youngest voters in America are now “Generation H[amas]“. Yikes. This wild eyed and nationwide conclusion, he draws from a small sample of east coast college age kids. And from a survey that was primarily plumbing ECONOMIC dissatisfaction in that co-hort.
Whatever.
I seem to recall that both Hinderaker and Johnson have confessed to being “Communists” (whatever they thought that then meant, in 1969) when at the age of these survey respondents, and in fact, forcibly took over various Dartmouth campus admin offices — demanding an end to the Vietnam war. [Those were not just answers to a telephone survey boys — those were offenses for which you were both jailed, momentarily.]
And yet… now nearly a half century later… America is very much an entirely stable economy, and steady in its political / international stances (for better, or worse). Especially so, in its relationships with, and protection of… Israel. [Indeed, both of you graduated on time with honors, had your records wiped — and went on to law school — and careers amassing millions in the US capitalist version of America.]
Nope. No purported “Communist” collective ending property rights, nor repealing our Constitutional Democracy.
So… yes, based on your own lived experiences, guys — I do think this generation will grow up, and figure it out, Scott (and John, Steve and even Paul). All without engaging in Hinderaker’s calls for eradication of the the Palestinian peoples.
Onward.
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