Aren't we due for a good old fashioned backlash, yet?

[eleny]

Isn't it about time for a good chunk of fundie kids to start feeling uncomfortable in their spiritual skins? With school loans and grants shriveling up, birth control and abortion waving buh-bye and fundie teachers even making the little siblings cry over Santa debunking - isn't it time for them to break out of such a strangling culture?

I was born in '46. When the 60s arrived, that decade hit big. And it was a reaction to the mild malaise of the 50s. These kids today will be pushing against some incredibly strident and ultra repressive trends.

I say - Katy bar the door. It's going to be one whale of a blow back.

[long_green]

1. You might not like the backlash

The children who "backlashed" in the 60's were far more educated than the products of today's society. I would consider today's youth more likely to become radical rightists.

[eleny]

3. I don't necessarily agree with the 60s kids being more educated

Unless you're referring to how the kids back then weren't so steeped in being fundie. But even then - I don't think it was all that different. For instance, I went to Catholic elementary and high school before going to a non secular university. Nuns didn't exactly teach independent thinking. So, my backlash was distinctly to the left.

Any backlash is in the direction away from where you are. I see these kids running to the left as their families strangle them with repressive right wing thinking. I can see them running away from red states to blue ones to get the hell away from their cultural upbringing.

[hwmnbn]

2. I agree, nothing like the sweet taste......

of the forbidden to loosen those brain cells and break out of the mind prisons. Let freedom reign. WooHoo!!!

Biology is stronger than psychology

[eleny]

4. Amen, amen, I say unto you!

For boys, I'm sure there's nothing like the thought of creamy thighs to bring down a house of cards!

At least that's what hubby tells me. Hee!

[sexybomber]

11. Well...

Biology may be stronger than psychology, but you can bet your buttocks that the fundies are working on a way to regulate THAT, too.

[NanceGreggs]

5. I think you're right on!

I was a teenager in the 'sixties (ughh! - I'M OLD!), and the entire 'hippie' movement was a backlash to our parents' fifties image of buy a house in the 'burbs, drive a nice car, have highballs and barbecued chicken with your neighbours, and DON'T QUESTION ANYTHING.

People who weren't around in the 'fifties don't realize that the topics of conversation then were always about church-going folk who stood up for 'strong Christian family values' -- the same old thing we're hearing now. It's just more widely disseminated these days due to TV, the internet(z), instant 'news', etc.

The current crop of kids who are being spoon-fed this Fundie/NeoCon crap are going to rebel big-time when they realize that the America their parents are talking about doesn't exist. That lesson will be learned soon, when they can't afford college tuitions, can't find jobs, can't afford a home in the 'burbs just like mom and dad had.

The new 'Age of Enlightenment' for today's youth will be the day they realize they've been LIED TO!

[eleny]

6. "don't question anything"

That's sure the heart of all repression. It's the same today as it was back when we were coming into our own. It goes against what human being are. We're meant to think, explore, question and discover. You can exist in a vice for only so long before you break out. Heck, look what people like Galileo suffered for their truth.

[NanceGreggs]

7. Psstt, Eleny ...

... be careful what you say -- you know that Freepers and their ilk often visit here to see what's being said.

So DON'T mention Galileo. The next thing we'll hear is how the Fundies want to teach that the sun revolves around the Earth -- as an 'alternative theory' to presently accepted laws of astronomy!

[eleny]

8. What was I thinking?!

Bad on me... :spank:

[SharonAnn]

9. Remember the billboards "The Family That Prays Together ...

Stays Together"?

I always wondreed about those. Why would people put up billboards like that? What was the point?

I went to Catholic schools, attended Mass every Sunday with my family, and still was puzzled about those stupid billboards.

[eleny]

12. I remember those

And used t watch Bishop Fulton J. Sheen on tv, too. And then along came the 60s. Heh...heh...heh.

[Ksec]

10. Good point

I believe the revolt will be against the stranglehold of the right . Everything weve won in the past generation is being destroyed. The young ones will tire of this repressive bunch. My guess is it will be within the next 10 years.

[eleny]

13. Reagan went into office in '81

Even those who were born then are in their early 20s. A number of them have to be good and sick and tired of his revolution to the right.