🚀 go-pugleaf

The riots in Boulder and along Federal Blvd. in Denver
seem to share two common factors: the age and the attitude
of the rioters.  The ages were late teens through early twenties.
The attitude was they had a "right" to do whatever they 
wanted, no matter how badly it harmed others and the
community.

Conservatives and libertarians attempt to lay social problems and
problems of youth and young adults at the feet of 
liberals, sometimes rightly, sometimes wrongly.  However,
concern for the welfare of the community and civil
responsibility are primary liberal family values.
These values appear absent in the attitude of these rioters.

Conservative policies have dominated state politics in
Colorado seemingly forever, at least since the
Reagan revolution of 1981.  Not even Govs. Lamm and
Romer can be called liberals, not when compared to a
Mario Cuomo, certainly.  

The age demographic for these rioters seems to exactly
coincide with having been born about 3 - 6 years
prior to the Reagan revolution, the revolution kicking in
just as they started attending school, just as education began
to be subject to conservative socialization.  It may just be
a coincidence,  but these young people seem to share the 
sole concern for satisfying immediate individual appetites,
perpetuating the conservative and libertarian "me generation"
thinking of  conservatives and libertarians of the 80's.  

Since conservatives and libertarians appear in part to be the 
creators of these belligerent rioters, it seems appropriate for
a concerned citizen to ask, out loud, how conservatives and
libertarians propose to keep their monsters from killing off the creator?
More laws? Or wouldn't it just be cheaper and more efficient to teach
them and the generations to come those good, old liberal family values of 
concern for community and civil responsibility, and then reap the abundant 
benefits that always follow?

We're in trouble, folks.  And it aien't the liberals who
put us there.

-- 
Best Wishes,
Heretic

"The space aliens checked the Earth for
signs of intelligent life.  After listening to
talk radio and reading IRC, they decided
there was none and went on to the next
planet."