🚀 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."


   One can hardly call Boulder "Conservative". Denver is also
   Liberal. Now, in C. Springs which is Conservative, have you
   seen any problems ??