How to Talk About Trump With Your Progressive Adult Children
RUSH: Ran across this story at PJ Media. “How to Talk Trump With Your Terrified Progressive Adult Children.” It’s sort of a how-to column written by a man named Mark Ellis, and it details what may be reality for many American families. You have mom and dad, plus they’re Baby Boomers, and they have kids who have become adults and they’re progressive snowflakes, and they’re literally quaking in their boots in fear over Trump, just like these little snowflakes in college campuses are, and they can’t function.
They’re so out of sorts, they don’t know what to do, and this guy’s run into the circumstance. So he wrote an advice column for parents who have adult children who are uber-progressives or leftists about how to talk to them, “How to Talk Trump With Your Terrified Progressive Adult Children.” Now I, of course, am not presented with this challenge. I have nephews and nieces, but they’re all fine. We have to worry about them. They’re fine. I don’t have adult kids who have become mind-numbed robot leftists. But I read this anyway, and it really is kid gloves. It’s really kid gloves.
I’m thinking, “Is this the way to do it?” And people say, “Yeah, you’ve gotta do it kid gloves. You’ve gotta be very gentle, and you’ve got to be very patient. You can’t just tell them there’s nothing to be afraid of. You can’t tell them they’re acting irrationally or silly or any of that.” And I think back to my dad. My dad… Some of you may have heard me say this. My friends in high school on a Friday night, instead of going out and trying to get illegal beer and stuff, would come over to my house and sit around and try to say anything to get my dad riled up on politics and just get him going.
And then we’d just sit there for hours listening to him warn us about what was gonna happen if we didn’t stop the communists, if we didn’t stop the Democrats. He would say, “You boys, you’re all gonna be slaves. You’re gonna be slaves of these people like Sander Vanocur who was a commie SOB media guy at NBC, Sander Vanocur. “He’s gonna be the first guy the communists come for. All these media people, they’re gonna be the first ones shot down. They think they’re gonna be the best friends of these Soviets? No way.”
He would get going on this stuff and these guys, my friends, would just sit back and listen to it. Now, I can’t imagine a Millennial today surviving it. They would be reduced to tears and running out of the house in the first five minutes, apparently. So this is the way we were taught. This is the way we were told the way of the world. This is the way we were warned and educated, and apparently you just can’t do it that way today with today’s Millennial adults or even older adult progressives if they are your children.
You know, I don’t sit around thinking about this problem much ’cause I don’t face it, but I’m fascinated by it. So hopefully today I’ll have a chance to get in some of the advice he gives, and I would love to get your reaction to it, too, at some point.
https://pjmedia.com/parenting/2017/01/16/how-to-talk-trump-with-your-terrified-progressive-adult-children/
RUSH: Ran across this story at PJ Media. “How to Talk Trump With Your Terrified Progressive Adult Children.” It’s sort of a how-to column written by a man named Mark Ellis, and it details what may be reality for many American families. You have mom and dad, plus they’re Baby Boomers, and they have kids who have become adults and they’re progressive snowflakes, and they’re literally quaking in their boots in fear over Trump, just like these little snowflakes in college campuses are, and they can’t function.
They’re so out of sorts, they don’t know what to do, and this guy’s run into the circumstance. So he wrote an advice column for parents who have adult children who are uber-progressives or leftists about how to talk to them, “How to Talk Trump With Your Terrified Progressive Adult Children.” Now I, of course, am not presented with this challenge. I have nephews and nieces, but they’re all fine. We have to worry about them. They’re fine. I don’t have adult kids who have become mind-numbed robot leftists. But I read this anyway, and it really is kid gloves. It’s really kid gloves.
I’m thinking, “Is this the way to do it?” And people say, “Yeah, you’ve gotta do it kid gloves. You’ve gotta be very gentle, and you’ve got to be very patient. You can’t just tell them there’s nothing to be afraid of. You can’t tell them they’re acting irrationally or silly or any of that.” And I think back to my dad. My dad… Some of you may have heard me say this. My friends in high school on a Friday night, instead of going out and trying to get illegal beer and stuff, would come over to my house and sit around and try to say anything to get my dad riled up on politics and just get him going.
And then we’d just sit there for hours listening to him warn us about what was gonna happen if we didn’t stop the communists, if we didn’t stop the Democrats. He would say, “You boys, you’re all gonna be slaves. You’re gonna be slaves of these people like Sander Vanocur who was a commie SOB media guy at NBC, Sander Vanocur. “He’s gonna be the first guy the communists come for. All these media people, they’re gonna be the first ones shot down. They think they’re gonna be the best friends of these Soviets? No way.”
He would get going on this stuff and these guys, my friends, would just sit back and listen to it. Now, I can’t imagine a Millennial today surviving it. They would be reduced to tears and running out of the house in the first five minutes, apparently. So this is the way we were taught. This is the way we were told the way of the world. This is the way we were warned and educated, and apparently you just can’t do it that way today with today’s Millennial adults or even older adult progressives if they are your children.
You know, I don’t sit around thinking about this problem much ’cause I don’t face it, but I’m fascinated by it. So hopefully today I’ll have a chance to get in some of the advice he gives, and I would love to get your reaction to it, too, at some point.
https://pjmedia.com/parenting/2017/01/16/how-to-talk-trump-with-your-terrified-progressive-adult-children/