We Are Losing Generations To Inept Parenting & The Transitioners

In my more recent articles, I have been critical of GenZ, so much so that some of the more thin-skinned free subscribers have dropped their subscriptions to my Substack (I chalk that up to issue bandwagoning). But the fact of the matter is this. I am not the only one sounding the alarm about it.

Traditionally, there has always been a chasm between generations, especially when those generations are not in succession. But until recently, academic performance has typically remained consistent or even advanced from generation to generation. Today that is not the case.

From the Millenials to the newly created Gen Alphas, academic performance has declined to an alarming level, even as each generation, in succession, has experienced an elevation in self-importance, selfishness, and entitlement.

The ‘Experts' Sound The Alarm

Recently, the Daily Caller carried an editorial by Kay Smythe that expounded on the subject. Her editorial featured a video of teachers sounding the alarm:

“Gen Alpha is the generation behind Gen Z, making up the youngest generation on the planet right now. And they sound like absolute hellscapes of human beings, as far as the teachers in this one video are concerned. ‘Young Gen Z teachers are talking about the poor behavior of Gen Alpha students and some of y’all are finally starting to believe us when it comes to how much we missed the mark on raising these kids right,’...

'Defiant, aggressive, disrespectful, and rude,’ are all words teachers used to describe this emerging generation. ‘They don’t respect any authority,’ said one teacher, who noted how her students throw things at her and each other and refuse to listen when told not to.

“‘I teach seventh grade. They are still performing on the fourth-grade level,’ said another. ‘We are doomed,’ one 22-year-old middle school teacher noted…”

(Although this video was pulled from X, I apologize for using the CCP-connected TikTok)

I would suggest that Teresa Newman (I assume, from her TikTok handle, the producer of the video) went gentle on the parents of the GenZ demographic. That said, I applaud her for addressing the subject. No doubt, the pushback from the delinquent parents of which she speaks has been plentiful, so the courage she employed to point out the truth is stouthearted.

The subject is a serious one and one not getting enough serious attention from our elected officials or the mainstream media-captured population.

How Generational Change Ends Poorly

To understand the nefarious nature of what is taking place in today’s United States where generational detachment is concerned, we need look no further than the implementation of Mao’s Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward in China.

The Chinese Cultural Revolution, under the despotism of Mao Zadong, was a multifaceted and deadly struggle for power through the establishment of a predominant ideology. In implementing his revolution, Mao recognized the potential of China's vast youth population as a driving force for social, political, and governmental change.

Mao’s most significant endeavor in utilizing the youth was the “Cultural Revolution.” Recognizing that the older generations were deeply rooted in traditional values and resistant to change, Mao turned to the youth, whom he recognized as more malleable and ideologically aligned with his vision.

Mao aimed to break down existing power structures and eliminate potential societal opposition. By turning the youth against established leaders and intellectuals, Mao consolidated his control over the Chinese Communist Party and the nation. By empowering the youth with a revolutionary zeal, Mao created a new generation of dedicated followers.

At the forefront of Mao's youth mobilization efforts were the “Red Guards,” composed primarily of students and young intellectuals. These feverishly devoted sycophants were tasked with purging counter-revolutionary elements and upholding Mao’s ideology of transformative change. The Red Guards carried out mass campaigns, destroying symbols of traditional culture, targeting perceived enemies of the revolution – including family, and enforcing ideological purity.

By harnessing the energy, idealism, and maniacal devotion of the Red Guards, Mao achieved unprecedented social and political upheaval. As a result, there was widespread chaos with countless individuals facing persecution. Further, the economy and education systems were severely disrupted.

Mao’s emphasis on youth involvement permeated the education sector, where he sought to create a generation of “Red and Expert” individuals. Schools and universities were transformed into battlefields of ideological conflict, with fact-based traditional education replaced by indoctrination into Maoist thought. Intellectuals and educators perceived as “bourgeois” were targeted and, as a result, “vanished.”

Through it all, Mao’s grip on the Chinese people became total; totalitarian, and oppressively total.

According to FactsAndDetails.com:

“In the biography of Mao Zedong by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, the estimated totality of death is discussed, ‘...at least 3 million people died violent deaths and post-Mao leaders acknowledged that 100 million people, one-ninth of the entire population, suffered in one way or another.’ Interestingly, the reporter of a Hong Kong-based political journal released the classified official statistics, according to which nearly 2 million Chinese were killed and another 125 million were either persecuted or ‘struggled against’ (subjected to ‘struggle sessions’) as a result of the state-sponsored killings and atrocities committed during the Cultural Revolution.”

Combining the casualties from Mao’s Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward, approximately 60 million people were intentionally slaughtered with hundreds of millions of people being adversely affected.

The most effective tool Mao had in his arsenal was the indoctrinated youth.

Lazily Abdicating To ‘The Village’

In 1996, while First Lady, Hillary Clinton infamously stated that it “takes a village to raise a child”. Ever since then, Progressives (read: neo-fascists) in government – at every level and in many different forms – and the activist teachers unions (who have embraced Marxism to a great extent) have increasingly involved themselves in the rearing of our children.

Add to that three significant societal realities.

First, the Middle Class in the United States (and perhaps this is true throughout the free West) is forced to facilitate governmental and institutional access to our children because the economy, increasingly, requires the employment of the two-income household model. If both the Mother and the Father have to work, who steps in to provide oversight of (read: influence over) our children?

Second, government and special interests have spent decades establishing the narrative that the nuclear family is a relic; an obsolete notion of an era more akin to the 1950s than the 21st Century. So, when a single parent must provide an income for the household equal to that of a two-income household, again, who steps in to provide oversight of (read: influence over) our children?

And third, the Great Society – ever since its inception under Lyndon Johnson (a full-blown racist, by the way) – has rewarded the destruction of the nuclear family and subversively incentivized many – not all but many – in the Lower Class to consider the financial support they receive from the government as a replacement for a two-parent/two-income financial model. When having a baby; when having a child becomes the means to a paycheck, who has the real influence over our children?

Through all of these scenarios, government and government-copacetic institutions increase their influence over our children every day. When we pause to contemplate the inarguable truth that everything the government touches rises only to the lowest common denominator it is safe to say – and, in fact, urgent to accept – that the concept of the village (read: government) raising our children has been nothing short of an abstract failure.

One Society’s Failure Is Another Society’s Revolution

Remembering back to the 2016 Presidential Election, failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, the titular head of the Democrat Party and the Progressives within, proudly proclaimed that she was a Wilsonian-Progressive. During a 2016 Democrat Presidential debate against Democratic Socialist Bernie Sanders, Clinton stated, “I'm a progressive who gets results and I will be a progressive president who gets results.”

(It is smart to point out that In 1969 while attending Wellesley College, then Hillary Rodham wrote a senior thesis on the views advocated by community organizer and communist Saul Alinsky. While Clinton’s work as a college student was the subject of much speculation in the 1990s, access to the thesis was limited by the college at the request of the Clinton White House.)

As a Wilsonian-Progressive – or better stated, a Wilsonian-Marxist, Clinton has always believed that capitalism is in need of reform, But rather than advocating for a revolutionary overthrow of the federal government (as she was prone to advocate for in her youth) she now favors for a more globalized goal and one that captures the hearts and minds of generations of children.

Clinton and her cohorts – like Bernie Sanders, The Squad, Barack Obama, and those pulling Joe Biden’s strings give short shrift to the importance of political democracy, individual rights, and the rule of law, and, instead, emphasize economic and social justice and equity, arguing that a fair and just society can be achieved by advancing the controlling hand of government through social welfare policies, progressive taxation, and inclusive economic policies under the guise of neo-liberal democracy.

Through the implementation of Wilsonian-Marxism, they hope to achieve a form of democratic socialism where the means of production are not entirely state-controlled but subject to government whim and regulation. Further, they shy away from advocating for a revolutionary overthrow of the Constitution and, instead, advance what they call Progressive interpretations of the founding document and “reforms” within the existing Deep State structures, including expanding social safety nets, workers' rights, and reducing income inequality to achieve “equity.”

The key to achieving all of this is through ideological change at a generational level.

In The Land Of The Blind, The One-Eyed Man Is King

Only the complicit, ignorant, and apathetic cannot see – or acknowledge – the stark parallels between how Mao achieved the establishment of communism and iron-fisted, total control in China in the 1950s and 1960s and what is happening today in the United States.

Government – at the hands of the America-hating, far-Left, in collusion with the neo-fascists who have captured the ivory towers of education are increasingly succeeding in capturing the hearts and minds of the youth from the Millennial Generation to the Gen Alpha Generation. They are making significant headway in their quest to fundamentally transform the United States of America from a Constitutional Republic to a Socialist Democracy employing Wilsonian-Marxism.

So, we must recognize that the “defiant, aggressive, disrespectful, and rude” nature of the emerging Gen Alpha Generation is – literally – a “red flag” that illustrates just how far the neo-fascist Left has come in achieving their goal of transformative change.

The neo-fascist Left has been employing Mao’s revolutionary tactics to achieve despotic societal change – change in which freedom is lost, individualism is quelled, rights are bestowed, and the World Economic Forum’s 1984-ish future becomes a reality. This faux-utopian state of play used to exist only in theory. Today, it is becoming a reality generation by generation. 

Unless we wake up and establish private-sector entities to educate the younger generations on the evils of socialism, Marxism, and communism – and unless we start extolling the virtues of individualism, freedom, and the free market, we will lose this battle, guaranteed.

Then, the purges will begin and we will have only ourselves to blame.

First, they came for the socialists,
and I did not speak out – because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I did not speak out – because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I did not speak out – because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.

– Martin Niemöller

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