The only TV show that I watch with any consistency is The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. In my never ending quest to understand things, I watch this show to help understand how young under-informed liberals think. (The largest segment of young adults get their news from Jon Stewart) It turns out that Jon is a pretty smart guy, not wise, but smart, and funny no doubt. He seemed to once care about pointing out hypocrisy and things that were terribly wrong with our political system, but now he has given up on objectivity and makes his target audience happy by making fun of Fox News and Republicans while defending the idiocy of the Democrats in power.
The main reason I want to understand young liberals (or any liberal I guess) is so I can have meaningful conversations with them. I was discouraged today when a left-leaning guy claimed there was no trend or danger of a global government. I handed him a reprint of the article The United Nations: On the Brink of Becoming a World Government and told him I thought the publisher was one of the few I knew about that are very careful about sourcing their information. He browsed it and said something about it didn’t seem like he would believe it, but I asked him to please read it and research anything he thought was untrue. I don’t believe he has any intention of doing that though.
I guess at some point I’ll give up on this quest, because it is turning out to be non-productive and non-enlightening. I’m already pressed for time, and want to make the most of the time I do have. Trying to convince lefties they are wrong is probably not a good use of my time. Trying to convince the zombies to pay attention doesn’t seem to be a good investment either. It is pretty frustrating: You have a good indication that the path your country is on is terribly wrong, you have a pretty good idea of the direction you need to be headed, but you can’t find a way to change anything!
