Its great that you have some 20-30 somethings showing promise, mine (20s) have yet to make that loop. I did in my early 30s, so theres a chance they will come around.

My concern is that the Gramscians have taken over the institutions, particularly education and large parts of the media, and the system is churning out underskilled Leftist clones. Boys/Men in particular will find it hard to adapt. The regulated and inflexible economy will not be able to compete with Brazil, not to mention our Asian neighbours, and debt servicing will increasingly eat away potential growth. On top of this the armies of Entitled will grow, and will be encouraged to grow by the welfare sellers, who benefit from it and pay for it with more borrowed money. Its probably worse in the US and Europe.

Btw, that attitude includes getting rid of Gillard and labor; you would have been interested to have heard these 20-30-somethings around the bbq at the weekend, it would really wake you up about the attitudes of young tradies and self-employeds.

They want Howard/Costello back. Seriously.

Beginning to think that the whole structure of our society has been so corrupted by the Left that it will all have be destroyed, as it it is beyond repair.

Funny but thats how I feel Winston. I rationalise that the decline will be gradual for the next 25 years, and when it hits tipping point I will be out of it anyway, hopefully. Does not make me feel good about my kids though, who have been infected by the postmodernist illusion of Green prosperity. When todays youth wake up, they will have to deal with the next generation of disempowered cargo cultists fighting for access to the drying public teat. Their struggle for access to resources will end in disappointment and pain.

–> seconded.

The reality is that, compared to private sector advocates or other sources of information, mandarins get it far more right, far more often.

Thats the kind of “reality” you get with a postmodernist “education”.