These two essays represent privileged kids from privileged backgrounds. Midland school costs $74K per year. Helicopter parenting is a symptom of upper income families. Again, FP needs to reach out to non-traditional writers from UN-privileged backgrounds and get a different perspective. Kudos to these two young people, but I'm unimpresse…
These two essays represent privileged kids from privileged backgrounds. Midland school costs $74K per year. Helicopter parenting is a symptom of upper income families. Again, FP needs to reach out to non-traditional writers from UN-privileged backgrounds and get a different perspective. Kudos to these two young people, but I'm unimpressed. I want to hear from kids from rural Iowa or West Virginia. I want to hear from kids who haven't had a childhood with first world problems. America is full of these stories, yet we never hear them.
Seriously. Just Sunday night I went for a walk and ended up talking to another mom. Her son is getting out of prison where he's been clean. And her son's girlfriend, who is still using, her dad was so desperate he chained her in the garage for a month. He can't afford to send his daughter to rehab.
How fast do you think the boyfriend will be using again when he reunites with his girlfriend. Maybe the madness slaughtering middle America is real. Either way, with nobody but Trump to articulate the rage they're feeling, we shouldn't be surprised we're fading as a country. I wish we had better leaders.
We talked about exactly that, she and I. She has put herself at risk for losing her home. She wants him to live with her and take care of the family. He does concrete work. Makes good money. It told her to take care of her daughter.
Ask yourself, why should he care? Why shouldn't he just go back to addiction? What does his life amount to? Work his ass off, break his body down, and be looked down on, called the enemy? What does anyone's life amount to today? Why give a damn?
Jung said it a long time ago. Addiction is a spiritual problem.
But yeah, these kids might be listened to because they are the children of the upper class. Take the win you can get. Deplorables get to die or be called deplorable because they band together with other kids and form a gang with a credo that also has some kind of bigotry that they see as being against the madness slaughtering them.
Or worse, they find Jesus or something and go to church. Then they are the deplorable fringe.
These two essays represent privileged kids from privileged backgrounds. Midland school costs $74K per year. Helicopter parenting is a symptom of upper income families. Again, FP needs to reach out to non-traditional writers from UN-privileged backgrounds and get a different perspective. Kudos to these two young people, but I'm unimpressed. I want to hear from kids from rural Iowa or West Virginia. I want to hear from kids who haven't had a childhood with first world problems. America is full of these stories, yet we never hear them.
Seriously. Just Sunday night I went for a walk and ended up talking to another mom. Her son is getting out of prison where he's been clean. And her son's girlfriend, who is still using, her dad was so desperate he chained her in the garage for a month. He can't afford to send his daughter to rehab.
That's how the deplorables are living.
How fast do you think the boyfriend will be using again when he reunites with his girlfriend. Maybe the madness slaughtering middle America is real. Either way, with nobody but Trump to articulate the rage they're feeling, we shouldn't be surprised we're fading as a country. I wish we had better leaders.
We talked about exactly that, she and I. She has put herself at risk for losing her home. She wants him to live with her and take care of the family. He does concrete work. Makes good money. It told her to take care of her daughter.
Ask yourself, why should he care? Why shouldn't he just go back to addiction? What does his life amount to? Work his ass off, break his body down, and be looked down on, called the enemy? What does anyone's life amount to today? Why give a damn?
Jung said it a long time ago. Addiction is a spiritual problem.
She could go to NarAnon. Loving an addict is a spiritual problem also.
That's fentanyl and meth.
But yeah, these kids might be listened to because they are the children of the upper class. Take the win you can get. Deplorables get to die or be called deplorable because they band together with other kids and form a gang with a credo that also has some kind of bigotry that they see as being against the madness slaughtering them.
Or worse, they find Jesus or something and go to church. Then they are the deplorable fringe.
A whole basket of them