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Kerry doesn't urge students to be good parents and good providers for their families. He urged them to join the Peace Corps and march on Washington
Kerry doesn't urge students to be good parents and good providers for their families. He urged them to join the Peace Corps and march on Washington
Kerry’d have us all work for Uncle Sam
GRADUATION speeches often wash over fidgeting seniors without impressing lasting memories. Let’s hope that John Kerry’s speech at Southern University at New Orleans last week was no exception.
The theme of Kerry’s speech — service and citizenship — was fine, if generic and unimaginative. The specifics were the fault: warmed over 1960s liberalism.
Not above giving a campaign speech to the captive audience, Kerry rattled off a short list of things he finds wrong with America and subtly connected them to the country’s current leadership. Then he glorified 1960s’ activists as exemplars of virtuous selflessness whom the graduates should emulate.
A typical child of the 1960s, Kerry instructed the students that the only way to make a difference in this world is through activism or government work. Like Bill Clinton, Kerry spent his career in the public sector. He fails to apprehend the social and economic benefits that come from individuals working to better their own lives.
It’s a telling insight into this politician’s mind that he didn’t urge the students to work hard, invest wisely, and start their own businesses. He didn’t urge them to be good parents and good providers for their families. He urged them to join the Peace Corps and march on Washington.
This belief system, in which self-reliance is an obstacle to social change, is pure mythology. In reality, as most Americans used to know, self-reliance is the key to social and economic progress. It is the foundation upon which this nation was built.
So-called “public servants” like John Kerry have nearly succeeded in undermining this concept.