One of the most disturbing things I notice about “the kids today” is the utter disinterest in anything that happened more than five minutes ago.
Displaying this depressing and alarming tendency was Meghan McCain on last week’s “Real Time With Bill Maher.”
Meghan McCain is more than just the adorable 25 year old daughter of John McCain; she’s a political activist! Just ask her!
She was there to discuss her efforts to bring about bipartisanship in American politics. An admiral goal. Go Meghan.
But then she opened her mouth. Oh dear.
TWICE during her ten-minute segment, she declared something to be irrelevant to her life because it happened before she was born.
She joined Bill and his other guests in discussing the recent history of partisan bickering that has (arguably) poisoned American politics.
She stated that she was sick of Obama blaming everything on Bush. CNN news analyst Paul Begala broke in, pointing out the inconvenient truth that Reagan blamed everything on Jimmy Carter.
Perky Meghan sniffed and retorted, “Well that happened before I was born, so I wouldn’t know.”
Begala looked at her incredulously and replied, “Well I wasn’t born during the French Revolution, but I know about that.”
To which McCain replied, “Oh yeah, you just know everything, don’t you?”
. . . thus supporting another destructive trend in American culture, scorn for education and knowledge.
Cindy McCain was born in 1984, a good decade after the Vietnam War. I wonder how her father feels about the idea that his suffering in a prison camp that war is irrelevant to his daughter.
If she and people like her are the future of the Republican Party, I don’t think we liberals have anything to worry about.