ON: Low End Conservatism

There is this generation, generation and a half, grown up with divorce the norm, the absentee fathers; without church, family, strict schooling -- latchkey kiddos now waking up at 30 with a craving for the grooves of discipline from an earlier time cut into them.  But alas, they're pock-free.  And here is where the reversal, youthful conservatism, is born.  Instead of looking beyond the injustice of the present to a dreamy optimized future, skipping back generations to paradise lost.

Not given the opportunity to be shamed and disciplined by the evils of religion and conservative upbringing, freewheeling trailer kids with lotto ticket parenting never benefited from the code as those who did grow into adulthood with the natural step of questioning that code.  You understand that finding out your parents are wrong about everything they taught you is an advantageous position to being taught nothing.  So when you try to figure out from why libertarian uprisings catch on with young poor people, you must understand there is an underclass trying to go back in time to something they had no opportunity to take part in and then reject.  It's sweeter stuff than the utopia.  It's Fantasy not Sci-Fi, both equally ridiculous.