June is of course graduation season. We all know it’s a time when the next chapter in a young person’s life is set to begin and the hopes and expectations are high. The graduation ceremonies themselves are a very big event, where family and friends proudly watch the students accept that document that symbolizes and certifies all that time and hard work that was dedicated to earning it. You get the point; graduations are a special time and should be remembered fondly. And most of them are.
But with each passing year, more adults, who are invited guest speakers take the opportunity to spend less time giving encouragement and congratulatory and inspirational speeches to the graduates and instead, interject their own personal political views and push their pet causes in a type of last ditch, desperate attempt to indoctrinate before these young people move on with their futures.
We’ve all seen Hillary Clinton’s graduation speeches this year. She is still dwelling on why she thinks she lost the 2016 election. It’s wrong, but not surprising with her. If she lives another 100 years that will still be all she talks about. But it goes beyond Hillary. There are politicians up on stage that waste that precious opportunity to give praise from the stage to the students for what they’ve accomplished and instead suggest, almost demand, that the kids vote in the future the way the speaker wants them to. There are the environmentalists, who scold and lecture about ‘Global Warming’. There have been radicals promoting groups like BLM and ANTIFA to their captive (and bored) audiences. Just last week, at a graduation at a public high school in Boston, a school teacher actually took to the microphone and proclaimed to the students and their families in the crowd that America is NOT the greatest country on Earth. Was this really necessary? Was this ‘educator’s’ disdain for our country something that needed to be expressed to these graduates? From the reaction of some in the crowd, it certainly was not. Some of the shocked students and angered parents were not happy about it.
So, let this be a memo to those who are honored by receiving an invitation to be a guest speaker at graduations: No one really cares or wants to hear about your political views, causes or grievances. Graduations are not about you. It’s about the young students sitting in front of you proudly celebrating with friends and family, one of the best days of their lives.
If you looked at any video screen at all last week, whether live or in a replay, you probably saw the Hollywood mindset on full display. The hatred of President Trump by these so called ‘elites’ is now so all consuming and intense that it has succeeded in driving them insane. Bill Maher kicked it off on his evening cable TV show by coming right out and admitting that he would prefer the US economy tank and go into recession and even collapse, if it would cause Trump’s removal. He said he knows it would hurt millions of Americans, but Trump has got to go. And the trained seals in his ‘progressive’ audience cheered.
Then of course there was Robert DiNiro. Once considered to be one of the world’s greatest actors he is now reduced to a bitter, unhinged basket case melting down into a profanity laced rant at the TONY Awards. As DiNiro spewed his hate and venom and F-Bombs from the stage, the crowd of ‘Tinsel Town’ groupies gave him a standing ovation. Many in the news media lapped it all up and praised these attacks. DiNiro was once admired for his roles in classics like ‘Godfather’ I and II, ‘Raging Bull’, ‘Analyze This’ and ‘A Bronx Tale’. His latest film, a flop was titled ‘Dirty Grandpa’. This sort of says it all. His career has gone the way of Hollywood itself, from the entertainment capitol of the world to a hazardous waste dump.
All of this confirms what so many Americans have now come to realize. ‘Liberal hatred wasn’t caused by the election of Trump, it was exposed by it’. As one social media meme displayed so accurately – “President Trump was in Singapore working towards the goal of World Peace. Meanwhile back in Hollywood, they were chanting “F..K Trump”. Classy.
