An approval poll came out about President Trump; the only age demographic that didn't support Trump was people over 70. Why did this happen? What happened to the boomers?
Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. I thought this may come up in one of our episodes, but it is not. So let me just jam it in here. Why were we thinking? Oh, it was the Supreme Court case.
There's a Supreme Court case heard on Tuesday about LGBTQ books that were mandated in a Maryland County school district. And at first the school board said, you can opt out. It was pre-K through fifth grade. And you can opt out of this.
So many parents opted out, that instead of the school saying, oh wow, I guess we shouldn't mandate these books clearly. They said, all right, fine, no one can opt out anymore. We're gonna give you no notice and you're not allowed to opt out.
What? So it made it all the way up to the Supreme Court and it seems like the justices are on the side of the parents. But the two previous court decisions were against the parents in favor of the school. So one of the books is called Pride Puppy and it's for the pre-K, so three and four year olds. And it's, you know, I is for intersectional justice and all this stuff, right?
And it's about a puppy that gets lost at a pride parade. So just to make the point of how far we've fallen, I bought this book the other day by Eric Sloan. I just bought, actually bought all the books by Eric Sloan. And I haven't read enough of them yet to fully praise them, but they've been great so far.
I'm reading this one called American Barns and Covered Bridges, and it's just about wood. It's about wood and our founding fathers and before that, and their love of wood and their use of wood and their infatuation with wood. And it's awesome.
It's super fun so far.
Anyway, so I was just thumbing through the pages and I haven't gotten to this page yet. I don't even know why he put this in here. But this is one of those ABC books. You know, like today it's A is for apple, B is for banana, C is for cat, right? Why it's really today it's, you know, G is for what? I don't want to say it on this podcast, but you know, it's like horribly inappropriate stuff. Look what it used to be.
I'm going to read the whole thing. We're going to go A through Z. We're going to do our ABCs together, how we used to do it in America. In Adam's fall, we sinned all. A for Adam. Heaven defined the Bible mind.
Christ crucified for sinners died. D, the deluge drowned the earth around. E, Elijah hid by ravens fed. The judgment made Felix afraid. How about G, as runs the glass our life doth pass. G, that's heavy for a baby. Jeez, for you're going to die soon. H is my book and heart must never part. Job feels the rod yet blesses God. That's an eye.
I don't know why that's I. I Job feels the rod. It blesses God. I don't know, a little creative license there. K, proud Korah's troop was swallowed up. Just talked about that the other day. Lot fled to Zoar, saw fiery shower on Sodom poor. That's a good one too for the
kids. Well Sodom and Gomorrah for the three year olds. And Moses was he who Israel's, sorry this is a bad picture, hoffed led through the sea. And Noah did view the old world and new. Oh, young Obadiah, David, Josiah, all were pious. Obadiah, David, Josiah, all were pious. Obadiah, David, Josiah, all were pious. Peter denied his Lord and cried.
Queen Esther, I couldn't, I took a bad picture and saves the Jews. I don't know what that was. Queen Esther, I can't, sues?
I don't know.
I can't say it's all right. It's a bad picture. Young pious Ruth left all for truth. Young Samuel, dear, the Lord did fear. T. Young Timothy learnt fin to fly. I don't know that one. You. Van vanished for pride was set aside. W whales in the sea.
God's voice obey. Yes. See all these ABC books. Whenever I get one of these, I'm always like, how are they going to do the last ones? You know, are they going to cop out here? Is it always going to be x-ray? Are they going to try something a little different? X. Xerxes did die and so must I. I feel like the W is kind of a stretch.
Whales in the sea, God's voice obey. That doesn't even rhyme. I would have worked out that one a little more. Y. While youth do cheat, death may be near. And then Z, let's see, yeah, they were able to crush the Z.
Zacchaeus, he did climb the tree, our Lord to see. That's a good Z, good Z. Anyway, that's how we used to raise our kids. Look where we are now. And we made the point too that the Ten Commandments case in the Supreme Court was only 1980. It's only 45 years ago.
So it was, should we force kids to see the Ten Commandments? No, we must take them down. And now here we are, should we force kids to sit through LGBTQ books in the classroom at pre-K?
Anyway, just wanted to share. The old school ABCs. So we're gonna do a special next week on media propaganda and we're gonna talk about this poll, so I don't wanna get too far ahead of myself here, but in this poll, it's every age demographic. Do you support Donald Trump is the question.
And it breaks it down to age demographic and every single age demographic is in support of Donald Trump, ranging from two to five, one is nine points. The only group that does not of Donald Trump ranging from two to five, one is nine points. The only group that does not support Donald Trump are people over the age of 70, negative 14.
What is that about? The only age demographic that does even, even 18 year olds support Donald Trump by quite a bit. I think it was plus five, but negative 14 for 70 year olds. What's going on there? So we talked about this on the radio for a while.
I got a couple of reasons. I think the biggest is probably because it's 70 plus year olds are the ones who are watching cable news and network news and The View. So when you start your day with Whoopi and Joy, Veyhar, and you end your nightcap
with a little David Muir, and you end your nightcap with a little David Muir, and you either sprinkle in or have a steady 12-hour stream of MSNBC in between, all you do is fed propaganda all day long, then you're probably gonna believe it. And most of the people who do that are over the age of 70. So I think that's gonna be a part of it.
We'll talk more about that on our special next week. But what I wanna go a little deeper here today, not media propaganda, but something else. Now, I will say this up front, I'll only say it once. We're speaking about all the boomers, and you can't do that without lumping people in a group.
So if this isn't you, then it's not you. So you don't need to send me an email but like I actually like Trump. It's like, okay, I know. But this is the one age group that's negative 14, negative anything. So an idea came up when we were talking about this
on the radio about the baby boom generation, boomers as they're now disparagingly known, is that the 60s was a time when a lot of bad ideas came out. Now I don't know how much blame you can put on the baby boomers for these terrible ideas, as maybe it was just the circumstances that existed. I don't know what led them, there's no other choice.
I don't know what the excuse is. Maybe they get all the blame, that's for you to decide. But so many of the bad things that we're dealing with today, so much of the fallout, so much of the nuclear fallout is from the bad ideas that exploded in the 60s. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll,
and even when I say that now, it sounds very romantic. And you can see like in the beginning, it's like, well, what's the big deal? It's just a little bit, a little this, a little that. You know, whenever I come out and say, you know, we're going to hell in a handbasket. The younger generation, you know, people always say, oh, every generation has said that the generation younger than it is the worst.
And to that I say, yeah, they were all right. They were all right. Look at what I just shared with the ABC book. So when the first generation, I don't know when that ABC book was, let's say it's 1700. So in 1750, or 1850, when they stopped using all biblical references for the ABCs,
and they were like, oh, the younger generation, they don't know their Bible, they were right. They were right. And you could do it with music, right? Rock and roll's the devil's music. Can you believe people used to think that? Yeah, I can. And they were right. Is it catchy? Yeah, of course. Is there something
inherently sinful about an electric guitar? No, but there's a world of difference between the content of the music in the forties versus the sixties. Sirius XM, they have decades channels. You just go to channel six and it's the 60s, and you go to channel four and it's the 40s. You can turn on the 40s channel and you can listen with your grandma.
You can listen with your grandma and your children and you don't have to worry about anything. You listen to anything in the 60s, hit or miss, but then you go to the 2010s and you would not do it with your grandma, you are guaranteed to have horrific things rapped about or sung about.
I got some quotes here from John MacArthur. "'Our music cannot be like the music of the world "'because our God is not like their gods. "'Most of the world's music reflects the world's ways, "'the world's standards, the world's attitudes, "'the world's gods.
"'To attempt to use such music to, the world's standards, the world's attitudes, the world's gods. To attempt to use such music to reach the world is to lower the gospel in order to spread the gospel. If the world hears that our music is not much different than theirs, it will also be inclined to believe that the Christian way of life is not much different than theirs. The association of hard rock with violence, blasphemy, sadomasochism, sexual immorality and perversion, alcohol and drugs, and Eastern mysticism and occult are not accidental. They're fed from the same one godly stream.
A leading rock singer once said, rock music has always been the devil's music. It lets in the baser elements. Putting a Christian message in such musical form does not elevate the form, but degrades the message to the level already established in the culture by that forum one more quote rock music is a product of a disoriented despairing drug-related sex mad generation
There's no question about that the first big rock singer was Elvis Presley who killed himself with drugs and it went through women Continuously and he gave rise to the whole rock generation He was the first and his whole act was sexual sensual. It was terrible nowadays We think he was comical but that's only because we've come so far. Or I would add, we've come so low. Right, you look at Elvis Presley now
and he's shaking his hips, you're like, what? Like, who cares about that compared to what we're doing? So like, they were right. Like all the people back then who were like, this stuff is not on a good path take, I suppose. But the sexual mores of the 60s, we see the fruit of that now, that goes without saying,
right?
It's just acting more like the world. And the reason I bring this up is the baby boomer generation, and I think this is a fair, like a sociologist analysis would agree with this, that the baby boomer generation is more materialistic. Not everyone, not everyone, generation is more materialistic. Not everyone, not everyone, but generally more materialistic.
Maybe that comes from being raised by people who were raised in the Great Depression and raised through World War II. And then they had kids and they wanted to get more, right? More, bigger, more, bigger houses, whole thing. And when you're more materialistic,
you're gonna lose focus on God and you're not gonna seek God's wisdom as much as you could have. I think that's a fair analysis. Delano Squires, we've had him on the TV show before. He's a great, wise person.
He put up a post of Michelle Obama, who has a podcast recently, she's a great, wise person. He put up a post of Michelle Obama, who has a podcast recently, she's complaining about whatever. Shannon Sharp, who is the former football player on ESPN, who is getting accused of rape now, but I don't know, rape, I don't know, or consensual,
but he's sleeping with 19 year olds, he's 60, sleeping with 19 year olds. Some other woman, I don't know and then this clip of Tina Knowles this is Beyonce's mom let me play you married let me play a section this is listen to this this is Beyonce's mom she's 71 talking about divorcing her husband who's 78 and how she was encouraged to do it by Tyler Perry and Oprah and every Oprah thinks it's great And everyone in the audience thinks it's wonderful.
Listen to this mumbo jumbo.
I married again when you were 61.
No, no, mumbo jumbo is a joke. That's too jokey. Listen to this. Lies from the pits of hell.
Then you married again when you were 61, I think, went to actor Richard Lawson and divorced after almost 10 years. And our friend Tyler Perry, in the book you talk about, told you something. What was that? He told you about that.
He just told me that, um, I told him what happened, and he loves Richard also, and he was like, I'm very sad to hear that. And I said, but, you know, this marriage is not bringing out the best of me. And I have finally found my worth, and I know that I deserve to be happy.
I know I deserve to be for somebody to be happy when they see me and to celebrate me. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
So it's not only do you deserve to be happy, but other people deserve to be happy when they see you. And then the camera pans to this woman in the audience who's like, yes, I hear that. I hear what are you talking about?
Deserve to be for somebody to be happy when they see me and I'm
sorry, I gotta go back again.
What is she saying or to be happy? I know I deserve to be for somebody to be happy when they see me and to celebrate me other people.
I have to divorce this person because other people deserve to be happy when they see me and celebrate me and the, and the woman's yes.
Yes.
And it's not doing it for me. It's bringing out the worst in me and it's got to stop. And he said, I mean, he was teary eyed and he was like, I am so proud of you coming from a family where women stay no matter what. And it's taken a lot of courage. I said, I'm doing this for my daughters, too. So I want to set that example for them.
And he said, you're not only doing it for your daughters, but you're doing it for your grandson. Because you think that you're doing something to stay in a marriage that's unhappy, that you're not celebrated or you feel fulfilled, you are affecting your grandson too
because he wants you to be happy and how he's going to treat the woman that comes along and I never thought about that but he was just so supportive of me.
Delano Squires said there's an elder epidemic that needs to be addressed. People who should be imparting wisdom to the younger generations are instead revealing themselves to be immature, bitter, aggrieved, selfish, and miserable. These are the last people anyone should be going to for advice. Again, I'm not saying all people in the baby boomer generation are these things, but most of those of that generation who have a microphone, have a voice, have influence, are immature, bitter, aggrieved, selfish,
and miserable. And the only advice they should be is their life. Meaning people should look at them be like, I don't want any, I don't want that, I don't want to be them. I'm gonna do the opposite of everything they did. Someone called in, talked about his wife, who only only watches The View and MSNBC and then David Muir and he said, what do you do when she's watching this? And he said, she's usually with her friends.
He may have used the word squawking. The girls, the gals are squawking. I don't know. Maybe I don't, I didn't need to introduce the misogyny here. I said, what do you do when, when all the broads are doing it? And he said, I usually go in the other room
and read the Bible. I was thinking, what a case study, right? What an A-B test, a parallel universe test. I love doing these where you, one life is you're just in front of the TV watching cable news and the view and everything.
And then the other world is you're reading the Bible. Where will you be in a week? You don't even need to give it a lot. Where would you be in a week? Where will you be in a month? In a year, you'll be two totally different people.
What are you putting in your soul? Are you putting in the word of Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg? Are you putting in the word of God? Are you putting in the words of the world? Always worth a friendly reminder to curate your inputs. And I think of the Bible, Jesus speaks this, he says, 1 Corinthians 11 24, do this to remember me. You think, well, remember me? What do you mean, like we'd forget? We'd forget what you did for us? Well, yes, of course.
You will forget. You'll forget immediately. As soon as this podcast is over, you'll forget. As soon as I'm done talking, I will forget. We forget all the time. We forget what's important. We forget what matters. We forget we're captivated by things that are much less important.
Lesser things steal our attention all the time. Charles Spurgeon, he said, the incessant turmoil of the world, that's what cable news capitalizes on, right? The constant attraction of earthly things, that's just everything else, takes our souls away from Christ. The way to avoid the immature, bitter, aggrieved, selfish, and miserable way is to turn your soul back to Christ.
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