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Its sounds like a stretch right? Parents responsible for Obama victory in 2012? Well lets see if I can make this a bit easier to understand.

One of the common themes I kept hearing from Obama supporters coming into the election was how “unfair” life has been to them and how they felt that some people had an unfair advantage over others in our society.

Most of the people that I encountered that were repeating this democrat talking point were younger than thirty years of age.

When asked why these people perceived things as so unfair, the answer was incredibly selfish in nature.

One of the first things most complained about was the wealthy. They said it wasn’t fair that these people had become so wealthy and had life so easy, yet contributed to little to American society.

I would point out that most of the celebrities they worshiped were incredibly wealthy themselves.

This argument was almost immediately dismissed because celebrities do so much charitable work. When I told them that musical acts and movie stars did this work for tax write offs, none would believe me.

After most of these conversations, I found myself wondering how we ever got to this point where our young adults seem to feel as if life had been unfair to them.

I brought this up in a discussion with some like minded friends and oddly enough, it was one of my more liberal friends that gave me the answer.

Dave the friend said “I blame the parents.” Now that had been a passing thought of mine from time to time, but I dismissed it because I too am a parent.

Dave went on to tell us all of his years of coaching both soccer and baseball and the parents of the children insisting that it was only fair (there is that word again) that their child, who had no talent for the game and no ability whatsoever got to play in the games too.

Dave explained that these kids didn’t play well because the only coaching they received was at an actual practice, and that the parents were too self absorbed in the foibles and drama of their own lives to actually spend any time practicing with their children.

Dave told stories of parents sitting at their kids games yammering away on their cell phones to friends, completely oblivious to the game with the exception of when they would finally notice that their little Bobby or Betty had not been out on the field, then all hell would break loose, because it wasn’t fair that their child didn’t get to play.

The discussion then turned to the word “fair” and why we instilled this belief into our children in the first place. After all life isn’t fair.

Dave went on to say that in many instances it was hard to tell who was the parent and who was the child, because the kids are telling their parents how things are going to be. Amazing.

We are all born with a survival instinct that dictates our behavior. If left to our own devices in a place without modern conveniences, we would hunt, gather wood and do whatever else necessary to survive.

But in America today, our kids are starving if there are no Frosted Flakes in the house, even though there is bread, milk, eggs and everything else to make a good breakfast.

If our kids don’t have the latest and greatest video games, their lives are seemingly over. If they don’t have an I-Phone 5, well lets just say that as parents we are not upholding our end of the deal of completely overindulging out children.

This has been going on for generations now. Kids who have been pre-programmed by their own parents to believe that everything in life should be fair and equitable, and that they simply deserve everything they want just because they are our children or because little Bobby and Betty have them, or because Bobby gets to stay out until 1 am so its only fair that I can stay out too . . . The list goes on and on.

Now these selfish little monsters that we have created are old enough to vote, and that’s exactly what they did. And in the ultimate act of selfishness, they voted for Obama.

After all it was Obama and the democrats that were telling us all that it wasn’t fair that the rich were not paying their “fair” (there is that word again) share of taxes to benefit the poor and starving college students and XBOX players of the nation.

We parents sit and read the news of How Obama won the election when we are part of the very reason he won the election, because its the selfishness that we have raised our children with that has created this mess in the first place. JD