The Four Young Men Who May Help Carry Our Nation through These Tough Times

Let's see what Sandmann, Rittenhouse, Williams, and Bentley are up to in 20 or 30 years.  Indications are that they will be responsible, respectable men who serve and protect in some fashion.  They have defiantly gone against the zeitgest.  Let's hope they set the standard for what is "cool" in the future 

American Thinker    "Many of the young people rioting today are not committed Marxist revolutionaries.  (There are large, powerful, dark forces behind the riots; the actual rioters are just political fodder.)  Many are rioting largely because it's considered by their peers and their influencers to be the cool, popular thing to do.  In that, they are the most recent iteration of the popular American "counterculture" that began in the mid-20th century and has traveled hand in hand with left-wing politics (and has, alarmingly, gained the upper hand in the popular culture)." . . .

"Now a new set of young men is showing a new direction, a new "cool."  Although they are unfamiliar with each other and rose to national prominence in different situations, similar themes run through their actions.  They are Nick Sandmann, who coolly stood his ground and maintained his dignity when verbally accosted in person by an antagonistic protester — and again when the media tried to paint him as the aggressor; Kyle Rittenhouse, who coolly protected himself under fire against a mob of criminals hell-bent on harming him during the Kenosha riot; and Brady Williams and Jarad Bentley, two high school football players who resolutely stuck up for their principles by carrying flags representing the police and firefighters onto the field before a game on September 11, despite knowing that punishment by their school's administration awaited them.  (Certainly, other examples exist, but these four exemplify the pattern.)

"They are not part of the coastal elites, but from flyover country: Sandmann is from Kentucky, Rittenhouse from Illinois, the other two from Ohio." . . .

. . . "Contrast them with the prancing hyper-sexuality of pop, rock, and rap stars, or the uninformed mumbling of professional athletes, or the neurotic, irrational demands made by movie stars.

"Better, contrast Sandmann, Rittenhouse, Williams, and Bentley with the perpetually angry, vicious, foul-mouthed, and unhinged Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters with their often disturbing appearances and antisocial contempt for order.  Which group's members are seeking goodness?  Which of them are likely to marry and raise families and teach their children to honor the nation and the rights of others?  These are not difficult questions.