We don't know who wrote this, but it clearly points out the problems with Melenials. Read it and let us know what you think.
Conservative Tom
Conservative Tom
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity
Around Us!
I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near
Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my news
feed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates
calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my
phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working
on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by
outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most
prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food,
technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so
ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought. We
are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times
above the global average. Thirty One Times. Virtually no one in the
United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time
where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our
doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful.
Our unappreciation is evident as the
popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Democratic
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about
the millennial generation, “An entire generation, which is now becoming one of
the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American
prosperity.”
Never saw American prosperity! Let that
sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite
literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in
my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely
misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative
to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand.
I went to college, let’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I
digress.
Why then, with all of the overwhelming
evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do
we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into
our country, people around the world destitute and truly impoverished.
Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as
a result, elect politicians dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.
Why? The answer is this : My generation has only seen
prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn’t live in the Great Depression, or
Great Recession as adults, didn’t live through two world wars, the Korean War,
The Vietnam War or see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don’t
know what it’s like to live without the internet, without cars, color tv,
without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an
ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague." We
all need to send this message to everyone we know as we all know that the biased
media would never go public with this. Just take a few seconds of your
time and forward it.
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