January 16, 2024
Many of us who have been around for a while are somewhat befuddled by the attitude some in the younger generations have about their country. An article credited to a 26-yearold female college graduate student addresses this situation. The article is titled, “My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!”
The article was written within the last few years, and the author is listed as Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA.
Not far into the article she wrote that the infamous “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.”
Her reaction was, “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.”
She noted that people in the coffee shop where she was working at the time were talking among themselves, ordering food and being served rather quickly, working on their laptops, and watching cars go by. They can and probably have ordered something from an online retailer very easily, and had it at their door in a day or two. Her peers were enjoying what they had chosen to do at that time, but did not appreciate the things that made that enjoyable. They took them for granted.
That is when she realized that we are fortunate to live in the “most privileged time in the most prosperous nation.” But she noted that so many people are clueless about that.
Our freedoms, our many features in life, like the many modern objects at our disposal, are not considered as special among many of our young people. And she cited some headlines of presidential candidates who are campaigning on policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism.
“We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty-One Times!!!” She added that few Americans are truly poor by global standards.
We simply do not appreciate how good we have it and are ungrateful for all that we have. She attributes much of this to the rising popularity of socialistic thinking among her generation.
“My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity,” she said. “I know this first hand, I went to college.” She sees things a bit differently than her peers, as she grew up with a much different understanding of her country.
She believes that her generation has truly seen prosperity, but they have only experienced prosperity. They have no direct memories, or even second-hand stories of the great depression or the two world wars, or the wars in Korea or Vietnam. They have not experienced the tragedies of communism and socialism.
And somehow, many of the young Americans were not taught — or did not learn — the true history of America.
While America has many blessings and freedoms, that does not mean that everything is perfect. Far from it. We are a very politically divided nation. We are currently fighting high inflation, ridiculous numbers of illegal aliens coming into the country at will, and we have a political party that leans far to the left that wants to fundamentally transform our government structure from its current one-of-a-kind design that has put the U.S. at the top among the world’s nations to another system that has never achieved anything near to what America has.
Having always had the internet, their own cars, smartphones, laptop computers and so many other wonderful things that they take for granted, they are entitled, but have no idea that they are. They do not understand the comparatively good life that exists today.
Many of them expect to be paid a good wage just because they have a job, without regard to their particular background, the value of the job they have, and their level of performance. Merit is not a factor to many of them; diversity, equity and inclusion rule.
Our military is suffering from failure to attract enough young people into the services. Many of these young people are unable to pass the requirements to join the military, while others are not inclined to join.
This is a very serious problem, as we are in a time where our adversaries are testing our resolve, such as the Iranian proxy Hezbollah pushing the limits of our patience with attacks on our bases in the mid-east. We must have a military that can address such things and conquer them. And we must have an administration that is not afraid to use it.
Many of the younger generations are poorly prepared to succeed in their country, and do not understand its design, its nearly 250 years of great success, and the degree of personal freedom designed into it.
This is serious problem.
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