This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve..👍🏽
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential 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. 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, we elect some politicians who are 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 live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.
We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, 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."
NEW: Known s*x offender found naked in bed with a bottle of lotion on top of a screaming 9-year-old boy after breaking into the home.
Lavern Scott, also known as "Cookie Monster," has been a known s*x offender for 40 years, but was still allowed to roam the streets.
According to Omaha, Nebraska, police, Scott was found with no clothes on in the child's bed.
Scott, according to police, "pinned the child to the bed and set his legs in, using his feet as hooks to hold the child in place."
The boy's grandfather rushed into the room and was able to get the man out of the home.
Scott was first convicted of first-degree SA in 1987 and then again in 1999. He was convicted for violating the s*x offender registry in 2017, 2018, 2022, and 2024.
Every person responsible for keeping this man out of prison should also be thrown in prison.
Leftists have tried to kill the president three times now. They killed Charlie. They've shot up churches and Christian schools and rioted in the streets. They are the party of terrorism. Political violence comes from one side. How much longer will we allow these people to wage war on the country?
He was a felon who couldn’t legally own a gun. It’s almost as if criminals don’t care about gun laws…
You know what would have prevented this? Keeping him in prison for his previous crimes. But soft-on-crime retards like yourself want to release criminals onto our streets.
Today is Good Friday.
Thank you, Jesus for your amazing and unthinkable sacrifice. You died so that we would have life, and life in abundance.
“It was nine in the morning when they crucified him. The written notice of the charge against him read: the king of the jews … With a loud cry, Jesus breathed his last. The curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. And when the centurion, who stood there in front of Jesus, saw how he died, he said, ‘Surely this man was the Son of God!’”
Mark 15
Tomorrow, we launch.
At sunset tonight, Artemis II waits on the pad, ready to carry astronauts potentially farther than any humans have traveled in more than half a century.
The next era of exploration begins.
🚨 HOLY CRAP! Karoline Leavitt just EVISCERATED the fake news to their FACES, holding up a diagram of how they don't care about an illegal alien m*rdering Sheridan Gorman
"I think her life was worth more than 23 SECONDS on cable television!"
"I think the people in THIS ROOM have a responsibility to report on cases like this because it just exemplifies why the president believes so strongly in deporting illegal aliens."
"You have ABC News has spent one minute and 19 seconds between two days when this case was first alerted. You have CBS, two minutes and one second."
"You have NBC, 23 seconds spent on the life of a young, beautiful American woman whose life was taken short by an illegal alien who should have never been here in the first place."
Enemy of the people!
The fact that calling a terrorist attack a “terrorist attack” has become controversial in the US tells you how far we have fallen
This isn’t a right or left issue, it’s a literal terrorist attack where bombs were thrown by 2 ISIS inspired Islamist men
Say it for what it is.
85% of white people want photo ID to vote.
82% of Latino people want photo ID to vote.
76% of black people want photo ID to vote.
How come virtually 0% of House and Senate Democrats want photo ID to vote? 🤔
Watching Democrats refuse to stand for Iryna Zarutska’s parents, who were seated 15 feet away from me…
May have been the single most radicalizing moment of my life.
I could not believe it.
I still can’t.
I cannot wrap my head around it.