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."
Islamization of New York City RAGES ON under our new Muslim Mayor Zohran Mamdani, and they’re not even hiding it anymore.
First, it was taxpayer-funded Ramadan iftars at City Hall and the Museum of the City of New York.
Now?
“Eid Mubarak” street lights glowing over Harlem like it’s freaking Karachi on 125th Street.
Call to prayer blasting from minarets at dawn, waking up the entire neighborhood to submit.
Pakistani parades shutting down avenues while American flags get sidelined.
And don’t forget the Halal mandates creeping into our public schools because nothing says “public education” like forcing Islamic dietary rules on kids.
This isn’t “diversity” or “inclusion.”
This is conquest by demographics. They’re not assimilating.
We’re being replaced, block by block, holiday by holiday, street light by street light.
New Yorkers: wake the heck up before the last church becomes a mosque and the last hot dog stand serves only halal.
How much more are you willing to surrender?
They were Muslim, they shouted "Allahu Akbar," and they threw a bomb at innocent Americans.
But New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani refuses to call it terrorism. 🤡
Enjoy the next 4 years NYC!
🚨BREAKING: The NYPD just CONFIRMED that the device thrown at protesters in New York City was an actual LIVE NAIL BOMB. It miraculously failed to detonate.
This was a literal ATTEMPTED TERRORIST ATTACK right here in America, and the mainstream media is completely IGNORING it. Absolute silence.
📸 @BGOnTheScene
PAKISTÁN: Una niña de 13 años es obligada a casarse con un hombre de 40 años.
Cuando se niega e intenta huir, el novio consigue un arma para amenazarla…
Sus amigos intervienen y le dicen:
«No somos salvajes. No la mates, solo fuérzala».
¿Dónde están las feministas?
Working and service dogs have changed the lives of countless Americans. They are far more than companions — they provide protection, independence, healing, and hope.
My constituent, Special Operator Jason Morgan, understands this firsthand.
Under Sharia law, keeping dogs inside the home is considered unclean or impure. In some cases, this ideology has been used to justify neglect, abuse, and mistreatment.
Radical Islamists in America have “joked” about getting rid of dogs in places like New York City, CONVENIENTLY under Mamdani’s mayoral leadership.
Let me make one thing perfectly clear: the value of our dogs, as loyal companions and highly trained service animals, is not a joke.
America is not the Middle East. We will not be subjected to principles or ideas congruent with Sharia.
I fully support—and was proud to co-sponsor @RepFine’s Protecting Puppies from Sharia Act.
DESGARRADOR 💔: En Irak, un padre agrede brutalmente a su hija sin lástima, mientras ella grita y llora de dolor, implorando que se detenga.
Las mujeres y las niñas no están seguras bajo la Sharia.
¡Esto es demasiado bueno!
Video 1:
Mamdani durante la campaña promete "congelar el alquiler".
Video 2:
Mamdani como alcalde explica por qué es necesario subir el alquiler para cumplir con el presupuesto anual del Ayuntamiento de Nueva York.
El socialismo es solo una campaña.
RT @gilileoB
Walking your dog on your own street is not aggression. It’s not trespass. It’s not coercion. If the state intervenes purely because a nearby group might dislike it, that’s not neutrality, it’s preference enforcement.
🇩🇪"Welcome to the Islamic Republic of Germany... This is just the beginning. We will spread because we will make more children. And God willing, the whole of Germany will one day be full of mosques."
"Germany belongs to the Muslims, the Turks and the Arabs."
BREAKING: A reporter who traveled to Nigeria says he witnessed the slaughter of Christians by Islamists firsthand.
He described killing fields. Pastors burned alive. Entire villages wiped out.
And the world is barely paying attention.
Eleven years ago the world watched Islamic State militants behead twenty one Christians on a Libyan beach. The victims included twenty Coptic workers from Egypt and one from Ghana. They refused to renounce Jesus despite certain death.
Images from the February fifteenth twenty fifteen executions shocked millions worldwide. Dressed in orange jumpsuits militants marched them to the shore near Sirte. Some cried out “Jesus help me” or “Lord Jesus Christ” in final moments.
The men could have lived by converting to Islam but chose Christ instead. Their courage inspires believers facing persecution today. Christians hail them as modern martyrs of the cross.
We honor their names so bravery endures:
• Bishoy Adel Khalaf
• Samuel Alhoam Wilson
• Hany Abdel-Masih Salib
• Melad Mackeen Zaki
• Abanoub Ayad Attia
• Ezzat Bushra Nassif
• Yousef Shokry Younan
• Kirillos Shukry Fawzy
• Majed Suleiman Shehata
• Samuel Stéphanos Kamel
• Malak Ibrahim Siniot
• Bishoy Stéphanos Kamel
• Mena Fayez Aziz
• Girgis Melad Sniout
• Tawadros Youssef Tawadros
• Essam Badr Samir
• Luke Ngati
• Jaber Mounir Adly
• Malak Faraj Abram
• Sameh Salah Farouk
• Matthew Ayariga
The invading Islamist begins the conversation by complaining that Nick Shirley is making life difficult for Somalians in Minnesota.
Note that. He doesn't think the massive fraud and corruption is making life difficult for Somalians. He thinks that someone telling people about it is the problem.
He complains that Americans are less inclined to allow African Islamists to stay in the States.
After complaining that he and his ilk are not made to feel welcome, he then turns around and tells Nick Shirley to get the f*ck out of "his" neighborhood.
Notice that. An African invader and plunderer, who follows a religion which seeks world domination and a Global Caliphate in which every nation, including America, bows the knee to Islam, tells an American citizen to get out of what is ostensibly an American neighborhood.
The people who are invading you, plundering and pillaging you, and taking over your communities, cities, and institutions and filling them with violence and corruption, are brazenly telling you that YOU are the one who doesn't belong.
Let that sink in.