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."
A White female doctor in Georgia was strangled, se*ually assaulted, then had her THROAT SLIT by a Black man with 40+ PREVIOUS CHARGES.
ZERO coverage from:
-NYT
-CNN
-WaPo
-MSNBC
-NPR
-Reuters
-Axios
-ABC
-PBS
EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. COVERED. GEORGE. FLOYD.
DO YOU GET IT YET?!!!
A CRAZED, HOMELESS BLACK MAN RANDOMLY ST*BBED A WOMAN TO DE*TH ON A TRAIN IN BROAD DAYLIGHT IN ATLANTA...
...AND NOT A SINGLE MAINSTREAM MEDIA OUTLET HAS SAID A WORD ABOUT IT!!!!
EXACTLY LIKE IRYNA ZARUTSKA.
WHERE IS THE MEDIA COVERAGE?!!!!!!!!!!
1% control the world.
4% are puppets.
90% are asleep.
5% know what is going on and are trying to wake up the 90%.
The 1% don't want the 5% waking up the 90%.
🚨BREAKING: Hennepin County DA Mary Moriarty just let a Somali national walk on probation after he was accused of raping a 15-year-old and multiple women.
Reduced serious sexual assault charges to a slap-on-the-wrist 5th degree plea — zero extra prison time.
Then the feds had to step in and charge him with kidnapping and raping ANOTHER woman.
This is what "progressive" justice looks like under soft-on-crime DAs. American girls aren’t safe while these policies continue.
🚨 EXTREMELY ALARMING: John Kerry at the WEF just said the quiet part out loud:
"Our First Amendment stands as a major block to the ability to hammer "disinformation" out of existence...
We need to win the right to govern so we’re free to implement change."
They don’t want to debate ideas.
They want to delete them.
The elite’s war on free speech is now on full display.
RETWEET if you still believe the 1st Amendment
is NON-NEGOTIABLE.
Let me know what you think,
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