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."
The NAACP's Charlotte-Mecklenburg Branch put out an extremely racist statement saying it would be "seriously disturbing" for a White person to be made interim Mayor of Charlotte.
"White folks are either tone deaf or worse.... self-centered!"
NAACP are the real racists.
AOC on the new Tennessee Congressional map which would eliminate the last Democrat seat:
“States like Tennessee want to wipe out every Black Representative”
The current Democrat Rep is a White guy and his Republican opponent is a Black woman.
Can’t make this up
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This is the “innocent, harmless, peaceful, kind” nurse the Democrats were crying about
The entire left-wing narrative just came crashing down.
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California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Each almond requires 3.2 gallons of actual irrigation water to grow. Not rainfall. Actual tap water pumped from aquifers.
One gallon of almond milk requires 162 gallons of irrigation water. Compare that to dairy milk at 8 gallons of tap water per gallon, with the rest being rainfall that falls on pasture anyway.
But here's where it gets properly grim. Almonds bloom for exactly three weeks in February. During those three weeks, California needs every pollinating bee in North America transported to the Central Valley or the crop fails entirely.
Commercial beekeepers truck in 31 billion honeybees. That's two-thirds of America's entire managed bee population, all concentrated in one valley for three weeks. The bees are packed into trucks, driven across the country, dumped into almond groves drenched in pesticides, worked to exhaustion, then packed up and shipped to the next crop.
The mortality rate is catastrophic. Beekeepers report losing 30 to 50% of their hives annually. That's billions of bees dead. Not from natural causes. From being used as disposable pollination machines for your almond milk.
The pesticides don't help. Almond groves are sprayed with neonicotinoids which scramble bee navigation systems, fungicides which weaken their immune systems, and herbicides which eliminate the wildflowers they'd normally forage on between almond blooms.
Meanwhile the aquifer depletion is permanent. The Central Valley has sunk 28 feet in some areas from groundwater extraction. That water took 10,000 years to accumulate. It's being drained in decades for almond milk.
Your vegan latte killed more bees and used more water than a year's worth of dairy milk. But it's got "plant-based" on the label so you're definitely saving the planet.
🚨 BREAKING: The Chief of Chicago Police is being praised nationwide for the moment he STOOD WITH ICE instead of the Left
"Let me make this CLEAR! Federal agents, ICE, HSI, are officers. They are agents of law enforcement."
"If you box them in...plow a VEHICLE, you're using DEADLY FORCE. And THEY can use deadly force in response to stop YOU!"
"We need to be clear about these laws. We cannot become a society where we just decide to take everything in our own hands and start to commit crimes against law enforcement!"
"It is a crime. You may not like what they're doing. I can understand that there's a lot of emotions out there, but that does NOT mean that you get to commit a crime, especially one that could lead to deadly force."
"We need to keep everyone safe. Our responsibilities when it comes to federal agents, and I've been asked these questions, we do not interfere with the duties and responsibilities of federal agents."
This is literally just common sense.
Every single police chief should be saying this. This is DEEP BLUE CHICAGO!
This man makes an EXCELLENT point, and it’s a warning about Democrats like Zohran Mamdani
“With Nicolas Maduro falling is a good time to remind people that Venezuela became a heavily socialist country with Hugo Chávez in 1999. And a lot of people forget that when Hugo Chávez came into power, Hollywood movie stars and left-wing liberals like were just drooling over themselves about how great this was going to be, how Venezuela was going to show the world a way forward with socialism.
I mean, Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Kevin Spacey, you name it, Oliver Stone, Jesse Jackson, Jimmy Carter our old president, Susan Sarandon, just name after name was just drooling over Hugo Chávez and how great he was going to transform the world.
And yeah, he turned Venezuela into a shithole and Maduro just took what he handed him and continued that process times 10.
And so the Venezuelans even got to the point where they were eating their pets and like a third of them had to run away from their country just to find food. To put that into perspective, guys, that would be over 100 million people in America running away from America just to find something to eat. That’s how badly their country got screwed by socialism.
And all these famous people drooling over him. Does that sound familiar at all?
Does it kind of sound like Zohran Mamdani in New York? Yeah, it should, because the same thing is happening. Now, Zohran Mamdani, fortunately, doesn’t have a whole country to screw over. He just has a city, and
I’m kind of willing to let it burn because if they’re not gonna learn their lesson, they kind of get what they deserve”
"No Kings" they said.
Obama bombed Libya for 7 months without asking Congress. His lawyers called it "not hostilities" because there were no boots on the ground.
Gaddafi ended up dead in a ditch. Nobody got impeached. The media called it peacekeeping.
542 drone strikes. 3,797 people dead. Congress never voted once.
But yeah. Trump's the dictator.
They don't hate executive power. They just hate when they don't control it.