Fw: The Blind Generation....

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From: Jim Solomon
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2019 11:08 AM
Subject: Fwd: The Blind Generation....

This article was written by a college student. Her name is Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in
grad school for her MBA. It's a short article but definitely worth a read.
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us! B-L-I-N-D!
I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about.
I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic
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. Democratic 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, elect politicians
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 Great Recession as adults, didn't live through two
world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or see the rise and fall of socialism and
communism. We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, color tv,
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." We all need to send
this message to everyone we know as we all know that the biased media would never go public
with this. Just take a few seconds of your time and forward it.