- 2 days ago
"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."
This girl sounds like she was well off before she ever went to college. Notice how she never mentioned whether or not she paid for school with student loans.
Not everyone is able to afford going to college and experiencing the plush lifestyle of a college student.
Sure American poverty isn't the same as poverty in India, but we do have hundreds of thousands of Americans who can't afford a place to stay or pay their bills.
ANyone who is comfortable with the economic status quo in this country to my mind is dangerous. The wealth gap in America continues to grow as the middle class shrinks.
This woman is frequent contributor on conservative sites and really has no clue about the world beyond her circle of friends.
What AOC is advocating for is Democratic socialism, (what exists in some form throughout most of the EU and the world), not Soviet era socialism. The problem is most Americans are too dumb to understand the difference.
Instead of spending hundreds of billions of our tax dollars on tax cuts for the uber rich and the military budget, AOC believes our tax dollars should be used to pay for education, healthcare and infrastructure planning to combat climate change and provide jobs.
Our military budget is going to have exceed $1 trillion a year before average Americans realize a nation that's not fighting a global world war doesn't need to waste so much money on the Pentagon.
On other sites this girl blames Democratic policies for American homelessness so I can't really take her seriously.
You know how easy it is to become homeless? Amazon just opened a massive distribution center in Arlington, VA, just outside D.C.
If you work for a local retailer in the DMV, your job is literally at risk of disappearing in a few years.
It always perplexes me when conservative affluent people try to tell the middle class and working poor to sit down and shut up because everything's fine, I mean compared to the rest of the world.
I guess that's how you groom them to tolerate their loss of wealth as the top 1% continues to take the biggest bite from our economy.
For her to say progressive politicians want to abolish capitalism says she's a mouthpiece for the GOP/Wall Street crowd who fear wealth redistribution from the Democrats.
