[Old Teufel Hunden]

I hate grouping whole people by their age. To me it only applies to the fact that you have common characteristics because you grew up at the same time. For instance, people my age have our whole world view shaped by the Cold War because that's when we grew up. Things like being lazy, etc.. I don't believe a group of people share because of their age.

Having said that, I think there is a commonality not just among Millennials but lots of people today that we live in terrible times. Fortunately for myself, my parents grew up during the depression which helps give me perspective. I can remember as a child listening to my grandmother tell stories of her youth in the 20's with flappers etc... However, looking back I never remember her talking much about the depression. These are people that knew hard times. We can all take a lesson from those among us who grew up during the depression or spent their youth fighting wars. We have too many things to be thankful for because we live in some of the best times ever.

[TMD]

Hard times make strong men, strong men make good times, good times make weak mean, weak men make hard times.

[1Old Pro]

“’An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity,’ she says

First step, get a job and work for a decade.

[vg0va3]

Thank you for this. I forwarded to my millennial son.

[Starboard]

millennials missed the memo and feel like they haven’t participated in American prosperity at all

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That prosperity was in part financed by $22 trillion dollars of debt. Just wait until the millenials find out they’re going to have to inherit that debat along with over $100 trillion more in unfunded liabilities.

[metmom]

Alter, who is herself a Harvard grad, the daughter of a famous journalist and TV producer and the sibling of a venture capitalist, unironically writes in a tweet: “People our age have never experienced American prosperity in our adult lives— which is why so many millennials are embracing Democratic socialism.”

They are immersed in it and don't recognize what they have.

What a bunch of ingrates.

[YouGoTexasGirl]

The older generation knew what happened when God was taken for granted or not taken at all!

My family has had similar stories. The sacrifices of my grandparents and parents have given us gifts but more so blessings of how living life in Christ here gives us a way to truth of everything- here and hereafter!

Lose God, lose everything IMHO.

[headstamp 2]

Hell, I came of age in the mid 70’s. Talk about lousy economic times especially with Mr. Peanut running things and telling us on a daily basis how horrible everything was.

We were going to freeze to death, run out of oil, starve, whole industries virtually closing down, strikes, nuclear winter, national malaise, super high inflation, decimated military.

These kids have no idea.

Today I think its more the “social justice”, PC insanity and emotionalism causing a lot of our problems. Also a huge cross section of young adults suffering from a sense of entitlement.

The sad part is no history being taught. History supplies perspective, grounds you and enables you keep it together during your own hard times.

To many today, history started when they were born. No respect is given to it.

Helicopter parenting and participation trophies.

[Red Badger]

Millennials are the result of 50 years of liberal indoctrination. To wit:

There is nothing to be happy about, the world sucks and you are miserable.......................

[ClearCase_guy]

I don’t think the article is written very clearly.

I believe the author is trying to make the point that America is very prosperous under Trump, but had also been prosperous before. We have a high standard of living. People attend expensive universities. People have wonderful electronic toys. We live in good times. But young people feel oppressed and poor and cheated of the good life that other people had. These young people do not realize how good they have it.

I think this is a decent point as far as material things go. But I think young people have truly been cheated because they don’t live in the country I grew up in. After Clinton, 9/11 and Obama, this country has been transformed into a frightened place where freedom is not valued and angry little groups of trouble-makers think they ought to control everything. Our country is in a bad spiritual place, and I feel bad for young people.

[BBQToadRibs]

Next door neighbors have 2x millennial kids. The son is a slacker pot-head. The daughter was an honor student, is in the National Guards, and in training for Med School.

Same parents, the kids are night and day.

[Alberta's Child]

In one of his books (I believe it was Slouching Towards Gomorrah, Robert Bork astutely noted that one of the biggest cultural/moral problems the U.S. increasingly faces over time is BOREDOM.

I look around me and I see a nation filled with young people who have no idea what to do with themselves and no urgency in their lives to do anything at all.

This dingbat AOC is a poster-child for this pathetic state of existence.

[thoughtomator]

The commonality among millenials is that at least half of them had their fathers removed from the home.

And that is why they are struggling. No other factor cripples future outcomes for kids the way the absence of a father does.

[grania]

I hate grouping whole people by their age

So do I. In the case of millennials, from those I've encountered, a lot of them get it that they have to figure it out and make responsible decisions now. There's no longer many if any sure paths to the future. There are those who have wonderful family lives, buy houses they can afford, don't spend on things they can't afford, and are respectful, hard working and pleasant. Then, there's the others....

[Drew68]

Baby Boomers and their "Greatest Generation" parents: Voted for Big Government socialism at every opportunity. They put in place policies that would send every blue-collar manufacturing job to China while importing an army of slave-wage foreigners for the few that remained. They oversaw the quadrupling of the cost of a college education while mandating that every job that paid over $10 an hour require a degree. They watched the cost of health care in America increase to the point that a simple broken arm could bankrupt an uninsured family and now want healthy Millennials to pay their freight in health care costs.

People love to bash Millennials. Me? I'm surprised they're not all voting for socialists! I'm going to LMAO when they gift us with socialized medicine!