Posted on 07/14/2014 7:09:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
“Here’s your drink, darling,” the bartender said with a smile. He seemed upbeat as he made drinks and greeted customers. “Do you like your job?” I asked him. “I hate it,” he confessed. “Honestly, I hate my job.”
I keep running into young people who put on a show of being happy with their lives but, when probed a bit, quickly concede that their smiles mask trials. A few days ago, I met a young woman who told me she works as a hairdresser at two different salons while seeking work in her desired field. The next day, I met a young man who volunteers and bartends while searching for full-time work that utilizes his college degree.
Millennials are the most highly educated generation in American history. We have more diplomas and more student loan debt than our parents and grandparents did at our age. Over a third of Millennials (a 40-year-high) are living at home with their parents as they struggle to find jobs and pay off their student loan debt. It’s crucial that Millennials hear the truth about socialism so they can dig themselves out of this mess and move on with their lives.
Educating Millennials on Socialism vs. Capitalism
Reason-Rupe released the results of a survey last week showing that 64 percent of Millennials favor “a free market over a government-managed economy.” Sounds like great news, right?
Not so fast. Millennials need more education. When you dig deeper into the Reason-Rupe survey it becomes crystal clear that Millennials are still very confused about the benefits of a free market system and struggle to differentiate between capitalism and socialism. Despite the 64 percent figure, only 52 percent of Millennials told pollsters that they favor capitalism whereas 42 percent favored socialism.
As you can see, despite saying they embrace free markets, many Millennials don’t understand that socialistic policies are responsible for the Great Recession and millions of young people conflate socialism with freedom.
This is why, according to a 2014 Harvard poll, a slim majority of the Millennials who do plan to vote in the 2016 presidential election say they will vote for Hillary Clinton. One the one hand we have millions of young voters telling pollsters that they feel duped by the current administration and they support the free markets. On the other hand, Millennials don’t realize that Hillary’s socialistic policies would dig them into deeper economic depression.
A Window of Opportunity
Independents and conservatives have a major window of opportunity before the midterms and 2016 presidential elections to educate Millennials. In 1964, author and philosopher Ayn Rand was interviewed by Playboy Magazine and she defined socialism as a “doctrine which proposes the sacrifice of the individual to the collective.” Defined thus, socialism would repel Millennials—70 percent of whom say they aspire to become entrepreneurs according to the 2014 Millennial Survey by Deloitte.
Conservatives and independents would be wise to inform Millennials how Bill and Hillary Clinton pushed many redistributive ideas, such as government-controlled healthcare, long before Obama did. Millennials need to know that Hillary Clinton would be Barack Obama 2.0. Young people will be shocked when they see that we can trace the entire economic crash to the socialistic housing policies of Carter, Clinton, (to some degree both Bushes) and Obama—but particularly, Clinton and Obama. Millennials are too young to realize this, so I tell the little-known story—and offer alternatives—using my own background in real estate.
Please join me in helping Millennials realize the difference between socialism and capitalism—and why the former political system is responsible for the current economic downturn. Once Millennials realize this and get involved in public policy, they will move closer to moving out of their parents’ basements and finding jobs that they love.
In a free market system, the only hairdressers and bartenders will be those who aspire to work in these roles—which will mean better looking haircuts and better tasting cocktails for the rest of us.
problem is, not smiling b/c they work in these crappy jobs would puncture their online persona at facebook and all that where they have to pretend that they are all full of awesomeness, because they believe that all of their “friends” are as well.
round and round goes the merry go round....
I would hazard to say that a person working four years for a construction company out of high school obtains more useful information and problem solving skills that the vast majority of those obtaining Bachelor of Arts degrees in the same period of time.
“Millennials are the most highly educated generation in American history.”
They have been to school for the most number of years, and collected the most degrees. They have not been educated, certainly not highly.
The indoctrined millennials will go to their grave voting for Liberal Democrats because they are afraid their beloved queers are not getting enough butt sex.
They will come to all those important realizations moments before the next shiny object is placed under their noses.
Or that Christians will remind them that they are not right with God.
They are highly credentialed which means they have spent a good deal of time and money being taught. I garuantee they are highly educated in something, it just may not be what they thought they were paying for.
Highly educated?
They may have paper degrees, but they are woefully ignorant of history, economics, and anything useful. They are indoctrinated Obamabots.
Oh yes, many are "highly educated" in pseudo-disiplines that have no objective value in the real world.
You both said it for me, I will only add that in reality most of this...”most highly educated generation in American history”, could not pass the test to ENTER (don’t even mention graduating) high school as it existed in South Carolina public schools in the fifties. Only a generation so UNeducated could imagine they are the most highly educated in American history. Even fifteen minutes reading letters written by enlisted men during the civil war will reveal that many of them understood the English language far better than most recent university graduates including those who hold postgraduate degrees.
When I read lines such as, “It is and never was...”, to mention just one from an FR post, I shake my head and wonder if English is even taught in our schools now.
“Even fifteen minutes reading letters written by enlisted men during the civil war will reveal that many of them understood the English language far better than most recent university graduates including those who hold postgraduate degrees.”
You are absolutely correct. I have one of my great-great grandfather’s letters to his wife during the Civil War. His use of the language is better than most of what I see on job applications. Oh, and he’d only been speaking English for about 5 years. It’s interesting to note that he wrote to his wife in English, not German. They were Americans, not Germans anymore.
illenials be illin’.
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They know almost no history and are full of leftist propaganda
Even more troubling than their lack of factual knowledge is their inability to reason. My interactions with college aged people have been depressing. They simply cannot differentiate between fact and opinion.
I had a very lengthy exchange with a college student about a piece on economics. He said it was the last place to go if you are looking for facts. I asked him to identify a single factual error in the piece. He returned with four, long, grammatically correct paragraphs explaining why he disagreed with the piece. I asked again for a single factual error. He again replied at length, and never even attempted to identify a single factual error. Then, one of his friends chimed in to inform me that I just didn’t get it, and that the piece was wrong.
I don’t know how you fix that.
16+ years of miseducation and that is the result.
Not only are they dumb, they are resolute and righteous about it.
Socialists are experts at playing libertarian on largely irrelevant social issues, pretending that they are defenders of freedom against right-wing religious ideologues. They also successfully equate the issuance of free government money with actual freedom - a message that appeals strongly to people stuck in dead-end jobs. These unanswered verbal tricks won them California - a state full of young, libertarian-minded entrepreneurs who ought to be rejecting Socialism and the entire Democrat agenda out of hand. Now they are taking the tactics national with the "War on Women" and gay marriage.
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