I’ve been saying for a long time that older Conservatives need to have empathy for younger people. But I (mostly) don’t see empathy. It’s all “You spend too much on coffee” and “You’re just lazy” and “When I was your age ...”
This is just NOT a good time to be young. Obama and Biden screwed this place up with expensive healthcare, high inflation, tons of illegal immigration, and other bad “fundamental transformations”.
But if Conservatives are incapable have having empathy for the young, then the young are likely to go full socialist. “Hey, maybe the DSA will care about me ...”
Thank you! I thought I was alone in seeing this.
The requirements for jobs these days are absolutely insane and no training is provided.
I’ve been looking for a job for 8 months and nothing. 38 years of scientific research experience and 50 years total of work experience.
But even that’s not enough experience.
Entry level jobs require 3-5 years of experience.
There was even a kid on Twitter/X who graduated with a chemical engineering degree who couldn’t find a job anywhere so he went back to apply for a job at Walmart where he worked during high school.
They wouldn’t hire him for lack of experience even though he worked for 2.5 years at that very store just four years earlier.
My 25-year old son fits this to a T.
I am about to turn 60 and have only been unemployed for one month since 1986. I have worked side hustles plus a full-time job for over 25 years but due to a combination of bad choices, a divorce, and not wanting to move out of my home town, I am grinding and living paycheck to paycheck with less than 6 figures put away that is offset by a mortgage and other debt. His mother (my ex) is also in a similar situation.
My son supports the DSA and frames it as sympathy for me and his mother. “You guys have slaved away your entire lives at jobs you can’t stand in a capitalistic system where almost all of the benefits go to the 1%, there’s a better way, you deserve a better system.”
I will not deny that the state of the economy is the central issue (especially as it impacts the outlook for the future of our younger citizens). “It’s the economy, stupid” has never been more apt.
But there is a battle over truth vs. lies that transcends everything - and President Trump has been fighting it - mostly alone - on so many fronts.
He makes mistakes, but he has really come through for us - risking everything to call out the lies and speaking the plain truth - every rich and powerful would-be tyrant - ever would-be evil empire - every corrupt institution - they all want him dead.
But when he calls out the fake news and deadbeat allies and lying politicians - he is trying to teach us (especially young men) how to tell truth from lies - how to bravely call out the liars.
As bleak as the outlook is for young men, I have to believe that some of President Trump’s message is getting through to them.
The only hope for fixing any of our problems is for young men to learn to recognize the blatant lies they are being told - and to be outraged by it - not to the point of violence - but to the point of championing the truth and fighting back the way POTUS does.
Pick any of the big lies:
“Trans women” are women”
“Securing elections is racist”
“Crossing our borders illegally is not a crime”
“Economic growth is destroying the planet”
“Federal spending is necessary and can’t be cut back”
The list is endless but it is so obvious they are lies and need to be rejected out of hand.
Liars need to be crushed and it was always the job of young men to do that - we have to turn our young men into fighters.