Posted on 08/29/2021 4:22:48 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Why did an alarming percentage of the Millennial generation embrace socialism? Here's why.
If you're over 50, you might remember occasionally seeing small children throw temper tantrums in public, 25 or 30 years ago, and wondering what those kids would be like when they grew up.
Well, now you know.
The problem is twofold. First, we Baby Boomers raised a generation of selfish, entitled brats. (I do not include my own children in that description, and if that seems hypocritical and self-serving — well, you don't know my kids.)
Second, in their entitled brattiness, an alarming percentage of that generation — the Millennials — has embraced socialism.
That's a disaster for this country because socialism is not just an evil ideology, although it is that — responsible, in its various iterations (including communism and fascism) for somewhere in the neighborhood of 110 million murders just in the last century or so. Nor is it merely an absurd economic system, although it is that, too, ignoring the immutable law of supply and demand as well as basic human nature.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I don’t think this generation is any different or lazier. The deck has just been changed and for whatever reason the system does not work for many young people these days.
When I grew up, my parents bought a home working normal hours as a taxi driver and waitress. And we could afford 2 cars and nice vacations. Camp upstate for the entire summer for the kids. I was able to buy my own home at 23 after 1 year at an entry level office job without a day of overtime. Today’s young people think I was dreaming when I tell them this.
Today the same lifestyle for young people is affordable mostly to the generational rich (including family connections to get certain jobs), those willing to risk their body or people with rare talents doing jobs like software engineering.
If you are an average young worker doing something that isn’t likely to break your back by 45, you are barely staying afloat these days. They see billionaires getting richer and all costs rising while salaries remain stagnant.
Revolution and collapse is 100% inevitable if enough working people can’t afford a home and food by playing by the rules
I do not know anyone in that age group. Not in my circle. They were the group between my parents and I.
“””If you’re over 50, you might remember occasionally seeing small children throw temper tantrums in public”””
Even worse, I have seen 20 year old children of the boomer generation throw temper tantrums in public.
Baby boomers were born between 1946 and 1964. That is almost two decades... I am one of the first boomers and my kids are 54, 47 and 44 years old. These boomer’s babies are not socialists or millennials. One a was in the national guard, one was in the Navy and later sheriff deputy and one ignores all this stuff and lives on a lake and enjoys life.
Point is these boomer’s children were raised right but one should not compare 1946 boomers with 1964 boomers and their children. Totally different animals.
Thats because as a general group, You Boomers were the most selfish and spoiled generation ever born in this country.
You screwed everything that moved
You told your parents to eff off
You told authority to eff off, they were all tyrants
You were the abortion generation destroying your own kids
You normalized gays and lesbians and other perversions at a societal level
Now the ones of you in power are the tyrants demanding total obedience and control over peoples bodies
It’s that picture that went around the internet of the girl sitting in an airport.
MacBook, drinking Starbucks. With a Crush Capitalism sticker on her laptop.
Absolutely everything about her being was a direct result of capitalism but she’s too stupid to know it.
It really comes down to one thing. Millennials are risk averse. They were raised by helicopter parents and a society that forced helmets, knee pads, etc, just to ride a bicycle. Skinned knees, broken arms and sprained ankles attained by living an adventurous childhood would have done them all a ton of good.
As conservatives, we have to constantly examine and reexamine our principles and stances because we are called on far more often to defend them.
Plus, most conservatives generally want to be consistent in their views. So, we have a degree of introspection that Leftists don’t have.
However, when I see someone like that girl (and thousands more who DON’T become an Internet meme) it makes me far more confident that I am on the right track.
And, of course, the article doesn’t mention the early-stage Boomers, who created the slacker GenX (to which I belong), by letting them fend for themselves. It was like the Millennials were their attempt to “make up” for their first, failed science experiment in absentee non-parenting that created the GenX latchkeys, by raising the newer, “better” crop of snowflakes in bubble wrap with oodles of participation trophies and ribbons, and self-confidence oozing out of every pore...
The only thing I thank G-d for was that I was lucky enough to have all four of my Greatest Generation grandparents still alive up through my early twenties, and they quite often took up some of the slack, when it came to things like useful, helpful life advice, and instilling things such as healthy work ethics, and often far more conservative worldviews than our boomer parents, who were still in the midst of their thirty year party.
Baby boomers had abortion and birth control. They had brothers and sisters too. Their kids did not have brothers and sisters. I have observed that people with one or two kids are highly protective of that one or two kids. If they had nine they would say don’t you have the school calling me or I’ll whup your ass but if they have one or two they tell the kids to call if they have trouble with the school. The other thing was taking away corporal punishment. If you spank your kid the school calls CPS. If you don’t spank the kid they say you are responsible for the child’s behavior. Finally we now have people who have no children taking over control of children from their parents.
My youngest brother, when he was about 3 or 4, threw a few temper tantrums before we moved into a rental house waiting for our new house to be finished. (My parents ignored them.)
The rental was on a cement slab. Threw his head back once, hit that slab, problem solved!
“They have loads of knowledge.“
Don’t bet on it.
You should explain to them about inflation due to government handouts that inflate the money supply but are provided without a concomitant effort at producing something.
Point them to an early 40-50s Econ 101 text. Or Walter Williams or Thomas Sowell.
The millinialss I know don’t fit any of those descriptions
They are caring and selfless almost to a fault
Those are the horses and docs and cans that are giving of themselves to help others. They are our troops sacrificing all for an idiot in chief
Absolutely
I tried to find the article. One written by a woman who was some type of businesswoman, consultant or something. She documented being at an office somewhere. A young female employee was having a meltdown. At some long the employee called her mother and was falling apart because her boss proofed something she had written and there was/were a word/words misspelled.
So many like her.
Aristotle said kids should e studying Euclid and not politics. I can see what he meant.
And who raised the boomers?
My youngest son is 50. He was one of those throwing the tantrums at the store, and every restaurant we ate at.
I think it’s mostly exportation of American jobs and foreigners making housing more of a speculators market.
Jobs that once employed entire cities were sent to places like China/India. Now on to Africa since even cheaper. Even office jobs are being exported now since foreigners learned English to meet this demand. You might hire a prestigious advertising company in NY that is behind the scenes mostly hiring contractors in Africa. And hiring fewer talented Americans as a result.
They exist but few people actually want to live at the bottom as a welfare rat. If there is a clear incentive, most people will work to live better.
American workers have been sold out to 3rd world slave states whenever it was even slightly profitable. Something must be done to reverse this
This is my experience too.
I was a latchkey GenX’er in the 80s and was totally thrown to the wolves!
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