Posted on 07/12/2026 3:37:19 PM PDT by Libloather
For years, my classmates and I have been taught that rebellion means rejecting everything that came before us.
Question authority. Tear down institutions. Challenge traditions. Distrust capitalism. Mock patriotism. Treat faith as outdated, the family as optional, and America as something to apologize for instead of celebrate.
That script isn’t rebellious anymore. It is predictable, conformist, and boring.
Walk onto almost any college campus, scroll through social media, or turn on Hollywood, and you’ll hear the same message repeated in different forms. America is systemically broken. Capitalism is exploitative. Christianity is oppressive. The nuclear family is obsolete. National pride is dangerous.
These opinions have gone from punk rock to establishment. The truly rebellious act in 2026 is refusing to believe them.
Young people are expected to inherit cynicism instead of gratitude and outrage instead of optimism. We have been taught to view the greatest country in human history through a lens of guilt. I reject that.
America isn’t perfect. No nation ever has been. But if you were born in America, you won the lottery of life. It remains a nation where ordinary people are given the greatest opportunity to do extraordinary things through hard work and determination. Here, the freedom to chase opportunity is unparalleled.
That’s why millions of people still build rafts out of garbage to come here. It’s why the people who spend the most time condemning America almost never choose to leave it.
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Watching the celebration in d.c. on the 4th gave me hope with all the young folks there.
Bottom line from the article:
“ Patriotism is the new counterculture. Because in a culture that profits from convincing young people to hate their country, loving America has become the ultimate act of rebellion.”
Brilyn Hollyhand, age 20 (author of the article)
Good to hear.
I minority of young people are conservative and that is great. But way too many are Socialist. We need to get back to a constituency for simply leaving everyone alone. That used to be a powerful force in American politics.
The message started at Universities back in the early 90’s.
A conservative professor told me “You won’t believe what is being taught now”.
They refused to give her tenure and was forced to resign.
She never taught again after many years of hard work to get her PhD.
MAGA is today’s counter culture.
Only losers and failures want to listen to old boomers like Bernie. AOC couldn’t get a real job after her massively expensive university. Mamdani is a nepo baby who never had a job. These people are all lazy and dumb. Their “movement” is doomed to fail.
Bernie Sanders isn’t a boomer.
If you can convince Socialists that after the revolution, they will be the first ones put up against a wall and shot, they might have second thoughts. But probably not.
Why are you too obtuse to just ask AI before you act like a pedant... Took me 3 seconds to search this. Bell end.
Yes—Bernie Sanders is a Baby Boomer.
Why he’s classified as a Boomer
Bernie Sanders was born on September 8, 1941 �. The Baby Boomer generation in the U.S. is officially defined by the Census Bureau as people born from 1946 to 1964, but in common usage and cultural discourse it’s often stretched to include the “early boomer” or “transition” years right after World War II, roughly 1943–1945 �. Because 1941 is just before the official start, some strict definitions would put him in the “Silent Generation” (1928–1945).
That is ridiculous, boomers are the generation of 1946 through 1964, Bernie is of the Silent generation, 1928-1945.
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