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 Treat faith as outdated, the family as optional, and America as something to apologize for instead of celebrate.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 The nuclear family is obsolete.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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I used my 3 seconds to check. It did not mention the additional early years back to 1941. It said 45 to 64 which I have always thought it to be.
Because we all know that AI is a bastion of Truth and infallible.
If you trust AI like that, you are being very foolish.
At least ansel can do the math.
Ok boomer.
Started in the 60s
“Watching the celebration in d.c. on the 4th gave me hope with all the young folks there.’
Ditto. It was a beautiful thing.
“Bernie is of the Silent generation”
If only he’d takt that “silent” part to heart. 😉
I’ve heard that, consistent with the rebellion of the current kids, they’re consuming much MUCH less alcohol than their parents did/do, and are less sexually promiscuous. Also a good thing.
Especially when the math is 1941, which is when Bernie was born.
Of course people consume less alcohol, they can’t go to parties, they can’t go to bars and nightclubs, and they can’t have cocktail parties and dinners with several bottles of social lubricating wine and after dinner drinks, even weekend bbqs are inhibited.
I watched the left pass their draconian alcohol driving laws and crush American socialization and social mixing, so many human connections missed and made less frequent and more difficult, it easier to sit at home now and text someone rather than meet for ice-breaking drinks and laughter, maybe a dance and some deep conversations.
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