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Why Are So Many Young People Unhappy? Part 2
Townhall.com ^ | January 28, 2020 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 01/28/2020 4:03:51 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 01/28/2020 4:03:51 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

They’re liberals.


2 posted on 01/28/2020 4:06:39 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Destruction. When we use that word it is in association with an “economic positive”. Creative destruction. “I’m going to destroy the competition with this better product!”

The libtards think Marxism is a better product they can market if they just destroy the USA. Big difference but the same word.


3 posted on 01/28/2020 4:16:39 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Kaslin

Dennis Prager is a tradcon blowhard. He knows nothing about young people. Maybe young people today are unhappy because they have been conned into getting themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars into student loan debt with virtually no chance of ever making an income that will allow them to get out from under.


4 posted on 01/28/2020 4:24:03 AM PST by southern rock
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“...the left has told them that God and Judeo-Christian religions are nonsense; their country is largely evil; their past is deplorable; and their future is hopeless.”

And...queer is normal, Earth will be destroyed soon, women can be men, a blue ribbon means you showed up, males are toxic, whites are deplorable, abortion is good, meat eaters are deplorable, wanton fornication is fine just wear rubbers, God is dead.


5 posted on 01/28/2020 4:26:30 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: southern rock

Dead on right, they think they can walk in and must be GIVEN a $150k job just for showing up.


6 posted on 01/28/2020 4:31:51 AM PST by Ponyexpress9790
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“...conned into getting themselves hundreds of thousands of dollars into student loan debt with virtually no chance of ever making an income that will allow them to get out from under.”

But it got them away from home to party with their peers for years, expecting (based upon what?) to strike it rich after graduation.

What percentage were given the suggestion to stay home & do community college or trade school, but just had to go to university?

Last: Conned by who — parents, or public school staff?


7 posted on 01/28/2020 4:33:36 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: grey_whiskers

They have been misled on what it takes to be successful, free and happy in life. So much for Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.


8 posted on 01/28/2020 4:35:12 AM PST by CatOwner
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Dead on right, they think they can walk in and must be GIVEN a $150k job just for showing up.

Considering the amount of money and time they spent on higher education, that really shouldn’t be an unrealistic expectation. The problem is it’s not going to happen. Employers do not offer pay for one income households with families anymore. Employers want people with bachelors degrees and Masters degrees but want to offer pay for ditch diggers, hours and work expectation for robots, and no benefits at all.

9 posted on 01/28/2020 4:42:03 AM PST by southern rock
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To: Kaslin

The bottom line: Godlessness.

No belief in, therefore no hope of, life after death or Heaven.


10 posted on 01/28/2020 4:43:57 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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Conned by who — parents, or public school staff?

All of the above. Society. Young people today grew up in a society we’re going to college wasn’t really questioned. Parents pushed it, high schools pushed it, corporations and employers pushed it. Young people were told your whole life they will never get a job unless they go to college.

11 posted on 01/28/2020 4:43:57 AM PST by southern rock
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To: Kaslin

Because they are being raised in a bubble of over protection to become oversensitive crybabies.


12 posted on 01/28/2020 4:49:09 AM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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They are Democrats?


13 posted on 01/28/2020 4:49:14 AM PST by Tuketu (The i(D)iot Platform is splinters bound by crazy glue. TRUMP is the solvent.)
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To: southern rock

IMO it was pushed primarily and originally by the education community, from universities (that hoped to grow) down to high schools.

Since so many were then getting degrees, it became easy for businesses to require it, and as more with degrees got into business admin, they turned their noses up at the un-degreed (no un-degreed commoner can possibly do what I do).

My 2 cents.


14 posted on 01/28/2020 4:50:31 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: grey_whiskers

Short and simple, their parents and teachers GAVE them everything and they never had to earn much. HAPPINESS is EARNED thru hardship, hard work, and suffering. Miss any one of those 3 and you will never be happy.


15 posted on 01/28/2020 4:58:35 AM PST by Ikeon (“Human genius has its limits, but stupidity does not.”)
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To: Ponyexpress9790

“Dead on right, they think they can walk in and must be GIVEN a $150k job just for showing up.”

That’s not right. We had one that took much less but wanted to play online games all day.


16 posted on 01/28/2020 5:06:48 AM PST by dljordan
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To: Kaslin

Because many of them are godless idiots who think they’re hot s**** and everything wrong in their life is somebody else’s fault. As a result, they can’t cope with even minor struggles.


17 posted on 01/28/2020 5:10:48 AM PST by Stravinsky
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Not all kids are feeling hopeless. Thank God.


18 posted on 01/28/2020 5:16:40 AM PST by HighSierra5
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As the great foreign observer of early American life Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in 1831, Americans' unique strength derived largely from their participation in innumerable nongovernmental associations -- professional, social, civil, political, artistic, philanthropic and, of course, religious.

What he actually said: “I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers-- and it was not there... in her fertile fields and boundless forests-- and it was not there... in her rich mines and her vast world commerce-- and it was not there... in her democratic Congress and matchless Constitution-- and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

Alexis de Tocqueville, author of Democracy in America, a book which was assigned to the entire Republican freshman class of the 104th congress.

19 posted on 01/28/2020 5:28:26 AM PST by LouAvul
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To: grey_whiskers

“They’re liberals.”

Yup, and they have been told they were “special” since they were born.

It sucks for them to find out they aren’t special at all.


20 posted on 01/28/2020 5:28:36 AM PST by READINABLUESTATE
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