Best 2 minute read of the day
Written by a 26 year old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who’s in grad school for her MBA.
AOC AND THE BLIND GENERATION
My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us!
I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around.
I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it.
Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought.
We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!! Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ??
Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow.
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, “An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.”
“NEVER SAW AMERICAN PROSPERITY!” Let that sink in!
When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I’ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided.
My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I digress.
Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country.
People around the world are destitute and truly impoverished.
Yet, we have a young generation convinced they’ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism.
Why? The answer is this…My generation has ONLY seen prosperity. WE HAVE NO CONTRAST!
We didn’t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War Nor did WE see the rise and fall of socialism and communism.
We don’t know what it’s like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem; WE HAVE AN ENTITLEMENT PROBLEM, an UNGRATEFULNESS problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.“
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WTF? Drove all the way here for a damn free glass of OJ. Might as well head home
Please, please, please, PLEASE happen!
Remember this picture when you take more than you need.
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CONDOLENCES: Rabbi Romi Cohn, 92-year-old Holocaust survivor and rescuer, passed away yesterday from the #coronavirus. Romi was born on March 10, 1929 in Pressburg (now Bratislava), Czechoslovakia. When the Germans began deporting Jews from Slovakia in 1942, Romi’s parents had him smuggled to Hungary, which had not yet been occupied by the Nazis. He settled in a small town and attended a local yeshiva until 1944 when the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews began. Romi managed to make his way back to Czechoslovakia where he acquired false Christian papers and made contact with the underground resistance. He then used his connections to find housing and fake papers for 56 Jewish families. Romi was eventually arrested by the Gestapo and, after a daring escape, decided to join the partisans hiding in the mountains. In order to reach the mountains, he forged a German military travel order and convinced the officers that he was a German spy. Romi spent six months capturing, interrogating, and executing SS officers with his partisan brigade. After the war, he returned home to be reunited with his father and two of his sisters. His mother and four of his siblings were murdered. Romi left Eastern Europe in 1950, first living in Canada and then settling in Brooklyn where he met his wife Malvine. The couple moved to Staten Island in 1961 where Romi served as a prominent Rabbi and mohel. Less than two months before his death, Rabbi Cohn delivered the opening prayer in the U.S. House of Representatives for the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. He was a beloved teacher, leader, and hero who risked his life to rescue fellow Jews during the Holocaust.
May his memory forever be a blessing, BDE Source: American Society for Yad Vashem — at Staten Island, New York.
Humans of Judaism
This clown should have been in jail decades ago.
Democrats don’t go to jail! They get elected by lowlifes on social programs that are almost depleted!
Reposting so I don't lose this
i told ya we’ve canceled discourse n we’ve moved on to homesteading skills