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FEBRUARY 2020 Blues Vol 36 No 2

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FEBRUARY 2020 Blues Vol 36 No 2

My Generation Is Blind

My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us! I can be heard saying this often. “God only knows what going to happen when today’s young generation (18-30) are running this country and its businesses.” Then I came across this article written by a 26 year old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who’s in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspective. EDITOR 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 our country. People around the world 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 or we didn’t 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 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, Comments from Facebook seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live “Outstanding comeback from a in the most privileged time in much simpler time” the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind “Always Great! Highly recommended.” to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom “This publication has been a Law we choose. These things are so Enforcement staple for decades. ingrained in our American way I highly recommend subscribing of life we don’t give them a second and the best part is, it’s FREE.” thought. We are so well off here in “Great articles, good advertisers,” the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above “I enjoy the things brought up the global average. Thirty-One that reminds me of my early THP Times!!! people who are dying to get into days.” 10 The BLUES POLICE MAGAZINE The BLUES POLICE MAGAZINE 11

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