February 12, 2021 – The below post was shared through social media and it is so true.

However, before reading the opinion of this wise 26 year old, let me flash back to my twenties and tell you what I saw in America. I was eight years old with President Kennedy was elected. Honestly, I was a child in Indiana which was historically conservative so Kennedy’s presidency was not our preference. But even at the young age, I remember the impact of world events at that time. I remember warnings of communism and bombings. We had bomb raids drills in our class that we had to crawl under our small desks (like that would stop a bomb). It was well known that Cuba had missiles pointed at our country. We also were families of a new prosperity. Washing machines, black and white TVs, telephones with party-lines, and two-door cars. We still hung our clothes on the line outside. We played in the dirt in the backyard. We only had cartoons on Saturday morning. We had four channels on television. And a Sears Roebuck catalog was the closest thing we got to long-distance shopping. I miss the 1950’s. By the 1960’s, riots started in the south and on college campuses. The Kent State riot occurred the year I was slated to go away to college and being from a small town in Indiana, I struggled with trepidation about being away from home. No doubt we are in a different world and I was so excited to see the post by Alyssa……….enjoy and share.

What a great perspective and well worth the read …..This article was written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa, who’s in grad school for her MBA. “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 and 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 disagree. 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 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 and 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 prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.”

THANK YOU ALYSSA!