Posted on 03/19/2019 5:00:15 AM PDT by simpson96
RUSH: Now, I want to get to this Millennial survey. This comes from StudyFinds.org, and its a fairly frequent survey thats done from generation to generation. And I just want to remind you, folks and I got in a lot of trouble for this the first time I proffered this theory. You know, I was talking to somebody about the Greatest Generation, the World War II generation and what they went through and how quickly they had to grow up and the many threats to the literal existence of the United States that they had to defeat.
They had to grow up and realize at age 16 to 18 that there were things much larger than themselves. They answered the call. They had to deal with the Soviet Union claiming to bury their grandkids. They had to deal with World War II. Many of them lived through the Great Depression. They had real stress. The children of the Baby Boom generation, I think, had it relatively easy by comparison. And I spent about a half hour explaining all this, and I ended up by saying I think the Baby Boom generation and subsequent generations have had to invent their own traumas.
Myself in that generation included. Im a Baby Boomer. We had to invent our own traumas to tell ourselves that we had really tough times really, really challenging times, lots and lots of adversity that we had to overcome. But my theory is we havent had anything of the sort compared to the World War II generation, although I do think that the generations today (without knowing it) are facing similar threats as this nation faced in World War II. The difference is these threats are internal as well as external.
So given all that, I want to share with you a survey of 2,000 American Millennials.
I want to share with you the Top 20 Most Stressful Things According to Millennials. Are you ready? Number 1: Losing wallet/credit card. That is the most stressful thing, the thought of losing it. Number 2: Arguing with partner. Number 3 is traffic delays and the daily commute. Okay. So were at the top three most stressful things to Millennials. Losing the wallet, arguing with partner, and the daily commute/traffic delays. Number 4: Losing phone. Number 5 top 20 most stressful events to Millennials: Arriving late to work.
Number 6: Slow Wi-Fi. Are you kidding me? This would be like stressing out over the slow mail service in the sixties. The seventh most stressful thing to Millennials is their phone battery dying. Number 8 most stressful thing: Forgetting passwords to their devices. The ninth most stressful thing: Credit card fraud. The 10th most stressful thing to Millennials: Forgetting phone charger. Number 11: Losing/misplaying keys. Number 12 most stressful thing: Paying bills. Number 13 most stressful thing in their lives: Job interviews.
The 14th most stressful thing to Millennials: their phone screen breaking. Number 15 most stressful thing: Credit card bills. Number 16: Check engine light coming on the dashboard. Number 17th most stressful thing to Millennial: School loan payments. Number 18: Job security. Number 19: Choosing what to wear every day, and number 20: Washing dishes. Now, you want to tell me that Im wrong? I dont doubt the stress is real. But Im telling you (Snort!), by comparison and I have to be very careful here, because they think this is end-of-the-world stuff, and to them it is.
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RUSH: To Lake Charles, Louisiana. This is Suzanne. Welcome. Great to have you with us on the EIB Network. Hi.
CALLER: Thank you so much, Rush, for having me. I appreciate it. This is the second time Ive talked to you, and I love it, just listening to you every day.
RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that.
CALLER: I wanted to talk to you about a wedding that I attended last weekend of Millennials. And it was kind of depressing.
RUSH: Wait a minute. Where was it?
CALLER: It was down in south Louisiana or southeast Texas.
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: And I just want to tell you that, like I said, it was a little bit depressing. The grooms exchange of their vows were just not positive. And in his
RUSH: Wait, wait, wait. There were two grooms?
CALLER: No, no, sir. No, sir. It was a groom and a bride.
RUSH: So its a standard what we all think of as a marriage?
CALLER: Yes, sir.
RUSH: It was a man and a woman getting married?
CALLER: Yes, sir.
RUSH: All right.
CALLER: Yes, sir, it was. And it was the exchange of vows. And hes a sociology major. Hes about to graduate. And what his exchange was with his bride was just so negative, because he just said, Look, youre the only thing I have to look forward to. The world is such a negative place. And I thought of you, because it was like, you were the only thing I have to look forward to. The world is such a horrible place.
RUSH: Wait. Now, are you sure the guy wasnt just sucked up to the bride?
CALLER: No. No, sir. No, sir. And Im a Gen Xer, right? Im 48 years old. And my parents are educators. They taught me history. And they taught me that America is the best place in the world. This is the only place in the world that you can do anything
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: that you want.
RUSH: Can you give me specifics of what the groom said besides, Youre the only thing in the world worth focusing on or staying alive for? what specifically did he mention as
CALLER: He said that this is a negative world. This is a negative country. And I thought to myself, No. No. This is a great country.
RUSH: Well, wait, no, no. What was the reaction of the crowd?
CALLER: It was bland. Because it was a wedding, right?
RUSH: How many people were there?
CALLER: There were probably about a hundred people there.
RUSH: And so the groom is standing up there expressing his love for his bride and hes obsessed with how rotten things are in the country and in the world?
CALLER: Absolutely. And we were the older adults, and we kind of just looked at each other and were like, No! No! This is a great place!
RUSH: Did you know either the bride or groom?
CALLER: Yes. Im related to the groom.
RUSH: Did you talk to them afterwards and asked them why they are so pessimistic, apocalyptic, and fatalistic about their country? Why are you getting married if its this bad? Did you ask them?
CALLER: Thats exactly what I was thinking to myself when I in my Im not gonna say but I looked to my brother, and I said, Why? But hes a sociology major. And I just looked at him, and I said, Why is your son so negative to
RUSH: What did he say?
CALLER: the world?
RUSH: Were running out of time here. What did he say? Im looking for some meat here.
CALLER: But my brother and I listen to you and have listened to you so long, and he just shook his head, and he was just like, I have no idea.
RUSH: Man, oh, man. That is unbelievable. I cant imagine this well, I can because Im sure it happened. Im just its a sad thing if its really representative of what they think. And I dont doubt it at all, folks. This is the influence that theyve grown up under. I mean, climate change, the world isnt gonna be here when theyre 65. You dont know how many of them really believe that. Do not doubt me. That would cloud your thinking on a whole bunch of things. And then to get to the point of not even having kids because of it now!
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RUSH: Parsippany, New Jersey. Jeff, Im glad you waited, sir. Its great to have you. Hi.
CALLER: Hello, Rush. How are you today?
RUSH: Im okay. A little scattered, disorganized here. I hope it doesnt sound too bad, but were trying to maintain focus.
CALLER: We forgive you.
RUSH: Thank you. See, he admitted it does sound disorganized today. I knew it. Well, when you got pages sticking together, you got too many pages. At any rate, I appreciate your patience.
CALLER: Thats okay, Rush. Two things. I wanted to ask you who the two most prominent Democrats were not to come out and defend Chelsea Clinton over her anti-Semitism remarks. And while I was on hold, you went through the list of the top 20 things that stress out Millennials the most, and I expected climate change to be in like the top three. And it wasnt on the list at all. Could it be that climate change is a manufactured crisis, Rush?
RUSH: I think thats a good bet. I think thats probably totally true. By the way, this survey of Millennials was not taken by people that you would normally associate with the Drive-By Media. This survey is done, commissioned by DOKA CBD oil company.
So you might say climate change isnt on here because an oil company participated. I dont know what CBD oil company (interruption) Im sorry. What was that? Oh, oh, CBD oil is medicinal marijuana. So its a weed poll! All right. Well, this helps put it in perspective. Look, hang on there, Jeff. Dont hang up. Well be back to you here in just a second.
CALLER: Sure, Rush.
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RUSH: Back now to Jeff in Parsippany, New Jersey. So this survey commissioned by CBD oil company Endoca, reveals that one-third of millennials believe their lives are more stressful than the average persons life. Your observation that climate change is not on the list is a good observation, cause this is obviously not a poll taken by a media-driven polling company, which might present multiple choice options, as many questions do.
CALLER: Yeah. Rush, I mean, you know, Millennials are supposed to be the smartest, most sensitive and introspective group on the planet today, and
RUSH: Wait! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Who says that?
CALLER: Well, this is what were led to believe, you know, I think. You know, I You know, Ive been Ive been Im 60 years old. So, you know, my opinion just doesnt count anymore, okay? And Im bombarded by people telling me that people growing up, you know, today people in their twenties and thirties know more about everything
RUSH: All right. All right.
CALLER: today than I do.
RUSH: All right, Jeff. Hang on. Its time for a little buck-up you here. You say youre 60 and your opinion doesnt count anymore?
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: All right. When you were 30, when you were the age of todays Millennials, share with me your attitude. Did you think people 60 and 65 didnt know diddly-squat, that you had all the answers, that you knew everything?
CALLER: I gotta honest to you, Rush: 30 years ago, I was listening to you, and I was 30, and I got along really well with people much older than me. You know, my fathers generation.
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: And, you know, so
RUSH: Well, theres a reason I ask. Theres a reason I ask. Ill use myself in this equation for part of it. When I was Millennial aged, 30/35 when I was 25 I vowed that I was not gonna become an old fuddy-duddy when I was older. Not that I was gonna be forever young, but that I was going to always know what young people were up to and what they were hip to, and I was gonna try to stay current with the music they liked. My parents liked Big Band, World War II, Sinatra stuff when I was a kid. I thought that just and they thought the Beatles were the ruination of society cause of the long hair.
Now Im 68, and I understand. Part of aging, when you get to be 60/65, and you consume Remember, the media is put together by people 35 to 40, 45. So everything is gonna be about them, and if you watch it in an incorrect way, you can be led to believe that you no longer matter, that youre no longer a factor. Youre old. Your days have come and gone and youre now just playing out the string. Your ideas and your existence are no longer important to the future of America, that life is for the young.
Do not make the mistake of thinking that. Thats
CALLER: Rush, I didnt say I believed it. I said that thats what Ive been bombarded with, okay? You know, I really dont believe it. I really You know, down deep, I know that I know much more than these kids know, okay? I know that sooner or later theyre going to
RUSH: You have to understand the reporting on these kids. The reporting on these Millennials and we say kids. Theyre 30 years old. But the reporting on the Millennials is they are nothing more than a football. Youve got to think: In all of this, the media is the center of this leftist universe, not the Democrat Party. Maybe you call em co-centers, but the media is an activist bunch of leftists now. Theyre not journalists. Theyre not reporters. They are an activist political movement.
Millennials and surveys of Millennials taken by the media are nothing more than efforts to create a mind-set in people like you that youre now outnumbered, that youre now overruled, and that youre not hip, and that your time has come, and the center of the universe is these Millennials. Thats the reporting that you hear, and thats the reporting Because its done on purpose. Millennials have not changed. Thirty-year-olds still dont know as much, on balance, as 60/65-year-olds, but theyre simply what they think supposedly like climate change is an example, what they want.
Look at how much of our cultural evolution today is based on what Millennials supposedly think: Political correctness, snowflakes on college campus, all of the cultural upheaval that Millennials supposedly support and demand. Whether en masse they do or not, they are proxies for the leftist agenda. So are illegal immigrants proxies for the leftist agenda and it is simply that the leftist agenda is personalized using Millennials and the young in a way to make it look like its cool and hip and is the embodiment of modern forward thinking.
Everything that you see in the media is designed to the advance the leftist agenda, including dispiriting you and making you think that youve already lost in the battle to preserve America as founded, or the American culture. Its designed to make you feel outnumbered. Its designed to make you feel impotent and totally incapable of stopping this onslaught. Its designed to make the onslaught look normal and really cool and really modern and really where its all at. Its all a game, because not every Millennial thinks alike.
Not every Millennial is of the same political persuasion, cultural belief. But yet theyre presented as a giant monolith, as women are presented as a giant monolith. You have to have a steel spine to resist all this, because its designed to make you deny what you know is true. Its designed to make you not believe what youve grown up believing: The values, everything that you hold dear. This onslaught led by the media and all of their proxies is designed to make you feel like the biggest outsider youve ever felt like.
Thats how they seek ultimately to win and overrun anybody by eliminating any opposition, cause if they can succeed in making you think its over, youre not even gonna fight back! Youre just gonna seek someplace to live out the rest of your life, not make waves, not get noticed. Thats what its all designed to do. But its all in direct conflict with common sense. So dont fall for it, and remember when you were 30 versus how you are today. Youre not an antique. Youre not outmoded or any of that, and the world doesnt revolve around anyone. Its what you make of it.
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RUSH: Heres James in Peru, Indiana. Welcome, sir. Great to have you here.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. I truly feel honored that you took my call. Thank you.
RUSH: You bet, sir.
CALLER: I just wanted to say that as a Millennial that I dont just think, but I know the American dream still exists despite the negative narrative of the mainstream media. And I can give two very clear examples that allow me to know so.
RUSH: Okay. Go ahead. Give it a shot.
CALLER: Well, first off, I believe that the American dream is, one, the ability to own property, to be able to work as hard as your creativity and your will will allow to prosper as much as you want. And my first example would be that is me. I know Im making the American dream happen. And one way Im needing to do that was I had to leave the state of Colorado, who I believe is implementing some very, very, very poor policy
RUSH: Let me tell, I do not know your instincts are so on. You do not know the importance of what you just said. You were willing to pull up stakes and leave in order to realize whatever it is you want out of life. A lot of people Ive always believed that most of the limitations that people have are self-imposed, and one of them is an unwillingness to leave.
And theres nothing wrong with that. If you like where you were born and grew up, thats fine. But your willingness to leave, meaning, I take it youre gonna have to leave to find what you want because of the direction Colorados going, what you want, not what you want, so youre gonna seek it elsewhere?
CALLER: Exactly.
RUSH: Well, its a bigger deal than even you know. Youre living it, youre doing it, so its not that big a deal to you, but it is. Willing to pull up stakes, go someplace where maybe you dont know anybody, but you know that what you want is there, is a very big deal.
And its a correct, pretty good enunciation of the American dream, which is being ripped and sullied and distorted throughout American education. So its great to hear from you. Im glad you called. Im glad you had time to get through.
I am out of time.
I wonder whether that list of twenty most stressful things was a list created by the pollsters and the victims of the poll just had to sort them. I can’t imagine any free form poll of most stressful things for Millenials not having global warming or Trump as the primary stressors to the brainwashed yutes.
People are like old radios.
Tune to any station and the volume level is about the same from one to the other. But the signals that arrive at the radio are of different strenghs so why aren’t weaker ones at lower volume?
Answer is the radio’s automatic gain control which increases the gain of weaker signals.
The earlier radios had the annoyance that between stations you’d get noise. Why? Because with no real signals the radio amplified the noise thinking it was a signal. Newer radios recognize in-between states and squelch the volume.
Could people be the same way? Something will occupy our thoughts. If nothing “real” then “noise” is amplified.
And...these are the ones, earning minimum wage, that will be pushing us around in a wheelchair at the old-folks home.
Our society now gives so much attention, compassion and moral authority to victims that kids routinely fake being victims to get said attention and status.
Cyberbullying’s chilling trend: Teens anonymously target themselves online, study finds
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/11/08/cyberbullings-chilling-trenda-growing-number-teens-anonymously-bullying-themselves-online-study-find/831070001/
No wonder a lot of the college students, adult SJWs and college professors fake hate crimes to justify political demands. And each of these hundreds of fake hate crimes is harped on endlessly while the retraction is rarely mentioned locally.
That you see so many faked bullying and hate crime incidents makes the world worse than it is.
I don’t “get” the whole cyberbullying thing. Why not just stop social media for a while?
Then again, I’m old and remember life before social media and can understand that you can live life without it.
I had a “friend” on Facebook a while back that I started to notice would post snarky comments after I’d posted something. He wouldn’t put it as a reply to my comment, it would just pop up on his profile. After this happend the second time, I figured out how to fix it. I didn’t unfriend him, I wasn’t going to give him the satisfaction. I “unfollowed” him instead. Now he can post snark all day every day and I never see it.
If you are faking cyberbullying or hate crimes, you have too much time on your hands, and a pretty sad life was well.
As a baby boomer—we had the COLD WAR and Nuke War to worry about. Anyone who lived though the Cuban Crisis—where JFK almost blew up the world will know that it dominated public group think. Just watch old Twilight Zone shows—Nukes were a Major theme. The young people have no idea what this was like. They worry about losing the internet (it would be the first to vanish if the balloon goes up). Even North Korea could manage a EMP attack.
“Anyone who lived though the Cuban Crisiswhere JFK almost blew up the world will know that it dominated public group think.”
I was too young to understand most of that...but I could tell my parents were worried. I also remember playing in a couple of the neighbor’s (worthless) concrete bomb shelters...small, cold, wet, dark places.
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