Posted on 08/24/2018 9:01:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
This nation is going to have to feel some real pain for people to appreciate what we have.
Millennials Don’t Think America Was Ever That Great
The premise is all wrong.
The millenials queried don’t think at all.
If many of them do feel that way, it’s mainly because this is what they are taught in schools, even pre-schools.
The indoctrination is reinforced with passing grades and ‘happy’ or approving teachers. Not all of them, thank God, but most of the teachers are this way.
These ‘kids’ are products of the liberal education complex... snowflakes who can’t read... or think.
Poor education has done its intent, brainwashing not only on kids but adults as well. Thank our government and media for this disaster.
“America has been great…for straight white men.”
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Stupid is strong with this one...
Frankly, during the Obama Era, America really was not all that great.
Our job is to make them realize that it's no America that is not all that great, it was Obama and his polices that made America not all that great while he was President
People have been taught to be ashamed of being American, or white, or even “culturally Christian” (not actually being Christian, but having a society heavily influenced by Christianity) the poison pill Left.
No. It’s because of textbooks like Howard Zinn’s “A Peoples’ History of the United States” that was shoved down their throats.
they are products of public schools AND parents who have treated them like royalty, driving them to games or camps daily, never forcing them to get a PT job, buying them just about anything they wanted, never disciplining them, treating them as adult co-equals, in short, they have lived in a dream nervona and have never experienced a reality of hard work, accountability, sacrifice, and violence.
Exactly. Saw a quote from a pope one time that basically said, and I paraphrase, you really can’t see and understand divine goodness without seeing and encountering evil.
Millenials do not understand how good they have it because they have never seen truly bad times and circumstances. The fact that so many of them have a favorable view of socialism does not seem to consider the horrible conditions of places like North Korea, Venezuela or Cuba.
“Millenials do not understand how good they have it because they have never seen truly bad times and circumstances. The fact that so many of them have a favorable view of socialism does not seem to consider the horrible conditions of places like North Korea, Venezuela or Cuba.”
Well put post.
I'm a big fan of questioning those in authority. Unfortunately, millennials only want to question those they don't agree with.
The lack of understanding of history is a big problem IMO. That includes using current morality in viewing historical events.
Here's how bad it is: I was talking with a 20ish coworker the other day about the new Mission Impossible movie (I haven't seen it yet). I mentioned that I grew up watching the TV series religiously every week, it was one of my favorites.
He gave me a stunned look, and blurted "it was a TV series?" No wonder Hollywood gets away with rebooting everything good from the 60s and 70s...lol.
Another young man and I were talking about the bitcoin market. I said, I'd love to invest in it, but I lost all my money in the Dutch Tulip craze (400 years ago). He had no idea what I was talking about. Yes, history does repeat itself, over and over and over...
Crap, I'm so old my battalion in Germany was deactivated some 25 years ago.
That’s because most of them went to public school. ............................ Yes and they lost the incentive to learn and dropped out at 16. They end up being unskilled and unreliable. We have always had shot gun education, fire a a round with a dozen pellets, and a couple will hit the target. I went to public schools, but I had a solid parental background that reflected learn, earn, and succeed. Education starts at home. We are only taught to think in school, there is far more to learn outside of the books you are given. You have to expand your knowledge on your own. You only get one view in a text book. (Yeah, and its usually indoctrination depending on who controls the purview.)
If you are older than millennials, it’s likely/probable/possible that you think you are out of it, obsolete, passe, over the hill.
The only answer to this is to bludgeon these folks with your business and prosperity. Yeah, it’s hard. The market is waaaaay up and it seems like it should pull back.
I was not there. But I absolutely know that during the massive runup during the Reagan years, the market was loaded with doubters all the way up. That’s been the case for at least 5 years now. Yeah, the market is high and the media is full of stories that we MUST pull back at some point. There is every possibility that we are in the early innings of a dramatic multiyear runup in the economy. And one has to decide whether you wish to be in it or out of it. You do not have to leverage yourself tits-deep. But you’re massively better off being in it rather than out of it.
No one is forcing them to live here. Venezuela has a few openings.
Yes, that is the experience I have had. 80% of them agree with that Cuomo numbskull.
This was drilled into them by their teachers and professors, who are all devotees of Howard Zinn. Today their smart phone sends them daily reinforcement.
“A great country would pay off my student loans”. Heard it all before.
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