{"id":306644,"date":"2019-04-18T16:16:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T20:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=306644"},"modified":"2019-04-22T15:56:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T19:56:32","slug":"millennial-eschews-negativism-counts-our-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/04\/18\/millennial-eschews-negativism-counts-our-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Millennial Eschews Negativism, Counts Our Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Something that I always try to do during periods of time like this where we are either enraged or varying degrees of despondent or fighting off waves of negativism, I always try to stop, take stock, and realize how overall fortunate I personally am and we as a nation are.<\/p>\n

Negativism is easy, and pessimism is easy. We are as human beings naturally inclined toward it. Thinking positively is something that requires a concerted effort. You know, the old saw, we don\u2019t need to go to the library to get books on how to fail \u2019cause we all know how. But we go to the library or Amazon to buy books on how to succeed or how to think positively because it\u2019s not something that most people are naturally inclined to.<\/p>\n

\"\"So I think it always serves you well to stop in the midst of whatever\u2019s making you think all is lost or we\u2019re nearing the point of no return to actually take stock of things. And what this requires, if you are to do it successfully, is abandoning consumption of media for a while.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m telling you, the biggest assault on the self-esteem — I use that term loosely, but the biggest assault on the overall attitude of the American people is media. It is a never-ending drumbeat of negativism, pessimism, shock, sickness, perversion, despondency, and you have to pull yourself out of it. You have to extract yourself from it now and then to avoid being permanently, or for long periods of time, affected by it.<\/p>\n

I do this. Even I, at times, have to actively stop myself from falling into this tunnel of spiraling down because I think I\u2019ve gotta go there because people expect me to comment on it, but as a human being you need to pull yourself out, so I do. And I do it in a number of different ways.<\/p>\n

One way is just to get real personal with myself and remind myself how damn fortunate I have been and how nowhere else on the planet could the things either I\u2019ve done or have happened to me been done or happened. And many such things would be true of you too.<\/p>\n

In the process of doing this, I came across a website that I had not heard of called Alpha News. And it\u2019s a woman, I think. And she is a Millennial who doesn\u2019t buy into the traditional thinking of today\u2019s Millennials. She\u2019s not a socialist, and she doesn\u2019t want to be.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s really a good piece, if I\u2019m getting this right. Alpha News maybe a whole bunch of people. She just may be one person there, but this particular post, Alpha News, “Thoughts From a Hipster Coffee Shop,” by Alyssa Ahlgren<\/a>. And it starts with this: \u201cWe live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we\u2019ve become completely blind to it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cI\u2019m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis.\u201d Don\u2019t know where this is. Didn\u2019t bother to look it up. Not the point. \u201cI\u2019m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to \u2018fix\u2019 the so-called injustices of capitalism.<\/p>\n

\u201cI put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook\u2019s, 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\u2019ve become completely blind to it.<\/p>\n

\u201cVehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don\u2019t 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, don\u2019t take this the wrong way. I have cited these poverty stats going back to my second year on this program, and when I did, I was destroyed by the Drive-By Media who claimed that I was a typical conservative, out of touch, that didn\u2019t understand poverty. My point is that this isn\u2019t new. What\u2019s great is this is a Millennial who is seeing it and getting it. These things do recycle. The truth does recycle from generation to generation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average.\u201d And that\u2019s exactly right. And Robert Rector at the Heritage Foundation has done the bulk of the work on poverty in America and comparing it to government elsewhere, defining it, putting it in context.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s who I quoted. \u201cLimbaugh, he just doesn\u2019t care about the poor, lying about povertym homelessness and all this stuff,\u201d because the left mandates misery. There has to be misery. Even if there isn\u2019t misery you\u2019ve got to think there is because you\u2019re supposed to feel guilty when you\u2019re not miserable. We\u2019re supposed to be equally miserable. Happiness, that\u2019s a target, not a goal.<\/p>\n

She says, “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.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, \u2018An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity.\u2019<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cNever 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\u2019ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Now, I\u2019m not attributing Miss Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s words to outright dishonesty. I do think she whole-heartedly believes the words she said to be true.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany 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\u2019s just say I didn\u2019t have the popular opinion.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me lay down some universal truths really quick. The United States of America has lifted more people out of abject poverty, spread more freedom and democracy, and has created more innovation in technology and medicine than any other nation in human history. Not only that but our citizenry continually breaks world records with charitable donations, the rags to riches story is not only possible in America but not uncommon, we have the strongest purchasing power on earth, and we encompass 25% of the world\u2019s GDP. The list goes on.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, these universal truths don\u2019t matter. We are told that income inequality is an existential crisis (even though this is not an indicator of prosperity). We are told that we are oppressed by capitalism (even though it\u2019s brought about more freedom and wealth to the most people than any other system in world history), we are told that the only way we will acquire the benefits of true prosperity is through socialism and centralization of federal power (even though history has proven time and again this only brings tyranny and suffering).<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy 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\u2019ve never seen prosperity, and as a result, elect politicians 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\u2019t live in the great depression, or live through two world wars,\u201d is my point.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like not to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don\u2019t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it\u2019s spreading like a plague.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith the current political climate giving rise to the misguided idea of a socialist utopia, will we see the light? Or will we have to lose it all to realize that what we have now is true prosperity? Destroying the free market will undo what millions of people have died to achieve.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cMy generation is becoming the largest voting bloc in the country. We have an opportunity to continue to propel us forward with the gifts capitalism and democracy has given us. The other option is that we can fall into the trap of entitlement and relapse into restrictive socialist destitution. The choice doesn\u2019t seem too hard, does it?\u201d<\/p>\n

I think this applies to my generation too. The Baby Boomers. We were born to prosperity. We had to invent our traumas to make us think that there was stress in our lives. Oh, the stress was real, we invented it, but it was real, it had the same effect as real stress does, but we didn\u2019t live through the Great Depression, either, and we didn\u2019t live through two world wars and we didn\u2019t live without air-conditioning, and we didn\u2019t live without electricity.<\/p>\n

We were the ones that benefited from the smartphone and all this technological gadgetry. Anyway, she\u2019s right, and it\u2019s always worth stopping and taking stock now and then, particularly in the midst of one of the biggest political scams and hoaxes in our lives, manufactured and perpetuated by some of the biggest, most dangerous lies our government has ever told us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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