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Thoughts from a hipster coffee shop…
« on: April 18, 2019, 03:08:01 pm »
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My 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’t seem too hard, does it?

By Alyssa Ahlgren -
April 6, 2019


I’m 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 “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, 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...

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Re: Thoughts from a hipster coffee shop…
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2019, 03:20:40 pm »
They don't want socialism for themselves, they just want it for you. You need to be doing something about the homeless, global climate change, the poor, the plight if immigrants, etc. They are already doing something. They are educating you.
Other people keep too much of their own money. They are struggling to get by. When all those rich people said they should be paying more in taxes, they really meant the other rich people.
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Re: Thoughts from a hipster coffee shop…
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2019, 04:06:44 pm »
She makes one very excellent point that I've noticed since Clinton. We live in, in many ways, one of the most prosperous and luxurious times in human history.

Yet to the socialist we're in a Great Depression, wandering a barren, gray landscape with Dust Bowl winds with nothing but the clothes on our backs, and meager foraging of food, water, clothing, and shelter.

A trope which they constantly bleat out in their attempt to indoctrinate voting masses to gain power.
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Re: Thoughts from a hipster coffee shop…
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2019, 05:01:09 pm »
They don't want socialism for themselves, they just want it for you. You need to be doing something about the homeless, global climate change, the poor, the plight if immigrants, etc. They are already doing something. They are educating you.
Other people keep too much of their own money. They are struggling to get by. When all those rich people said they should be paying more in taxes, they really meant the other rich people.
Given their ignorance of history and communism/socialism, I just think most young people today hollering for socialism have no idea what it would be like to live in a country where the gov. has the whip hand over everybody's lives..
If the country split, and the takers in The Socialist States of America came around to confiscate the gadgets of everybody (for the sake of equality), 90% of the current lovers of socialism would scream bloody murder.

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Re: Thoughts from a hipster coffee shop…
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2019, 05:03:03 pm »
She makes one very excellent point that I've noticed since Clinton. We live in, in many ways, one of the most prosperous and luxurious times in human history.

Yet to the socialist we're in a Great Depression, wandering a barren, gray landscape with Dust Bowl winds with nothing but the clothes on our backs, and meager foraging of food, water, clothing, and shelter.

A trope which they constantly bleat out in their attempt to indoctrinate voting masses to gain power.
True words.  95% of young Americans today have no idea what it means to be truly impoverished.

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Re: Thoughts from a hipster coffee shop…
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2019, 05:15:22 pm »
Given their ignorance of history and communism/socialism, I just think most young people today hollering for socialism have no idea what it would be like to live in a country where the gov. has the whip hand over everybody's lives..

It's like when they chant "Hey hey ho ho this fascist government has got to go" while carrying a sign that says "Confiscate all guns".
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Thoughts from a hipster coffee shop…
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2019, 11:23:32 am »

Thoughts from a hipster coffee shop…

My 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’t seem too hard, does it?
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I’m 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 “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, 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.

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Re: Thoughts from a hipster coffee shop…
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2019, 02:09:45 pm »
 
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We don’t know what it’s like not to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones.

Not yet,but the upcoming generation WILL know what it's like unless there are big changes on the news reporting and the political front.
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Re: Thoughts from a hipster coffee shop…
« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2019, 02:13:21 pm »
Identical topics merged.

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Re: Thoughts from a hipster coffee shop…
« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2019, 07:35:30 pm »
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We don’t have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it’s spreading like a plague.
Excellent essay.
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