In defense of millennials
Oct 6, 2016, 3:48 PM | Updated: Aug 14, 2017, 1:59 pm
One of the most common topics on “Jason and Burns” (weeknights from 7-10 p.m.) is the belief that the millennial generation is going to doom America.
Jason Rantz, who is a self-loathing millennial himself, holds this very belief. When I take a look at the text line or the emails sent to the show, it seems many listeners think this generation of Americans are the root cause of all of our nation’s problems.
That is utter nonsense.
I’m a Gen-Xer. We used to be the worst generation ever just a few short years ago.
Here’s a typical note sent to the program.
“PC libtards on college campuses everywhere want everything for free. Bunch of wimps. No wonder ISIS isn’t afraid of us. This country is over.”
Let’s take a look at reality. For starters, political correctness run amok and overt liberalism at our nation’s universities is nothing new. Check out this picture from the sixties.
You see any conservatives there?
Nope, here they are.
Funny … they all kind of look like this guy.
Watch this trailer for the Jeremy Piven classic “PCU”.
This was released in 1994. Many millennials weren’t even born yet.
Do millennials want everything for free? Well, we all do to an extent. But they are not the ones responsible for the national debt approaching $20 trillion. Nor are they responsible for the devastating market crash of 2008. We, including Gen-Xers and the Baby Boomers, have to raise our hands and do a mea culpa for that mess. Did their policy decisions create our immigration problem or the quagmire that led to the rise of ISIS?
I think you know the answer.
They are the first generation since 1980 to see a reduction in rates of obesity. So, they’re in better shape to fight terror than me and my group of overweight couch potatoes.
Do they tweet a lot? Yeah, they’re a bit narcissistic. But this can be said about Donald Trump, and people are looking to him to save us all from this bleak future so many of us fear. Truth is, I think we just like to villainize the young. Critics like to point out anecdotal stories of lazy twenty-somethings who are leeching off mom and dad. As if that’s something that just started in the past five years.
We’re just a bunch of old cranks. Let’s take some responsibility for our failures.
If you disagree, go rant about it on Facebook (created by a millennial).
