We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous Nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Mickey and minnie you and me we got this poster. 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.

Mickey and minnie you and me we got this poster

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? Mickey and minnie you and me we got this poster. Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of Socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, an entire generation which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America came of age and never saw American prosperity. Never 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’ve ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many 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’s just say I didn’t have the popular opinion, but I disagree.