Every day I struggle with being lumped into the section of people often referred to as millennials, and in all honestly I am sick of it. I am not necessarily sick of being lumped into what is apparently a grouping of people who doesn't care about the direction of the nation, I know myself better than that. What I am sick of is being a common leverage ball for political campaigns.
For example: "If you want to attract businesses, you need to appeal to millennials, therefore you need X, Y, and Z." One of my personal favorites,"Millennials don't care about home ownership or owning a car."
It's rather exhausting being used as a political pawn, not to mention demeaning.
To err on the side of fairness, millennials are partly to blame for the one-size- fits-all umbrella we find ourselves under because they believed the lies being fed to them. Millennials believed that no matter win or lose, we were "all winners" for just showing up. We were taught to question everything, including the greatness of this country, but to trust those in government. Millennials bought into the notion that change can happen, but they do nothing to promote change. That the government is beyond all things, more qualified and more knowledgeable in knowing what is the best path for you to go down. That a college education is the key element in you getting a high paying job. Millennials have bought into allowing everyone into this country because it is the right thing to do, and to worry about your own job opportunities is racist, unfair, and bigoted.
Congratulations, millennials. You have played right into the hands of the very government body you were trained to protest and despise. Like it or not, you are a puppet of government control and overreach.
Can we expect a rising of all the young people, of the millennials? No, not at this time. We're jobless, weighed down under student loan debt, a savings account that reads $0, no high salaried job prospects, belittled to minimum wage part-time work at numerous locations because of Obamacare, competing with non-US citizens for minimum wage jobs and government assistance, and yet still remain woefully ignorant of that fact because millennials believe garbage being stuffed into their heads.
Millennials have a lot of power within their grasp and yet choose to let their parent and grandparents do the work for them. The millennials are screaming and protesting for change, and yet the ones making the decisions are the very group of people who set into place policies that put us behind in education, that pollute the environment, and keep giving tax-dollars to their wealthy friends. All because most, not all, millennials have bought the idea that their vote doesn't matter.
So what happens, millennials, when our parents and grandparents are not here to make those difficult decisions for us?
Millennials have paid a one-way ticket to "Ignoranceville" because that is easier then being involved... plus being an informed citizen takes away from recreational drug use, online gaming, and let's be honest, thinking can really hurt.
People who see and hear me and are more in awe not by what I say as an informed citizen, but more so that someone my age is involved. That someone my age cares about our nation and the people being elected to lead it. That is frustrating and insulting. I care. I had great parents who wanted me to care and to be a free thinker. It is because they were my parents and not my friend, and it is for that I thank my parents every single day.
Wake-up millennials, and have a big steamy cup of reality.
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