Is Obama driving
millennials toward hopelessness?, Author blames president for killing American Dream, sowing
despair in the military, by Paul Bremmer, 12/19/15, WND
Today’s young adults are
much less likely to believe in the American Dream than were young adults in
1986, and analysts have attributed this surge in pessimism to factors such as
wage stagnation, mounting college debt and the economic damage caused by the
Great Recession.
However, one author and
journalist traces the decline in American hopefulness to the very man who
promised hope and change when he first ran for president.
“Reality check: For a
good part of millennials’ lives (the past seven years), their nation has been
run by a lawless, lying Marxist revolutionary, a man literally obsessed with
phantom menaces like global warming, ‘gun violence,’ an epidemic of racism
among law enforcement, and other delusions,” said David Kupelian, author of “The
Snapping of the American Mind.”
Meanwhile, he continued,
“The U.S. economy has gone to hell, her culture has descended further into the
gutter, the tyranny of political correctness has grown, fear for the safety of
the American homeland is the highest since 9/11, and the rest of the world is
on fire. Of course, millennials aren’t feeling all warm and hopeful about the
nation’s future – or their own.”
A Fusion
2016 Issues poll released earlier this month found only 16 percent of 18-to-35-year-olds said the American
Dream is “very much alive” today. On the other hand, 29 percent said the Dream
is “not really alive.”
The pollsters compared
their results with those from a similar poll conducted in 1986 by the Roper
Organization. In the 1986 poll, which gauged the opinions of
18-to-34-year-olds, 32 percent said the American Dream was “very much alive,”
while 12 percent said it was “not really alive.”
The three most common
items today’s young people consider part of the American Dream are the ability
to start a business, send their kids to college, and get a college education
for themselves.
In related news, the
Washington Times reported this month on a new research paper which shows that among members of
America’s armed forces, white males under age 24 are the most likely to commit
suicide.
The two psychologists
who authored the paper initially considered whether military suicides increased
in the 2000s because of the two wars launched in that decade, but upon
reviewing historical data they found military suicides actually fell during
previous wars. So they concluded the military’s current suicide problem is a
millennial-generation problem.
The authors noted
millennial recruits are more likely than previous generations to come from
single-parent homes and carry the emotional baggage of adverse childhood
experiences. Therefore they are “a more vulnerable cohort of soldiers as
compared to earlier generations,” according to the report.
Kupelian agrees with
that analysis, but sees another factor at work as well. “This is sadly true, of
course, but compounding this problem is that the commander-in-chief is a person
that most soldiers recognize is not a worthy leader and cannot truly have their
best interests at heart,” Kupelian said. “This is devastating for the military.
Indeed, the report found that for some mysterious reason the rate of military
suicides – predominantly among millennials – started increasing shortly before
Obama became president.” (The rate started sharply increasing around 2006 or
2007, according to one of the report’s authors.)
Survey data seem to back
up Kupelian’s point. In 2014, President
Obama’s popularity fell to an all-time low among active-duty military members. Only 15 percent approved of the way Obama was
handling his job as commander-in-chief, while 55 percent disapproved. In 2009,
Obama’s first year in office, 35 percent of military members had approved of
him while 40 percent had disapproved. In short, Kupelian faults Obama for
crushing the very spirit that keeps the American Dream alive.
“The ‘American Dream’
has everything to do with hopefulness, with love of country, with optimism,
with a belief in American exceptionalism – and just beneath the surface of that
belief in American exceptionalism, a belief that God has uniquely blessed this
nation,” Kupelian said.
“The far left, led by
Obama, who has controlled the nation’s levers of power for seven long years,
has done everything possible, whether intentionally or not, to extinguish this
flame, this love of country and confidence in the future that has traditionally
burned brightly in the heart of every true American.”
http://www.wnd.com/2015/12/is-obama-driving-millennials-toward-hopelessness/
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