Tim

Dear small percentage of Boomers who can actually be told things: Here are some facts, to help you understand what Millennials are trying to tell you. Here is what the middle-class experience is right now. Not for losers, but for your average hardworking, but unexceptional, dude born in 1992. - No company pensions. Ever. No job offers this. - Laid off every 2 to 3 years. - No vacations. Ever. If you are lucky, you have 10 to 15 days of annual "PTO" (paid time off). But this is not vacation. This is your sick days. You can take a break with whatever's left over. - If you are not lucky, you have "unlimited" PTO. Which sounds nice, but in practice it means you get sick days and nothing else. - They pay social security taxes, but they know they will never receive those benefits, because the system will crash first. - Not promoted. Ever. - No annual raises. Instead, these are effectively pay cuts, because they don't match inflation. - Because of this, can only get a raise by changing jobs. Some judicious prevarication about salary history is recommended. - Good chance you'll have to change careers at least once, possibly more, as industries get rugpulled by offshoring or work visas. - Total mortgage cost on a median house in 2026 is 104,600 minimum-age-hours. This is 50+ years of full-time work. - For comparison, a 1972 purchase would be 23,750 minimum-wage-hours, about 11 years of full time work. What this all adds up to is that Millennials can't buy homes until they are past their child-bearing years. And, no, scrimping and saving doesn't change that equation. This is with scrimping and saving. I am not a Millennial. I am GenX, the child of Boomers. I do not need to be told how much Boomers forwent luxuries to save, and how hard they worked. I know exactly how much they did of each. I was there. I saw. They worked hard at the beginning of their careers, and lived frugally for about 5 years to save up a down payment. After that, things gradually eased up, bit by bit. Until, by retirement, a lot of them had nice fat stock portfolios and multiple rental property investments, and Caribbean cruise holidays. And this seems, to them, like a fair and natural progression. But as America has been hollowed out and by a corrupt political machine, those doing the robbing have left the Boomers whole, and placed the burden of that corruption squarely on the backs of younger generations. For Millennials, there's no light at the end of that tunnel. Just another tunnel. And another after that. They have been standing between Boomers and the reality of the modern economy for 20 years. At some point, they are going to break.

Dear Brits: Do you understand what the Second Amendment to our Constitution is for, now? Do you understand why we added it? Because we were smarter and wiser than you along. You made jokes about "school shootings", and considered yourself more civilized, but we knew that history isn't something that happens in the past and on the other side of the world. History happens everywhere, all the time. And now invaders are raping your children. And the "civilized", polite, genteel society you were so proud of isn't defending you. It's defending the rapists. From you. You thought we were a buncha of dumb, ignorant, toothless rednecks who just like going boom. Well, I sure as hell am a redneck, but I have all my teeth, they are straighter and whiter than yours, and my way of life is based on a whole coherent philosophy that you never bothered to understand or even become aware of. I have enough rifles and ammunition stocked in my house to arm all my neighbors, and take on pretty much any number of third world barbarians. I can reach out and touch someone from fifteen hundred meters away. Five years ago, ten, you would have winced to hear me say that. You would have wondered if you were dealing with a psychopath. You would have asked me why I think I need all that. Answer is... I don't. You need all that. You need it, because you don't have it. I don't need it, because I have it. And because all my neighbors have it, too. Si vis pacem, para bellum. I'm not coming across the pond to save you. I want to see you saved, but you have to do it yourselves. Why? Because the problem you have isn't third world barbarians upon your shores. Your problem is how they got there in the first place. Your problem is that you lack a spirit you haven't had since the microsecond you abandoned your allies at Dunkirk. Your problem is that you forgot what it means to be British, Scottish, Irish. You gave up your guns without a fight. Will you give up your daughters?

This is indeed the most powerful message to young men in this whole campaign. But it doesn't say what you think it says. It says several things. First, it says: You are not fully human to us. That which is good for you is not inherently good, it is only good if it also produces some second order benefit for women, which is not only our real motive for anything we do for you, but also the only reason we see for your existence. This is why we tell women, over and over, that they deserve more and better from you, and why we tell you, over and over, that you must give more to women. Second, it says: We will never do anything directly for you. When asked what we can do for you, the only thing we can come up with is a rationalization about how what we offer women also benefits you. The idea of giving you anything directly, for your own benefit, is anathema to us. Third, it says: We see you as a walking cluster of appetites, and the only problem you have that we understand is your libido. We believe that if there is an ample supply of promiscuous women, no matter how undesirable and full of contempt for men, and of pornography, no matter how empty of emotional validation and human connection for you, then you will be content to be ruled by a coalition of women. Fourth, it says: We see pleasure as the only positive function of sex. Intimacy is beside the point, and fertility is a drawback to be avoided at all costs. Fifth, it says: We see pregnancy and fertility as a sexually transmitted disease rather than one of the essential functions of a healthy species. How there will be a next generation of human beings is someone else's problem, and we are perfectly content to kick the can down the road and let someone else deal with it. We are perfectly happy to do everything we can to make young women afraid of pregnancy and motherhood if it helps us to gain and hold political power. And any long-term damage to the species, or to those women and their happiness, is not our problem and we do not care. In short, it tells young men that the left is: Rudderless Morally bankrupt Intellectually bankrupt Profoundly misandrist Only concerned about the welfare of a few selected members of the political class