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The Missing Generation

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On Sunday, Cypher News posted an article about Generation Z, the generation born between 1997 and 2011. One-third of them are missing.

The article reports:

…In roughly the past five decades, abortion has shifted from something whispered about in the shadows to something practically celebrated in the mainstream. The left frames this shift as progress, but the data tells a different story. As a result, a full third of an entire generation was erased before it ever drew breath. Let’s break it down.

For years, abortion has been absorbed into Western culture as if it were just another lifestyle choice. Women are encouraged to “own their bodies,” redefine autonomy, and treat a procedure once viewed as a last resort like a routine errand. Normalization became the goal, and frankly, normalization succeeded. But when something this widespread becomes this accepted, the impact shows up in the numbers. People may avoid saying it out loud, but the demographic data strips all the flowery language away.

Between 1997 and 2011, almost twenty million pregnancies ended before delivery. This isn’t a social trend, folks; it’s basically generational deletion. You see it in declining birth rates, shrinking classrooms, and a workforce that is thinning out year after year.

The global picture is just as stark. Nearly one in three pregnancies worldwide ends in abortion. Wealthy nations call it empowerment. Poorer nations call it routine. But while the terminology changes, the outcome doesn’t.

Fewer children. Fewer families. Fewer futures.

The article concludes:

Look, the data here leaves no room for interpretation. America is not simply dealing with a cultural shift; it’s dealing with the aftermath of eliminating twenty million members of a single generation. When a society normalizes abortion at the scale we have, the demographic consequences are not just simply theoretical. They’re visible in every corner of life.

Shrinking classrooms are not a mystery. An aging workforce is not a coincidence. A collapsing birth rate is not an accident. A country simply cannot delete a third of its potential children and expect to grow. It cannot maintain a stable future when its fertility rate sits below 1.6. And lastly, it cannot solve labor shortages, economic stagnation, or cultural fragmentation when entire age groups are missing.

The fact is that nations with declining populations face slower economies, weaker social structures, and political systems that strain under the weight of an older base with fewer young families to balance it.

The issue here isn’t about politics or slogans… it’s about math. Once a nation chooses a path that produces fewer children than it needs to sustain itself, decline is not just a possibility; it’s the guaranteed outcome. And sadly, America is already living inside that outcome.

NOW YOU KNOW

The emptiest part of Gen Z isn’t online. It’s the twenty million who never made it here.

Wow.

When You Totally Fail To Read The Room

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One of the problems facing the Democrat party is the loss of Democrat voters in Generation Z (people born between 1997 and 2012). In 2022, 46% of Generation Z voted, and they tended to vote for Democrats. In 2024, about 46% of Generation Z who voted voted for President Trump. Two Democrats, Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are currently holding rallies around America to encourage Generation Z to become Democrat voters.

On Sunday, Red State reported:

On Saturday, in Los Angeles, faithful agitator and failed commune contributor Bernie Sanders performed his latest “Down With the Oligarchy” act. Joining octogenarian Bernie was his new Tanto, New York Dem Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Also on stage were octogenarian Joan Baez and 79-year-old Neil Young. Add up all those ages, and they’ve collectively lived more years than the USA has been a country.  

The appearance of Bernie and AOC together evokes little interest in me. It’s like watching the same “pull my finger” joke. Bernie and his socialist sidekick sang the same tired folk fables about class warfare while lying about Musk and lying about Trump.

I just don’t think that Generation Z has the same hot buttons as the generation that listened to Joan Baez and later to Neil Young. Joan Baez represented the early 1960’s, beginning her professional career at the 1959 Newport Folk Festival. Neil Young’s career reflected more of the late 1960’s. The generation that came of age during the 1960’s and early 1970’s was an idealistic generation that wanted to bring peace and happiness to everyone. They also wanted to throw off the shackles of conventional morality. I am not sure either of these goals resonates with Generation Z and the challenges they face. Generation Z has dealt with the Covid crisis–many of them missed out on their high school proms, graduations, etc., and now as young adults are struggling with inflation, high interest rates, and generally the cost of living.

It will be interesting to see how successful this Bernie Sanders/Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tour is. Is this the Democrat presidential ticket for 2028? Lord, help us.

An Interesting Perspective

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On Tuesday, The New York Post posted an article about Generation Z workers.

The article reports:

Despite many of them having only just entered the workforce, Generation Z — those born from 1997 onwards — is already getting a bad rap at the office.

According to a recent survey of 1,300 managers, three out of four agree that Gen Z is harder to work with than other generations — so much so that 65% of employers said they have to fire them more often.

One in eight have let go of a Gen Zer less than one week after their start date, the study found.

The results ring true with managers across the US and in various industries, who report that young hires have been difficult to deal with, particularly when it comes to language.

“I feel kind of hamstrung on what I can and can’t say,” Peter, a New Jersey-based manager in the hospitality industry, told The Post.

…“I do think the pandemic had a big role to play in that because for all of them, this was their first job out of college and their last years were spent remote,” McDonnell, 28, told The Post.

Starting their careers during a pandemic may have stunted Gen Z’s office etiquette.

In fact, 36% of survey respondents reported poor communication skills among their young hires.

The article concludes:

Employers are also finding that Gen Z hires tend to be more easily offended on the political front.

In fact, a 2022 Deloitte survey found that, despite having only just entered the workforce, 37% of Gen Zers say they’ve already rejected a job or assignment based on their personal ethics.

“Our Gen Z employees dominated our culture with social justice fundamentalism,” Matt, the leader of a nonprofit in Colorado who withheld his last name, told The Post.

“What is initiated by the 25-year-old comms manager is then adopted by previously rational Harvard and Yale types who begin leveling accusations of ‘white supremacist colonialism.’”

Because Gen Zers are bringing their politics into the workplace, more and more employers report that they’re walking on eggshells — and even fearful of their own subordinates.

“I’m a normal human being and certainly not an angry racist or homophobe or anything like that, but I don’t know where the line is,” Peter said, “and it feels like with the younger generation, the line keeps getting redrawn every day.”

What did we expect? We taught them to be offended by everything. We took the guard rails off of what was right and wrong–it was all according to how you felt. We created a generation that can bully electronically and we taught them to try to compromise with a bully rather than to fight back. We are simply reaping what we have sown. How do we fix this? We introduce the concept of black and white and remove some (not all) of the gray. We give them rules and structure and tell them that being offended is not a card you can play to get your own way. We strongly encourage them to grow up!

A Decision That Upholds The Constitution

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On Friday, The Washington Free Beacon posted an article about President Biden’s student loan forgiveness program. The program represents the federal government interfering in a signed contract–similar to the government’s interference in contracts between renters and landlords during the Covid pandemic.

The article reports:

The United States government has stopped taking applications for student debt relief, after a federal judge blocked President Joe Biden’s loan forgiveness plan, according to a notice on a government website.

A judge in Texas who was appointed by former President Donald Trump ruled on Thursday that Biden’s plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt was unlawful and must be vacated. The Biden administration is appealing the ruling.

In July 2021, The New York Post reported the following:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi disputed the notion that President Biden has the authority to unilaterally ​cancel students’ federal loans.​

“People think that the president of the United States has the power for debt forgiveness,” Pelosi said during her weekly news conference on Wednesday.

“He does not. He can postpone, he can delay, but he does not have that power. That has to be an act of Congress.”

However, the President signed an Executive Order providing student loan forgiveness, and applications have poured in.

The student loan forgiveness program, even if it does not move forward, has served its purpose.

On Wednesday, Breitbart reported the following:

Voters between the ages of 18 and 29 cast their ballots in favor of Democrats 63 percent of the time in the 2022 elections, exit polling data found.

Data from NBC exit polls found that the demographic, comprised of Generation Z and the Millennials, voted 63 percent for Democrats and just 35 percent for the Republicans.

Generation Z and the Millennials were promised free stuff and do not have the education or the critical thinking skills to understand that free stuff isn’t free. The government has no source of revenue other than printing money or taxing Americans. I suspect we will see more promises of free stuff for this group in the future as this group traditionally does not come out and vote at election time. This time Generation Z and Millennials made the difference.