It’s not because rents are high, nor shortage of jobs, nor college debt, nor the price of cars or gasoline.  It’s due to an inadequate education beginning in middle school on up together with permissive parenting. The Selfie Generation. 

Kids today are not learning basic skills to survive in the real world. This is the computer age, right? They should have been taught more computer skills than I have. That alone gets them a job right out of high school in any social media company. But there’s more. Did they learn good English in school and how to write a basic business letter? Maybe not. Maybe they were learning about social justice, protests, pronouns, and white privilege.

And what about the trade schools? Learn to weld, carpentry, cement worker, paving, electrical, or operate construction equipment. But I fear this generation is too snowflake to get their hands dirty. Not what their liberal parents had intended for their little Josh. Then there’s always firemen and law enforcement. Admiral jobs for male or female or at least they used to be. Personal assistant is a great starter job at a company for male or female. But they have to get off their butts and get out there before they become permanent basement dwellers in their parent’s home.

If they went onto college whether they graduated or not, they still should be able to land a job if they learned some skills. Did they learn graphic art, communication, business law or did they learn women studies, critical race theory, social justice, or gender studies? Part of the blame goes to the parents who didn’t get involved in their major of study. Participation trophy generation was of no help either. Not everyone should get a trophy on a sports team unless their team won the championship. Trophies should be given out for most valuable player not a bench warmer. The more these kids were coddled, the more they expect free stuff to be given them.

I’ve heard this generation doesn’t wish to drive a car! Seriously? I got my license on my sixteenth birthday. What is wrong with this generation? Why aren’t the parents encouraging them to leave the nest someday? Do they know about checking accounts and how to write a check? Do they have a signature or did they miss that in school as well? Parents need to find them a nice used car once they are of age. Have them get a part time job at a pizza joint while in high school to help pay for the car. This inspires them to get out of the house on their own. I left at age nineteen with a shared apartment from a “single white female” ad and never looked back. Thank God my roommate wasn’t like the movie.

But parents these days are sheltering their offspring to the point of enabling them to become dependent on others to exist. Yes, rents are high. Get two roommates. Jobs aren’t hard to find. Get a resume and learn how to go to an job interview. Buy a used car and start one’s life. I know of some parents who bought their grown son a condo, buy his food, clean his place, and bring him pot. He is a complete lost cause that sits around all day playing video games. Need I say that the parents are big libs? And they keep asking themselves “what went wrong?”.

I know of another grown man in his fifties that was raised by permissive parents, and he lives in the house he was born in with his aging father and doesn’t help at all around the house nor have a job. Failure to launch. He stays in his bedroom and does God knows what all day. He borrows his father’s car and crashes it, and the father still lets him borrow his car. He is a lost cause. Liberal upbringing as well.

Maybe legalizing pot wasn’t the best idea either. Too much of it can make one lazy. And if they started in high school (like some kids started drinking in high school), ambition could be affected. Also some kids today think they can make a living posting crap on TikTok. Talk about a wasted life. Parents should not let them go on TikTok either. Take away their cell phones if they do. I’m glad my kids were raised prior to the cell phone, TikTok, social media, CRT, white privilege, gender confusion, and participation trophy era. They are GenX and Millennials but avoided most of that crap. One has never joined Facebook or any social media group. 

So to the parents who are complaining that their Genzs are still living at home, it’s partly your fault and elections have consequences. Look at our education system and who runs it. Look at our military. Look at our justice system. Look at our borders. Look at the crime in our cities. Look at who the role models in the White House are. Vote them all out and see how fast things change. And lastly, the purple hair, nose rings, and tattoos have to go. No one wants to hire you.