Young Pups Gen Z vs. the Old Dogs

Colorado decriminalized psychedelic mushrooms. Colorado is also one of the 19 states where marijuana is fully legal. Gen Zers in those states do not face arrest for smoking pot like their parents did. That’s progress. Unfortunately they can’t afford to move out of their parents’ houses so it’s a good thing they all like to smoke pot because they’re stuck with each other.

Gen Z’s parents were raised on the adult formula that you go to college, move out on your own, go to work for one company and retire from the company and live comfortably without debt. It didn’t turn out that way for them. They haven’t worked for one company, they’re in debt, they can’t afford to retire, and they’ll be far more dependent on their kids than the previous generation who benefitted from FDR’s New Deal and unions were. Gen Z and millennials can’t afford to move out because they don’t make a living wage. Some have so much college debt they’ll never be able to pay it off. Retirement plan? Ha! They just want to be able to live on their own and not have to share their pot with their parents.

Gen Z is the most progressive, empathetic, and informed generation in American history. They have had to live with the consequences of Republican policy and greed in the most direct way. For them, active shooting drills have been a regular thing since kindergarten. Deciding on whether or not to go to college comes down to whether or not they want to assume debt for most of their young adult lives. The government outlawing abortion just when they’re becoming sexually active doesn’t fly with them, nor does watching their friends be deported or fearing that they or their parents will be deported. Climate change is very real to them. So is the erosion of democracy. All really heavy stuff that no other generation has ever had to face. They’re pissed and they should be.

Gen Z is also the most diverse voting bloc in history. Theirs is the most open minded generation. They have friends outside of their race and socioeconomic standing. Variations in sexuality are not a threat to them. They see intolerance as nonsensical. Gen Z is a real threat to Republicans, more so than their liberal parents because their parents protested threats as possibilities. Gen Z is protesting actualities.

Republicans are so pissed off that Gen Z voted that now they want to change the voting age to 21.

“With every passing day an old white man longing for an America of yester-year dies and a bunch of young people turn 18. They’re sick of school shootings, want to have sex and not get pregnant, and damn well know there isn’t a transgender basketball team plotting to win the big game.” — Stephanie Ruhle

Gen Z be like, “Women’s rights? Are you kidding me?”

Speaking of women’s rights, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert recently said, “Women are ‘the lesser vessel’ and ‘need masculinity in our lives to balance that so-called weakness’.” Lauren Boebert is from Colorado where she gets to enjoy the benefits of liberal laws and policy like smoking pot without the government getting all up in her business only in her case, she probably drinks a quart of Jack Daniels right along with it and walks out into her yard and starts shooting stuff.

Lauren Boebert hasn’t lost re-election yet. It’s 50/50 and some votes have yet to be counted. She’s down 73 votes with 97% of the vote in. There will most likely be a recount and she will make a big MAGA stink if she loses. The good news is that her pal Tina Peters, the county clerk that tried to help Trump win, won’t be any help to her because she’s out on bond now. She got busted.

Sarah Palin endorsed Lauren Boebert but spelled her name wrong.

Young and the restless fun fact: Joe Biden was the youngest senator ever elected when he first started out. He has experience being the young pup surrounded by old dogs.

Super progressive millennial Alexandria Ocasio Cortez won her re-election in New York by a landslide. Her opponent stood on a street corner with a microphone and called AOC a communist. She blended in well with the kooks standing on soap boxes with megaphones yelling crazy shit while people just walk by, oblivious to the weirdos with megaphones because it’s New York. Besides, their legalized pot that they just smoked was really good and now they’re hungry, on the hunt for a hot dog with chili, macaroni and cheese, and bacon. They’ll find it too, because they live in New York.