Coincidence? I think not

In 2018 - "I know God really exists and I have no doubts about it."

Silent: 70%
Boomers: 59%
Gen X: 62%

But, look at this huge gap between Gen X and Millennials.

Millennials: 44%
Gen Z: 33%

The decline for Gen Z is staggering, too.
49% in 2014
39% in 2016
33% in 2018. pic.twitter.com/ko5CQs45rp

— Ryan Burge 📊 (@ryanburge) July 2, 2021

If anybody were to ask, the point at which I became certain that the existence of God was impossible, it was the election of Donald Trump.  I will never be able to reconcile a supposed omnipotent and caring God allowing such a hateful and debased man to win an election in a nation that the rest of world is so dependent on for its survival.  History will show that the damage Donald Trump did through his pettiness and stupidity, not just to America but to the rest of the planet as well, is as incalculable as it is real.

So it was with very little surprise that I read the numbers of Millennials and Generation Z in the poll conducted above concerning Americans' certainty in the existence of God.  Young people, who are much closer to the formative years of their learning, often have more skepticism and a still functioning bullshit detector.  That the rapid drop in belief for Generation Z coincided with the election of Donald Trump is not an accident.  The utter hypocrisy of so many organized religions in their acceptance of Donald Trumps egregious transgressions (homophobia, misogyny, lying, racism) in the face of Christ's teachings was more than enough to clue so many young people into the fact that the existence of God is nothing more than a farce.

It is my sincerest hope that these trend lines continue for the next generation and rid America once and for all of the cancer that adherents of the word of God have brought upon us.

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Peace,

emaycee

Say what?

Not this time...

 There was an excellent piece in the Daily Beast this week detailing how far America has fallen in happiness measurements, economic measurements, and health measurements when compared with the rest of the countries in our world.  Unfortunately, the piece blames baby boomers for these precipitous drops, presumably because so much of this has happened under our watch.

I'm not here to defend boomers--I'm one of them and I'd be the first to say we've had our ups and downs through the years in what we've accomplished.  However, this slippage is not one of them.  I will guarantee you that the blame for this begins and ends with the republican party, who, ever since the Reagan Devolution, have done everything they can to make sure our government does not work for the people.

If you look at any number of the polls cited in the piece, the countries showing better results than  America have governments that work hard to even the playing field for everyone, invest in their people and their infrastructure, and provide substantial social safety nets.  For the last forty years, the republican party has done everything it can to insure that benefits favor the wealthy and have decimated social service programs (the poverty rate in America has doubled since the Reagan years, which is a direct reflection of his administrations demonstrably false claim that government is the problem rather than the solution).

This, unfortunately, was made abundantly clear by Donald Trump's disastrous handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, aided and abetted by the gutless republicans who chose the free market over the health and welfare of the American people, which has left 566,000 Americans dead and countless more in dire economic straits.

If there is a silver lining, though, it's that the American people are waking up to the fact that if they're to have any hope for the future the government is going to have to invest in America.  The overwhelming support for Joe Biden's COVID-19 Relief Package and the early approval numbers for his infrastructure plan are proof positive that Americans are warming to policies that help them and not the wealthy and corporations.

And will most certainly improve our standing in the world.

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Peace,

emaycee