It is one thing for boomers to be out of touch with the experience of the younger generations. The same goes to the political class, as Boomers and GenX are the predominant generational blocs in politics. However, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is herself a Gen Z. At 28 years old, she serves as a public spokesman for the Trump Administration. In a recent interview with Jesse Waters on Fox News, while they were doing coverage from the Great American State Fair, she was asked about the “complaining” of the younger generations.
Waters: Some of these kids, and I call them kids because they’re in their 20s, and they’ve never had real jobs, and they’re complaining things are expensive. Yes, things are expensive when you don’t have a real job. That’s right. Do you think that’s getting traction, complaining?
Leavitt: Unfortunately, I do because this generation, my generation, I hate to say it, Gen. Z and those younger than me have been raised with just silver spoons in their mouths, just getting everything handed to them. That’s not the values this country was built on. It was built on meritocracy and hard work, pulling up your sleeves, pulling yourself up from your bootstraps and achieving the American dream. And we need to protect it with all we got.
She proceeds to blame liberal indoctrination while touting homeschooling and private Christian education as the solutions.
The problem with castigating a generation of Americans as lazy is multifaceted. First, human nature responds to incentives. This is true in economics and human behavior. Gen Z has grown up in a world where hard work does not “pay off.” This starts in the schools, which often reinforce this negative perception through the grading policies and the reticence to fail students. College is much the same, only with DEI policies that disproportionately preclude top white students from entry by design. For a white student to get into Med School, they must work much harder than their black counterpart due to various Affirmative Action programs. This creates a disincentive for white doctors, which has downstream effects in healthcare quality. These roadblocks ultimately create the “competency crisis” that persists across numerous industries.
The second issue is that the job market has been the worst since the 08 Financial Crisis. Bloomberg famously quipped that people should “learn to code,” but tech is laying people off and often employing foreigners over Americans. Corporate DEI policies favor women, foreigners, and minorities over white men. Gone are the days when one could get a job by walking through the door with a firm handshake. The hiring process has become much like the male experience on dating apps, with hundreds of applications resulting in single digit responses. This is paired with the layered hiring process which consists of “personality tests” and multiple rounds of HR interviews for an entry-level position that is intrinsically inefficient while functioning as a humiliation ritual. Not only is gainful employment more difficult to obtain, but corporations often establish absurd hiring practices that fail to elevate the most meritocratic candidates.
Third, Donald Trump won in 2024 on the issue of inflation, which signifies that things are not just expensive for unemployed youths but for all Americans. Nevertheless, they completely ignore the housing crisis where rent/mortgage approaches fifty percent of net income rather than the old standard of thirty percent. The cost of living standards are a disincentive to hard work, which especially combined with the jobs market, leads to destabilization.
Gambling apps thrive on this because guys will risk their meager paychecks to win real money. The concept of “doom-spending” has also arisen under the premise that since money is being rapidly debased, the most value one can derive from their paychecks is to immediately spend it. These attitudes are not positive attributes, but they are rooted in structural problems in the economy.
The sad reality is that, despite none of her arguments being true, Leavitt’s talking points play well with boomercons. This was unfortunately reported by Matt Forney: volunteers for the Casey Putsch campaign (before it went full retard) agreed with Vivek Ramaswamy’s castigation of Gen Z. Simply put, many boomercons despise younger Americans. The cliché of “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” is something boomers will say until it comes to Social Security checks getting an automatic 22-28% reduction when the program finally does become depleted. Rather than pick themselves up, they will most surely demand a bailout when that day comes.
Perhaps the most egregious part of this clip is Karoline Leavitt herself, who is the embodiment of the silver spoon, who is married to a man 32 years older than her, who happens to be a wealthy real estate developer in the donor class. To paraphrase Kanye West, not saying she is a gold-digger, but you would not see her with a Food Stamp American. She will literally pose with her newborns in the White House as if a millionaire’s wife needs a job. She is not Press Secretary because of meritocracy, but because she has good genes.
If the Trump Administration wants to succeed, it cannot placate the boomers at the expense of future generations. Every problem in America stems from immigration: housing, employment, cost of living, quality of life, crime, etc. Every answer to every question should pivot back to immigration. The messaging really is that simple, yet she cannot even be bothered to understand the political moment.
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Every problem stems from the fiat money fractional-reserve banking racket, as well as the collapse of morality in the leadership class. Mass third-world immigration is a symptom not a primary cause.