Millennials have been described as the first generation in modern history not expected to outperform their parents and achieve a higher standard of living. The outlook for the upcoming Gen Z and Gen Alpha is even more bleak, according to cultural commentator Andrew Isker, author of "The Boniface Option: A Strategy For Christian Counteroffensive in a Post-Christian Nation."
On a recent episode of "1819 New: The Podcast," Isker discussed the "trash world" in which today's youths live and how the inversion of America's founding Christian values — particularly regarding mass immigration — has made the American Dream out of reach and reshaped the culture.
"We've manufactured a world where what is normative and good and what everyone just assumed is the baseline, is normality, are extremely difficult or out of reach for especially young people to get married and have families, to have a career, have good jobs," Isker said. "… Like it wasn't just like one day, all of a sudden, the Millennials and the Zoomers said, you know, I just don't want to get married anymore, at least the young men. 'I don't want to get married. I don't want to work. I just want to be lazy and play Xbox.'"
Isker argued that the prevailing left-wing ideologies on homosexuality and illegal immigration, as well as the institutionalization of diversity, equity and inclusion, have purposefully "destroyed" the foundations of what allows a Christian society to prosper.
"You should want young men and women to get married. You should want young men, especially, to be able to have good jobs, to provide for a wife, and provide for children," he said. "And whatever it is in your society that prevents that from happening has to be rooted out, has to be chopped down and destroyed."
Isker placed much of the blame on the millions of illegal immigrants who were allowed to flood the Southern border under the Biden administration without vetting or assimilation, now driving up the prices of food, homes and health care while taking jobs of hard-working Americans.
"You go to college campuses, and you see the kids, you know, at the football games, or even if you watch SEC football, and you see the young guys. And it's like, man, they got their whole lives ahead of them. It's going to be great," Isker said. "But it's like, actually, it doesn't look good for them. It's a nightmare for them after this. Like, no, they're not going to own two car dealerships in Decatur, Alabama, and have a membership at the golf club. They maybe are going to be lucky to get an entry-level job. And it looks really bleak for them. But things have to change or else we're going to get Mamdanis. That's what's going to happen."
He continued, "No, I just want Americans, right? All Americans, but the majority of which are still, you know, white people. I don't want them to be discriminated against. I don't, like in jobs. I don't want foreign people to have a preference over American citizens. You know, white, black, whatever. I don't want that to be the case. I want Americans, right? People who have been here, who have who have who fought in our wars or whose family has died for this country. I don't want them to be preferenced by a guy like [New York City mayor Zorhan] Mamdani, who got here five years ago, that clearly hates our country. That's the choice that we have… I just want people who love our country to do well."
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