It has become an almost nightly fixture on the news these days. Some news channels reporting of an unruly passenger on an airline assaulting either the flight crews or other passengers. It appears most of these events involve the millennial generation. Passengers ranging from their twenties to early forties. If true, it suggests to me just one more manifestation of a generation created with a sense of entitlement and self-importance that leads to outrage anytime they are forced to comply with some social norm.
These are the people who now control social media and who seem to believe being an “influencer” is actually a profit-making occupation. I’ve been criticized by progressives for believing there is such a thing as a “slippery slope” where bad behavior, once tolerated, will lead to increasingly bad behavior.
But I see in the Millennials a generation that has little respect for the history and culture of the nation and has been told their behavior will be tolerated. We have legal and legislative systems around the country now committed to releasing violent individuals in the name of social justice. We have judges who place their political beliefs before their role in the law. In the eyes of Beryl Howell[1], an appointee by the Obama Administration, she is outraged the DOJ is allowing the January 6th rioters plea deals that tie her hands in handing down serious prison time. I don’t recall those same complaints with rioters in Minneapolis or New York as they protested the George Floyd death. It seems in the eyes of liberal judges not all riots are created equally. Those that pass their social muster are okay, those that don’t are a serious threat to democracy.
It will be interesting to see how the airlines and the government now deal with the increasing violence in the skies. Whatever the course of action airlines will need to rethink their advertisements and perhaps even the "woke" political choices they support? Since the "woke" tend to eat their own and if you get even a little out of step you will be condemned anyway.
Can we really say “Fly the friendly skies” anymore? Perhaps, “Fly with us, we are only mildly passive-aggressive” would be more accurate. Remember, we are all in this together, unless your entitlements are more than my entitlements.
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