Perhaps a more accurate way to put it is, the information wars where the Truth like Conservative is routinely clobbered in the Schools and News Media.
Young kids are taught to trust their teachers and what is told them in the media for not only do they have no alternative, failure to comply results in punitive academic measure such as poor grades and explication from school. To make matters words most of the lies there sold about the world are in many respects filled with half truths just enough to be believable but not enough to be the whole truth.
So it is only natural that they believe the lies they are told about leftism and environmentalism in school and their favor TV shows(MTV, and Jon Steward). It is not until they go out and see for themselves in the real world that they even have the opportunity to realize what their teacher in the class room or on TV(John Steward) was not true after all.
The smart ones will recognize that even if they don’t admit it out of miss-placed embarrassment for having been taken for a fool. The dimwitted and stubborn ones will cling to them lies until the day they die.
The bottom line is, while our kids get to see the inherit incompetent & wast of big government, they have never seen the true evil of Social and communism. What they know of that is only stories from distant lands filtered by ideological lairs no more honest than the ones who had raised them in schools or on TV.
So how could they know? The only thing we as conservative can do to convince them is to encourage them to run the experiment themselves and see if they can’t organize a collective among each other and not have it turn into a horrible self-destructive and abusive wast. If they can’t do it, and we can’t do it, nobody can do it on any large scale.
The other approach is to get the cultural imagination to make the logical leap from failures of big government to the even larger failures of the larger socialist government. When you scale up a state you only get less accountability and larger functionality and efficiency problems.
All Government can ever do is approach a problem like the military, they pick the people they ‘think’ will know best, and those people otherwise unaccountable by competition or any knowledge of what something should or could cost are left to spend as much time and resources as they want to solve the problem.
The Honest bureaucrats will try to do it as efficiency as they know how, but most will simply milk it, taking their time and our money until it becomes too absurdly obvious and large a wast to be ignored. A point that is always a fraction of that Government’s overall spending, thus the larger the government the larger the wast threshold in each area.
This is the nature of management thou elections, your control is limited to 2 options on generally 1 of thousands of questions all but ignoring all the other issues. Even if the majority knew how to effectively manage any given business they couldn’t in a government of hundreds.