[Steve_Seattle]

It's ironic, but I think these young socialists are actually rebelling against - without realizing it - the nihilism underlying their own worldview.

By almost any historical measure, they are extremely well-off, and tolerance of varying lifestyles and ethnicities has never been higher. They have gadgets that their great-grandparents could not have foreseen, and they are arguably the most pampered generation in history.

Yet many are filled with rage and resentment, and they flail about searching for a scapegoat - Trump, capitalism, Wall Street, the banks, the NRA, old white men, Civil War monuments, and so forth. But I think this is a spiritual crisis fostered by their own worldview, which is ultimately materialistic and nihilistic.

Ironically, this nihilism is most sharply manifest in three of the issues which have their utmost support: abortion, the LGBTQ movement, and the environment. If babies can be dismembered and killed at any stage of pregnancy, if gender is simply a matter of personal whim, and if human beings are a cancer on the planet, what ultimate purpose can life have?

[dfwgator]

Rebellion has always been considered a “cool” thing to do.

Rebels get laid more.