Because they have been educated in government K-12 schools!
Just by attending these government schools children are conditioned to be socialists. They are taught by their teachers that it is their **right** to have government threaten their neighbor to collect the money to pay for a service their parents want for free. It is a short step from viewing education as a **right** to demanding that government also take money from your neighbor for food, clothing, retirement, housing, transportation, and even entertainment.
Government schools were from their beginning in the mid 1800s to the early 1900s a socialist scheme to produce compliant workers for the fascist state. That was the intention of the founders of this institution! And....Socialism can NOT be fixed. It must be eliminated.
While my mother, and father, 96 years old, may have been influenced by their parents and grandparents, people who broke the sod, cleared the land, and built up brand new towns, ( people who did not have access to universal compulsory state schools) today's generations do not remember these 18th century pioneers.
My county's high school is celebrating its 100 anniversary this year. My mother is 96. My dad ( the same age) died this year. This is just to give some perspective here. Government schooling is a relatively young instiution, and into the 1950s and 1960s there were still plenty of people alive who remembered the old traditions of self-reliance. They are gone now, and the communist dominated government schools have free reign with the minds and hearts of the nation's children.
Communism is our nation's most serious threat. Government schools are the communists’ most powerful weapon. Yet...Few conservative recognize the enemy ans willing send their children into the communists’ indoctrination camps.
Frankfurt School followers infiltrated public and higher education, the N.E.A. and many church denominations during those years. Those folks brought us sensitivity training and consensus building.
Their Marxist-socialist plan was indoctrination of youth over time, leading to an eventual vote that would turn America hard left. That was 11/4/8.
Search on "Frankfurt School".