Gleeaiken, if your question isn’t facetious, I can explain why youth vote socialist having raised a child in the educational establishment from age 3-21. In every subject and textbook, ideology is pounded into their brains. If they don’t have alert, inexhaustible parents to deprogram them daily, they end up both unable to reason logically nor have perspective over their own brainwashed minds. It was exhausting getting a child through the system in this end stage Progressive American school system. Even if you home school, the culture these kids are steeped in is full of sly or not so sly propaganda.
And it did not get this bad only recently. I myself graduated from one of the best public schools in the 60’s primed to vote socialist after a year in college. It was only by chance I was pointed to a novel by Ayn Rand that started me down a decades long path of self-deprogramming!
No, my question isn’t facetious. Primary elections were just held in Washington, DC where almost everyone votes Democrat. I knew that Hillary would probably win the Dem primary, but 80% to 20%?? I guess not all those lower income folks believe that Socialism, even of the mild Scandinavian variety is what they want.
Regarding the effect of education, my sons grew up in a major urban inner city area. My older son who has 20 years in 82nd Airborne and Special Forces graduated from the best public school in the city and did 3 years of ROTC which enabled him to enlist as a PFC rather than 3rd class. We had lively discussions on politics and world affairs but I don’t think my husband and I tried to indoctrinate in one way or another. Of course not every mother gives her son Machiavelli’s The Prince when he is 14. I have never asked him how he votes, but his views tend to sound Libertarian. He fought in Gulf War I and has done 2 tours in Afghanistan—06 and 13. When Bush was moving toward war in Iraq with invasion in March 03, about 3 months earlier, when Shinsecki was catching heck for saying we should have at least 300,000 I asked him based on his Iraq experience how many we should send in. He said 450,000. Bush went in with 170,000 and his special administrator Bremmer(sp?) after he finished out a year said 500,000. At any rate I don’t know if it was us or the schools or both, but I think my son has a pretty level head on his shoulders.