What is with these youngsters - relative youngsters anyway - born into and brought up in affluence, yet they're all radical lefties? Is it just rebellion against Mom and Dad? Are they just arrested adolescents? I don't get it.
In Context: Zohran Mamdani’s use of phrase ‘seizing the means of production.’ What’s it mean?
The limousine liberal phenomenon isn’t new, but it does seem to have gotten worse. One of the issues is that the elite private elementary, high schools and colleges that they attend have become super-woke. I see that in San Francisco. The city’s snobbiest girls’ elementary school (the sort of place the Getty scions go) is always festooned with LGBT pride flags, BLM posters etc
White guilt.
They can afford to be lefties.
Red Diaper babies. They are radical leftists with the full approval of their parents, who feel guilty for being successful.
A lot of these people are Third Generation America-hating commies.