Young people in general are more open to socialism. We were when I was in high school (graduated in 1972).
But then young people mature. Most of ‘em, anyway.
Same here. More lefty but not crazy stupid insane like Maxine “Low IQ” Waters. It’s just a phase to sane people..
Churchill had a good statement about that. Unfortunately I’m not sure these Millennials will mature, the way they have been taught they are entitled to everything
They grow up with it. They have no choice as it is the SOP for probably ever school system in the country.
They are taught from a very early age that there is a central authority figure(teacher) that they get everything from.
I can’t speak for folks outside of the Atlanta metro area, but it’s on full display ever July, when it comes times to get school supplies. Go into any Walmart and there are kiosks for all the grades and all the schools in the district. The kiosks have a shopping list of what the kids need to bring to school. The items are purchased by the parents and then when the kid shows up for class, they hand everything over to the teacher. Throughout the year, if they need something they go to the teacher for it, even though their parents paid for it. You can’t even buy the required items and then bring in your own stuff. Everyone has to be the same. If you can’t afford it, you just don’t show up with it, and you rely on those that were able to purchase the items. They are never told, No. Have no respect for authority and are very rarely disciplined, if at all. The parents, no matter how bad their kids are, always blame the teacher and school and try to sue every chance they get.
A couple of years ago, a high schooler got into an physical fight with the school resource officer in a high school in Georgia. The kid, a sophmore, was pulled off the officer by staff. He was given a couple of days of, in school suspension. Not even charges for fighting the SRO.
Same here, we're the same age. It's easy to be a socialist, it requires no critical thinking whatsoever.
I grew up fast after I graduated from college. Went straight into the Army. About eight months removed from college, I was a platoon leader for two platoons in Germany: 8 missile systems and about 40 men were my responsibility.
A few years later, I was an advocate for Ronald Reagan against my German neighbors...they were sure RR would start WWIII. I enjoyed myself immensely, displaying my command of world, American, and military history...entirely in German. Unfortunately, I've forgotten at least 90% of the German I learned over there.
You’re correct. Socialists have concentrated on inculcating our children from Kindergarten to Universities so it’s our fault allowing them to do so.
Who can forget first graders singing the praises of O B A M A.
It isn’t simply maturation due to age.
Eventually most people do the math and see socialism will not produce enough goods to make a prosperous lifestyle for the populace.
Erasing general mathematical competence was one of the primary goals of New Math, No Child Left Behind, and Common Core in succession. All necessary steps to sell global socialism.
Young folks probably are more “open to socialism.” They have no experience of reading any history. It is simply not taught in the schools and has been taught less and less over the past fifty or more years. If they study no history they do not know what effects systems have had in the past and are ready to believe the wondrous sounding visions of Utopia they hear from hardened communists.
One day millenials are voting republican, the next they are socialist. Media can’t seem to figure them out.
This generation is not maturing. Many are well into their 30’s and still buying this crap.