Right. This mindset is courtesy of the school system brainwashing.
Wait until they start getting taxed at the higher tax brackets and have to pay for taking care of all the old people in the country.
We’ll see how big government they are then.
You make a good point. I’m willing to be that a fair number of freepers weren’t the rock-ribbed conservatives that they’ve become when they were in their 20’s. If you were that’s great. They need to start making some real money and see how much they like getting taxed or start sending their kids to public schools where they see what they learn/don’t learn.
Sorry, but the solution to that problem is already baked in. We've spent decades fostering a culture of death. The boomers who fought so hard to preserve the "right to choose" to kill their unborn will be repaid in full when the next generations exercise their "right to choose" to euthanize the old.
That's why "National Health Care" is so central. It's the vehicle for getting rid of the elderly boomers.
Right now, they are young enough to make relative lack of affluence into a statement. *Stuff* still exists. They can find it on eBay, used or new, or find last season's model of tech somewhere that still works. They are proud to wear eclectic combinations from the thrift store. They are vegan or vegetarian and there are organics available everywhere. Most are still unmarried or unattached and comfortable with going around in packs.
As times get harder, fewer items are given to Goodwill. There are fewer veggies being grown in California and they have to be trucked with gasoline to other places. Soybeans are very expensive. What is hip and fun even at 35, becomes boring and pointless after 45. Lack of heat in the winter and air conditioning in the summer is harder as you get older. Urban youth have mass transport and young people like to ride bikes. It gets harder in the country or as you age. Right now, health care to them means STD treatment and abortion, maybe an expensive asthma inhaler, all available to them fairly inexpensively. Let's see how they deal with lack of medical resources after their 40s. Right now, they are encouraging their parents to join some suicide group rather than waste resources on prolonging their lives. Soon, their own children will say what was good for Granny is good for Mom.
I am with the group that believes it will all crash and burn and those who voted for it are going to be very unhappy. In ten years, if we still have elections, they will be running for office. If we don't, perhaps they will accept their own choices. I won't be around much beyond that, but this is now their world and they will make of it what they will, like every generation. I cannot even discuss things with them. They are polite, but anyone who doesn't parrot the Party Line is ignored and disregarded.