Responsibility, accountability, the need to obey the law and perserve society may represent common sense on this board but are considered antiquated by the high speed twittering, facebooking, video gaming, texting, hyper-multi-tasking twenty-somethings.
This is hard to explain to older generations, but today’s kids just don’t care about precedent. They live in the instantaneous moment. Once they are in charge in mass, they will rapidly reform our society. If you tell them it will cost them half of their paycheck to take care of old people, they will simply refuse to pay and dare you to arrest them or they will get rid of the need to pay by eliminating the program. The best I can do to help you understand this attitude is to look at what has happened to the music (and soon to be movie) industry because of illegal file sharing. Their attitude is you can’t arrest all of us so screw it as society will eventually change the laws to conform to making their life easier and better.
Whether they are left, right, or center politically doesn’t really matter as it is ingrained into their generation that rapid constant change is good and not to be feared. Cause and effect, long term consequences, and critical thinking are not the driving factor for their decision making. That is my best shot at explaining this view based upon my personal observations and my conversations with my son about his peer group in college.
LOL, yeah, that will happen, suddenly tax collection and politics and elections won't mean anything, because Obama's most solid voting block doesn't want to participate.