-— This kid, my nephew, will never admit to being a communist, it’s always this “moderate independent” crap. But his Facebook feed is full of Bernie Sandinista,-—
This is my nephew. I have two or three more like him.
5-star rant.
My condolences. Holidays must be fun for you. :/
They’ve been convinced the utopian “free stuff” promises is the way things should be.
I have one with the “everyone should receive a standard living allowance that can pay for a all basic living expenses” attitude. You look at them with disbelief - that they can be that stupid, but they are. I think it is a fear of not being able to be successful. They don’t understand that if that were the case NOBODY would be successful and the entire system would fall apart. They think money = wealth and that the government prints it, so it’s just unfair that more goes to some. They have no idea how wealth is created and that our system has generated the highest standard of living in history.
That said, they also think they have it “worse off” than prior generations. I’ll give them that college tuition and health care costs have increased at disproportionate rates (to pay) but many don’t pay anything toward health care and college tuition is something that is paid over time, which shouldn’t be an issue so long as you didn’t get some STUPID degree. Plus there’s alternatives to college anyway, it’s not required.
Agree with premise and up the ante.
For example, going after the top 1 per cent....take it big (top 1 per cent in the world not just the U.S.). If they really believe this stuff they need to be ready to pay up because here comes the whole aggrieved world to lay claim to the wealth of all of the middle income Americans. This gets beyond an issue to a concept.