“Nor do I. Instead I have mind-bending, near daily conversations with Millenials who are well into their third decade who STILL buy into this crap. I think they’ve been totally captured by the Left and it’s just a matter of time till the country goes Socialist.”
Unfortunately, my experience matches yours, and I’ve come to the same conclusion. I sincerely hope my time on this earth is over before the left claims their victory.
I think part of the problem is that the millenials are a lost generation. Wages have been stagnant (or dropped) since at least 2000. Many millenials got out of college and never got an actual career job, instead getting stuck in retail and other low-tier, dead-end jobs. This is true even for millenials who didn't major in underwater basketweaving and xir/xer/xyr genderfluid studies. To make things worse, they waste their money on stuff that doesn't last, like travel and food.
Your entire future career wages are tied to what you make when you initially inter the a profession (if you get in at all, nowadays). Millenials were, and will be, way behind the curve because of their failure to start well.
GenX also had this problem but it wasn't as severe, and GenX also was able to buy houses before they became impossible to afford - of course a lot of GenX bought houses they couldn't afford, using idiot loans, and then had a bankruptcy and foreclosure. GenX is more self-reliant and able to change courses, and also more cynical about believing that the government would ever help us or be there for us in retirement. So, we saw that we wouldn't be getting anything from the government and decided to do what we could to provide for ourselves. Millenials "nevertheless persist" in their delusion that the government can give them what they want.
Boomers, of course, and then GenX and Millenials themselves following suit, are the ones who screwed Millenials out of any wage increases. I have sat in conferences with bigwigs as they explain why they are lowering the starting wages, yet again, for new employees, "because we can." In the 1990's starting wage with a Bachelor's was about $30,000 even if you had majored in something dumb. Full health benefits. College was still affordable. 20 years later Millenials were graduating with a Bachelor's (the educational quality is much poorer, though, even with a solid major), and being lucky to make $25,000. No benefits. Massive student loans.
The financial situation of the Millenials is something that all of us are going to have to somehow deal with. I don't see it going away. So far the only solution they have come up with is to use the government's power to steal money away from anyone who has any. This will result in the destruction of the middle class. I think it's already well underway. I don't really see an answer for this lost generation. They're dumb, poor, lack financial sense, lack work ethic, and lack morals. They're greedy, always with an eye on what other people have. How do you fix all of that?