Posted on 02/11/2020 4:19:48 PM PST by Kaslin
Bernie Sanders keeps telling young people how he will give them so much free stuff, if only they will go with him, vote for him. Bernie basically stands in front of a windowless van, telling kids to get in, luring them with candy and puppies.
Back in my day, I was taught to be wary of people luring me with promises of Utopia. I was taught that if someone offers something for free, I should tell them, "no, thank you, I can't afford it." But those days are gone. At the start of the new millennium, adults have lost sight of teaching kids the basics.
Today's youngest voters grew up tightly packed in bubble wrap, never exploring on their own, never making mistakes from which they can learn, never getting to understand reality. These young people spent their lives dependent on authority, on guidance. Yet those who were supposed to guide them have failed them. Millennials grew up as a generation expecting handouts but not learning work ethic or personal responsibility, never finding the inner drive to succeed independently. The idea of autonomy and freedom are genuinely frightening concepts for these youths. Socialism simply fits their expectations more comfortably. If you grow up with white-glove care from a nanny, why wouldn't you ask for a nanny-state to continue coddling you through your illusory adulthood? (And illusory it sure is.)
Which brings me back to the old man who wants to show us the puppies in his van. I was taught to stay away from the man because my mother wouldn't be there on the street with me as I played. You see, I didn't grow up in bubble wrap. I was able to go out on my own as a kid, make choices, make mistakes, learn lessons, explore the world. It is easier for me to understand human nature than it is for today's youth. So when old man Bernie asks me to come into his unmarked van to pet a puppy, I turn my back in disgust. I know that there is no such thing as "free," that someone always pays for it. I know that if someone is offering something to me, he wants something in return. I also received a historically-accurate and thorough education about the evils of socialism and the forced division of wealth, and I can navigate through a politician's fairy tales. I adored people like Margaret Thatcher, who passionately hated socialists. My favorite quote from the Iron Lady to nescient socialists of her day is, "Grow up, get a real job for a change and learn something from history and economics!"
It's not as easy for generation bubble-wrap to see past the puppies. They don't admire capitalists like Margaret Thatcher; they admire communists like Che Guevara. Bernie knows this. He capitalizes on this. Free healthcare for all! Legal weed for all! Free college for all! Cancel student debt for all! Free childcare for all! And so on. Young voters did not grow up understanding the consequences of what Bernie proposes or what Che did to his people. They don't ask questions about what happens when the working class isn't motivated to keep working and just shrugs. Millennials don't understand that socialism is a division of wealth, while capitalism is a multiplication. Their inability to compute or to question, something these youths have been conditioned to ignore, has led to the inevitable empty-minded predisposition to craving socialism. Bernie has simply taken advantage of what public education has served him on a silver platter: Marxist youths.
Ineffectual parenting, combined with leftist indoctrination at schools, has created a generation of cockeyed optimists thirsty for deceptive socialism. Bernie stepped up to the plate at the right time.
And so there you have it: luring children is how socialism got its groove back.
Economic instability was a lot of the lure.
Lowering the trade tariffs and watching industries and jobs go offshore, soured a lot of children on capitalism.
Watching their parents go through unemployment, have to move, lose the house, go through stress, etc.
But it wasn’t capitalism’s fault. It was government trade policy fault. Capitalism has always provided a higher standard of living than socialism.
The high level of school debt has also soured some on capitalism. You do conventional wisdom, and go to the best school you can get into, and then you’re facing financial slavery. Again government policy and not capitalism is at fault.
For decades, democrats have been pushing a very liberal agenda in the schools.
Now that all their millennial puppets are of voting age, and pursuing what they were programmed to demand, old school dems such as Chris Matthews, Uncle Joe et al are freaking out
You commies made this problem. Now fix it!
My recollection is that the quote comes from Churchill. Shaw was a socialist until his dying day.
Our university class will be labeled the Clueless Generation, members of which are woefully lacking in the basic survival skills of life.
Capitalism is about making choices. People who go into student loan debt for a degree that cannot repay the loan chose poorly.
Shaw was a FABIAN SOCIALIST, who went even more lefty as he aged, turning into a full blown COMMIE and dying one.
Churchill NEVER said it, nor wrote it; but for some strange reason someone atributted this saying to him, on line and now, almost everyone repeats the nonsense.
I thought it was Lyndon Johnson.
One of the earliest users of the quote was James Madison but its origins go much further back. There’s lots of speculation about who said it first. It certainly wasn’t George Bernard Shaw, who was a staunch Fabian socialist.
Misattributed. That was Churchill, not Shaw.
LOL...not him either!
I didn’t think it was that difficult, even for a young person, to realize there is no free lunch; everything has a price. They will learn in time; possibly after it’s too late.
Thank you, Kaslin, for sharing this EXCELLENT article and explanation of why so many young people are swallowing what the Democrats are spewing!
Sad that these points will never be discussed by media, TV or print, except by some on FNC and that’s like preaching to the choir.
God help America.
Bkmk
Agree....for decades liberals have indoctrinated students and, imho, sadly, parents either didn’t notice or weren’t sure how to combat this.
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