It would be amazing if they realized what they are losing since very few of them have ever been taught any REAL history. What most of them think they know is mainly propaganda which has been passed off as history. One glaring example which is not by any means restricted to millenials is the belief that Richard Nixon was impeached and William Clinton was not. They are wrong on both counts. Many believe that “capitalism” is a dirty word, even many who are small scale capitalists themselves may believe it. This is of course another trait that is by no means confined to millenials. A lot of people condemn the system which has made the country the greatest economic powerhouse ever known. They don’t realize that while a lot of capitalists are anything but perfect the true capitalist system is nothing more than the free market system, the only economic system that has ever worked for the greatest benefit of all. They look to government for solutions to problems that would not exist except for government having created them in the first place. I consider the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act” AKA “Obamacare” to be a supreme example of an absurd government “solution” to a problem which is totally a creation of government. There can be no hope for the recovery of America unless and until this monstrosity is recognized for the abomination that it is and is totally rejected in favor of a free market solution.
“What most of them think they know is mainly propaganda which has been passed off as history.”
As the old saying goes, “They don’t know that they don’t know” but now it applies to more of them than ever and as time goes by it becomes more obvious to those who are no longer or have never been susceptible to this process of indoctrination. I’m one of those Baby Booomers who naively participated in the counterculture of the 1970’s but now I’m (for all intents and purposes) “all in” as a conscientious adult with a more certain kind of present day counterculture. It’s no wonder that to me and others like me, the big picture has been made to appear upside down AND backwards at the default level, while to others it represents a celebrated “New Normal”.