Posted on 02/07/2016 5:03:41 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The biggest story this election season is not Donald Trump or the fortunes of the two winners in Iowa, the unattractive tag team of Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton. For all their attempts to seem current and contemporary, these candidates - and Trump as well - represent older, more established elements in American life, such as evangelicals, nativists and, in Hillary's case, the ranks of middle-age women, seniors and public-sector unions.
The biggest and most important development has been the massive support among the new generation of voters for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and his open embrace of socialism.
The new generation's lurch toward socialism would have been unimaginable at any previous moment in the past half century.
Unless capitalism or its crony offshoots can create a credible future for the young, there's little reason to expect that this generation will abandon their determination to change the system that, for all its faults, has created more prosperity over time for more people than any other.
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I often tell my children, "Change 'someone should' in your sentence to 'I am going to.' Change 'nobody did' to 'I did not ...' ." If it doesn't make a difference now, at least someday (when the system crashes, as it must) they'll hear the little voice in their heads.
Correct. Being saddled with a mortgage-load of student debt and few employment prospects tends to sour young people as well. Someone promising easy answers always has appeal in such an environment.
I'm sure the Occupy Wall Street crowd wouldn't acknowledge any parallels. Science fiction often delivered morality plays, but the Sharknado generation would not understand.
Our economy is going to become even more automated in the future so how do we make sure that the lower skilled workers have a stake in our economy's system? So I can see how socialism is attractive for the young today
Author is giving these feel the Bern kids too much credit. Most of them aren't reading Marx and becoming dedicated opponents of the free market, someone is promising them free college and free healthcare, that's all. Talk to them, they don't understand economic theory, they don't know what "changing the system" means.
Hopefully most of the White ones at least will grow out of it when they enter the real world and see what's like trying to make ends meet with the government raping you in the wallet. Plenty of my mom's generation outgrew being stupid dirty hippies.
That’s true; urbanization and the transition from an agricultural economy has led to most people having things provided by someone else that they used to obtain themselves (bread, heating fuel, milk, etc.). I don’t hunt, but I understand I’m just paying someone else to kill and prepare my food for me; all the power to them!
My grandmother was disgusted with me when I said I never cut up a chicken: I bought skinless, boneless chicken pieces at the grocery store! If our modern system of food delivery falls apart, I’m afraid I’ll have to live on roots and leaves.
College students also formed the Red Guards of Mao’s Cultural Revolution.
Best comment of the thread.
No, just eat eggs; buy several hens and one rooster...
Good point. We’re not allowed to have livestock in our subdivision, but if the Global Economic Collapse hits, I don’t think the HOA will last long ;-).
That’s true; I think you’ll be able to bend the rules...
Just say you’re a Muslim and the chickens are sacred; they won’t dare bother you.
LOL - good idea!
Monday again ... I hope you have a good week.
You do the same; thank you!
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