[Oldeconomybuyer]

Staff opinion columnist Joel Kotkin is R.C. Hobbs Presidential Fellow in Urban Studies at Chapman University. He is executive editor of www.newgeography.com and executive director of the Center for Opportunity Urbanism.

[libertylover]

new generation of voters for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and his open embrace of socialism.

Something for nothing will always look good to many.

[lurk]

Millennials, like dogs licking antifreeze, like the taste of socialism.

They have not lived long enough to know the truth.

[Travis McGee]

[MinorityRepublican]

If you are highly skilled, then you are compensated well. If you have no skills, there's a good chance that you're unemployed and on the Dole.

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

[Impy]

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.

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.