what scares me is the under 35s are loving it.
It is disturbing, but I think many FReepers have no idea how grim the outlook is for young people today (especially whites, who are constantly portrayed as entitled devils by the growing non-white population). While people across the spectrum are suffering, they see many older people in jobs from the “before-times” offering pay and benefits (which aren’t so great, and are constantly being cut) that will never be available to them. I’ve seen a couple of young people in my area working multiple part-time jobs because FT isn’t offered, and I know young people that can’t get offers because the unskilled work they allegedly disdain has been set aside exclusively for braceros - Americans need not apply.
It is easy for us to (rightly) say socialism doesn’t work, but nothing else is working for young people so they’ll try anything new.