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Saturday, November 02, 2019

Why Kids Are Socialists and How to Start Fixing Itv

You may be happy with the state of the U.S. economy, but many young people aren’t. And as a result, a lot of them are embracing political extremism.

A recent poll by YouGov finds that half of all millennials — and even more of the generation that follows them — distrust capitalism. Seventy percent of millennials say they’d be willing to vote for a socialist. If you’re not shocked by this, it’s only because you’ve seen it before. But it ought to scare you.

It’s taken us almost 250 years to build this country, and we could wreck it in a single generation. At this rate, we will. In order to prevent the looming disaster, we need to be clear on what has gone wrong.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I couldn't agree more. Taxpayers should not have to pay off someone else's loan. No one will pay off my mortgage which is my responsiblity. Not one taxpayer twisted my arm to take out that mortgage so it is my responsibility to pay for it.