Quote of the Day: Millennials Love Socialism… Until They Have to Pay for It

Quote of the Day: Millennials Love Socialism… Until They Have to Pay for It

Quote of the Day: Millennials Love Socialism… Until They Have to Pay for It

People with brains have been perplexed over millennial support for Bernie Sanders. The man is an avowed socialist — he is hawking socialism on the campaign trail as if it’s something to be proud of — and instead of making people run screaming for the hills, it’s getting millennials excited. Don’t they know what socialism causes? Don’t they know that socialism destroys societies? Well… no, they don’t, thanks to the sub-par liberal education they’ve been subjected to, with professors more concerned about indoctrinating students with their liberal agenda than they are about educating them. So no, millennials don’t know that socialism will destroy the United States and the freedoms we enjoy. But funnily enough, once they move out of their parents’ houses, get jobs, and start having to pay for their own health insurance, millennials start singing a very different tune about socialism. Emily Ekins from the Cato Institute writes:

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The expanded social welfare state Sanders thinks the United States should adopt requires everyday people to pay considerably more in taxes. Yet millennials become averse to social welfare spending if they foot the bill. As they reach the threshold of earning $40,000 to $60,000 a year, the majority of millennials come to oppose income redistribution, including raising taxes to increase financial assistance to the poor.

Similarly, a Reason-Rupe poll found that while millennials still on their parents’ health-insurance policies supported the idea of paying higher premiums to help cover the uninsured (57 percent), support flipped among millennials paying for their own health insurance with 59 percent opposed to higher premiums.

When tax rates are not explicit, millennials say they’d prefer larger government offering more services (54 percent) to smaller government offering fewer services (43 percent). However when larger government offering more services is described as requiring high taxes, support flips and 57 percent of millennials opt for smaller government with fewer services and low taxes, while 41 percent prefer large government.

If you dumb it down, and don’t think about how these programs will be paid for, Sanders’ socialism appeal makes sense. He’s promising millennials a bunch of “free” stuff. Free college! Free health care! Free internet! Free food! Free EVERYTHING! It sounds nice, of course. Who wants to deal with the hassle of figuring out a health care plan, or paying a deductible? Imagine if you could go to school and get a college degree without ever having to pay tuition. No decades of back-breaking student loans. Man, it sure sounds nice. Who can blame millennials for liking the idea? Add in a childhood with participation trophies and the virtues of “fairness” drilled into their heads, and the idea that people would have to struggle to survive while working a job they find meaningful is horrifying to them. Millennials grew up with adults — their parents, their teachers, their mentors, everyone — telling them that they should do what they love, and that if they go to college, they will be successful. Imagine their shock when they get into the real world and it sucks. They actually have to work hard! They don’t get handed their dream job right away! They aren’t changing the world by age 25! All the adults in their lives lied to them, and they feel betrayed.

And along comes Bernie Sanders, toting a solution. Socialism! Free stuff! Yay!

So sure, it makes sense that millennials would fall for the socialism trick. But it doesn’t say much good about them when they want all these free goodies, and then run in horror when they realize that they actually have to pay for it. Yes, it’s reality, and at least we can say that millennials don’t live completely in the fantasy-land that the 60s radicals who drilled liberal indoctrination into their head have tried to say is real. We know that the aging liberals refuse to live in the real world and continue on their destructive path no matter how much evidence shows that it’s all a horrible idea. So millennials aren’t as bad as the 60s liberal baby boomers who have destroyed the country. Congratulations, sort of.

On the other hand, this is also a sign of the utter lack of responsibility and accountability that millennials seem to be infested with. They want the free stuff, but they don’t want the responsibility of paying for it. Come on, millennials — grow up, already! Put on your big boy pants and be adults. There’s a quote that’s often attributed (falsely) to Winston Churchill. It goes, “If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain.” Millennials may be irritating, but it seems that this quote rings true still. There’s hope for millennials to get it together yet. The only question is, will they ruin the country before they figure it out?

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  • GWB says:

    This is why everyone of them should be conscripted into a menial position that pays just enough to trigger income tax, immediately upon graduation. It should require 60 hours a week, minimum, and taxes and benefits should suck most of that money away so they’re left eating mac&cheese and ramen (or learning to cook from scratch). Oh, and they should be forced to move out of mom’s house and live somewhere tasteless and undesirable.
    After two years of that, they can pick a major and go to college – if they can afford it.
    Those who do well in classical education in high school and show an aptitude for a trade or something productive in college can be waived from this program.

    • Steve says:

      Forced conscription? Facism much?

      The reason the anti-war protests had so much manpower in the 60s is because most of those kids feared the draft. Once the threat of the draft was removed, the protests dried up. This is why, whenever you read about Congress introducing a bill to re-instate the draft, it’s always sponsored by a Democrat.

      Once the kids graduate is too late anyway. The time to educate them properly is before they’re 18, i.e. while it’s still legal to require them to attend school. The leftists have had their way, with all tiers of education in this country, for far too long.

      • Steve says:

        heh, I spelled Fascism wrong o.O

      • GWB says:

        Since they advocate turning me into a slave for their schemes of free stuff everywhere, I don’t mind advocating they experience a little fascism. That’s actually sort of the point. They will generally be much less enamored of it when their asses are the ones in the sling.
        If you propose to do this during their primary/secondary schooling, you’ll have to put them in “boarding school”, and you’ll raise the ire of every children-chained-to-their-workbenches activist around.
        I wonder… if you called it a Global Awareness Initiative, could you simply send the kids to China to build iPhones for a bit? That might set their priorities back on the proper track, too.

        (If I had titled it A Modest Proposal, would the sarcasm have been more evident? Sheesh.)

  • Heather says:

    Its funny I just the other night had a chat with my 4 year old as she was playing doctor in her lab coat with her big book of booboos checking my ears and eyes that if she worked hard in school and applied herself in college she can be a real doctor and help people. I don’t believe that we should tell our children that they can be whatever they want without letting them know that it comes with working hard to achieve it.

  • Appalled By The World says:

    That’s the beauty of socialism-it’s great for everyone so long as the socialists themselves avoid the dismal results.

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