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The primary impetus for Bernie's support among the young is that he promises a vague "future to believe in," which translates into even more of the Moon than most liberal politicians promise. Free is good when you want stuff you can't afford. As one young Sanders supporter griped when interviewed, "why should I have to pay for my college education?"
Perhaps the next question he will ask is, "Why should I bother working, when I can't have the kind of job I want?" Countless unemployed or underemployed young people – and they are, indeed, uncounted – have already opted to exit the job market, at least for a while. Many of them are college graduates whose inability to find meaningful employment could be one of the strongest arguments against imposing even higher taxes on Americans in order to provide free college tuition.
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They buy into the class warfare rhetoric that ripples through Socialist Sanders's sermons, expunging government of the blame for societal failures by placing that blame on the expensively clothed shoulders of the super-rich.
Liberals have always preached that money pumped into problems solves them.
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An oddball like Sanders doesn't materialize as a political icon overnight. [. . .] His surprising candidacy would have been impossible a generation ago, when most Americans were taught to think differently…or for themselves. Nor were most young people's dedication to political candidates as intense as it is now. Technology is a great enabler in that pursuit.
But the major political impact on millennials has been wielded by liberals who dominate the faculties and administrative strongholds of college campuses across America.
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Universities have become training venues for the art of marches, protests, political skulduggery, and general rabble-rousing. Unlike previous generations, millennials acquire the moxie to hustle off to rallies or hunker down in protest in cities they don't even know. One wonders how they get the resources to do this when they picture their lives in America as circumscribed and grossly unfair.
The left-wing college lesson plans begin with an assumption that it is okay to wage war on perceived rights violations here at home, but not overseas. We must stay out of other countries' problems, especially militarily, but we must accept the fallout of those problems when they show up at our borders. The crucible of liberal indoctrination is a fear of those who are not of like mind. Obama and Clinton, for example, both talk of Republicans as a great threat to America. "It's not who we are."
So liberal academicians have, in effect, provided a vital run-up to the viability of a Bernie Sanders. [. . .] and his dream of making the United States of America more like Sweden.
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Millennials are a dominant power in the United States. In 2013, they represented one-third of the total population.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/a_political_maydecember_romance.html
February 7, 2016
A Political May-December Romance?
By Doris O'Brien
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