According to a recent survey of over 2,000 people by YouGov
and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, Millennials, who now make up
the largest generation in America, are increasingly turning away from
capitalism and embracing socialism and even communism as economic alternatives.
In fact, roughly one out of every two Millennials surveyed said they would
rather live in a socialist or communist country rather than a capitalist one.
Almost
45 percent of Millennials polled said that they would rather live in a
socialist country, as opposed to the 42 percent who said they preferred a
capitalist one. Another 7 percent said that they would rather live in a communist nation. The percentage of
Millennials who claimed to prefer socialism over capitalism is more than 10
points higher than the general population. This is the result of higher
education and rampant ignorance, the former ironically helping to produce the
latter. As Ronald Reagan would’ve said: “They know so many things that just
aren’t so.”
Free-market
capitalism was the wondrous aberration that produced the wealth that allows
these historically ignorant morons to champion socialism, even though they have
no idea how it works in practice, let alone how to pay for it.
Millennials
can pretend that capitalism is evil, and that Republicans want to foul the air,
water and land. But, in actuality, millennials would no more wish to live in a Cuba,
Venezuela, North Korea, and the like, than they would want to give up their
iPhones, video games and lattés. In part because they’d likely have to give up
their iPhones, video games and lattés. For starters.
Having government force other people to pay
for your college and birth control may sound like a good idea to the naïve and
amoral. In doing so, however, you’ve ceded control of your mind and body to
others. The more “free” things you are given,
the less free you are.
As Rush—the band, not Limbaugh—once
said:
You can choose
from phantom fears
And kindness
that can kill
I will choose a
path that’s clear
I will choose
free will.
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