Article by Marina Medvin in "Townhall":
Bernie Sanders keeps telling young people how he will give them so
much free stuff, if only they will go with him, vote for him. Bernie
basically stands in front of a windowless van, telling kids to get in,
luring them with candy and puppies.
Back
in my day, I was taught to be wary of people luring me with promises of
Utopia. I was taught that if someone offers something for free, I
should tell them, "no, thank you, I can't afford it." But those days are
gone. At the start of the new millennium, adults have lost sight of
teaching kids the basics.
Today's youngest voters grew up tightly
packed in bubble wrap, never exploring on their own, never making
mistakes from which they can learn, never getting to understand reality.
These young people spent their lives dependent on authority, on
guidance. Yet those who were supposed to guide them have failed them.
Millennials grew up as a generation expecting handouts
but not learning work ethic or personal responsibility, never finding
the inner drive to succeed independently. The idea of autonomy and
freedom are genuinely frightening concepts for these youths. Socialism
simply fits their expectations more comfortably. If you grow up with
white-glove care from a nanny, why wouldn't you ask for a nanny-state to
continue coddling you through your illusory adulthood? (And illusory it
sure is.)
Which brings me back to the old man who wants to show us the
puppies in his van. I was taught to stay away from the man because my
mother wouldn't be there on the street with me as I played. You see, I
didn't grow up in bubble wrap. I was able to go out on my own as a kid,
make choices, make mistakes, learn lessons, explore the world. It is
easier for me to understand human nature than it is for today's youth.
So when old man Bernie asks me to come into his unmarked van to pet a
puppy, I turn my back in disgust. I know that there is no such thing as
"free," that someone always pays for it. I know that if someone is
offering something to me, he wants something in return. I also received a
historically-accurate and thorough education about the evils of
socialism and the forced division of wealth, and I can navigate through a
politician's fairy tales. I adored people like Margaret Thatcher,
who passionately hated socialists. My favorite quote from the Iron Lady
to nescient socialists of her day is, "Grow up, get a real job for a
change and learn something from history and economics!"
It's not as easy for generation bubble-wrap to see past
the puppies. They don't admire capitalists like Margaret Thatcher; they
admire communists like Che Guevara. Bernie knows this. He capitalizes on
this. Free healthcare for all! Legal weed for all! Free college for all! Cancel student debt for all! Free childcare for all! And so on. Young voters did not grow up understanding the consequences
of what Bernie proposes or what Che did to his people. They don't ask
questions about what happens when the working class isn't motivated to
keep working and just shrugs.
Millennials don't understand that socialism is a division of wealth,
while capitalism is a multiplication. Their inability to compute or to
question, something these youths have been conditioned
to ignore, has led to the inevitable empty-minded predisposition to
craving socialism. Bernie has simply taken advantage of what public
education has served him on a silver platter: Marxist youths.
Ineffectual parenting, combined with leftist indoctrination at
schools, has created a generation of cockeyed optimists thirsty for
deceptive socialism. Bernie stepped up to the plate at the right time.
And so there you have it: luring children is how socialism got its groove back.
https://townhall.com/columnists/marinamedvin/2020/02/11/luring-children-how-socialism-got-its-groove-back-n2561107
