From Seth Connell: Sometimes, I really, really detest the stupidity that runs strong in my generation.
Now, granted, not all millennials are Communists. There are many who are die-hard conservatives and libertarians, but there are far too many Commies for comfort these days.
Maybe life experience will transform their asinine political views away from genocidal authoritarian ideologies; I know some people who were Communists in their early 20s who turned into very strong conservatives or libertarians after years of life experience.
I can only hope that my peers will have a similar transformation, but watching them talk about America and Venezuela, I’m rather skeptical.
The Daily Wire reports that Ami Horowitz took to the streets of the East Village in New York City to ask millennials what they think about income inequality and socialism. She particularly asked about Venezuela, and the readily apparent economic collapse of that socialist country.
When asked about income inequality, some answers sounded along the lines of, as one girl stated, “100%. I think that it’s really important and something that has to be taken care of.”
Another, with a beard and a bandanna, said it’s “Pretty important — I work for the working families.”
When asked about the crisis in Venezuela, he effectively agreed that it is better to deal with civil unrest and violence while waiting on bread lines than to experience income inequality here in the United States. Bearded bandanna agreed 100% that the violence and bread lines are worth the equality.
Another said that income inequality is the one issue out of which everything else stems.
These answers are nothing short of terrifying. Watch more below:
Ami: “Should we model ourselves to become more like a Venezuela to become more income equal?”
Answers:
“I think so.”
“Yeah, I think so.”
“Yeah, economically it would be nice because it would be equal for all.”
“I feel like that would be a better plan.”
“If we all give a little bit, and become a little bit more socialist, that’s how we do it you know?”
Lord, help us! They want violence, shortages, and starvation in their streets, but for equality’s sake! What are we giving, our blood and liberty? Has not the endless list of failures of socialism convinced the population that such authoritarian rule isn’t good?
Alas, that is not the case, and many American, particularly the young, lust after total equality more than all other things. For it is just as Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in Democracy in America:
Democratic nations are at all times fond of equality, but there are certain epochs at which the passion they entertain for it swells to the height of fury. This occurs at the moment when the old social system, long menaced, is overthrown after a severe internal struggle, and the barriers of rank are at length thrown down. At such times men pounce upon equality as their booty, and they cling to it as to some precious treasure which they fear to lose. The passion for equality penetrates on every side into men’s hearts, expands there, and fills them entirely. Tell them not that by this blind surrender of themselves to an exclusive passion they risk their dearest interests; they are deaf. Show them not freedom escaping from their grasp while they are looking another way; they are blind, or rather they can discern but one object to be desired in the universe […]
I think that democratic communities have a natural taste for freedom; left to themselves, they will seek it, cherish it, and view any privation of it with regret. But for equality their passion is ardent, insatiable, incessant, invincible; they call for equality in freedom; and if they cannot obtain that, they still call for equality in slavery. They will endure poverty, servitude, barbarism, but they will not endure aristocracy.
As time progresses, there is an ever-spreading Berning sensation across the country. This sensation causes one to abandon principles of liberty in pursuit of ideas that require totalitarian force, and the extunguishing of all liberty to achieve its goals.
In a society that fully feels the Bern, there may be no Donald Trumps or Warren Buffets or Mark Zuckerbergs; but what there will be is the pang of hunger, and the crushing of the human spirit at all turns.
If you’ve got a Berning sensation, I recommend a glass of cranberry juice and book on economics stat.
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