In an article delightfully entitled "Socialism Punk'd You Millennials" Katie Kieffer, who is a Millennial herself, says that her generation is the unwitting victim of its economic and historical ignorance and has voted contrary to its true beliefs. She says, for example, that:
"In 1964, author and philosopher Ayn Rand was interviewed by Playboy Magazine and she defined socialism as a 'doctrine which proposes the sacrifice of the individual to the collective.' Defined thus, socialism would repel Millennials—70 percent of whom say they aspire to become entrepreneurs according to the 2014 Millennial Survey by Deloitte."
In essence, they tend to be socially liberal and fiscally conservative, which is more Libertarian than anything else, but they don't realize it because of fuzzy thinking. Of course, this isn't surprising either because they were brought up in an educational system including college that for most of them was amazingly fact-free. Per Santayana, those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it and that means that you have to read and understand it in the first place. It's time to get going Millennials - 2016 isn't far off. Don't get suckered again.
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