"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Young Heads, Old Hearts
"So do young folks actually choose socialism with their heads, or are they mistakenly listening to their hearts instead of their heads? Do old folks actually reject socialism with their hearts, not their heads? Do we even know that old folks actually like socialism less than young folks?"
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I guess I qualify here as an "old folk," in my 6th decade of life.
In my experience, young people in the United States don't know what socialism is, having never experienced it in action. Few have lived in communal living arrangements, none have experienced a socialist economy. Few have seen our capitalist oligarchy from the outside.
I do not reject socialism. I work for its beginnings every day of my life.