Bernie Is Ayn Rand of the Left

“Bernlennials” as many of them call themselves, or Millennials who heart Bernie Sanders, are channeling the same Ayn Randian purity that lures many a young free marketeer. “He answers to ‘We the People,’ rather than the corporate and financial sectors,” the youthfully exuberant Millennials for Bernie site touts, ignoring that those same sectors are comprised of We the People, workers with jobs and families and livelihoods that corral capital to enable human flourishing. Justin Bieber, step aside. Sanders won the “Swipe the Vote” contest sponsored by the dating app Tinder, some Tinder users lure unsuspecting admirers into campaign pitches to Feel The Bern, and one high school girl even brought a cardboard Sanders cutout as her prom date. Sanders’ young acolytes reflect a recent Harvard University survey showing 51 percent of adults between the ages 18 and 29 say they don’t support capitalism, versus just 42 percent who say they do. Sadly, more than half of young people lack an adequate grasp of history and economics, somehow thinking they can beat the laws of mathematics and maintain their high quality of life. Europeans, whom Sanders seek to emulate, are poorer, and far less innovative than Americans (at least, for now).…
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