From Right Coast Conservative
I don't know if I buy this. Yes there are young leftists in America (Democratic Socialists) who look up to Socialists like Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Dennis Kucinich. Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein and many other leftists and leftist groups. But there's also there's anti-big government mood in America of people who are under fifty or a little over even, that they don't want big government in their boardrooms and bedrooms and in their personal lives. As we are seeing with all the young people who now run or own small business's and startups.
I don't know if I buy this. Yes there are young leftists in America (Democratic Socialists) who look up to Socialists like Senator Bernie Sanders, Representative Dennis Kucinich. Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein and many other leftists and leftist groups. But there's also there's anti-big government mood in America of people who are under fifty or a little over even, that they don't want big government in their boardrooms and bedrooms and in their personal lives. As we are seeing with all the young people who now run or own small business's and startups.
Young business owners and managers don't like high taxes and regulations and would like more freedom to live their lives and handle their own affairs. As we are also seeing with how young people feel about tolerance as it comes to homosexuality, same-sex-marriage, even, how legalizing marijuana is now popular with my generation and people younger as. Ron Paul and Gary Johnson have picked up on in their presidential campaigns.
There is this anti-big government mood that even looks Anarchist with a lot of young Libertarians that follow Ron Paul. But thats not the movement that Gary Johnson has picked up on as the Libertarian Party presidential nominee. What his campaign is about is not gutting the Federal Government but making it leaner and making it more effective and less centralize. Not ending social insurance programs, but giving the people and States more power and flexibility and the ability to run them. Thats what he's running on. There are young leftists where socialism looks good to them. But to say thats where the mood of young people is right now, is I believe a big stretch as someone whose still young myself, relatively.
There is this anti-big government mood that even looks Anarchist with a lot of young Libertarians that follow Ron Paul. But thats not the movement that Gary Johnson has picked up on as the Libertarian Party presidential nominee. What his campaign is about is not gutting the Federal Government but making it leaner and making it more effective and less centralize. Not ending social insurance programs, but giving the people and States more power and flexibility and the ability to run them. Thats what he's running on. There are young leftists where socialism looks good to them. But to say thats where the mood of young people is right now, is I believe a big stretch as someone whose still young myself, relatively.
