Socialism’s legacy is heaps of bloody corpses scattered across a landscape of hunger and despair, but the youthful neo-commie hipsters infesting our colleges and coastal cities want to give it another try here and now since they’re smart and they won’t screw it up this time. Uh huh. Because when I look at millennials, I see a generation of achievers ‐ achieving unbroken eye contact with their iPhones, achieving hitherto unimagined heights of undeserved self-regard, and achieving convincing their parents to support them into middle age. If anyone can make socialism work ‐ by which I mean the pipe dream of it not being a slaughterhouse of soul crushing tyranny ‐ it’s these winners. At least that’s what Chet thinks.
Chet’s my unicorn. |