Of Purple Pandas and girls and boys

  Bernie Sanders is a Socialist. He calls it Democratic Socialism, but if you know your history, what would follow next? Democratic Communism, or perhaps Democratic Nazi-ism is more your style? But when I look at the sea of innocent and enthusiastic young faces at one of his rallies, I don't see the faces of the pseudo revolutionaries of their predecessors. The Bill Aires type, so filled with vile hatred and acts of terrorism, has been replaced with the bright shiny faces of all American kids. The kids are harmless enough, but the ideology they support never ends well for any but the politically elite.  But we must ask ourselves, whose to blame for all these misguided kids? Certainly not the kids, they are ignorant of the facts, and so, innocent of any ill intent. Bernie himself isn't to blame. After all, I have no doubt that he is only a foolish old man, and that he honestly believes that socialism isn't really a bad thing, and unlike all the others who failed so miserably before him, he can get it right. Our free enterprise system of capitalism, is like our constitution, the best in the world. Our system of government is emulated and admired by every free people in the world. Capitalism vs. Socialism is not a fair fight, one is a huge bull dozer, and the other a Tonka toy. 

  So who are these crazy kids, these millennials? Lets start with my parents generation, they called them the "greatest generation". Their kids, my generation, are called "baby boomers" because after the second world war, when a lot of very horney soldiers and sailors came home, they made up for lost time, and Boom, us. We gave berth to, "generation X", who are the parents of the millennials. So what happened? How did we go from a generation of people who literally died to provide the freedoms we all enjoy, to this? This, where kids not only have no understanding about our true history, and believe that patriotism is a bad thing. The only positive that can be gleaned from this is, at least the kids are interested in the process and are actively involved. By comparison, I didn't even vote until I was forty five. These children are America's kids, the first to not be expected to do better then the generations before them. They are the first to be raised almost completely without the moral compass that is God. They are the first to be taught that government is god, and that political correctness its religion. The first to be told that they aren't boys and girls, but Purple Pandas. The first to get participation awards, and so, the first who will never know the thrill of victory or the agony of defeat. The first to be taught that the government is not just your kindly uncle Sam, but rather that the government is their daddy. So when they hear, Free college and more free stuff, they need not worry about how all this is paid for? Just sit back and relax kids, there is nothing to see here, and so, nothing to fear. Don't worry, daddy will take care of everything.