Hey, Boomers—Young Americans’ Embrace of Socialism Is Partly Our Fault

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), left, and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) hold a news conference to introduce legislation to transform public housing as part of their Green New Deal proposal outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Nov. 14, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Commentary

Whenever politics comes up in conversations with my baby-boomer peers (and you know how often politics comes up these days), one will say something like, “I just don’t understand why Sanders and socialism are so popular with young voters”; or, “Who do those kids think will have to pay for all the free stuff they want from the government?”