If the world continues on its present trajectory, millennials will have collectively lived the most prosperous lives in the history of the world.https://t.co/UCrqmQC10e
— David Harsanyi (@davidharsanyi) March 23, 2019
Why do millennials like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez embrace the most disastrous economic philosophy of the 20th century? Because millennials have suffered more than the generations that have come before them. At least this is the takeaway of the author of a new fawning cover story of the socialist congresswoman in Time magazine.
“.@AOC and I were born the same year. She was a Dunkaroos kid—I liked fruit roll-ups,” Time reporter Charlotte Alter tweeted. “People our age have never experienced American prosperity in our adult lives—which is why so many millennials are embracing Democratic socialism” (emphasis mine). Alter also claims that Ocasio-Cortez’s “adulthood was defined by financial crisis, debt & climate change. No wonder she and her peers are moving left.”...
The world's poorest people are getting richer faster... https://t.co/FJaFuRYhWl #HumanProgressData pic.twitter.com/N9YGyVQp4U
— Cato Institute (@CatoInstitute) March 24, 2019