The Idiots THEY Raised

[Billy_Kinetta]

50 years of Progressive education has left skidmarks on America's shorts

Poll: Young Americans Are More Likely to Resent the Rich

 

[Ringel05]

50 years of Progressive education has left skidmarks on America's shorts

Poll: Young Americans Are More Likely to Resent the Rich

I've never known too many too many people, kids and adults who didn't resent the rich, envy them but resent them also. As for kids being more socialist? That's a normal growing up progression, kids, young adults tend to be highly emotive and believe completely in the lie of total fairness across the board. Heck, I was a Democratic Socialist eons before Bernie made it popular while at the same time wanting to be rich.......

 

[depotoo]

50 years of Progressive education has left skidmarks on America's shorts

Poll: Young Americans Are More Likely to Resent the Rich

I've never known too many too many people kids and adults who didn't resent the rich, envy them but resent them also. As for kids being more socialist? That's a normal growing up progression, kids, young adults tend to be highly emotive and believe completely in the lie of total fairness across the board. Heck, I was a Democratic Socialist eons before Bernie made it popular while at the same time wanting to be rich.......

It’s worse today. They start drilling it into them at a younger age now.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

50 years of Progressive education has left skidmarks on America's shorts

Poll: Young Americans Are More Likely to Resent the Rich

I've never known too many too many people, kids and adults who didn't resent the rich, envy them but resent them also. As for kids being more socialist? That's a normal growing up progression, kids, young adults tend to be highly emotive and believe completely in the lie of total fairness across the board. Heck, I was a Democratic Socialist eons before Bernie made it popular while at the same time wanting to be rich.......

I grew up at the very cold end of The Cold War. I was never a Socialist.

 

[Ringel05]

50 years of Progressive education has left skidmarks on America's shorts

Poll: Young Americans Are More Likely to Resent the Rich

I've never known too many too many people, kids and adults who didn't resent the rich, envy them but resent them also. As for kids being more socialist? That's a normal growing up progression, kids, young adults tend to be highly emotive and believe completely in the lie of total fairness across the board. Heck, I was a Democratic Socialist eons before Bernie made it popular while at the same time wanting to be rich.......

I grew up at the very cold end of The Cold War. I was never a Socialist.

Good for you....... I wasn't making a definitive statement concerning ALL, only most........

 

[Ringel05]

50 years of Progressive education has left skidmarks on America's shorts

Poll: Young Americans Are More Likely to Resent the Rich

I've never known too many too many people, kids and adults who didn't resent the rich, envy them but resent them also. As for kids being more socialist? That's a normal growing up progression, kids, young adults tend to be highly emotive and believe completely in the lie of total fairness across the board. Heck, I was a Democratic Socialist eons before Bernie made it popular while at the same time wanting to be rich.......

I grew up at the very cold end of The Cold War. I was never a Socialist.

You'll notice I also never claimed you were wrong in your OP......... Like it or not we are all children of our times.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

50 years of Progressive education has left skidmarks on America's shorts

Poll: Young Americans Are More Likely to Resent the Rich

I've never known too many too many people, kids and adults who didn't resent the rich, envy them but resent them also. As for kids being more socialist? That's a normal growing up progression, kids, young adults tend to be highly emotive and believe completely in the lie of total fairness across the board. Heck, I was a Democratic Socialist eons before Bernie made it popular while at the same time wanting to be rich.......

I grew up at the very cold end of The Cold War. I was never a Socialist.

You'll notice I also never claimed you were wrong in your OP......... Like it or not we are all children of our times.

Ain't that the truth.

 

[HenryBHough]

Today's indoctrinated generations don't dream of being "rich" or even "middle class".

They've been conditioned to be victims. Nothing more. Never will be. Never can be. Their only perceived hope is that "The Party" will keep them alive - though marginally.

Fortunately there are still private schools and home-schooling.

 

[DGS49]

Even using the expression, "the rich" is preposterous. It is exactly the same as speaking about a race or ethnic group as though any generalization would apply to all of them.

What is "rich"? Ask a hundred people about it and although one's current circumstances will have a big impact, there will be a hundred different responses. If 20-year-old ME had known that 70-year-old ME would have as much money in investments as I have now, I would have considered that "rich," but I ain't.

As for any "rich" person, the real question is, "How did s/he get that way?"

• inherited wealth?
• Married into wealth?
• hard work and starting a business?
• inventor?
• Writer, musician, artist?
• Corporate success?
• Other employment success (great sales person)?
• Learned professional (doctor, dentist, lawyer, etc.)?
• Smart investor?

Is "rich" a matter of INCOME, or ACCUMULATED POSSESSIONS/INVESTMENTS?

The current culture seems to resent those who achieve success partly because of "advantages" in family background. Parent is a "legacy" at Harvard, or provided start-up capital for a business (Donald Trump). But if your parents were successful (rich), chances are that they got that way by being some combination of smart, hard-working, tenacious, and avoided doing STUPID things to fuck up their lives.

It is perfectly OK to look at someone who is rich and, if you know them and how they got rich, are resentful of it (say, Hunter Biden), but to say that you resent people who are rich is as ignorant as saying you hate Black people or Jews or Muslims.

Most people I know who are "rich" got there by the aforementioned causes: intelligent, hard-working, tenacious, and moral/ethical life.

Go figure.

 

[psikeyhackr]

Bernie has not suggested mandatory accounting in the schools but neither has anyone else.

Our brilliant economists have not told American consumers how much they have lost on the depreciation of automobiles each year since Sputnik. There were 200,000,000 cars on the road in 1994. How many of those are still in use?

 

[Dick Foster]

50 years of Progressive education has left skidmarks on America's shorts

Poll: Young Americans Are More Likely to Resent the Rich

Somehow I managed to ignore it all and did okay for myself. Just okay or comfortable you might say. I may have envied the rich but I never resented the rich. I looked at the rich more as a goal to be achived.

 

[Augustine_]

50 years of Progressive education has left skidmarks on America's shorts

Poll: Young Americans Are More Likely to Resent the Rich

The rich don't give af about you. They think it's funny that so many peasants want to widen the income gap.