TIME Magazine’s Charlotte Alter explained that millennials are so keen on Democratic socialism because, like her and TIME cover girl Alexa...
TIME Magazine’s Charlotte Alter explained that millennials are so keen on Democratic socialism because, like her and TIME cover girl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, they’ve “never experienced prosperity in [their] adult lives.”
.@AOC and I were born the same year. She was a Dunkaroos kid—I liked fruit roll-ups. People our age have never experienced American prosperity in our adult lives— which is why so many millennials are embracing Democratic socialism time.com/longform/alexa…
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That’s a steaming load of B.S., of course, but for the sake of our own amusement, we’re willing to indulge Alter a little bit because her complaining isn’t so much a stinging indictment of capitalism as it is a stinging indictment of Barack Obama’s presidency. See, if you actually read Alter’s piece on AOC, you’ll run across this interesting piece of information:
Kind of weird how without that huge mandatory Obamacare payment, she could have afforded her student loan payments. I feel like that's kind of a big deal about this story.
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Well, whaddaya know?
I get why Ocasio-Cortez wants to repeal Obamacare now.
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It’s like payback! But don’t worry — Medicare for All will totes fix the problem for everybody. And then we’ll all get to experience prosperity at last!