There Is No Bigger Threat to Millennials Than Liberalism

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PJ Media:

Some on the left argue that the recent college squabble was caused, not by crazy demands for ever newer forms of “political correctness,” but by a conservative -- reactionary -- crackdown on the rights and livelihood of young people. As a millennial myself, I find it ironic that it is not conservative policies holding young people back from the middle class, but the liberalism these student promote.

 

From raising the minimum wage, to Obamacare, to the negative emotional and intellectual effects of “political correctness” on college campuses, liberalism is harming the young and decreasing their chances of rising in the world.

 

The College Freakout

 

According to Salon’s Amanda Marcotte, “Young people are under assault from reactionary forces and most of their grievances are not about imagined slights, but about very serious problems they are facing, on and off campus.” Ironically, Marcotte is right -- but the “reactionary forces” truly at fault are those of the left, not of the right.

 

Marcotte turns to recent events at the University of Missouri, recounting the school’s brief attempt to take away health insurance subsidies for graduate students, and short scuffles with Planned Parenthood following the Center for Medical Progress videos. In these events, the Salon author sees a looming threat by right-wing nut-jobs. “The school was listening to and willing to interfere with the health care and educational access the students had, to pander to the whims of a bunch of delusional culture warriors,” Marcotte declares.

 

Marcotte connects this “attack on the young” to the culture war -- with a clear message as to which side is in the wrong. But could she not have missed something fundamental in all of this? Young people are under attack from the left -- arguably more than any phantom attack from conservatives.

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The generational liberal threat.