Henry Ford: "Thinking is hard. Which is why so few people do it."

Sarah,
as you have read from the posters clllectivism in all of its forms is what the youth of america has been indoctrinated to support. But it has gotten even worse over the years with the youth of america believing they are entitled to every wish the have should come true. The sanders and clinton are only parroting all who proceeded them in the office, 0 just happens to be the most generous with our tax dollars and those dollars he has been able to get from else where in the world if that actually did happen. I a phrase they have "THE GIMMES".

Unfortunately a number of sociological factors come together to select for the teaching profession individuals with relatively low IQ's and (generally) below average competitiveness. So our average children (IQ = 100) are being "taught" by those with low average IQ's (ave. IQ = 85). Those teacher's life experience was not to be winners, so to quell their hurt feelings (from being losers) they eliminate keeping score and give everyone a trophy (of course, our children do keep score and know their trophies are worthless). Colleges of education are peopled by those who have never been in the real world and thus think these below average people are average (they have little experience being challenged or pushed to do better -- appearance of effort is what counts, not results). If we eliminate schools of education and only hire people with history of success who are retiring from real world experiences (e.g. retiring military or agencies/industries that retire people after 20 or 25 years) we could fix this in a generation. Of course lower IQ folks tend also to believe they need group power to be competitive, thus union membership.

...and Hillary does not "get it" either...by calling Bernie Sanders out on his "numbers", it is the kettle calling the pot black...she coined the phrase..it takes a village (to raise a child)...today's youth have been raised in govt (public) free schools...they cannot not even apply for college unless they have so many community (slave) service hours...it is entitlement meets "duty"...they will happy to vote for Sanders, if he will give them "free" anything...and to expect the "Fed" to print the money to pay for it...

People are no longer taught the zero sum game. There is always the proverbial "them" to sweep a chunk of money from and take care of a problem. The idea that there is an alternate forgone opportunity from the money is lost.
Neither are young people taught that the rich don't just accumulate wealth, they spend it, or how wealth is created. If you don't understand wealth creation, and listen to the media about "unfair income or wealth inequality" you are drawn into the defend the underdog psyche. How could they think otherwise.

Government schools have not taught how to think and have egregiously taught a modified history and twisted economics to students. Remember, the frontal cortex does not mature until the early twenties and the indoctrinators have a free hand to condition the students not to think — just to feel.

Wow! I just wanted to thank you all for the tremendous response in answering my question! I love the community here in the Gulch.

They have been indoctrinated into the FSA, Free Shit Army! Some will realize the errors of their ways if they are able to climb out and make a life on their own. Membership in the FSA is wonderful until one does climb out and starts paying the bills for all the FS that was not free at all! A Rude Awakening.

Because they believe in altruism and collectivism.
And partly because the have been indoctrinated
with it in college. I say "partly" because such be-
liefs are held not only by college students/gradu-
ates, but because they are widespread in our so-
ciety, originating hundreds of years ago.

Because... hell who knows. Maybe because they think of themselves as the smartest generation in the world and that lunatic tells them what they want to hear.

Every child is born a socialist. Every child, when born, needs others to support him. The child has no responsibilities; everything is a game for which others pay (or make happen).
The American uneducation system has made sure that certainly the latest, and to some degree, the previous, generation never mature, never grow up and never acquire personal responsibilities. Naturally, when they are in their 20's and 30' and even 40's, they are really still teenagers. And they continue to play games, with their own lives and those of others.

They haven't learned how to say no to a child yet or to teach them personal responsibility and work ethic. We go through this every generation.

Young people today will discover that they will be forced to pay for the free socialism of yesterday. This happens when they grow up and become productive. If they become productive?

Young people are encouraged to think capitalism is a bad thing. They are not encouraged to explore what it can and should be. This goes to the schools, as kids have already been told parents know nothing and are out of date. By the time they reach college, they think credit cards are a way to get stuff, with so many unaware there are interest charges if they don't pay. They have been given credit for "volunteer" work, which excused them from tests in math and real subjects. They were encouraged to make decisions with peers - the blind leading the blind, as they used to say. It is actually heartbreaking, seeing them set up for a fall, as they are. It was Rand's writing, not the schools and not we parents, which showed our daughter the way of economics and productivity. We gave her the books, but she read them and took them with her when she moved out. She became a Libertarian and knows the unreality of socialism. Students usually do not do the deep research to find their way, Rand should be part of the school course, but low IQ teachers would never know how to teach it.

Great posts. Remember, these are the kids that got a trophy for just showing up to a competition. Their expectations are a trophy for showing up to work, let alone accomplishing anything. Bernie promises a trophy and that is all they hear.
On another level, parents are not giving these kids boundaries. There is little if any respect given to anything. Law enforcement is an example. "Yes Officer" will keep you from getting shot. But too many times these kids are confrontational and do stupid thing such as challenging a police officer. I do work for multiple police departments and I hear this constantly from the officers.
What most of these kids don't realize is that are some that are entrepreneurial and in ten years will be at the top of the food chain. The rest will look at them and ask,"how is that they did so well." But also, "I deserve a piece of their pie". It never ends.

I attribute it to several factors (some already mentioned in other comments):
1. The indoctrination from educators that capitalism is bad and that it is "society's" responsibility to take care of those who can't take care of themselves and the moochers without any distinction. As soon as you justify govt redistribution to one group who may actually need it (mentally ill, etc...), it is a slippery slope to include more and more groups who "need help". It never ends. We are already a highly socialist society with out current govt redistribution "entitlements".
2. Most young people don't have much to begin with and so rather than fight and earn success it is easier to add yourself into a group that "needs" the govt help.
3. Capitalism has received a black eye while most young people have been growing up. Govt policies helped create the 2008 financial crisis as they interfered in the marketplace. However, it was spun that it came from out of control, unbridled greedy captalists. While both were at fault, no one was held accountable on either side. The only pain that came was from average people losing their jobs and homes.
4. The younger generation has lived through a period of stagnant wages and slow economic growth. They are having a difficult time seeing paths to increase their wealth with the deck stacked against them. Home value and stock/401k value can be wiped out at a moments notice and are not worthwhile investments. They can be layed off at a moments notice and have no job security or company loyalty. The only way to get a good bump in pay is to change jobs instead of staying in the same company. Most corporations are as corrupt as govt with cronyism and smoozers usually rewarded over ability and talent.
5. Similarly, they don't have the benefit of history. I am in my 40s and I remember the malaise of the 70s economy, the energy and growth of the 80s created by Reagan's reforms. The fall of communism (which was really just hyper socialism). A more socialist Europe suffer decades of slower growth and stagnant standard of living while the US continued to grow. The beginning of the 90's malaise that was saved by the internet/technology boom. And now the "new normal" of the current slow growth. I have seen what works to increase growth (lower taxes, less regulation, restrained govt spending). They unfortunately have not experienced this first hand and only read about it in the abstract of text books.

They will have to see the negative effects of socialism or at least an alternative that works for them before they will reject it. Unfortunately, the state of our current, broken Capitalist model (i.e. too much govt interference in the marketplace, too big to fail, etc...) is not attractive enough to entice them to want to participate.

There was a time when I thought socialism was a good thing.
That was back during the late 60s with peace signs, rock bands, protest marches, marijuana and free love (sex)--all that counter-culture reaction to an unpopular war.
allosaur lived through that. So did Sanders, Clinton, a bogus "power to the people" reawakening of socialism and a whole mess of hippies who never grew up but became college professors.

Way back in the 40s and 50s the teaching of economic systems was either nil or distorted. I can only imagine the piling-on since then. If we are talking about how the USA works as a country, and people are relying on what they learned in school, it's no wonder that they don't understand anything more than what the candidates say, and then, only what they promise without a clue as to what it would take to make it happen.

American progressivism, based on
--Fabian socialism, based on
----Marxist socialism, based on
------Hegelian dialectic, based on
--------Kant's analytic-synthetic dichotomy, based on
----------Plato's shadows in the cave

Where is Aristotle in all that?

The Fabians started about 130 years ago and haven't stopped.

Here is what one 30-something said: "I am going to listen to the economists that do nothing but run these numbers for a living who are behind Bernie, instead of listening to more politicians."