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Millennials aren't socialists they're just poorer than their parents

Millennials aren't socialists they're just poorer than their parents

Anyone who is genuinely interested in why young people are moving to the left should look at the pyramid of credit that underpins the Australian economy.

Millennials' rejection of current political systems is a reaction to economic inequality rather than ideology.  James Alcock

To read the Centre for Independent Studies' report on the Millennial embrace of socialism in the dying days of 2020 is to experience something of a time warp.

Published about the time Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was beginning her run for office in 2018, the document opens with the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, and was clearly intended to shock.

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