The movies, books and music these kids devoured portrayed business as evil and CEOs as thieves in suits whose wealth comes not from hard work but by exploiting the poor or selling dangerous and defective products to an unsuspecting population.
Watching the “Occupy Wall Street†mutants (as I less-than-affectionately call them) riot on Thursday as part of their “Day of Action,†I couldn’t help but notice a striking resemblance to children throwing temper tantrums. And I couldn’t help but think: Why would adults act this way?
The “occupiers†are the post-digested remains of the natural journey through the intestinal tract of the metastasizing liberal ideology in education and pop culture.
The “millennials,†as they’re called, are the first generation spawned from the “progressive†idea of equal outcome disguised as equal opportunity. They are the “Participation Ribbon People†– a generation rewarded and praised simply for showing up. The result of social promotion, time-outs over spanking and the misguided concept that reward is deserved and not earned.
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