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Only in America can a young man sit on a curb in shoes that cost more than a week of groceries, sip a coffee that costs more than a gallon of gas, post from a device that would have been science fiction in 1995, and then explain to you that the system failed him.
Now, let's be fair for a second. Young Americans do have real problems. Housing is brutal. Tuition is a racket. Starting wages have not kept up. Pretending otherwise convinces nobody.
But look at who they blame.
They were handed the most abundant economy in human history. Then they were taught, by tenured professors, on borrowed money, that the engine which produced that abundance is the villain. Four years of that instruction, at a price that would have bought a house in 1985, and they graduate convinced that the cure for their debt is more of the institution that sold them the debt.
That is the embarrassment. Not the sneakers. The teaching.
Anyone who actually studied history would know exactly what socialism does to a country. It is not a mystery. The receipts are stacked from Caracas to Havana to the rubble of a wall in Berlin. Every single generation that tried it learned the same lesson, which is that you cannot vote yourself prosperity, and the men who promise to share the wealth always end up sharing the shortage.
Madison saw this coming. In Federalist No. 62 he warned that a government which constantly churns its own rules ends up rewarding the sagacious and the moneyed few at the expense of the industrious mass of the people. He was writing about the Senate. He could have been writing about the student loan industry.
Here is the good news, and it is real. This generation is not lost. They were lied to. Those are two very different problems, and only one of them has no fix.
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