Are Today's Youth Going Socialist?

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist Tuesday, May 10, 2016

The biggest surprise of the 2016 election is not Donald Trump's blitz or Hillary Clinton's emails or Ted Cruz's cratered campaign. Instead, the biggest shocker in this race to the White House is the success of Bernie Sanders, and the degree to which many of America's young and not-so-young voters so easily embrace an only slightly watered-down version of Marxism.

Several recent Harvard University surveys have shown that more than half of the nation's youth reject capitalism, and more than 40 percent want restrictions on free speech. Shockingly, a February Quinnipiac poll showed Sanders with 74 percent support among 18-44 year olds.