08-18-2018, 03:42 AM
(08-17-2018, 11:26 PM)Cynic Hero Wrote: Selfish Boomers know that if they allow anyone born after 1955 any real decision making power, those cohorts would immediately change US policy so that the US is not rammed up deep into to Russia and China's faces. Acknowledging that the governments of Moscow and Beijing have the right to rule their own countries means that those nations would not be forcibly democratized is an unacceptable option for boomers for emotional reasons.
You are correct about the foreign policy angle but there are other rather self serving reasons. They expect that their children and grand-children will pay for the retirement that they aspire to. They still can't figure out that the warfare-welfare state is too expensive.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises