Peter Pan Syndrome: Some Liberals Never Grow Up

A recent Rasmussen poll has found that just 53 percent of Americans think that capitalism offers a better economic model than socialism. Although it doesn’t take a brain surgeon to guess that the breakdown of those numbers would reveal that more Democrats favored socialism as compared to Republicans, what was revealing was what age group Democrats and Republicans most closely matched.

Democrats prefer socialism to the tune of 30 percent with 31 percent undecided, while a whopping 92 percent of Republicans favor capitalism. With regard to the age-trend, 33% of the under 30 crowd are for socialism and 30 percent are undecided, while in the over 40 crowd only 13 percent prefer socialism (keep in mind that this 13 percent is still tainted by Woodstock hippies). In short, liberals’ ideas very closely match those of idealistic youngsters, who have yet to take on real responsibilities in their lives. By contrast, Republicans’ views more closely match the age-wizened.

So what, you ask, can we conclude beyond reasonable doubt? Well, one obvious interpretation is that the minds of many liberals haven’t advanced beyond the crude economic formulations that are bandied about during first year college humanities courses…e.g. poverty: bad must mean welfare: good.

…And they called George Bush dumb.