Jim Bratten
In a study by the CATO Institute, Millennials were asked about how they viewed the “wealthy” in our society. Study results showed that 44% felt angry when reading about the wealthy. A staggering 35% of those respondents said that violence against the wealthy is justified. Among the Millennials in the study, 36% even believed that there shouldn’t be any “billionaires.”
Have they been influenced by comments from radical progressives in Congress, or statements made by Democrat candidates for president in 2020? That’s possible. Most likely, the chief reason for this attitude, this opinion, is that the children are taught to envy, to think they are owed, instead of the reality that what one wants must be earned.
Those old enough will remember when an average income family could drive through an affluent area in their city and the father, noticing a large, beautifully landscaped house, would explain to his children, “With hard work, someday you could live in a house like that.” Children were taught to achieve and apply themselves to worthwhile goals, to achieve a better life than their parents, to pursue something called the “American Dream.”
Today, many Millennials don’t expect to earn income above what their parents have. With the social justice narrative of income inequality firmly planted over years of schooling, a similar family can now drive through an upscale area of town and the father can sneer, “Kids, see that big, gaudy house with too much property? That was 
built on the backs of poor laborers, so rich people can live there.” Class envy, income inequality, and a need for wealth redistribution have been taught to our children for years. They’re told that people become rich by taking it from someone else. It’s not a lack of ambition in the individual; the fault lies with society.
For decades divisiveness has become policy for progressives, in and out of government, and woven into the fabric of education in the United States. Don’t be surprised when Millennials learn it by osmosis and swallow the fallacies whole. Many are never given an alternative opinion or exposed to what reality shows, what history proves – the facts.
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This goes back decades? 75 years.
The fight for labor rights, humain treat of workers.
Unions were formed. Became powerful.
Then the Democrats came, infiltrated the unions.
Turning union members against
Owners, C.E.O.S, WHITE COLOR BOSSES. PLAYING THEIR GAME OF DIVIDE AND CONQUER.
MY fzther a devout Democrat was lamenting about the Chrysler bailout by the government and Iacocca hiring people to bring Chrysler out of bankruptcy.
He was a Chyrsler retiree.
His comment on. The pay of these people was no one is worth that much money. It was millions.
I ask how many people work at Chyrslet???? He responded hundreds of thousands.
I ask how many retirees, thousands.
I then ask, my loving hzrd working father, how can you put an amount on saving the jobs, families of hundred of thousands of people and thousands of retirees. No answer.