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I knew those Tea Party folks were skating on warm ice.

Come to find out, they aren’t going to be around for long.

But it’s not that the youngest voters don’t know what socialism means. It’s that most aren’t scared of it — and find it bizarre that, decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a political movement would center itself around opposition to it. The fact that both the tea party and the Republican Party have made vociferous opposition to “socialist’’ policies a key part of their rhetoric helps explain the tepid response among young adults.

“So, youth isn’t wasted on the young after all,” Juanita comments.  “However, poster board and magic markers are indeed wasted on old white people with a terrible attitude.”