On Thursday, in an apparent attempt to demonstrate that voters in the United States and Germany

couldn't be the only ones to embrace reactionary unpredictability.

The voters of the United Kingdom dealt the Conservative Party a stunning blow,

elevating the far-left Labour Party led by a Noam Chomsky's Loon named Jeremy Corbin to the brink of power.

The Conservatives, led by Theresa May, will still retain leadership thanks to a coalition government, but they were expected to walk away with the election, and labor was supposed to be in disarray. Instead, the conservatives are on the verge of chaos, and labor is united under a terrorist-supporting anti-Semite with a gut-level hatred of Western civilization. Well done, Brits. Josh Crash Hour of National Journal makes an even more

important point, though. The youth vote in Britain went overwhelmingly for Corbin. Quote,

Corbin's surprisingly competitive showing was fueled by young voters, who rallied behind labor

by a whopping 34-point margin, 63 to 29, according to British exit polling. For all the fears

of creeping nationalism, it's the growing discontent of the millennial vote that's been a consistent theme in recent Western elections. Many young voters are rejecting capitalism entirely, attracted to rhetoric promising free tuition and a generous social safety net at a time when many are struggling to make ends meet. Numerous studies also show younger voters are much more skeptical toward the value of democracy

than their elders.

Crash hour rightly points out that 27% of young French voters felt for an actual communist,

Jean-Luc Melanchon.

In the United States, Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders drew, quote, more than more under 30

voters than Clinton and Trump combined.

Crash hour is right to note that the reactionary left is responding to the reactionary right,

that young voters who resonated to Corbin, Milan, Sean, and Sanders were responding in part to Brexit,

Le Pen, and Trump. And there's nothing new about young people embracing radical politics.

The 60s and 70s were full of such elections, see George McGovern, and the 1930s were full of radical political movements worldwide supported by youngsters.

Each generation has its own brand of radicalism.

And given the success of the post-cold war neoliberal consensus, the rebellion was bound to come in the form of far-left redistributionism.

Clinton and Bush and Blair and Chirac were all of the same general mind on capitalism. Young people have reacted to that

background. Commentators are trying to find economic rationales for the blowback, but there is something

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