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The Screwed Generation Turns Socialist

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The Depression and WWII shaped the greatest generation, and postwar prosperity shaped the Baby Boomers. Millennials, battered by capitalism, move ever leftward.

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Published Feb. 19 2017 12:15AM EST

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Joel Kotkin

Joel Kotkin

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