Selfish and Ungrateful Society

What does the Socialism taught on America's campuses do best? Increases selfishness and removes the characteristic most necessary for a happy life: GRATITUDE.

The transformation of entitlements into RIGHTS creates a youth that lacks the most important character trait of all — gratitude.

Grateful people are happier, and grateful people are more morally decent. That is why we teach our children to say “thank you.” But the Socialist welfare state undoes that. One does not express thanks for a right. So, instead of “thank you,” the citizen of the Socialist state is taught to say, “What more can I get?” or "Sorry, that's not enough."

While producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra that the universities and the media teach America's youth is that capitalism and the free market, not the Socialist welfare state, produce selfish people. The big lie.

Throughout American history, the natural — or at least hoped for — inclination of a young person was to become a mature adult, independent of Mom and Dad, and to become a grown up. But in the Socialist state, this is no longer the case.

In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so. The welfare state enables — and thereby produces — people whose preoccupations become more and more self-centered as time goes on. Even ObamaCare encourages chlidren to live with their parents until 26 to get free healthcare.

Demonizing conservatives and their values on America's campuses is a left-wing art. But the truth is that capitalism and the free market produce less selfish people. Teaching people to work hard and take care of themselves and others produces a less, not a more, selfish citizen.

Capitalism teaches people to work harder; the welfare state teaches people to WANT harder and expect everything for nothing. Which is better?

-Dennis Prager