National Review Online editor Jonah Goldberg has a beef with young people.
In fact, he thinks they are “stupid” and suffer from “downright ignorance”. The noted author made his claims during an appearance at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) captured on video by The Daily Caller.
Goldberg, who appeared at AEI to discuss his new book Tyranny of Cliches, pointed to the appeal of socialism among a wide swath of young Americans to make his point and went to the extent of saying it was a mistake to lower the voting age to 18.
“It is a fact of science that nothing correlates more with ignorance and stupidity than youth,” Goldberg said. “We are all born idiots, but we only get over that condition as we get less young, and yet there’s this thing in this culture that young people are for it, so it must be special.
“The reason these people are for it is that they don’t know better, and that’s why we call them young people.”
He went on to denounce youth culture and the adulation of youth as being unhealthy for society.
Goldberg jokes that conservatives need to beat the appeal of socialism out of young people “literally” or figuratively.”
Corrected to reflect Mr. Goldberg’s comment to Red Alert that he has disdain with “young people period.”
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