'Meanest people I have ever met': Chat leak resurfaces internal fights among Young Republicans

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2. I doubt there is anything new about any of this. Y.R. has always been a radicalization program

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They like to start the brainwashing early. This was Charlie Kirk's main job.

They aren't educated about public policy, or even generally knowledgeable about civics. It is simply a bubble of cocoon within which they can drill all the major philosophical points:

* We love freedom, meaning nobody can tell us what to do. Anybody who talks about balancing our freedoms with other people's rights is a communist

* Big business is always good. Anybody who expects businesses to be socially responsible and pay their fair share of the costs hates capitalism and therefore hates America.

* All government programs are bad. Republicans are rugged, self-made individualists (but let's not talk about Social Security, Medicare, the ACA, unemployment insurance and so on.)

* There is no limit to how much money we should give to the Pentagon, and that gives us the right to bully countries anywhere in the world.

* Private business can do everything better than government.

* Unions are unfair to the poor businesses that are so oppressed.

* If you fail in your career or business, it is not your fault. It is the black, brown, yellow, female people who get all the special breaks that give them an unfair advantage.

etc. It is all childish