It is interesting that the online social networks and bloggers worked very hard to insure that the then very junior Senator Barack Obama was elected.
Many took this as an endorsement that the younger generation was embracing a sort of online socialism, or social collaboration and collectivism, but that is hardly the case.
You see, people voted for President Obama because he promised them the world, not the online world, rather a dream of a Utopia in the real world.
In fact, his political opponents made fun of his insane promises that they realized were just not workable, namely you cannot give people everything they want, pay them whatever they want and still run a free-market system to deliver everything that you promised.
Ah, the allure of socialism and communism theory, only one problem, these types of societies only look good on paper and in reality they are not sustainable long-term, in fact they soon become a humanitarian disaster.
(Cite: Human History).
Just because social bloggers and the millennials went to work promoting Barack Obama does not mean they voted for what he really stands for, you see they have no idea how damaging socialism really is.
The social networking, text-messaging, and twittering crowd were used by the Obama campaign's promoters - just like Hezbollah and Hamas are using Facebook to recruit bloggers and supporters, and money to their cause.
Further, it is ridiculous to purport that because social networks are huge collectives of young people that these young voters really understand the ever lasting effects and problems that come with socialism.
They have never lived in a socialist nation, and they are too young to understand.
Additionally, academia has re-written all the textbooks, and the kids cheat on the tests anyway.
They don't have a clue, they just want all the wonderful free stuff Obama promised them? Well, they can't have it and soon they will figure that out and support someone else.