We assume that when the full interview is published we'll hear Goldberg's opinion that women shouldn't be voting (or speaking unless spoken to, really) either.Jonah Goldberg is not a fan of young people.
“It is a simple fact of science that nothing correlates more with ignorance and stupidity more than youth,” the National Review Online editor said in an interview. “We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.”
So why all the focus on the youth vote and “millennials” in politics? Goldberg says young people having so much influence in a society is unhealthy.
My view is, they’re going to run the country some day, so we should really explain why they’re so frickin’ stupid about so many things,” he said.
“The fact that young people think socialism is better than capitalism … that’s something that conservatives have to work hard to beat out of them, either literally or figurative, as far as I’m concerned,” he joked.*
Look for the full interview with The Daily Caller’s Ginni Thomas Monday.
(And no, we aren't necessarily the greatest fans of those young enough to be our children & grandchildren. But beating is not the answer.)
*Good thing it was made clear that Goldberg was joking. (Except he wasn't.) If Romney could show some long-hair where it's at in 1965, why wouldn't a little educational beating help today's young people as well?
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“We’re all born idiots, and we only get over that condition as we get less young.”
Some of you never get over that, JONAH.
Theology Desk Editor:
Most pathetic explanation ever of original sin.
MATLOCK FOR PRESIDENT!!!
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Fixing-For-You Editor:
MITTLOCK 2012!
He would be authoritative, except he doesn't have time and he hasn't really been following the story, but if readers would fill him in on the details, maybe he could....
Shut up, Doughy Pantload.
Some of the ungrateful youffs have not bought his book!
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