Conservatives fear this growing youth disaffection with global capitalism. And they worry that
American women, and especially younger millennial women, will vote for left-leaning or socialist
candidates, especially when women understand that they disproportionately benefit from state
regulation of markets, single-payer health care, tuition-free postsecondary education, social
ownership of large enterprises like utilities or banks that are “too big to fail,” and other redistributive
policies. Today, millennials and members of generation Z view democratic socialism as an answer to
their many frustrations—one less libido-inhibiting than selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. In a
widely shared article for the Nation in January 2017, “Why Millennials Aren’t Afraid of Socialism,”
Julia Mead recounts her personal discovery of socialist ideals and how American political discourse
foreclosed their discussion before the emergence of Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primary
American women, and especially younger millennial women, will vote for left-leaning or socialist
candidates, especially when women understand that they disproportionately benefit from state
regulation of markets, single-payer health care, tuition-free postsecondary education, social
ownership of large enterprises like utilities or banks that are “too big to fail,” and other redistributive
policies. Today, millennials and members of generation Z view democratic socialism as an answer to
their many frustrations—one less libido-inhibiting than selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. In a
widely shared article for the Nation in January 2017, “Why Millennials Aren’t Afraid of Socialism,”
Julia Mead recounts her personal discovery of socialist ideals and how American political discourse
foreclosed their discussion before the emergence of Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primary
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