(late) But he's just such a nice grandpa...

Musical theater people tend to be pretty liberal. Mind you, I am a HARD CORE musical theater person, but I am not a liberal. My parents voted for Donald Trump this year and I know I would have as well. However, we say that we're "conservative fiscally and liberal socially... on most matters." I don't personally care if our gay friends want to get married or if my cousin wants to be vegetarian. I believe those kinds of choices are up to the individual, and I have ZERO place to judge that kind of thing. Of course, some matters like abortion get me a little ticked, and I believe I will always side with the candidate who values a fetus as a human being. This is typically the republican, or conservative, candidate. On the fiscal spectrum of things, I am not under the impression that anything comes for free... I know that someone has to pay for things like "free college" and "super cheap healthcare." Unlike me and my family, many of the young musical theater people I talk to feel that the candidate who promotes these "free" or "inexpensive" things is the candidate with the biggest heart and who cares about people the most. I don't like to criticize my friends with these opinions because they are young and want to believe the best... They believe what they see on social media and were truly convinced that Bernie Sanders was just a nice grandpa who wanted everyone to have a great life. No kidding, I have literally heard people refer to him as a "nice grandpa"... And again, they truly believe that this man would have been the best candidate because he had a plan to provide college kids with free education, etc. etc. So, yes, in regards to this quote about socialism, I believe that many young people (especially those in the liberal arts) feel that the socialist candidate has the biggest heart... They vote from a platform of rather ignorant hope. Now hopefully, as one grows older and begins to understand more about how the economy works and that nothing is actually free, they understand socialistic ideas to be rather illogical. As the quote suggests, a 40 year old American man who still believes in socialism is still uninformed (which is very possible in this age of social media dependency). If he believes that everyone should have free college and free healthcare (because yay!!), he is oblivious to the fact that someone has to pay for that, and PLEASE NO IT CAN'T BE ANOTHER COUNTRY. He doesn't understand why our debt is so high and why wealthy business men are just so 'stingy with their money' (hint: its because those wealthy business men worked for their money and would prefer not to lose all of it... that's another discussion for another day). This man may have a big heart, but as a 40 year old, he is expected to have an informed mind to compliment it. Otherwise, he votes for the candidate who promises awesome free stuff but has no logical way to carry that out but to make enemies of basically anyone who has worked to earn themselves success.