QUESTION ASKED: “Why do the young vote for dependency—when the essence of youth is a quest for independence?”, Robert Tracinski asks at Real Clear Politics.

“The answer is dogma — a belief system that transcends reason,” Dennis Prager wrote last year, adding that “You cannot understand the Left if you do not understand that leftism is a religion. It is not God-based (some left-wing Christians’ and Jews’ claims notwithstanding), but otherwise it has every characteristic of a religion. The most blatant of those characteristics is dogma. People who believe in leftism have as many dogmas as the most fundamentalist Christian.”