Millions of young Americans, as a consequence of the 2008 financial collapse alone — the underlying cause of which has gone unremedied, by the way — forever lost any sense of hope of ever affording a house of their own.

Depriving the youth of any cause for optimism is no way to run a country.

Quite the contrary, it's a recipe for entropy.

Such was the secondary thesis of Tucker Carlson's address to the kids of Turning Points, which received paltry coverage from the legacy media for the obvious reason that they love the finance goblins who have gleefully wrecked the American middle class that our forefathers built through blood, sweat, and tears.

(The Overton-window-setting establishment media's lack of interest is unsurprising, given that these are the people who somehow convinced the public through nonstop brainwashing that criticizing multinational banks is somehow socialist and therefore anti-American.)

Tucker Carlson at Turning Points:

"At some point, the basic economics really matter and they matter because not that it's bad that rich people are getting richer. It's bad that everyone else is getting poorer. And it's especially bad that young people can't afford homes. Let me just put a very precise point on this. If you want a measure of how your economy is doing… I personally favor eliminating GDP as a measure. I don't even know what that is, it's clearly not relevant. They tell me Japan has a stagnant GDP. Have you been to Tokyo? It's the single most radicalizing experience you'll ever have because it's just so nice.

"You lost the war, really? Can we lose a war and wind up like this?" GDP, no. I don't know what even that is. The total economic activity. Oh, no, no, no. My measure's really simple. I got a bunch of kids, can they afford houses with full-time jobs at like 27, 28? And the answer is no way. And the answer is that 35-year-olds with really good jobs can't afford a house, unless they stretch and go deep into debt and I just think that's a total disaster. That's a complete disaster. Why? Two reasons. One, if people don't own things, they don't feel ownership of the country they're in and the country gets super volatile because people feel like they've got nothing to lose. When you have a lawn, trust me, you're thinking long-term…