As a younger person 17 leaning right from a working class background, I believe that a person can only come to financial greatness with hard work and effort. With that being said, I see many of my peers supporting Jeremy Corbyn I'm British who put in his manifesto that we should have free tuition fees, which I am currently against due to stronger taxes and the idea of further education being available for all, which it shouldn't as it reduces the effectiveness and worth of a degree. I see similar things across the pond. With the rise of AOC's popularity, being a 'democratic socialist' she says that she wants housing and food to be available for all across the country. That inevitably will lead to higher taxes once again and a drain on the welfare system. An over generous welfare system strongly discourages work, and therefore production as well as increasing structural unemployment. I only see negatives in the idea of this free stuff being handed out. All across England and America I see the youth supporting these socialist politicians with promises with free support, which sounds great in an ideal world. We would all love free things without working for them, but that idealistic concept changes with age, I would believe, I obviously can't talk from experience and people of a similar age to me only support socialistic policies because of inherent laziness.
The youth typically lean left because they wish for free support without working for it.