The Future Of America? – More Than Half Of All U.S. Adults Under Age 30 Now Reject Capitalism

TEC ^ | 04/30/2016 | Michael Snyder

[wyowolf]

Exactly... many here yell up and down about socialism... and rightly so, but wont utter a peep about CC.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Darned good point!

[usconservative]

They don’t reject Capitalism, the reject having to work for all those goodies they endlessly crave.

That's because mommy and daddy gave them everything they ever wanted without question.

It took awhile for my own kids to figure it out that they'd have to work for the things they wanted and that it wasn't my purpose in life to simply give them everything their hearts desired.

While both were younger, I'd always hear about one friend or another having something that they themselves wanted (better bicycles, a motorcycle, newest game console, smartphone, and eventually a car.)

In the last few years, they finally figured things out. Their friends parents lost their homes (upside in mortgages, over-spent, over their heads in bills) and eventually their friends lost "all their stuff" too. Their friends became whiners because they didn't have anything anymore and demanded someone else always "give" them something.

My two sons learned how to work for what they wanted, and because they worked for the things they wanted, they appreciated those things and took care of them. Their friends have largely wrecked everything they've had, including many of their cars.

My two sons also have learned the value of the debt free lives their parents have lived for many years now. Questions of "dad, why are you driving a 14 year old vehicle?" were answered long ago with "it's paid for, it looks good, and it does what I need it to do" followed by lessons in those types of things that appreciate in value vs. depreciate in value and why we spend the least we can on depreciating items.

In short, they've gotten a valuable lesson in Capitalism vs. Socialism and the end results of both. :-)

[1Old Pro]

I think a lot of older Americans like the idea of “free” healthcare too...scary. If Trump loses, we’ll be like France soon.

[GingisK]

That is the half that can’t spell capitalism.

[Ohioan]

This phenomenon is a direct result of the fact that almost no one in education or the mass media even understands why Capitalism works best; why America has developed as she has; or the multitude of overlooked factors that govern the dynamics of human interaction, in general. We have a dumbed down population, where increasingly the uninformed "sheep" are the norm.

Hopefully, Trump will be able to wake many of these people up in the fall campaign.

[HLPhat]

>>a person selling weed in Denver is capitalism. The government telling others that they can't and only they can sell weed is socialism

What is it when the largest locally-owned bank in Colorado is an employee owned collective where it's perfectly acceptable to post links to go "vote for the train" on the corporate intranet, but asking "uhhhh who's going to pay for the infrastructure" is "political" and not acceptable in the "culture"? 

"we're conservative" {uhhh} "but progressive"

- just what you want to hear when interviewing for a job at a bank, ehh?

 

Throw in a significant self-evident influence from the local Jesuit Marxist M.B.A. factory...

https://www.google.com/#q=Jesuit+Reductions+Communism+Paraguay

...and then consider how fractional lending and the worship of the Velocity of the almighty Dollar fit into the "from each according to their ability - to each according to their needs" equation - in a collective where, as in the case of the Jesuit centrally-bankstered communist farms in Paraguay, the worker-Indians/bees are never Empower(tm)ed to understand the true nature of the systemic hive they're being enslaved within.

Got Hierarchical Oligarchical collectivism?

[jsanders2001]

I have found that the only way I can think like a liberal is parachute out of a plane at 30,000 ft sans parachute and helmet, land on some railroad tracks and get hit by a train. what’s left of my brains is then suitable to understand them...

[HLPhat]

The first step in salvaging any system is to understand the original specification for how it was supposed to operate —

“TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS” being the declared foundational purpose America’s founders had in mind for their Republic to operate upon.

When the Politically Correct corporate/collective hive-mind (state-established or otherwise) deliberately ignores, discards, or undermines the intent of the 1st amendment - the manure wagon is headed for the wind tunnel, again.

Somebody should debug that, or something!

[GOPJ]

They’ve graduated from liberal government propaganda centers taught by low IQ union members....

I’m sure most of these folks have no clue about what socialism is - or how’s it’s functioned in the real world.

[HLPhat]

>>suitable to understand them...

“I don’t need to know the truth, I’ve got kids”
—A. Manager

What does this mean?

In 1989 I worked in a company that was responsible for the engineering and construction of co-generation power plants.

We had Mormons, and Atheists, and Catholics and Lutherans, Mexicans, and Irish and Asians... and all sorts of American whatevers - and everybody talked about everything - sex, politics, religion, technology ... while working TOGETHER and getting the job done LIKE AMERICANS DID.

An astoundingly unfortunate socially engineered transformation has been inflicted upon America since then.

[Buttons12]

Colleges are brimming over with anti-capitalist morons who will be reinforced there; and then there are the people who worked hard to pay the tuitions to send these kids to college, and the people who co-signed the loans.
The students have some excuse. Their elders have not.

[Buttons12]

a scathing indictment of four generations of FedGov meddling in the education of our youth

"Where were their parents?"