If Bernie does not win this time, someone just like him will win once his supporters’ younger brothers and sisters turn 18.
Sanders reminds the young adults of favorite college professor.
Gosh, I can’t imagine why a socialized education system would teach socialist preferences. It’s just beyond me.
Kiss the American dream goodbye. Socialism stifles all creativity and ambition and encourages government cronyism. The government chooses who is successful and who is not.
Few of us will ever become millionaires but at least the opportunity is there (with a ton of hard work and a lot of luck, of course).
Electing a Marxist twice demonstrated the Democratic Party’s outright embrace of socialism.
In fact, middle America’s election twice of a Marxist demonstrated the apolitical middle 60% of mainstream America’s embrace of socialism.
We went over the tipping point eight years ago, and it wasn’t the Democrats who did it -— it was our neighbors next door who did it.
Until the AP is toppled, the vector is still towards the left.
You can’t really blame these kids. They have been brought through 12 years of the public school system and many go 4 more to the progressive universities that teach them Socialism all the way.
All right, let’s not panic now. Remember, there’s some evidence Trump has unprecedented strength (for a Republican) with the young.
I take a contrarian view. Iowa is a caucus state. Dem turnout overall was low, and statistically, nothing about the youth vote can be reliably extrapolated from this small sample.
Our young have no jobs, surprise, surprise they have time to show up for Bernie events. They are hardwired now, cell-phones and Facebook. Easily manipulable. I’m not convinced the young will show up at the polls in the Presidential election, in any great numbers. Partying with Bernie is a social event. Voting isn’t.
Conservatives are simply more stoked. Liberals a bit disoriented. Youth apathetic, as usual.
The left will quickly tout “democratic socialism” to differentiate it from all that “bad” socialism.
This would be something akin to what’s in Europe today.
So let’s look as some quick numbers, per the U.S. and the Euro:
2014 US GDP=17.4T
2014 EU GDP=18.5T (in USD)
2014 US Population=319M
2014 EU Population=508M
So under a European style socialism, where US is getting closer to, you have about 59% more people but only about a 6% bigger economy.
Bottom line is socialism sucks, no matter how kindly you attempt to make it. The tyranny associated w/the absolute power of it comes later.
My latest bumper sticker— Vote socialism! Now go line up for toilet paper you dumb f***s!
