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History Is Clear: Socialism Isn't the Cure. So Why Do Millennials Like It?
PJ Media ^ | 11/07/2019 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 11/07/2019 6:47:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Edited on 11/07/2019 6:50:12 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: eyeamok
"Why do polls show that a majority of American millennials have a favorable view of socialism?"

Because they've never experienced it.

41 posted on 11/07/2019 7:34:17 AM PST by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: ClearCase_guy
and if some perfect manager were to allocate the stuff, then EVERYONE could be a millionaire.

"Every Man a King!"

42 posted on 11/07/2019 7:35:13 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Amen facts are facts no matter how hard the media and liberals try to change them.


43 posted on 11/07/2019 7:40:53 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Free stuff.


44 posted on 11/07/2019 7:47:54 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: SeekAndFind

When your main abilities are incompetence and irrationality, socialism is the only thing you would be good at.


45 posted on 11/07/2019 7:48:19 AM PST by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why do they like it? They’re immature - whether their fifteen or fifty, they have an immature world view and the philosohy appeals to immature people.


46 posted on 11/07/2019 7:49:58 AM PST by Ted Grant
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To: SeekAndFind

What the millennials fail to grasp is that the government hand giving out the freebies is also an iron fist. Socialism will eventually morph into totalitarianism. What will happen to anyone who says no to the government confiscating their wealth or property? The promise of fairness and redistribution also conceals that government elites will maximize their benefits. In Venezuela where average citizens are looking in dumpsters for food, Madura and his cronies are dinning at the finest restaurants and enjoying the good life. The same was true in the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, North Korea and any of the other failed socialist regimes.


47 posted on 11/07/2019 7:53:58 AM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: SeekAndFind
'History Is Clear: Socialism Isn't the Cure. So Why Do Millennials Like It?'

It's not like they see their parents or older kin throwing off the chains of medicare and social security. People like some form of socialism and will continue to vote for it.

48 posted on 11/07/2019 7:55:26 AM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: SeekAndFind
History Is Clear: Socialism Isn't the Cure. So Why Do Millennials Like It?

That's an easy one. Millenials like it because they are completely ignorant about history.

An old friend of mine once described the shock he felt when he enrolled in a top (expensive) college and learned how utterly ignorant his classmates were about history. To his average classmate, history was (in his exact words) "a jumbled mass of cavemen and people riding in covered wagons -- and not a single clue about the general times in history when things happened relative to each other."

Forget about Millenials. This all happened DECADES ago.

49 posted on 11/07/2019 7:56:47 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Because, in days gone by, left wingers constantly got the crap beat out of them by right winger and it’s kinda like payback. Don’t play all innocent with me. Don’t raise the specter of Jim Crow being Democrat. Them Dixiecrats were allied with big money Republicans in their violent physical repression of leftists. Back when I was an anarchist punk camp follower, we got vamped on by right wing jocks and Proud Boy types as a matter of course. My punk buddy, Rickie, called it “exercising my face”.

Now it is evident that the radical left and their “global warming” hysteria is a tool of the big money Agenda 21 globalists. Old school Lincolnsonian Republicans now exist only in some factions of the Tea Party. Do me a favor and right this instant Google “Bull Moose Party” and discover who the REAL Republicans were.


50 posted on 11/07/2019 7:57:00 AM PST by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: FormerFRLurker

SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
The State forces you to give one to your neighbor, shoots the neighbor
and forces you to milk them both, giving all milk back to the state.
The State gives you a cup of sour milk.

LIBERALISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both cows, slaughters them for their own food,
and taxes you to death for worthless social programs, for having
the animals originally.

LEFTISM
You have 2 cows.
The State terrrorizes the animals until they can’t produce milk,
beats you and your wife to death, and puts your daughters & sons
into the Pedophile Nation, for the Epsteins, Weiners, Clintons etc.

PROGRESSIVISM
You have 2 cows.
Progs advocate for advancements in science, technology,
economic development and social organization, but they’re so full
of bullshit, nothing ever changes.
You still have 2 cows.

MARXISM
You have 2 cows.
The government takes both and tosses you into a hog pen, where you’re
devoured and never found.

COMMUNISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and gives you nothing.
They shoot your family and put you in a gulag.

DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, promises more free cows, lets you vote and gives you sour milk.

FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.

NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots your wife and kids.

ANARCHISM
You have 2 cows.
The State shoots the cows, you and your family.

CRONY CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
The State takes both, milks, slaughters them, and makes a tidy profit from the sale
of choice meat cuts and fresh milk.
You get some lousy hamburger and a jar of sour milk.

BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, hires a sub-contractor to milk the other, and then throws the milk away.

TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.

CONTEMPORARY WALL STREETISM
You have two cows.
You sell one, bundle the other with a goat, a mule,
and two dry cows.
You pile into the derivatives market, buy a Gulfstream
and when it all comes down around your ears...
You go to the government for a bailout.


51 posted on 11/07/2019 7:59:08 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Socialism sounds good.

Polly gets em laid.


52 posted on 11/07/2019 8:08:42 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Epstein proves it's all a charade.)
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To: Alberta's Child
To his average classmate, history was (in his exact words) "a jumbled mass of cavemen and people riding in covered wagons


53 posted on 11/07/2019 8:33:18 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: SeekAndFind

They are the result of education fail. IMO


54 posted on 11/07/2019 8:35:54 AM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Because they are foreigners who are only here to take your stuff Gringo.

Jeeez get a clue.


55 posted on 11/07/2019 8:38:13 AM PST by The Toll
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To: SeekAndFind

Revisionist history will fit right in with burning your books VDH.

17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

18. Gain control of all student newspapers.

http://militarynewbie.com/the-communist-takeover-of-america-45-declared-goals/


56 posted on 11/07/2019 8:44:23 AM PST by PGalt (past peak civilization)
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To: SeekAndFind; All

How does a concept (freedom) defend itself against (anti-freedom) realities? Human existence has been a slaughterhouse. Look back.


57 posted on 11/07/2019 8:55:54 AM PST by PGalt (past peak civilization)
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To: SeekAndFind

Millenials don’t know any history.


58 posted on 11/07/2019 9:08:23 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: SeekAndFind

Government schools present Socialism as a pure love story, like Romeo and Juliet.
Even though both protagonists end up dead; it’s oooh!, so romantic.


59 posted on 11/07/2019 9:25:21 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (Socialism is great, 300 million dead Socialist martyrs can't be wrong)
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To: SeekAndFind

Because they are not educated.


60 posted on 11/07/2019 9:48:39 AM PST by Lopeover (Patriots Fight)
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