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Millennials heed the siren call of socialism
Orange County Register (CA) ^ | February 7, 2016 | By JOEL KOTKIN

Posted on 02/07/2016 5:03:41 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

The biggest story this election season is not Donald Trump or the fortunes of the two winners in Iowa, the unattractive tag team of Ted Cruz and Hillary Clinton. For all their attempts to seem current and contemporary, these candidates - and Trump as well - represent older, more established elements in American life, such as evangelicals, nativists and, in Hillary's case, the ranks of middle-age women, seniors and public-sector unions.

The biggest and most important development has been the massive support among the new generation of voters for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and his open embrace of socialism.

The new generation's lurch toward socialism would have been unimaginable at any previous moment in the past half century.

Unless capitalism or its crony offshoots can create a credible future for the young, there's little reason to expect that this generation will abandon their determination to change the system that, for all its faults, has created more prosperity over time for more people than any other.

(Excerpt) Read more at ocregister.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Editorial; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2016; marxism; sanders; socialism
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Staff opinion columnist Joel Kotkin is R.C. Hobbs Presidential Fellow in Urban Studies at Chapman University. He is executive editor of www.newgeography.com and executive director of the Center for Opportunity Urbanism.
1 posted on 02/07/2016 5:03:41 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
When the middle class breaks down and folks don't think they'll have the opportunity to succeed on their own merits, socialism is appealing.

That why the role model of a successful businessman who knows what's needed to things around for job creation and business opportunities has the best message to counter that.

2 posted on 02/07/2016 5:07:55 AM PST by grania
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These idiots are immersed in SOCIAL Media, so when they hear “Socialism”, they think it’s cool.


3 posted on 02/07/2016 5:12:01 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why would this be any surprise? After all, our educational and entertainment entities have been pure propaganda for over 40 years in support of what we see today...SOCIALISM.

We have demasculinized men, masculinized women, embraced homosexuals, transvestites and gender changers, placed the blame for all of the world’s ills on the white race, freed women from raising children, destroyed morals and virtues, and too many others to mention.

It’s the culmination of the “perfect storm” that has brought us the millennial generation...the generation that will take down the America we once knew.


4 posted on 02/07/2016 5:13:09 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Alternate headline: “Millennials heed the siren call of postmodern cultural totalitarianism”


5 posted on 02/07/2016 5:13:11 AM PST by Ancient Man
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
They forget the lessons of the meltdown in Russia dn even the communes of the '60s where they tried to live what they preached - only to find that way too many were more than willing to freeload off the labors of the others, so the communes quickly fell apart.

For Socialism to work, Human Nature has to be destroyed and supplanted with robotic obedience, else the lack of incentive in toiling to stay the same while enabling parasites to live at the same level as the workers will crush the spirit of those who produce.

6 posted on 02/07/2016 5:14:03 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

College students were vehement supports of the German Workers Socialist Party and were in fact the first book burners for the nazis.


7 posted on 02/07/2016 5:14:03 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: grania

this is more tho I think what Muslim Hussein’s “transform America” was: make America safe for socialism.


8 posted on 02/07/2016 5:14:38 AM PST by TraditionalMerica
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama’s ruination of the economy (largely seen in the lack of good jobs, even for the educated), for which capitalism takes the rap,is a major driving force in the Millenials’ embrace of socialism.


9 posted on 02/07/2016 5:15:17 AM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

(satire) North Korea Honors Bernie Sanders for his Socialist Stances

http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/north-korea-honors-bernie-sanders-for-his-socialist-stances-t17489.html


10 posted on 02/07/2016 5:16:40 AM PST by angryoldfatman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let Milton Friedman explain to the little mush-filled skulls what the difference between socialism and capitalism is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76frHHpoNFs


11 posted on 02/07/2016 5:20:16 AM PST by angryoldfatman
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To: grania

“We will awake to ... socialism ... and ... spend our sunset years telling our children ... what it once was like in America when men were free.” Ronald Reagan


12 posted on 02/07/2016 5:23:27 AM PST by gattaca (Republicans believe every day is July 4, democrats believe every day is April 15. Ronald Reagan)
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To: trebb

“For Socialism to work, Human Nature has to be destroyed and supplanted with robotic obedience”

Kind of like what Kirk and Spock saw on planet Beta III with Landru (in the Star Trek TOS episode “Return of the Archons”).


13 posted on 02/07/2016 5:29:40 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("You'd see a different game if nobody wore a helmet". NY Rangers' Barry Beck 1983)
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To: angryoldfatman

14 posted on 02/07/2016 5:33:31 AM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: grania

That’s right; they are too young to appreciate the failures of socialism (though Venezuela should sound a warning), but they are quite sure the status quo (which already incorporates socialism, but isn’t publicly revealed as such) isn’t working.


15 posted on 02/07/2016 5:35:31 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good article.


16 posted on 02/07/2016 5:37:20 AM PST by Tax-chick ("We have no values in common with Saudi Arabia."~ Daniel Greenfield)
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To: OttawaFreeper
Kind of like what Kirk and Spock saw on planet Beta III with Landru (in the Star Trek TOS episode “Return of the Archons”).

Exactly - a system put in place with "benevolent intents of a peaceful society" and which is so rigidly interpreted as to stifle independence and creativity.

17 posted on 02/07/2016 5:37:58 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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That is why Red China (where “robots” have begun terminating themselves in growing numbers) is the envy of the Western overlords. They have suppressed human nature, and rule their drones with an iron fist; they don’t have to contend with Free Republic or The Drudge Report, and the leaders in the West (especially BJ Clinton) long for that freedom to dominate their populations.


18 posted on 02/07/2016 5:38:47 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: grania

unless capitalism or its crony offshoots can create a credible future for the young.
The young have been indoctrinated into believing they dont have to work and the gov will share with them the wealth of the evil capitalists.


19 posted on 02/07/2016 5:40:06 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Socialism is the default political stance. American politics has to be learned. Conservatism has to be cultured in a person.

These millenials are woe-fully uninformed and maybe inculcated to the liberal doctrine of big government.


20 posted on 02/07/2016 5:44:15 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers.)
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