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Poll: Millennials desperately need to bone up on the history of communism
Market Watch ^ | 10/17/16 | Shawn Langlois

Posted on 10/18/2016 8:26:38 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway

The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, citing survey results released on Monday, blames widespread ignorance for the relatively positive views millennials have toward socialism and communism. Of the 2,300 Americans polled by YouGov, 80% of baby boomers and 91% of the elderly agree with the statement that “communism was and still is a problem” in the world today. Millennials? Only 55%. Furthermore, almost half of Americans between the ages of 16 and 20 said they would vote for a socialist, while 21% would go so far as to back a communist. Capitalism, on the other hand, is viewed favorably by 64% of those over the age of 65, compared with only 42% of millennials. In fact, more than half of millennials say the economic system works against them, while four out of 10 call for a “complete change” to ensure that the highest earners pay their fair share. There’s a lack of historical perspective, according to the foundation, that the survey showed among a big chunk of the younger generation. For instance, a third of millennials say they believe more people were killed under George W. Bush than Joseph Stalin.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: communism; historyeducation; millennials; occupywallstreet; socialism; socialstudies; worldhistory
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The enemy within is completing just another one of their goals to destroy our democracy - The destruction of the public education system. When a third of millennials say they believe more people were killed under George W. Bush than Joseph Stalin? Good God, Who taught them this crap??? This democracy may be a lost cause sooner than I thought. I wonder if enough people are left to defend it? A civil war may be the only answer when people have had enough...21% of millennials would vote for a communist??? Maybe not when their Iphones and video games are banned.
1 posted on 10/18/2016 8:26:38 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Oh, they really don’t need to bother. They are about to get first-hand experience.


2 posted on 10/18/2016 8:28:03 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (When you are going through Hell, keep going. #FreeJulian)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Captain Pantsuit will be wearing Red everyday...


3 posted on 10/18/2016 8:29:42 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
I'm not sure I understand where you're coming from.

It's the public education system that has brought ON the downfall (if Trump loses) of our nation.

4 posted on 10/18/2016 8:30:09 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true .. and it pisses people off)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

Ship them all off the North Korea. A couple of months of forced hard labor will set them right.


5 posted on 10/18/2016 8:31:15 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway
Many Millennials are dumber than $hit. It's a shame they vote.
6 posted on 10/18/2016 8:32:03 AM PDT by Chgogal (A woman who votes for Hillary is voting with her vagina and not her brain.)
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

There are enough members of the Putin Fan Club here — convinced he’s a swell fellow & leading me to believe millennials are not the only problem.


7 posted on 10/18/2016 8:33:04 AM PDT by gdani
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To: Chgogal

Amazing that in the internet age, where all of the worlds information is instantly available, people are actually getting dumber.


8 posted on 10/18/2016 8:35:29 AM PDT by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Chgogal

Agreed...It would be mistake to assume 16 to 20 year olds know much about anything yet...most don’t have a job and they have just gotten out of indoctrination in our public schools. But this is the perfect democratic voting base...No job, no future and blame it on democracy.


9 posted on 10/18/2016 8:37:00 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

If they had any clue you wouldn’t be seeing them in Che Guevara t-shirts so often.


10 posted on 10/18/2016 8:37:27 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Buckeye McFrog

They need to more years of education in a curriculum titled: Forget about all the crap you just learned in public school.


11 posted on 10/18/2016 8:40:47 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway

They should be blaming wide spread K-12 and colleges/universities


12 posted on 10/18/2016 8:41:10 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup (When the MSM wants your opinion, they will give it to you)
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Our damn tax money should not go to public education when the teach the downfall of our democracy...


13 posted on 10/18/2016 8:42:50 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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Well that's the problem with Millennials (one of the problems anyway) They already know everything, so they don't have to "bone up" on anything.
14 posted on 10/18/2016 8:43:02 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

They will be second to die after they turn in their parents for dissenting attitudes.


15 posted on 10/18/2016 8:43:35 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: from occupied ga

Perhaps they will now get to attend the “School of Hard Knocks”...?


16 posted on 10/18/2016 8:44:28 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Rome2000

I think they prefer it...


17 posted on 10/18/2016 8:45:52 AM PDT by 556x45
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

You took the words outta my post.


18 posted on 10/18/2016 8:46:32 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (I had a cool idea for a new tagline and I forgot it!)
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To: from occupied ga

Millennials without a growing skill set will end up sitting on their butts as designed by the left or if they are lucky enough to figure it out will move past this crap.


19 posted on 10/18/2016 8:47:47 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: AngelesCrestHighway; All
As a millennial and an excreted byproduct of the public school turned conservative I can offer a clearer view.

The issue is really deception. The next generation has not been coached well on the dangers we were in in the cold war and what happened behind the Iron curtain.

Growing up in a public school in Bangor Maine, when we were taught about communism, it was on rare occasions and often the commies were treated in a positive life.

EXAMPLE: Vietnam war. I don't think we even were taught anything about atrocities committed by the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. We mostly heard only that American GIs were killing civilians and that the South Vietnamese were persecuting their own people. While its true RSVN had a kleptocratic and corrupt government that needed reform the North Vietnamese were far far worse and far more brutal!

The teachers made it look like the North was really morally superior to the south and the US soldiers.

ANOTHER EXAMPLE: we were taught in high school the old lie that the USSR never practiced true communism. A deceptive lie to hide their failure. It failed because it wasn't true communism, if it did, it would've been true communism.

Also, when dealing with the cold war, there is little said of the aggressions of the USSR and Warsaw pact, the US and NATO are portrayed more as the aggressors egging on Russia to nuke everyone.

Rarely of course did we bring up communism vs capitalism, and we were never ever taught that Fascism like under Hitler, Mussolini and Franco is a form of Socialism. At least Franco toned it down a bit.

Of course most of our info about communism came from pop culture and Hollywood. The reds were the good guys, the American backed regimes in Central America, Southeast Asia and elsewhere were poor helpless and exploited.

Nikita Khrushchev wasn't kidding when he said the USSR would bury the USA without firing a shot.

20 posted on 10/18/2016 8:48:49 AM PDT by mainestategop (DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
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