The Bernie Sanders Effect

Townhall.com ^ | October 20, 2016 | Cal Thomas

[Kaslin]

Many millennials are OK with socialism, even communism, according to a YouGov poll commissioned by The Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

Forty-five percent of those polled between the ages of 16 and 20 years old said they would vote for a socialist, while 20 percent said they could vote for a communist. Maybe that explains the Che Guevara T-shirts so many of them like to wear.

Responding to the poll, Marion Smith, the executive director of the organization, said, "An emerging generation of Americans has little understanding of the collectivist system and its dark history." Partial credit for this should go to former presidential candidate and avowed socialist Bernie Sanders.

Even more shocking is the poll's discovery that a third of millennials believe more people were killed under George W. Bush than Joseph Stalin, whose regime murdered 20 million people between 1924 and 1953. The total killed under all communist regimes (so far) is estimated at 100 million.

The poll also found that capitalism, which offers millennials more opportunities than the socialism and communism so many of them admire, is viewed favorably by 42 percent of young people, compared to 64 percent of Americans over the age of 65. That so few older adults appreciate capitalism is also disturbing, though it is a triumph of liberal propaganda, which tends to base its ideology on intentions and feelings, not evidence and outcomes.

In part, these results are a product of a public education system that increasingly treats all ideas and organizing principles -- save democracy and capitalism -- as equal. Moral judgments are not to be made, thanks in part to an emerging philosophy divorced from right and wrong.

The late Catholic Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen brilliantly summed up the problem with modern society more than a half-century ago; before it evolved into the morally chaotic nation we are today. He wrote, "America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance -- it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded."

When one has lost a standard for judging right from wrong, good from evil, when anything goes (Cole Porter wrote a satirical song with that title), then socialism and communism become one more organizing principle among many of equal value.

That liberal Democrats are succeeding in shaping young people's minds is revealed by this finding in the YouGov poll: More than half of millennials say the capitalism system works against them, while four in 10 call for a "complete change" so that the highest earners pay their "fair share" in taxes.

No one ever defines what "fair share" means, much less holds government accountable for the money it wastes, including the failure of costly programs Congress lacks the will to terminate.

This way of thinking is a triumph of the envy-greed-entitlement worldview, which believes that if someone is making more money than you, they owe you the difference, except those higher taxes won't find their way into your pocket.

We used to learn from the successful, because they served as role models and examples of how hard work and risk-taking could improve any life. Now, we penalize success and, as a result, get less of it. But we feel better and feelings are all that matter, right? At least that's how we have been conditioned to think.

These poll results ought to spur more parents to rescue their children from an education system that is failing them on many levels. Maybe a field trip to a communist country would cure millennials of their moral equivalence. They might start by visiting the prisons in Cuba.

[profit_guy]

Idiot millennials have no idea what it all means.

[Honorary Serb]

....those polled between the ages of 16 and 20 years old...

These are VERY young “Millennials”! Where are the 21-36-year-olds?

[eyeamok]

Just require all Students wishing to Attend College or University to spend 90 days in the Socialist Utopia of Venezuela before being allowed to Apply.

[PGR88]

I don’t like the word “capitalism” - it carries a lot of baggage, and the word was invented by Marx, wasn’t it?

How about simply asking people if they like economic freedom and personal liberty?

[Kaslin]

I don’t get it why they poll 16 year olds. The voting age starts at age 18

[bgill]

Because that age range is living off mom and dad. Wait until they grow up, move out and have to make it on their own.

[556x45]

It all changes when they get jobs and have to pay taxes. Getting mugged by govt is a real eye opener...LOL.

[thoughtomator]

> Where are the 21-36-year-olds?

In their mommas’ basements

[refermech]

A direct result of public education.

[Kaslin]

You got it.

[Alberta's Child]

Even more shocking is the poll's discovery that a third of millennials believe more people were killed under George W. Bush than Joseph Stalin, whose regime murdered 20 million people between 1924 and 1953.

There's no reason to ask any more questions. Clearly these people are about as ignorant as a toddler, so their opinions don't mean anything.

[savagesusie]

Only reason so many of our children EMRACE evil, corrupt, vile government and behaviors that are degrading, irrational and evil where Vice is Virtue (Socialim/Communism/Satanism/Wicca)—where there is no individualism—NO individual natural rights from God, no Virtue (Justice), and so all identity/free will can be stripped from the children is because of our Mandatory indoctrination systems and parents not parenting at all and not being the role models for their own children. There is no embedding natural instincts or moral formation and without Virtue embedded into children by parents, there is no Free Will/Freedom possible.

That is why these Socialists/Communists (irrational bots) exist-—they have been PROGRAMMED by birth by the satanic boy-rapers in Hollywood and the pubik skool system where Up is Down, 5+2=8, and hyper sexualization destroys sexual identity formation and creates hate for others/diversity. The parents allowed the filthy ideas of the NWO to condition and program their little children in front of their disneyfied (artificial One World ideology so all children have creativity/agency destroyed-—and become programmed bots). They are removed from Reality (just programmed brains which can’t’ integrate (think))—REMOVED from Real Life human interactions (unstructured where they learn agency using ALL their senses). They will have NO ABILITY OF AGENCY.......Communism/socialization of the kind in the mass indoctrination systems of the same age, destroys agency in the masses——they become dependent, tribal minds——group only “thinkers”—and believe whatever lie is being stated by the government and by their heroes who are all satanists who celebrate the satanic rites of sodomy—esp. of little boys. Harvey Milk glorified in movies and skools, as is Harry Hays (sodomized when he was a boy) are celebrated and loved the ideas of NAMBLA. (raping young boys.)

These millennials are trained to “think” they have agency-—when they parrot lies and misinformation and are SO DEHUMANIZED they are unable to “think”, period.

What has been repeated over and over when they were so young it becomes their ideology (where emotions control Reason). They can never “think” unless they are deprogrammed which is almost impossible.

Only Classical Christian curricula creates the Mind of Newton and Tesla and the Wright brothers. True Christian worldview is essential for Justice, Free Will and Individualism-—no other worldview includes that for everyone.

All other beliefs are “group” only systems of “thinking” which is only irrational and evil and unconstitutional. Evil Law is “null and void” always in the US Constitution. Evil “Law” uses individuals as a Means-—as objects in irrational, vile, dehumanizing ways-—like slavery, sodomy, baby-killing all Satanic/Luciferiean Rites of the NWO.

[bert]

balderdash

inner city riff raff don’t count

[Mi-kha-el]

I lived 40 years in a socialist paradise. These spiled brats would not survive a week under that regime. Plague upon all their houses.

[Mi-kha-el]

Sorry. Spoiled brats. Although, “spiled” eerily sounds right.

[Elsie]

16 is the median age of the Indoctrinated Class.