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Is socialism as popular as the media think?
The Washington Examiner ^ | 19 Aug, 2025 | David Harsanyi

Posted on 08/20/2025 5:15:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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To: Sacajaweau

Those are the socialist. i.e. the basement dwellers. Young working persons resent socialism because they know it means less reward for their hard work.


21 posted on 08/20/2025 5:59:47 AM PDT by anton
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To: MarlonRando

You’re just a middle class, socialist brat
From a suburban family and you never really had to work
And now you tell me that we’ve got to get back
To the struggling masses, whoever they are

You talk, talk, talk about suffering and pain
Your mouth is bigger than your entire brain
What the hell do you know about suffering and pain you dumb f___?

Oingo Boingo - Capitalism


22 posted on 08/20/2025 6:01:30 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

I published 57 articles in the paper and magazines. I wrote a proposal to author a column for the “Tallahassee Democrat” where I proposed to provide comment and commentary on the Republican side of political issues. The editor’s response was shocking. She reacted like she was being confronted by a dangerous lunatic. She explained in what I’ll describe as a first-grade teacher’s voice that they only allowed their reporters to wrote on sensitive topics. All of their reporters had been to college so they “knew how to handle” political issues. Someone who had not been through college couldn’t possibly understand the intricacies of complex political issues. I think this explains why “the media” thinks socialism is “popular.”


23 posted on 08/20/2025 6:02:36 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (I had a tagline and I dropped it. The cat back-pawed it under the Barcalounger. )
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To: MtnClimber

Most of the media lives in a bubble and echo chamber. They project and normalize their own biases and extremism. Socialism is just one of MANY examples of this.


24 posted on 08/20/2025 6:03:52 AM PDT by LuxAerterna
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To: MtnClimber

This brand of socialism is Marxist Communism.

Let’s be honest.


25 posted on 08/20/2025 6:08:50 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: MtnClimber

Are the brain-dead the standard bearers for the DNC?

Yes, yes they are....


26 posted on 08/20/2025 6:24:40 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher )
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To: MtnClimber

Socialism, communism... all these ideas sound good to the self perceived have-nots, those feeling entitled to a free lunch.

They are usually losers.


27 posted on 08/20/2025 6:28:37 AM PDT by Red6
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To: MtnClimber

Question, how did the “press” fair in the Soviet Union? Not well, not well…..


28 posted on 08/20/2025 6:42:57 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: MarlonRando

I’ve noticed it’s the young kids that gravitate towards this

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You can thank Academia for that.

Totally.


29 posted on 08/20/2025 7:17:53 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: MtnClimber; All
“Is socialism as popular as the media think?

It is NOT and never WAS.

That's why their methods are SO crooked. No one in their right mind would voluntarily accept a socialist agenda!!

30 posted on 08/20/2025 7:28:05 AM PDT by SMARTY (In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte I)
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To: MtnClimber

The popularity of socialism is based on ignorance. It goes along with President Reagan’s proverb:
Communists are those who read Karl Marx. Anti-communists are those who understand Karl Marx.”


31 posted on 08/20/2025 7:34:24 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: brownsfan

Socialism does not, and never has, make good on the promises they make, because of a basic “flaw” in human nature. In a one-on-one match with a competitor, there is a zero-sum game, that you only get what you can take away from your competition. There is no building of more resources, no accounting of the best use of available resources, and definitely no allocation of those resources based on merit. Eventually, in this zero-sum game, the supply of “other people’s money” runs out, and something called entropy sets in, cannibalizing the system and eating all the seed corn. People are left with fighting over scraps.


32 posted on 08/20/2025 8:03:35 AM PDT by alloysteel (When in doubt, run about, scream and shout.)
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To: alloysteel

Socialism does not, and never has, make good on the promises they make, because of a basic “flaw” in human nature.


“People like to own stuff.” - Frank Zappa


33 posted on 08/20/2025 8:12:14 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber

In the media yes, it’s very popular.


34 posted on 08/20/2025 11:51:20 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: MtnClimber

What exactly is your ‘fair share’ of what ‘someone else’ has worked for?
- Thomas Sowell

“Nothing is easier, or more
emotionally satisfying, than
blaming high prices on those who
charge them, rather than on
those who cause them.”
—Thomas Sowell

“One of the sad signs of our times is that
we have demonized those who produce,
subsidized those who refuse to produce,
and canonized those who complain. “
Thomas Sowell

“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
Thomas Sowell

It’s easy being a communist in a free country.
Try being free in a communist country.
Thomas Sowell

It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who got us off the ground, not the Federal Aviation Administration. It was Henry Ford who ended the isolation of millions of Americans by making the automobile affordable, not Ralph Nader.

Those who have helped the poor the most have not been those who have gone around loudly expressing “compassion” for the poor, but those who found ways to make industry more productive and distribution more efficient, so that the poor of today can afford things that the affluent of yesterday could only dream about.
Thomas Sowell

“When I was growing up. We were taught the stories of people whose inventions and scientific discoveries had expanded the lives of millions of other people.
Today, students are being taught to admire those who complain, denounce and demand.”

Thomas Sowell
_____________________________

From others:
If you could reason with a liberal there would be no liberals.
If you could reason with a democrat, there wouldn’t be any democrats.

One of the hardest thing to do in life is trying to reason with a liberal

To anger a conservative, lie to them.
To anger a liberal, tell them the truth


“At the core of Liberalism is the spoiled child – miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.”

P. J. O’Rourke

“An author and former prisoner: ‘Socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn


35 posted on 08/20/2025 5:03:54 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)
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To: MarlonRando
Socialism is all anyone under 130 knows.

Jut look at a kid born in 2000. He sees .gov bailing out banks, and throwing money at wall st during the gfc in 2008. TARP, etc.

Obamacare comes forward, because its a reaction of the higher costs of health insurance. Which doesn't fix it.

Covid mess is nothing but money rained down from heaven to people. Stimulus checks, etc.

We currently are picking and choosing winners in the economy etc. Just today, .gov want to invest our money into Intel, etc.

36 posted on 08/20/2025 6:38:37 PM PDT by Theoria
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To: Redleg Duke

#11 Communists are socialists in a hurry....
BANG! BANG!


37 posted on 08/20/2025 6:47:02 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)
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To: MtnClimber

The kids think socialism means Denmark - free college, free health care, subsidized rent, and rich people taxed to pay for it all.


38 posted on 08/20/2025 6:54:03 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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