Posted on 06/05/2026 6:49:24 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Far-left politicians want to annihilate property rights. A large share of young voters are buying into it – a red flag that our school systems have become socialist indoctrination factories.
On Monday, one of the far left’s agenda setters, Sen. Bernie Sanders, called on the federal government to confiscate half the value of each of the nation’s largest artificial intelligence companies. He’s targeting OpenAI, Anthropic (creator of Claude), and xAI for starters.
Making his announcement on Facebook and in a New York Times opinion piece, Sanders said he’ll introduce a bill in Congress to slap these companies with a 50% ownership tax – literally grabbing company stock without paying anything for it – in shocking defiance of the U.S. Constitution.
It’s straight out of the playbook of Lenin, Castro, or another communist dictator – expropriating private property for government use.
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Pay attention to how fast Democratic Socialists of America candidates spouting collectivism are making headway. Last week’s primaries produced outright wins or runoff advancements for more than a dozen candidates in five states backed by the DSA.
Who likes these ideas? Gen Z voters who have a rose-colored view of socialism, communism, and collectivism.
According to a Heartland Institute/Rasmussen Reports poll at the end of 2025, nearly 60% of likely voters aged 18 to 24 want a democratic socialist in the White House in 2028.
Mandani captured 78% of under-30 voters in November, according to an ABC exit poll.
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Hey Bernie! Come take my stuff. I’m waiting…
Most all of us can be made to believe in fairy tales when we’re very young. Hopefully, we grow out of it before we’re old enough to vote.
Jealousy and envy. That’s what I’m seeing.
Millennials and Zoomers have no power. The last 5 presidents were Boomers and Congress has been majority Boomer since the early 90s. All they can do is react to the system they were given which is massively skewed against them.
When Trump has the government buy ownership in companies it destroys our political position. We are now in the dialog:
It’s OK if my government does it.
But it is not OK if your government does it.
Trump is the lesser of the evils. But he is cutting our legs out from under us.
if they can vote they have power ...
Republicans in California, Illinois and New York will be heartened to hear that
“housing costs relative to those of prior periods”
The post-WW2 era saw the majority of metropolitan American adults become car owners and the construction of limited access highways such as the Shirley Highway opening up abundant land to suburban development.
It was the golden age of cheap suburban housing.
Housing has filled up the Los Angeles Basin, Long Island and in many areas now spreads out 20 to 50 miles from the downtown of a city.
““housing costs relative to those of prior periods”
New houses built in the years 1942-1960 were generally small.
They had single pane windows and basic kitchens. They had a one-car garage or carport. They probably didn’t have AC except maybe in Florida.
“housing costs”
What should a house sell for?
Let us say the going rate is $400,000 for a mid-size house.
If the going rate was reduced to $300,000 a lot of people would be underwater.
If the going rate was further reduced to $250,000 the people who bought at $300,000 would all be $50,000 losers.
“If younger generations were enabled to have a stake in the success of the country”
They can open a stock brokerage account.
Many stocks will outperform the overpriced housing markets.
Is Comrade Sanders going to be able to snatch 50% of Chinese or Indian companies?
Our H-1B stuffed companies could relocate to and reincorporate in India.
“housing costs”
Many large homebuilders have a profit margin of about 14%.
The first bill that Sally introduces is a constitutional amendment to lower the age requirements for national political office to 14, and "Fourteen or Fight!" enters a new phase. A joint session of Congress is called, and the Troopers—now joined by Fergus's son, Jimmy—swing the vote their way by spiking the Washington, D.C., water supply with LSD, and providing all the Senators and Representatives with teenage escorts.As teens either take over or threaten the reins of government, the "Old Guard" (those over 40) turn to Max to run for president, and assert his (their) control of the changing tide. Max again agrees, begrudgingly running as a Republican, but once in office, he turns the tide on his older supporters. Thirty becomes a mandatory retirement age, while those over 35 are rounded up, sent to "re-education camps" and permanently dosed on LSD. Fergus unsuccessfully attempts to dissuade Max by contacting his estranged parents, and tries to assassinate him. Failing at this, he flees Washington, D.C., with his remaining family, but they are soon rounded up.
With youth now in control of the United States, politically as well as economically, similar revolutions break out in all the world's major countries. Max withdraws the military from around the world (turning them instead into de facto "age police"), puts computers and prodigies in charge of the gross national product, ships surplus grain for free to Third World nations, disbands the FBI and Secret Service, and becomes the leader of "the most truly hedonistic society the world has ever known".
If an investment account was the silver bullet, this wouldn’t be a problem. And even if it were a good solution but for the population being unable to harness it for one reason or another, then the ‘solution’ would still be untenable - though many jobs do provide for an at least analogous account which employers contribute to, but the problem more or less remains.
The system as it stands now fails to deliver an environment that incentivizes people to commit their trust to it, which is a far more widely applicable and rational reaction set than alternative explanations about propaganda or the like. There’s an argument that the housing market was destabilized in a way that wasn’t sustainable during the housing boom due to government intervention in the market that widened access and predisposed new home owners as relative winners in the then-existing market. I think that’s probably not inaccurate - the rates of the post war boom were artificially induced, and created a substantial platform for generations to enrich themselves.
When access widened across a number of points, with more expected to qualify than before, from groups not considered for it prior, and with new populations seeking similar opportunity, the future of that kind of distributism isn’t tenable. Even if it was, as you point out, you’d have winners and losers, and people overly leveraged into the speculative side of the housing market would effectively lose their investment vehicle (and a number of those people are likely not fit to return to work, and are retired or soon to be.)
The answer obviously can’t just be “gubmint”, but the result of doing nothing is arguably that this trend we’re seeing could very well continue. We can hope it doesn’t, or otherwise assume that it will pass (and it might!), but, on the other hand, there is an opportunity to do well with voters in addressing this very real issue. After all, these DSA guys are not dyed in the wool Democrats - they represent a populist strain that has contempt for the party elites of the DMC, and that views them as ineffective liars. Their success isn’t on the back of Americans being secret lefties, but on Americans who are fed up with ‘the system’s and seeking an offramp.
Any approach is going to be complex, because the American economic malaise is itself complex and something that has been cooking for a long while, with piled on debt, entitlements, increasing precarity for workers, and dwindling home ownership rates. A serious proposal is likely to be a lengthy policy discussion, and one with a lot of uncertainty apart from the certainty of the increased, and increasing, dissatisfaction of the American citizen.
The same old myths that end up getting millions killed by govt. I blame our education dept.
look at what the 19th amendment did ...
Now that we’re given 1000 bucks per child born, we just added another government giveaway. How much you wanna make that Muslims and other others will be having as many children as they can to continue milking the cow
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