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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DSA candidates are popping up all over the country.
It’s always the young, retarded college brats who screw everything up. Now that they have their own Graham Cracker fascist Hitler, they are really on a roll.
Damn Sanders looks like he just swallowed a Joe Biden. He might need his boy, Graham Cracker, the OYster farmer to lick his fingers.
This article makes it sound like young voters are being fooled by Socialism. As if they’d revert to Capitalism if we just explained it to them and they saw the light. I wish it was that easy to fix. The country has been on the path to Socialism for about 100 years since the Welfare State was implemented. Once transfer payments were implemented on a large scale, the idea that one group would get free government money from another group was normalized. Especially when politicians told everyone that they could get all kinds of benefits and that the “rich” would pay for them all. Free money paid for by the “rich.” And the benefits kept expanding and expanding. We were able to borrow for a long time to ease the pain. But now we are at the point where a lot of voters are willing to start confiscating wealth to keep the Ponzi scheme going. That’s not younger voters buying a lie. Its younger voters taking the next step in a system that older voters have been living for decades.
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He can introduce all the crap bills he wants, this will never make it out of committee much less be voted on.
I guess they have never heard of a famous “National Socialist Party” from the 1930s and 1940s. The democratic Party has only replaced one word.
Bkmk
Don't say that too loud or more young Americans will go socialist. Right now a lot of them are blaming the Jews for everything under the sun, even the young ones who call themselves conservatives.
Yep its been there since FDR’s staff was mostly communists.
Ernest Hemingway was paid by the communists back them against the “Fascists” during the Spanish civil war.
"Bernie Sanders and his wife own three properties: a primary residence in Burlington, Vermont, a townhouse in Washington, D.C., and a seasonal lakefront home in North Hero, Vermont."
You first, Bernie - how about the government confiscating YOUR properties?
Just like the old Soviet Bosses who lived high on the hog while the rest of the population suffered:
All true. And the article, with its big fat picture of Bernie Sanders, does point out that the roots of socialism are old (and broken).
That said, the article citing a Rasmussen Reports poll does point out a young voter problem.
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.
Younger voters tend to be naive of history and of the past. And they are a product of our corrupt anti American public school system.
Now a number of those younger votes will eventually evolve away from voting socialist, but that 60% starting point seems historically high.
One ☝️ f the key points of the communist manifesto, take over the public education system.
That’s why they are legalizing drugs. Make them brain dead.
Where would Socialists get the money for all their great ideas if it wasn’t for Capitalism?
Not retarded, brainwashed. Look what garbage they have been fed in schools from liberal socialist adults all these years, many more nowadays without solid real world male role models teaching them good lessons that would counter and shut these lies down real fast.
I think it’s probably more likely that, rather than a mass number of people making pointedly irrational choices or the like, that the incentive structure in front of people has betrayed their expectations.
If younger generations were enabled to have a stake in the success of the country, with housing costs relative to those of prior periods with regard to earning potential and the share of earnings as a factor of production, then you’d probably see more young people be willing to defend what’s theirs or what they expect will be. We cannot expect people to defend a system that they do not perceive improvement from, and the gulf between productivity, wages, housing costs, and more have greatly changes the incentive structure for Americans.
The adage that a population grew more conservative as a truism was probably just a factor of that being a sensible adjustment for a population to make that had skin in the game and an interest in not giving that up. If the next generation perceives that they will not, despite their hard work, be rewarded as prior generations had been with stability in livelihood and security in homeownership, then why should we expect them to support a system they’re getting a raw deal from?
Whatever the reason may be - whether that’s offshoring, pulling up social or benefit ladders previously offered, more monopoly capture of previously competitive markets, systems failing to be updated to modern economic realities, over immigration or illegal immigration, or whatever else - the results are turning out as they are for a reason. Relegating it to a specific failing with no accounting for the rational decisionmaking large populations will be observed to perform just provides a comforting story to abdicate joint responsibility for a large scale joint problem that will probably not remedy itself.
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