"Do you realize how many people my age, or younger, saw how the recession screwed so many people? To many of them capitalism is a failed system."
Sigh.
They only know prosperity. They don’t know what a Soviet-style food line for some dumpy potatoes is like, or to stand in it for hours only to be told there is nothing left.
I don’t know those things from personal experience either, but I know enough history to realize we have it good. REALLY good. So many people take for granted a roof over their heads, food on the table, clothes on their backs, and a heated house.
That is more the norm of history, rather than the rich comfort we have enjoyed for a century or more.
Now, it is a failed system when you can’t have new cars, cell phones for each person in the family, the newest pair of Nikes, and a 65 inch flat panel with an Internet connection.
Sigh.