I blame their parents, the education system and biased media.
[About half of millennials said they would rather live under socialism or communism than capitalism.]
Public school children have been indoctrinated in socialism since Middle School. Check the textbooks. “Stalin is cited more than George Washington. Corporations are evil, etc.” By the time they get to college, they are in lockstep with the mantra.
The idiots have no idea that communism is state owned slavery all they need do do is look at some USSR photos.
Two problems come to mind. When the democrats and neocons tell them Russia today is the same as the USSR, they believe it.
And the flip side of that coin is that when their own politicians are pure communist...they don’t recognize it.
They see open eradication of religion, calls for nationalization of medicine, calls for ending free speech, a total surveillance state like the world has never seen, Bernie saying Americans don’t need 20 different kinds of toothpaste, DHS, TSA, CIA, NSA, a nomenklatura that is above the law. A state controlled press, the legalization of domestic propaganda, calls for criminalizing certain thoughts about the environment, celebrations of abortion, the characterization of political opposition as mental illness, a government that uses the tools of government against political opponents,,etc...
They see all of that and it doesn’t ring a bell. They don’t now communism when they swim in it...
Then by all means go to the country you believe to have the best form of socialism/communism. No one is stopping you from doing so.
I know it's fashionable to consider Millenials a bunch of Obamabots. As many writers have said, that's hardly a well-founded generalization. Yes, youths tend to vote liberal but before and after polls suggested a significant proportion of millenials broke for Trump at the end, possibly handing him the election.
Further, Deplorable parents are undoubtedly advising Deplorable millenials to hang up when a telemarketer calls, or walk away from dopes with clipboards, thus causing an underweighting in polls.
Finally, remember that by most accounts, at the time of the Revolution, 20% were Loyalists, 33-45% were Patriots, and the rest were ballast. If you replace Loyalist with statist, and Patriots with Deplorables, we are right where we started.
I thnk we are seeing history repeat itself. The left/Loyalists are painting the Patriots/Deplorables as intransigent dolts who must be brought to their knees and Kiss the Ring, for their own good. In turn, the Patriots/Deplorables are not going quietly into the night, using new media to outsmart the Establishment and bring otherwise neutral parties to the side of truth and freedom.
In turn, the kids of Deplorables likely are as much "underground" as are their parents in polls, etc. Where they ARE visible is on memes and the like....have you ever seen how many pro-Trump meme pics there are vs anti-Trump? I doubt that's coming from a bunch of geezers. Thus, I wouldn't so easily assume the millenials are all commies.
A problem because “From each according to ability, to each according to need” sounds fair to youngsters until they realize that some faceless bureaucrat gets to decide what you need and what they think you can contribute.
Replace the guilt of sin with the guilt of political correctness, replace the promise of heaven with the utopia of “fairness”. Replace eternal God with temporal government.
Don’t be surprised at the results.
The industrious got tired of carrying all the weight while the lazies expected and got the same communal benefits. It closed like 2 weeks later. This was true communism that had no central control, other than a few founders on a council who assigned jobs for newcomers.
Perfect example of the failed ideology of communism. It only works if you have an armed dictatorial central government and the threat of gulags. Of course,then it's fascism.
I blame my hippie Boomer generation who took control of our education system and literally brain-washing GenX,Y,and Z (millenials).
That's because almost one half of Millennials are non-white, and they vote 80% for the Democrat Party.
White Millennials vote 50% to 55% for the Republican Party.
Stalin, a hero? Lenin, an environmentalist? This is what happens when teachers fill young heads with the Marxist crap they learned in college - if they even have classes on history and civics anymore.
Lenin wasn’t the environmentalist, Stalin was. He fertilized an awful lot of Russia with 20,000,000 corpses.
People who know nothing will fall for anything.