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Socialism’s millennial fans don’t even know what it is
NYpost.com ^ | 3/2/19 | By Post Editorial Board

Posted on 03/04/2019 9:43:09 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda

Socialism’s millennial fans don’t even know what it is

Anyone who isn’t a socialist at 20 has no heart, but anyone who isn’t a conservative by 40 has no brain: That old epigram is certainly playing out in today’s Democratic Party.

Millennials — ignorant of socialism’s appalling economic and human-rights history — increasingly embrace socialism and its naively unrealistic prescriptions for ending all human want.

Yet so are a growing number of veteran Democratic pols who should know better, but are clearly terrified by the growing star power of the likes of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And never mind House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s warning that “this is not a bumper-sticker war.”

Gallup reports that 57 percent of Democrats have a positive view of socialism. But do they even have any idea what they’re talking about? The same poll shows respondents supporting small business and free enterprise and rejecting the idea that government is doing too little.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: idiots

1 posted on 03/04/2019 9:43:09 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

AOC knows what socialism is. It’s stealing tip money from a waitress...........

https://pagesix.com/2018/07/01/ex-co-worker-no-fan-of-democrat-darling-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/


2 posted on 03/04/2019 9:44:21 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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Let’s not fool ourselves. They know enough about what it is — living the good life off of someone else’s dime. Gimme gimme gimme and make “the rich” pay for it. The millennials just believe in a free ride more than prior generations, but a good chunk of the prior generations believe in it too. Its the cancer of the Welfare State that has been rotting the American Work Ethic for 80 years. The Dems and the media have done an excellent job on selling a large chunk of the population on the sham that they can have whatever they want and the “rich” can pay for it all.


3 posted on 03/04/2019 9:46:22 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

But we know what they are.

And they don’t CARE what it is.

They have NO cause, no reason for being and so they are looking for one desperately, no religion or faith so they need faith in SOMETHING...no matter how insane and dangerous, they have no moral compass, too much time on their hand and too many spoiling yet inattentive parents who ruined them.

And last but not least, a college system that might just as well be called “Institutes of Traitor Making” as “Institutes of higher learning”


4 posted on 03/04/2019 9:47:58 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

That’s socialism for the LESS than 1 percent.

They DONT know what it is.

Not at all.


5 posted on 03/04/2019 9:48:49 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Tell the Millies the truth in their own tongue.

Socialism is not sustainable.

6 posted on 03/04/2019 9:49:14 AM PST by coaster123 (Bring back the curtsy. - If one is alive one is privileged.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

We need to arrange for them to visit Venezuela.
See it firsthand for themselves.


7 posted on 03/04/2019 9:50:07 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Well, like socialism is like being social like on facebook and instagram and twitter and like chat rooms and stuff like that. Or even playing mortal combat with someone one line.


8 posted on 03/04/2019 9:52:15 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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The funny thing is if she was making $560/night in tips, that works out to $140k/year (5 days, 50 weeks), which put her damned close to the upper 10% at least.

Still, she couldn’t manage to save a few thousand for to put down a deposit on a place in DC?


9 posted on 03/04/2019 10:16:11 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Schumer delenda est.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

You’re on the mark with that observation.

I spend a lot of time talking to Millenials.
They know all too well about Europe’s generous social welfare benefits. They don’t see any reason why The Greatest Country on Earth should not be giving them these.

I suspect that within about a decade we will.


10 posted on 03/04/2019 10:19:41 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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11 posted on 03/04/2019 10:23:29 AM PST by coaster123 (Bring back the curtsy. - If one is alive one is privileged.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

No, these brain-washed/brain-dead millenials have not a single clue what Socialism is. Socialism is Communism without people being put up against a wall and shot...and, yet, it far more often deteriorates to just that.

One of my great grandfathers was murdered by Stalin’s NKVD in 1937, more than a dozen years after they just plain STOLE everything that he owned except the home he lived in. But he still lived and opposed their concepts of how to act and what to believe, so they beat a 74-year-old man suffering from cancer to death. THAT is Socialism, courtesy of the Union of Soviet ***SOCIALIST*** Republics.

I’ve studied Socialists and Communists for more than the last 40 years, and I oppose every single thing that they purport to stand for (purport, because it is ALL lies - the leaders of every single stripe of Socialism from the “soft” Socialism of Canada and Western Europe to the “hard core” Communism of Cambodia or the Chinese Red Guards during the “Cultural Revolution” are interested ONLY in power, at any price (to others, not themselves, of course). Knowing them as I do, I am aware that they could win here and enslave or murder me and/or members of my family, but unlike in Russia, as far as my family is concerned it most definitely will NOT be for free.


12 posted on 03/04/2019 12:48:09 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“The funny thing is if she was making $560/night in tips, that works out to $140k/year (5 days, 50 weeks), which put her damned close to the upper 10% at least.

Still, she couldn’t manage to save a few thousand for to put down a deposit on a place in DC?”


I’d like to see if her tax returns and tax payments reflected those tips...or not. Guess where I’d bet, if such a bet were available.


13 posted on 03/04/2019 12:49:37 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda
Lies Of Socialism

Not "Social" & Not "Just"

14 posted on 03/04/2019 12:52:41 PM PST by Ohioan
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