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Why socialism resonates with Gen Z and Millennials across the US
Money Control ^ | Sep 28, 2025

Posted on 11/22/2025 7:51:45 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege

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To: CondoleezzaProtege; All
Thank you for referencing that article CondoleezzaProtege.

Polling shows that socialism resonates strongly with younger Americans.


Are pollsters first asking people to define socialism? Or do people who may not have a clue what socialism is just following the possibly leading questions of activist posters?

21 posted on 11/22/2025 8:29:18 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: rktman

Send them to Cuba for a year. They’ll learn.


22 posted on 11/22/2025 8:30:16 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: eastexsteve

You’re blaming the victims of globalism. Maybe just maybe capitalists made some self destructive mistakes?


23 posted on 11/22/2025 8:31:02 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
“Why should I care about saving democracy if it can’t provide me a home or food I can afford?”

The purpose of a REPUBLIC is to protect the fruits of your labor, not to satisfy your whims.

24 posted on 11/22/2025 8:31:17 AM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump )
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I don’t see it as “predatory Mortgages” being the problem, Massive FRAUD and Stupidity on the borrowers part was the problem, thousands of Bankers should have been thrown in PRISON for the fraud they committed


25 posted on 11/22/2025 8:32:07 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: Lockbox

The worst generation went globalist. That is the core problem.


26 posted on 11/22/2025 8:32:25 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: mitchjackson1972

Bingo!


27 posted on 11/22/2025 8:33:12 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: No name given

My Russian grandmother made sure I knew about communists. I have despised their lies since I was six years old.


28 posted on 11/22/2025 8:33:14 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: mitchjackson1972
Because the baby boomers destroyed this country and the young people have nowhere else to go

Crony capitalism is a system where businesses gain advantages not through competition or quality but through their political connections. Companies with ties to government officials receive favors like special contracts, tax breaks, or relaxed regulations, giving them an unfair edge over others. This distorts the free market, reduces competition, and often leads to corruption, higher costs, and less innovation.

Trump needs to take some antitrust actions.

The U.S. beef-packing industry is highly concentrated, with the top four companies—Tyson Foods, JBS USA, Cargill Meat Solutions, and National Beef—controlling roughly 80–85% of the market. Tyson and JBS each hold around 20–25%, Cargill about 15–20%, and National Beef roughly 14–15%. This dominance means a small group of processors largely determines cattle prices, plant capacity, and supply-chain dynamics across the entire beef industry.

29 posted on 11/22/2025 8:34:41 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: faithhopecharity

thus, every employer in town complains about not being able to hire people who are willing (or want) to work for the peanuts they offer.

Fixed it.


30 posted on 11/22/2025 8:34:59 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Socialism and communism will always be popular among people who think they can get something for nothing and there’s an endless supply of them.


31 posted on 11/22/2025 8:36:55 AM PST by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Why should I care about saving democracy if it can’t provide me a home or food

As she's scrolling on her thousand dollar iPhone while getting her nails done while getting her eyebrows pierced and her entire left arm tattooed after which she'll go back to her cardboard box and binge watch the latest season of her favorite reality show on her thousand dollar 60" flat screen brought to her by her satellite dish as she eats day old top Ramen

32 posted on 11/22/2025 8:39:32 AM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Breaking up the media conglomerates would also be another good start.


33 posted on 11/22/2025 8:40:36 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: ProgressingAmerica

“They were indoctrinated in the schools”

Absolutely!


34 posted on 11/22/2025 8:41:52 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Because we have destroyed the free market while calling it capitalism. Ask a millennial what system governs our healthcare, which has been under increasing government control since the 60’s, and they will say it’s capitalism.

They want change from the current system and I don’t blame them. Because they think the socialism and corporatism that strangle our lives today is “capitalism” they want the opposite of that.


35 posted on 11/22/2025 8:42:44 AM PST by RightOnTheBorder
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Because falling for socialism is a mistake everyone makes unless:

a) they are competently taught why it’s a bad idea
b) they realize it’s a bad idea through their own intellectual effort
c) they are enculturated to reject it as a bad idea


36 posted on 11/22/2025 8:44:27 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: Texas Eagle

says the entitled boomers who had access to cheap housing and high paying jobs in their youth and now young people have low wages if any, no good jobs because they all go to foreigners, housing is impossible for the young because they are all filled with illegals and h1b’s, and saving money is impossible


37 posted on 11/22/2025 8:46:24 AM PST by mitchjackson1972
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To: millenial4freedom

NYC is full of illegals. Including the mayor


38 posted on 11/22/2025 8:47:40 AM PST by stanne
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
“Why should I care about saving democracy if it can’t provide me a home or food I can afford?”

Ask a Cuban. Or a Venezuelan.

39 posted on 11/22/2025 8:48:53 AM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I’m acquainted with a large number of students and faculty at three universities. Most are, at minimum, sympathetic to socialism. Most are somewhat capable of studying economics, but they don’t. I would say almost none of them have read a single textbook on the subject. Doesn’t keep them from admiring Sanders, Mamdani and the like.


40 posted on 11/22/2025 8:55:41 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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