[ExTxMarine]

Sad, but young people do not know history.

Because the history classes which they are teaching today do not talk about the atrocities of the socialist revolutions, instead they attempt to sugar coat those deaths with the BS rhetoric of how the people LOVED their new leaders and they talk about how those leaders were charismatic and other "feelings" related minutia. It is the old, but honest, line "Sure Hitler killed a lot of people, but he made the trains run on-time."

It is REALLY sad that we have allowed the liberal left to take over our education system!

[Norseman]

Yes, they more or less own the education system, starting with the teachers’ colleges, and the mass media as well. When’s the last time you saw a businessman portrayed sympathetically on a tv program, for instance?

However, as I’ve said before, the Hunger Games series of books, and now the movies that are following up, could turn an entire generation against a big, overpowering, centralized government. The books were widely read, and were definitely an indictment of centralized power, and in favor of individual effort and fortitude.

Frankly, I’m amazed Hollywood is letting the movies be produced as their theme is so contrary to what the Left believes. Maybe Leftists are assuming that the thug running the country in Hunger Games is a conservative? If so, I doubt that’s the message the young take away from the books. More like, get the government out of my life, in my opinion.