Posted on 01/25/2019 5:45:02 PM PST by huckfillary
Its not youth and inexperience. Its not even government-run schools and idiotic celebrities. Not primarily.
Why do so many young people embrace socialism?
For the same reason any middle-aged or older person embraces socialism: Anxiety and envy.
By anxiety I mean neurotic anxiety, which means a false or exaggerated belief that one will be unable to properly survive or take care of oneself, so that unspecified help is needed to ensure survival.
Envy is often a byproduct of anxiety. If one starts out feeling, Im unable to care for myself, then its not a stretch to look at someone else who has more than enough and say, Thats not fair. He can more than provide for himself, and Im unable to do so for myself.
What about the fact that young people have not yet earned much money, and therefore dont appreciate the value and justice of private ownership, i.e., being able to keep what you earn? Not all young people feel this way. Some young people understand the justice of keeping what you earn. Some do, and change their minds later and become socialists in middle-age.
Regardless, unless you have a significant amount of neurotic fear and/or envy, its unlikely socialism would grab your fancy for even five minutes, much less for years (and elections) on end.
Its true that public schools are teaching the ideology of self-sacrifice and blind service to others (the same premises as Nazism and Communism) as self-evident givens in todays government-run schools. But these faulty ideas are not new to the present era. Yet in earlier eras, the majority of young people did not turn as socialist as they appear to be doing today.
The more likely contribution of todays mediocre schools as well as an increasingly irrational culture is that young people dont know how to think. Thinking is your basic tool and precondition of survival. If you feel inadequate to think critically, rationally and objectively, youll develop a neurotic and pervasive sense that, Im not equipped to survive. In a land of plenty, particularly, it seems logically appealing when someone comes along and says, No worries. Well pick up your college tuition. And health care. And tons of other things too. Youre entitled to it, after all. It comes as a relief to the anxiety-ridden souls who embrace socialism.
In older folk, and in some young people born into wealth, theres the factor of guilt and atonement. Thats a form of anxiety, too. Im rich and I dont deserve to be. Its not fair. So it becomes a form of virtue-signaling merged with a psychological tonic to make sure others see you support socialism.
Its not that most young people are depraved and stupid any more than most older people are totally depraved and stupid. And its not just inexperience. Its fear. And the envy that gets ignited by fear.
Its truly sad. And yes, its dangerous for the future of a free society, but dangerous most of all for those young people who now seek to embrace socialism. Its not going to end any better for them than it did for anyone else. And if they get their wish, and socialism gets enacted completely, then their fears will quickly become rational.
“When its all theyre taught in public schools and university,...”
And also at home.
1. Idealism due to inexperince and naivety about the world.
2. They are more of a beneficiary of such a system at their age.
3. Most of their lives they have not worked and earned whats been given to them.
4. Biased education talks up socialism ignoring real life problems of it, while demonizing all other forms.
A few real life examples would stop them from being socialists forever. Grade sharing where your A gets reduced to a C togive the girl who got an F up to a C.
Follow the link below from Wikipedia. It shows in detail over 100 million at least killed by Marxism. It is probably much greater. It should also be noted that these totals do not include the deaths due to NAZI Germany. NAZI means “Nationalist Socialist German Workers Party” The Nazi’s would easily put another 20 million into the total.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_regimes
Democratic Socialism always morphs into tyrannical Marxism.
Many Socialist point to Norway, Sweden and Denmark as successful examples of Socialism. They are totally incorrect. These nations have a vibrant capitalistic society that has accepted high taxes to support a generous welfare program. The people voted for it. At the same time they realized that private industry is the support of their economy. Until the recent tax cuts for business during the Trump administration our tax rate on industry was higher than in Scandinavian nations.
Conservative Inc. sold out the middle class and closed 55,000 factories and laid off their parents. Globalism killed conservatism dead.
As as Catholic student I was interested in social justice and was interested in the experiments conducted in other countries with things like socialized medicine.
I've learned the hard way not to be the frog trying to save the scorpion from drowning because it'll drown you too. There's a lot of villainy, dishonesty, moral corruption out there. It's more commonplace than I knew from my experience growing up.
Do little kids today ever read The Little Red Hen, or is it on the list of prohibited, anti-social books now?
Agreed, however it takes maturity to appreciate capitalism and freedom to have charity.
Children just want a parent substitute to feed them. Socialism is Mommy on steroids.
Because they are ignorant of history and economics.
Because they are immature, stunted people.
They need a new "Mommy" when Mom and Dad send them out into the real world ill-equipped to deal with anything more complicated than an untied shoelace.
The state is that "Mommy."
PCBs in the water supply.
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They gotta think, If you take everything from the wealthiest there wont be enough money to run the country for a month, and those in need will get very little when divided up. and the wealthy will have very little and won’t work anymore.
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Because they are LAZY. Nobody in socialist countries really work hard, unless they literally have a gun pointed to their heads. The want an easy way out and excuse for being non-performers.
The major reason I might observe, is that from the Clintons through the Obama’s, their college education debts were structured to place them in lifetime bondage, while eliminating as many well paying entry level jobs to qualified graduates. The unusable degrees, such as in Transgender Studies or you name it, tended to stroke the welfare system and procure the min wage jobs to an extent that full time was further reduced to part time without full time benefits.
Many in Obama’s empire had no future other than socialized living, and any capitalism was attacked mercilessly by the socialists.
Of course they now is a whiplash of past socialists turned die hard conservative. The socialists soon forget they can no longer fool the people who worked their systm from the bottom up who saw their faults.
Because they are young, stupid (in spite of or because of their education) and sadly easily manipulated. Their utter ignorance is a failure of our generation to properly educate and discipline them. They are pathetic.
Because they want everything handed to them and don’t want to work for it. The Gen X’ers and Millennials quit jobs at the drop of hat when something doesn’t go their way. They think Socialism will just give them stuff without paying for it.
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