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Why Do So Many Young People Embrace Socialism?
The Daily Dose of Reason ^ | January 24, 2019 | Dr. Michael J Hurd

Posted on 01/25/2019 5:45:02 PM PST by huckfillary

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To: sparklite2

“When it’s all they’re taught in public schools and university,...”

And also at home.


61 posted on 01/25/2019 7:15:28 PM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: huckfillary

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.


62 posted on 01/25/2019 7:16:37 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: huckfillary

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.


63 posted on 01/25/2019 7:26:15 PM PST by cpdiii ( canecutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Conservative Inc. sold out the middle class and closed 55,000 factories and laid off their parents. Globalism killed conservatism dead.


64 posted on 01/25/2019 7:35:29 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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I don't agree with his premise. Socialism seems moral and achievable at a young age where you lack life experience. You want everyone to be looked after and achieve their potential just like you'd hope for yourself so it's appealing. It's appealing until you step back and watch what happens when it's implement and you study those who are always pushing those solutions and how, somehow, things just don't get better and their answer is always more socialism and central control.

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.

65 posted on 01/25/2019 7:39:37 PM PST by newzjunkey (WALL. NO AMNESTY.)
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I'm trying to remember how I became so anti-socialist at such a young age. I think it was a combination of the story of the Little Red Hen with lots of barnyard freeloaders not wanting to help the hen make bread but ending up with nothing when it came time to eat the bread. Add that to other students wanting me to be in their study and project groups so they "wouldn't have to work". By the time I was a senior I had read 1984 multiple times and it ended up the topic of most of my essays for college entrance. I saw the Democrats as the party of Big Brother.

Do little kids today ever read The Little Red Hen, or is it on the list of prohibited, anti-social books now?

66 posted on 01/25/2019 7:54:25 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Leave the job, leave the clearance. It should be the same rule for the Swamp as for everyone else.)
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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.


67 posted on 01/25/2019 8:02:25 PM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: huckfillary

Because they are ignorant of history and economics.


68 posted on 01/25/2019 8:03:07 PM PST by Texas resident (Democrats=Enemy of People of The United States of America)
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I was in a family of Democrats
My parents joined the #walkaway movement over 50 yrs ago. Around the same time Pres. Reagan did, and for the same reason, they didn't leave the party, the party left them.
69 posted on 01/25/2019 8:05:13 PM PST by Impala64ssa
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Why Do So Many Young People Embrace Socialism?

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."

70 posted on 01/25/2019 8:07:03 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: huckfillary

PCBs in the water supply.


71 posted on 01/25/2019 8:21:04 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: TigersEye
I think General Ripper was right.


72 posted on 01/25/2019 8:21:56 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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LOL


73 posted on 01/25/2019 8:23:22 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: American in Israel

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.


74 posted on 01/25/2019 8:39:22 PM PST by RightLady (Save Western Civilization.)
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To: huckfillary

Bookmark


75 posted on 01/25/2019 8:49:29 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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76 posted on 01/25/2019 9:00:49 PM PST by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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To: huckfillary

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.


77 posted on 01/25/2019 9:08:19 PM PST by Lockbar (What would Vlad The Impaler do?)
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To: huckfillary

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.


78 posted on 01/25/2019 9:11:19 PM PST by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: huckfillary

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.


79 posted on 01/25/2019 9:20:48 PM PST by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: huckfillary

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.


80 posted on 01/25/2019 9:36:16 PM PST by EC Washington
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