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Luring Children: How Socialism Got Its Groove Back
Townhall.com ^ | February 11, 2020 | Marina Medvin

Posted on 02/11/2020 4:19:48 PM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 02/11/2020 4:19:48 PM PST by Kaslin
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2 posted on 02/11/2020 4:23:34 PM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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Economic instability was a lot of the lure.

Lowering the trade tariffs and watching industries and jobs go offshore, soured a lot of children on capitalism.
Watching their parents go through unemployment, have to move, lose the house, go through stress, etc.

But it wasn’t capitalism’s fault. It was government trade policy fault. Capitalism has always provided a higher standard of living than socialism.

The high level of school debt has also soured some on capitalism. You do conventional wisdom, and go to the best school you can get into, and then you’re facing financial slavery. Again government policy and not capitalism is at fault.


3 posted on 02/11/2020 4:24:25 PM PST by DannyTN
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For decades, democrats have been pushing a very liberal agenda in the schools.

Now that all their millennial puppets are of voting age, and pursuing what they were programmed to demand, old school dems such as Chris Matthews, Uncle Joe et al are freaking out

You commies made this problem. Now fix it!


4 posted on 02/11/2020 4:25:19 PM PST by llevrok (I'm a Boomer rube, deplorable and proud!)
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My recollection is that the quote comes from Churchill. Shaw was a socialist until his dying day.


5 posted on 02/11/2020 4:29:03 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill & Publius available at Amazon.)
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Our university class will be labeled the Clueless Generation, members of which are woefully lacking in the basic survival skills of life.


6 posted on 02/11/2020 4:34:29 PM PST by txrefugee
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Just like with Lenin-Trotsky-Stalin-Che-Mao-DearLeader, once in power, "marxist leaders" have no use for the “agitators” such as Chrissy, Carniville, etc. Off to the Gulags for work reeducation or straight to the firing squads.
7 posted on 02/11/2020 4:35:50 PM PST by Mr Fuji
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Capitalism is about making choices. People who go into student loan debt for a degree that cannot repay the loan chose poorly.


8 posted on 02/11/2020 4:59:36 PM PST by henkster
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Shaw never said this and neither did Churchill!

Shaw was a FABIAN SOCIALIST, who went even more lefty as he aged, turning into a full blown COMMIE and dying one.

9 posted on 02/11/2020 5:15:00 PM PST by nopardons
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Churchill NEVER said it, nor wrote it; but for some strange reason someone atributted this saying to him, on line and now, almost everyone repeats the nonsense.


10 posted on 02/11/2020 5:18:21 PM PST by nopardons
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I thought it was Lyndon Johnson.


11 posted on 02/11/2020 5:36:08 PM PST by Orosius
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One of the earliest users of the quote was James Madison but its origins go much further back. There’s lots of speculation about who said it first. It certainly wasn’t George Bernard Shaw, who was a staunch Fabian socialist.


12 posted on 02/11/2020 5:43:44 PM PST by Bernard Marx
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Misattributed. That was Churchill, not Shaw.


13 posted on 02/11/2020 5:46:05 PM PST by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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LOL...not him either!


14 posted on 02/11/2020 5:47:45 PM PST by nopardons
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15 posted on 02/11/2020 5:48:44 PM PST by MacNaughton
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I didn’t think it was that difficult, even for a young person, to realize there is no free lunch; everything has a price. They will learn in time; possibly after it’s too late.


16 posted on 02/11/2020 5:57:11 PM PST by oldtech
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... there is no free lunch ...


17 posted on 02/11/2020 6:09:15 PM PST by MacNaughton
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Thank you, Kaslin, for sharing this EXCELLENT article and explanation of why so many young people are swallowing what the Democrats are spewing!

Sad that these points will never be discussed by media, TV or print, except by some on FNC and that’s like preaching to the choir.

God help America.


18 posted on 02/11/2020 6:48:56 PM PST by 4integrity
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Bkmk


19 posted on 02/11/2020 6:51:22 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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Agree....for decades liberals have indoctrinated students and, imho, sadly, parents either didn’t notice or weren’t sure how to combat this.


20 posted on 02/11/2020 7:34:42 PM PST by 4integrity
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