Posted on 11/09/2025 8:41:51 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Nothing surprising about the poll results. College kids are the most Leftist indoctrinated folks in the country.
They’ve already got the automaton part down pat.
It all sounds so innocent and a lot like "togetherness" and "equality" - until they experience the actual dysfunction, mayhem, discrimination, tyranny and murder it really is.
The Devil is expert playing on emotional heartstrings with lies.
Stupidity beats common sense among U.S. college students.
RE: That’s why they want working families to pay for their POS college attendance certificates that aren’t worth the paper they are printed on.
It is ironic that Mamdani voted under the line of the WORKING FAMILIES PARTY, not the Democrat Party.
It's like the song from the musical South Pacific, "You've Got To Be Carefully Taught".
You’ve got to be taught to hate and fear,Substitute socialism for racism, and it's the same message.
You’ve got to be taught from year to year,
It’s got to be drummed in your dear little ear—
You’ve got to be carefully taught!You’ve got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a different shade—
You’ve got to be carefully taught.You’ve got to be taught before it’s too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate—
You’ve got to be carefully taught!
-PJ
RE: They think they’ll get Norway, but they’ll end up with Cuba.
Norway does NOT have a minimum wage law.
There is no legally mandated minimum wage that applies to all workers in Norway, so to say that Norway is socialist is ignorant. The wage in most businesses is agreed upon between the employer and employee in the employment contract.
Company tax rates in Norway can be lower than in the US.
Norway (along with Sweden) has no property, inheritance, or gift tax, which stands in contrast to the US system.
There is a larger proportion of private schools (below the university level) in Sweden than in the US, indicating a degree of private choice in education in the Nordic model that might be surprising to some Americans.
CHECK IT OUT!!
That’s not socialism.
In NYC on the other hand, Mamdani wants to mandate a $30/hour minimum wage.
This will have to be a law passed by Albany, which would apply to all of New York State, not just the city.
To even have a chance for a little socialism to work, you’d need a high-trust non-slavic white homogeneous populace. There’s very little left of that in the entire world now, so yeah.. It would be more like Uganda or Somalia than even Cuba in the USA if they pushed it more.
But when people talk about the greatness of socialism they always talk about Scandinavia.
Not news, they always have!!
People with less wealth prefer wealth redistribution.
Fools and their freedom are parting.
RE: But when people talk about the greatness of socialism they always talk about Scandinavia.
Talk about MISINFORMATION.
Scandinavian countries are often called “socialist,” but this is actually a significant mischaracterization. Here’s the reality:
Why They’re NOT Socialist
Scandinavian countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden) are fundamentally CAPITALIST economies. They have:
Private ownership of businesses - Most companies are privately owned and operated for profit
Market-based economies - Prices, production, and distribution are determined by market forces, not central planning
Strong property rights and contract law
Free trade and open markets - they’re actually very business-friendly with high rankings on economic freedom indexes
Competitive private sectors that drive innovation and wealth creation
Heck, Leaders from these countries have explicitly rejected the “socialist” label.
Denmark’s Prime Minister once said at Harvard: “Denmark is far from a socialist planned economy. Denmark is a market economy.”
When people say they want Scandinavian style socialism, here’s what they really want implement in our country ( never mind the fact that we have 50 states with their own governors acting like 50 separate countries):
* Subsidized Universal healthcare and education (including free university)
* Generous parental leave (up to a year or more, paid)
* Strong unemployment benefits and job retraining programs
* Old-age pensions that prevent elderly poverty
* Subsidized childcare
They also have strong labor unions and collective bargaining, though union membership is voluntary. You cannot coerce people into joining a union.
The Nordic model is better described as the “Nordic model” - a HYBRID system combining free-market capitalism with extensive social safety nets. The government redistributes wealth through taxation but doesn’t control the means of production.
The question is this — DO WE WANT SUCH A SYSTEM IN THE USA AND IS IT FEASIBLE IN A COUNTRY WITH 50 AUTONOMOUS STATES?
Also, Scandinavian countries, well at least until recently, were mostly homogenous, with a solid sense of work ethic in people, and not the kind of people who looked to ‘cheat the system’.
That is not the US, at all!
I hope so, because it seems like Charlie’s already been forgotten. Whose going to be the ONE person who goes to these colleges and talks one on one to students to change their minds on issues, it was ONLY Charlie that did that and he did it effectively, who can do that now
Give thank yous to the educators who push the socialist agenda.
Fascinating!
I never heard of this before.
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