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Staff opinion columnist Joel Kotkin is R.C. Hobbs Presidential Fellow in Urban Studies at Chapman University. He is executive editor of www.newgeography.com and executive director of the Center for Opportunity Urbanism.
1 posted on 02/07/2016 5:03:41 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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When the middle class breaks down and folks don't think they'll have the opportunity to succeed on their own merits, socialism is appealing.

That why the role model of a successful businessman who knows what's needed to things around for job creation and business opportunities has the best message to counter that.

2 posted on 02/07/2016 5:07:55 AM PST by grania
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These idiots are immersed in SOCIAL Media, so when they hear “Socialism”, they think it’s cool.


3 posted on 02/07/2016 5:12:01 AM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Why would this be any surprise? After all, our educational and entertainment entities have been pure propaganda for over 40 years in support of what we see today...SOCIALISM.

We have demasculinized men, masculinized women, embraced homosexuals, transvestites and gender changers, placed the blame for all of the world’s ills on the white race, freed women from raising children, destroyed morals and virtues, and too many others to mention.

It’s the culmination of the “perfect storm” that has brought us the millennial generation...the generation that will take down the America we once knew.


4 posted on 02/07/2016 5:13:09 AM PST by DH (Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
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Alternate headline: “Millennials heed the siren call of postmodern cultural totalitarianism”


5 posted on 02/07/2016 5:13:11 AM PST by Ancient Man
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They forget the lessons of the meltdown in Russia dn even the communes of the '60s where they tried to live what they preached - only to find that way too many were more than willing to freeload off the labors of the others, so the communes quickly fell apart.

For Socialism to work, Human Nature has to be destroyed and supplanted with robotic obedience, else the lack of incentive in toiling to stay the same while enabling parasites to live at the same level as the workers will crush the spirit of those who produce.

6 posted on 02/07/2016 5:14:03 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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College students were vehement supports of the German Workers Socialist Party and were in fact the first book burners for the nazis.


7 posted on 02/07/2016 5:14:03 AM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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Obama’s ruination of the economy (largely seen in the lack of good jobs, even for the educated), for which capitalism takes the rap,is a major driving force in the Millenials’ embrace of socialism.


9 posted on 02/07/2016 5:15:17 AM PST by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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(satire) North Korea Honors Bernie Sanders for his Socialist Stances

http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/north-korea-honors-bernie-sanders-for-his-socialist-stances-t17489.html


10 posted on 02/07/2016 5:16:40 AM PST by angryoldfatman
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Let Milton Friedman explain to the little mush-filled skulls what the difference between socialism and capitalism is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76frHHpoNFs


11 posted on 02/07/2016 5:20:16 AM PST by angryoldfatman
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Good article.


16 posted on 02/07/2016 5:37:20 AM PST by Tax-chick ("We have no values in common with Saudi Arabia."~ Daniel Greenfield)
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Socialism is the default political stance. American politics has to be learned. Conservatism has to be cultured in a person.

These millenials are woe-fully uninformed and maybe inculcated to the liberal doctrine of big government.


20 posted on 02/07/2016 5:44:15 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (American Jobs for American Workers.)
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Millennials are so stupid that they think there is a free lunch, so they fall for the Democrat promise of Free Stuff for their votes. There will be $20 Trillion of national debt on their taxpayer credit card when Obama leaves office. The only way that can be paid is to inflate our dollar to the point where bread will be $10 a loaf. Their families, should they be able to afford families, will suffer greatly for the votes they are foolishly casting now.


21 posted on 02/07/2016 5:45:09 AM PST by txrefugee
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Although young people have always been more socialist minded the fact that a huge percentage of today’s young people are non white doesn’t help at all.

Facts:

1) Except in the very odd/exceptional election year of 1964, the Dems haven’t cracked 50% of the whites in a Presidential election since 1932.

2) Once the ‘64 election was over, the Dems understood that they would never win another Presidential election again unless the Republicans REALLY screwed up...or unless they changed the electorate in a dramatic way.

3) The Dems, courtesy of Bobby Kennedy who wrote the law, and Teddy Kennedy who pushed it in the Senate, passed the 1965 Immigration Act. That law dramatically reduced immigration from our then-traditional large sources of immigrants - England, Ireland, Holland, Germany, etc. - and replaced them with vast numbers of Turd Worlders...whom everyone knows vote around 80% for Dems, and will continue to do so for the rest of their lives, as new immigrants have traditionally done.

4) As a result of the ‘65 Act, and due to the Dem’s outright lying in ‘86 regarding an effective (or any) fence, there are now probably 30 - 40 million illegals in this nation. Note that the (probably low-ball) figure in 2005 was 11 million...we have 2-3 million come in every year, so simple math says that the number is actually somewhere between 31 and 41 million). If any substantial portion of these people ever become citizens, then the Dems will have accomplished a complete shift of the electorate, and will be virtually invincible on the national level. Every state will become like California, both politically and economically - which is to say, overwhelming Dem and broke. But at least if you don’t like California now, you can leave for a better place without much trouble - where are you going to go if EVERY state is like that?

5) Every Republican, and every Conservative voter MUST UNDERSTAND that if such a state of affairs comes to be, NO OTHER ISSUE WILL MATTER AT ALL, because we will ALWAYS AND FOREVER lose on those issues. Immigration is THE issue of this election, and this election is as critical as the 1860 election was - and for the same reason, because it will determine whether this nation continues on as it has existed in the past, or becomes a new and unrecognizable entity that simply occupies the same geographic territory.

Please wake up, and help others to do so by sending them this post (or recommending “Adios America” to them). It really is THAT important.


27 posted on 02/07/2016 5:52:24 AM PST by Ultima
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i’ve heard it said this is the result of giving every kid a trophy


28 posted on 02/07/2016 5:54:20 AM PST by Godzilla (3/7/77)
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Promise almost any ramen-eating college kid free stuff and free college tuition, they’re there.

He knows his target audience.


29 posted on 02/07/2016 5:59:40 AM PST by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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When you’re 18-years-old and mommy and daddy are paying your way through college, it’s fun to play revolutionary. The little brains full of mush supported Eugene McCarthy, a goofy socialist, in 1968 and supported McGovern in 1972.

Then in 1980 and 1984, they voted for Ronald Reagan.


30 posted on 02/07/2016 6:20:40 AM PST by sergeantdave ( If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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The new generation's lurch toward socialism would have been unimaginable at any previous moment in the past half century.

Nonsense, that's been the norm for every moment in the past fifty years at least. Young voters flirt with insane socialist ideas, then move rightward as they gain a bit more experience (thought often not far enough). There's no reason to assume that millennials will break the trend.

33 posted on 02/07/2016 6:30:29 AM PST by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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I’m not surprised.

There is scant sympathy for Wall Street and crony capitalism in America.

Neither of the major parties seems interested in defending the American Dream and in securing a future for young people.

With the way things are headed, radical socialists could displace the liberal and conservative mainstream parties in the foreseeable future.

Its already happened in Greece. It could come to America in our generation.


34 posted on 02/07/2016 6:30:31 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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Can’t help but wonder whether Soros is ready to get onboard with Sanders, then topple the economy and, in a Depression, get the rest of Millenials and LIV’s fully behind Socialism.


35 posted on 02/07/2016 6:38:18 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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This is what happens when you stop educating “young skulls full of mush” (Rush) and start programming them. You no longer teach them HOW to think, you program them on WHAT to think. America is starting to pay the price for this ignorant screw up.


36 posted on 02/07/2016 6:38:49 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Viruses and diseases must be DemocRATS. They love open borders.)
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