communists are simply socialists/democrats in a hurry, with guns...
Posted on 02/08/2016 5:17:07 PM PST by Faith Presses On
Deploying Lena didn't work. Neither did shout-outs from Beyoncé, Kim, Ilana and Abbi, Ariana, Katy, Demi or either of the Amys.
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Why are so many young'uns feeling the Bern?
I see two main reasons.
The first is that, to millennials, Sanders's socialism is a feature, not a bug.
Much of the current conversation about Sanders's "democratic socialism" is predicated on whether Americans can look past this supposedly toxic label. But millennials love Sanders not despite his socialism, but because of it.
"Socialism" has never been a dirty word for the current cohort of youth, who either didn't live through the Cold War or don't remember it. We are more likely to associate socialism with prosperous, egalitarian, relatively well-functioning Scandinavian states -- the kinds of places that produce awesome things like Ikea and "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" -- than with autocrats who starve their people.
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As if feminists weren’t hard socialists,...
communists are simply socialists/democrats in a hurry, with guns...
They were never told that NSDAP (nickname: nazi) meant national socialist German workers party. It was NOT shorthand for the Republican Party, despite what they've been told from birth.
It had two of their favorite trigger words in it: "socialist" and "worker". Of course, "worker" isn't too popular among the millennials now, except those further down the ladder of equality, who have to support the new "best and brightest".
I agree with that analysis. However, I also meant that Bernie is the flaky, kumbayah, free-drugs public face of “socialism,” while Hillary is the Stalinist (Castroist, Chavist, Kim-ist) reality.
The homogeneous Scandahoovian social democracies are growing more diverse by the minute, if you get my drift.
...and I happen to think you’re spot-on. We tend to exaggerate a lot in politics but occasionally there is an individual who you can’t really misrepresent. Hillary would make a perfect prison camp guard, I really believe that.
Bernie doesn’t say what should happen to all those bad people who make too much money and don’t want kids to have free college ... but when you look at Hillary, you can figure it out.
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