Unfortunate,y those 42% will rise to the top in our goverment.
Not surprising. Marxists run our public schools and many parents today just don’t give a rats patoot.
The 42% don’t realize that Capitalism is the system that makes Socialism possible. An abundance of Socialism destroys Capitalism and the whole collapses.
Most of those children have never really lived under actual Capitalism. What we’ve had here for the past few decades really isn’t capitalism, it is corporatism (a form of diluted socialism).
They have never been taught the principals of capitalism. The schools are leftist training academies.
But will they be willing to give up the products of capitalism - smartphones, Air Jordan shoes, a vast selection at clothing stores, etc.
It’s all pretty easy to understand. Capitalism means having to get up in the morning and go to work. Socialism means traveling the world on somebody else’s dime taking selfies with celebrities and doing goofy stuff. We used to call it laziness but that’s politically incorrect now.
How can you blame them? They’ve had heavy indoctrination, so many of them don’t know what capitalism really is.
There’s another factor, though. Since what we have now is a heavily managed system somewhere between crony capitalism and crony/special interest socialism, many of the younger people are having trouble getting on the carousel.
In my own family, I have a highly skilled individual who is ABD (all but dissertation) in physical chemistry and a pretty sharp computer guy. He had a job for two years programming at an oil exploration company whose work force was almost completely composed of H1-B workers. The price of oil finished off that job, and he’s having difficulty finding another.
He convinced me that the H1-B problem is large and real. He said that in the STEM businesses, H1B workers are like indentured servants. They don’t have a green card, and have to maintain employment for something like four years to qualify for one. If they lose their job, they are sent home.
Companies that employ them know this, and often drive them mercilessly with 70 hour workweeks, including routine weekend emergencies. Yes, it becomes a job Americans don’t like, because it’s sweatshop intellectual work. Moreover, in some of these groups, the majority of workers are Chinese or Indian, so often (not always, of course) the boss has preferences when it comes to assignments and especially promotion.
There’s been reams written about US “hollowing out” by the sending of production off-shore. Almost nothing is written about the intellectual hollowing out that will ensue due to H1B overuse. The word is starting to get around, and eventually STEM will be avoided.
Now, I’ve drifted a bit from my initial statement. My fella is pretty capitalist, but he feels like the deck is stacked against him and it’s hard to get a leg up. If his school indoctrination had taken better hold and he couldn’t analyze the problem, I could see how he might think that if this was capitalism, something else might work better.
‘Free’ Trade has done more damage to capitalism than anything else. If government and corporate America(the new fascism) doesn’t believe in the American worker then what good is capitalism? Marx had this path to Communism mapped out 150 years ago.
Headline explains a lot.
Explains Clinton’s growing lead in the polls.
Explains the “BrownShirts” taking over the streets.
Explains the GOPe’s need to get rid of Trump.
Explains “conservative” commentators suddenly become Clinton supporters.
Explains American’s abysmal public school system.
Added together with many others these:
Explains why the American Republic now looks more like a Facist America.
....Yet now that the Bernie is out, many will end up jumping ship and going with Trump.
Bullstalin.
Millenials are the ones owning overpriced food trucks selling $12 hamburgers and $5 fries.
Then let them live in Venezuela or North Korea.
Ask them what the word means. If 1 out of 10 gets it right, I’d be amazed.
So yeah, they reject whatever their definition of capitalism is. Because that’s what cool hipsters do, dude.
They think the Fascist system that is in place today is capitalism, which is absurd in light of the dominance of politically-driven government spending in the economy.
And far too many people who consider themselves defenders of capitalism share the same illusion, without having the empathy to see the damage that the wealth strip-mining in this breathtakingly corrupt system has been doing to posterity.
This is largely because the “capitalism” they’ve been seeing, as they’ve grown up, is anything but.
The problem is that they don’t understand that the problems of our current economic system - which none of us will deny - are caused by government interference, excessive regulation, cronyism and rent-seeking. And that it’s the “Progressives” who are doing it.
If economic activity were to become centered around communities, a lot of that would change.
What do you expect when the government schools don’t teach these morons what capitalism is, especially compared to other economic systems. Notice they didn’t know enough to say which alternative system they preferred.
Thank you, teachers.
They’ve been brainwashed with Liberal propaganda since Kindergarten by design.
1983 “A Nation At Risk” - A President Reagan subcommittee report.
“...If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament...”
FYI: The Childrens’ Story by James Clavell (author of Shogun and Nobel House)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6C1IV00LLDQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5Va0b0tL1M&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojxtz-9vSr8&feature=related