Posted on 02/28/2020 9:46:48 AM PST by rktman
Pundits have recently argued that younger voters, especially those under 30, are less inclined to be bothered when they hear the word "socialism," since they have no firsthand memory of the Cold War.
To some extent, this must be true. Those who weren't alive during socialism's cruelest catastrophes – or even its many banal failures – will be less put off by the idea. Then again, if a presidential candidate were praising the excellent public transportation system of the Third Reich or going on about some alleged benefit to American slavery, they would rightly be chased from the public square forever even though the vast majority of voters have no firsthand knowledge of the Holocaust or slavery. Anti-Semitism and racism haven't disappeared, and neither has Marx, sadly.
It's true that Bernie Sanders' fans aren't acquainted with socialism (and, incidentally, this is true only if we ignore the existence of Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, China, etc.), but the fact is that most Sanders supporters don't seem to have a rudimentary grasp of basic economics much less the "socialism" they think exists in Scandinavian nations. What they do have are lots of feelings. And, like millions of other saps over the past century-plus, they've been enticed by the collectivist "ethic" – its revolutionary appeal, its religiosity and its quixotic promises.
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- Public schools
- University indoctrination centers
- Mass media 100% in the tank
- Giving people like Bill Ayers and Howard Zinn control over curricula
- Bank bailout of 2008 (well....if THEY got a bailout, then, damn, they can afford to do W, X, Y and Z for ME!!!)
Bernie is the only honest one in a slate of cookie cutter identical Communists competing for the Democrat nomination.
The Ministry of Education
The Ministry of Propaganda
“Mass media 100% in the tank”
For sure...the media glamorizes all counter culture types. ALWAYS
The land of the free is turning in to the land of free stuff!
(But it’s not really free - taxpayers still pay, because TANSTAAFL)
Amnesty u should run for office. Cant guarantee you’d win though.
“the land of the free” is also the land of the massive nanny-state, permanent left-wing government bureaucracy, funded by massive debt and printed, fiat money.
ALL of that means lot of support for socialists and spreading their ideas.
Bookmark.
“most Sanders supporters don’t seem to have a rudimentary grasp of basic economics much less the ‘socialism’ they think exists in Scandinavian nations”
Most Sanders supporters have been on recipient side from the time they popped out of their mommies.
“Amnesty u should run for office. Cant guarantee you’d win though.”
Nope I don’t see anyone voting for me!
Kruschev TOLD us that they would bury us.
They TOLD us that they would defeat us from within; they even spelled it out for us..
Those who took it seriously either used too much vigor to counter it or they were just called idiots,
We didn’t listen.
Now we have handed over the public and college education systems to them. They’ve been churning their indoctrination for a couple of generations now, so that it doesn’t take much persuasion to sell a “Bernie Sanders” to our youth.
Same thing applies to our media. They do a great job of indoctrinating older Americans, who’ve grown up feeling that the news media is one thing that can be trusted.
That media has done a skillful job of dragging things left without their viewers realizing. (My in-laws would’ve been against open borders, gun control and “free” healthcare just 20 years ago... - now, they’re all for them!)
We keep electing idiots who don’t know how to combat this nonsense effectively. That and/or they go to DC and learn quickly that in order to survive there, they need to either join the corruption machine or be wiped out.
That’s how I see it anyway..
Thank GOD for President Trump. I fear the day he leaves office.
Yeah, January 20, 2029 is gonna be questionable. You KNOW that kind of comment drives them friggin’ KRAZEE.
“First we will take Eastern Europe, then the masses of Asia. We will encircle the last bastion of capitalism, the United States of America. We will not need to fight. It will fall as a ripe fruit into our hands.” V. Lenin
Looks like old Vlad even got the order right. We’ll be right behind Asia!
Let’s see:
Eastern Europe: CHECK
Masses of Asia: CHECK
The United States of America: Still a work in progress
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