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PJ O’Rourke: This Is Why Millennials Adore Socialism
New York Post ^ | September 12, 2020 | PJ O'Rourke

Posted on 09/12/2020 9:08:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway

America’s young people have veered to the left. Opinion pollsters tell us so. According to a November 2019 Gallup poll, “Since 2010, young adults’ positive ratings of socialism have hovered near 50 percent.” A March 2019 Axios poll concurs, saying that 49 percent of millennials would “Prefer living in a socialist country.” And The Hill puts it more strongly, citing an October 2019 YouGov Internet survey in a story headed, “7 in 10 Millennials Say They’d Vote for a Socialist.”

SNIP

What’s the matter with kids today? Nothing new. A large portion of the brats, the squirts, the fuzz-faced, the moon calves, the sap-green, and the wet behind the ears have always been “Punks for Progressives.”

As soon as children discover that the world isn’t nice, they want to make it nicer. And wouldn’t a world where everybody shares everything be nice? Aw … kids are so tender-hearted.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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1 posted on 09/12/2020 9:08:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

If they get a taste of real Communism/Socialism, they’ll all turn into pouting crybaby Snowflakes.


2 posted on 09/12/2020 9:13:02 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: nickcarraway

Gotta love Peej.


3 posted on 09/12/2020 9:17:10 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: nickcarraway

“If a man isn’t a liberal at age 20 he has no heart.
If a man isn’t a conservative at age 40 he had no brain”


4 posted on 09/12/2020 9:19:04 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: nickcarraway
Good quote here:

"Intellectuals like Marxism because Marx makes economics simple — the rich get their money from the poor. (How the rich manage this, since the poor by definition don’t have any money, is beyond me. But never mind.)"

5 posted on 09/12/2020 9:20:32 PM PDT by ConjunctionJunction
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To: IronJack
Gotta love Peej.

I did, until he turned against Trump. He voted for Hillary.

6 posted on 09/12/2020 9:29:14 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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7 posted on 09/12/2020 9:30:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: ConjunctionJunction

Kinda like the late great Barry Farber’s description of a socialist. One who, if they encountered a fat guy and a skinny guy walking side by side down the sidewalk would ASSume the fat guy got fat at the expense of the skinny guy.


8 posted on 09/12/2020 9:31:58 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
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To: laplata

Stupidity and ignorance both play a big role in this brainwashing process.....


9 posted on 09/12/2020 9:35:53 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Don't care.

10 posted on 09/12/2020 9:43:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: nickcarraway

We shouldn’t be surprised. We taught them how horrible America is. We taught them they are victims, We taught them they have no opportunities, the deck is stacked against them by the rich white people. WE HAVE GIVEN THEM NOTHING TO BELIEVE IN. Then this movement comes in and now they finally have something to be a part of that is bigger than themselves. We used to have God for that. But they don’t allow that anymore either. It was just a matter of time.


11 posted on 09/12/2020 9:47:07 PM PDT by Hildy (In an unforgiving world, only the shameless survive.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Whoops.

12 posted on 09/12/2020 9:47:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: lightman
I've been heartless my whole life.

“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.”

― P.J. O'Rourke,

13 posted on 09/12/2020 9:52:16 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: nickcarraway

Everything I know about the Smoot-Hawley Tariff I learned from Ferris Buehler’s Day Off.


14 posted on 09/12/2020 10:08:21 PM PDT by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: lightman
“If a man isn’t a liberal at age 20 he has no heart.

If a man isn’t a conservative at age 40 he had no brain”

Guess I have no heart. My first vote at age 18 was for Ronald Reagan.

15 posted on 09/12/2020 10:09:24 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople (What if the Lord sent COVID-19 to immunize the world from something more deadly?)
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To: EagleUSA

That’s right. They’re dumbed down and ignorance is one of the results.

And their emotions and group think rule them. They are incapable of critical thinking or discernment.


16 posted on 09/12/2020 10:11:25 PM PDT by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: lizma2

“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then they get elected and prove it.”
= = = = = = = = = = = =
A D & R are on the beach and both spot a person floundering about 50 feet off shore and someone yells ‘get a rope’.

The R gets a piece about 20 feet long throws it out and says “Swim in, and I will pull you the rest of the way”

The D runs up with about 75 foot of rope, tosses it out and yells ‘Grab the rope’.
Then he drops his end in the sand and runs off to do another ‘good deed’.

BOTTOM LINE:

Flounderer is gonna die!!!!


17 posted on 09/12/2020 10:19:45 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: nickcarraway

Just pre-ordered the book. If its half as good as “Eat the Rich” it’ll be money well spent on entertainment.

His democrat leanings won’t change my vote. I’ve spent too much on hats, t-shirts, yard signs and lifesize cardboard cutouts.


18 posted on 09/12/2020 10:31:07 PM PDT by BraveMan
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To: nickcarraway
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” is deeply stupid and completely impractical. And yet there’s a place where it works. This place is my house. And your house. And anywhere else there’s a family.

Now that is an insight worthy of the read. That's why socialism works in children's eyes - because it always has.

19 posted on 09/12/2020 10:33:30 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: MuttTheHoople

I have a question, What are you when you vote Hillary when you are 68?


20 posted on 09/12/2020 10:35:27 PM PDT by deek69
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