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Harris Poll: Millennials And Gen Z Are Fans Of Socialism (Is Capitalism Redeemable?)
Hotair ^ | 03/11/2019 | John Sexton

Posted on 03/11/2019 10:52:27 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Buckeye McFrog

Capitalism is a Marxist label. I’ll bet many would support the “Free exchange of goods and services”.


21 posted on 03/11/2019 11:15:06 AM PDT by JmyBryan
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To: SeekAndFind
Capitalism is a word (intended as an insult) that means "free markets." Free markets means that a man is able to freely sell what he produces or grows or has ownership of.

Socialism means "government ownership or control" of what a man produces or grows or has ownership of."

Millennials need to understand that socialism means giving up their freedom of ownership. Their property is not theirs, their cars are not theirs, their bedrooms are not theirs...

Under socialism, everything they thought was theirs belongs to everyone else.

Furthermore, socialism promises "equality of outcome" not "equality of opportunity"...

Do Millennials realize that they will be rewarded in a manner equal to all others regardless of how hard they may work or how clever they are...that their "unique" contribution to the world as an individual has NO VALUE?

22 posted on 03/11/2019 11:16:49 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: SeekAndFind

With Democratic Socialism you get to Vote Once and then watch out


23 posted on 03/11/2019 11:17:07 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: SeekAndFind

Capitalism - Oingo Boingo

There’s nothing wrong with Capitalism
There’s nothing wrong with free enterprise
Don’t try to make me feel guilty
I’m so tired of hearing you cry

There’s nothing wrong with making some profit
If you ask me I’ll say it’s just fine
There’s nothing wrong with wanting to live nice

I’m so tired of hearing you whine
About the revolution
Bringin’ down the rich
When was the last time you dug a ditch, baby!

If it ain’t one thing
Then it’s the other
Any cause that crosses your path
Your heart bleeds for anyone’s brother
I’ve got to tell you you’re a pain in the ass

You criticize with plenty of vigor
You rationalize everything that you do
With catchy phrases and heavy quotations
And everybody is crazy but you

You’re just a middle class, socialist brat
From a suburban family and you never really had to work
And you tell me that we’ve got to get back
To the struggling masses (whoever they are)

You talk, talk, talk about suffering and pain
Your mouth is bigger than your entire brain
What the hell do you know about suffering and pain . . .

There’s nothing wrong with Capitalism
There’s nothing wrong with Capitalism
There’s nothing wrong with Capitalism
There’s nothing wrong with Capitalism


24 posted on 03/11/2019 11:18:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Millennials believe Venezuela has failed because it was sabotaged by capitalists spies from the U.S. and elsewhere.


25 posted on 03/11/2019 11:18:52 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: SeekAndFind

I thought gen z were our saving grace?..Socialized medicine along with euthanized rooms for us old folk! AND kiss your life’s savings goodbye as they’ll go after our retirements to keep the non-working lazy bastards comfy! My God it is so scary with every passing day and year communism in this country is rapidly taking roots! NEXT the government, dictated by these POS, will force us to surrender our guns!! ...without a STINKING FIGHT..WE ARE SOOOOOO ROYALLY SCREWED!!!


26 posted on 03/11/2019 11:21:53 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course they do..their commie professors told them that Capitalism is a horrible thing, yet they walk around with iPHONES, they are morons, which makes them easily susceptible to indoctrination


27 posted on 03/11/2019 11:22:19 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: JmyBryan

Wasn’t the ‘old’ statement

IF you aren’t a liberal/socialist etal at 20 you have no heart.

IF you are a liberal/socialist etal at 40 you have no brain.

Like ‘they’ said, all this crap works fine until you run out of other peoples money.

And sadly, too many ‘working stiffs’ wake up one day and realize how foolish they are and try to jump in line for the freebies, forgetting that it is THEIR contribution that was helping to support what they are ‘looking for’.


28 posted on 03/11/2019 11:22:49 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"Getting rich as a Politician means doing something illegal''(trunc) HS Truman)
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To: Starboard

To the ill-educated and politically illiterate, no word carries meaning unless spoon-fed with promised deserts.
BeGood/RossB


29 posted on 03/11/2019 11:24:39 AM PDT by RossB
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To: SeekAndFind

Snake oil.


30 posted on 03/11/2019 11:25:58 AM PDT by gogeo (Liberal politics and mental instability; coincidence, correlation, or causation?)
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To: xrmusn
IF you aren’t a liberal/socialist etal at 20 you have no heart. IF you are a liberal/socialist etal at 40 you have no brain. Like ‘they’ said, all this crap works fine until you run out of other peoples money

a) Millenials are passing 30 and on their way to 40 and show no signs of giving up their affinity for socialism.

b) The entire world relies on our fiat printed money as their reserve currency, with no good alternatives. This country can get away with print-and-spend for a very long time.


31 posted on 03/11/2019 11:27:00 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: SeekAndFind

There is more negativity, more problems, more of everything bad and to escape, the “mills” and “gen Z” go to Facebook to look like they are Zoolander models that jet set across Europe for a photo shoot.

But are things that bad? No. But they are told they should have everything early; and as a consolation prize the socialist government will give you the next best thing: almost everything, or at least enough money to continue on Facebook like you are snow boarding and enjoying lattes on some mountain top.

What can Trump offer? What glamorous thing does he have to compete with AOC? He’s an old white man who’s a racist in their minds. AOC looks like a model (just like the Zoolander models) and will live the swank life of artist lofts and fancy dinner parties. That is a winning argument.

The democrat party is the party of cool. By following them you are cool too... like Hollywood is cool... like socialist Bernie is cool. It’s cool by proxy. And that is another winning argument (if not the same argument).


32 posted on 03/11/2019 11:28:33 AM PDT by BEJ
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To: SeekAndFind
What we need to do is arrange some school experiments in which socialism can be tried. Communal/free market experiments for example where young people can be placed into two groups, one in which everything is shared equally regardless work contribution and another in which hard work and outcome is rewarded.

It would take about two days for kids to realize that some people will simply not work but will still expect to share fully in the outcome.

I remember an old story of such a communal effort in Vermont where Bernie Sanders participated.

There were a lot of complaints about ole Bernie. It seems he sat around and ran his mouth about the joys of socialism but never actually did any work.

People were quite p!ssed at old Bern.

Bottom line: If millennials are interested in socialism, let them try it in some smaller settings. They will learn quickly that it doesn't work quite as blissfully as promised.

33 posted on 03/11/2019 11:29:40 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: SeekAndFind

Call her what she is....a communist

Do these folks want to be told where to live or what to eat or what phone they can buy??? Of course not but that’s what socialism brings


34 posted on 03/11/2019 11:30:42 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: RossB

Our “educators” are paid good money to spoon feed and indoctrinate our children with promises of utoptian benevolence by a “caring” government. All they have to do is vote D to “earn” their promised deserts.


35 posted on 03/11/2019 11:30:52 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: SeekAndFind

36 posted on 03/11/2019 11:31:57 AM PDT by cdcdawg (A couple more election cycles and they won't even need vote fraud)
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To: RoosterRedux

The indoctrination centers have worked, idiocracy here we come.


37 posted on 03/11/2019 11:33:38 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: xrmusn
Wasn’t the ‘old’ statement - IF you aren’t a liberal/socialist etal at 20 you have no heart.IF you are a liberal/socialist etal at 40 you have no brain.

I believe it was 30 when you had or didn't have a brain

But that saying applied when the population was 95% White. Demographics aren't that favorable anymore.

38 posted on 03/11/2019 11:41:23 AM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: SeekAndFind

Time to send 10k socialist lovers to Venezuela for a month and 10k to China for a month. Let’s see how much they love it, if they still love it send them to Cuba.


39 posted on 03/11/2019 11:48:26 AM PDT by kenmcg (tHE WHOLE)
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To: SeekAndFind

Young people are easily fooled by the promises of “free” stuff because of the liberals running el/hi schools and universities have “taught them well”.


40 posted on 03/11/2019 11:52:00 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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