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50% of millennials would rather live in socialist, communist countries

WFcatamount22 said:
This is really what is boils down to, millennial's think socialism = free health care and college while both those things are perfectly capable of happening in a capitalist country.
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Perhaps Americans think socialism is what American politicians who embrace democratic socialism endorse.

The original link is hyperbolic at best. I think reasonable Americans realize any political or economic system can be corrupted by authoritarians.

ConnorEl said:
I agree that if you don’t have parents who can send you, definitely go to the best public school you can.
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Which puts lower income families at a disadvantage as long as employers view grads from prestigious schools more favorably than kids from less prestigious public schools.
 
Intriguing that the generation that told their kids they could be anything and have to go to college are now criticizing millennials for not going to the right college or for not getting the right major.
 
RJKarl said:
95% of millennials have no idea what it would mean to live in a totally socialist or communist country.
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Have you ever lived in a totally socialist country?
 
What’s an acceptable societal level of winners and losers, clearly right now there is a huge disproportion with multi billionaires and a huge segment of the population barely scraping by.
 
And the billionaires just gave themselves big tax breaks.
 
AsesinoDeTortugas said:
Have you ever lived in a totally socialist country?
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I didn't say most people people would understand it. Virtually no one in America would understand what it would be like.

Around the time the Berlin Wall came down, I did a lot of work with a group of senior people trying to take the former USSR into a new world of capitalism and freedom. I listened and learned a lot from them about their own stories, the plight of everyday Russians and how they wanted to learn how to bridge the changes that were coming.

This group had members who were political scientists, a techie, a high ranking political operative, someone with ties to entertainment and sports and a couple of business people. I listened to people who lived in the communist system their whole lives. They had been privileged but many of their family members weren't.

It's was a combination of frightening, bizarre and even Keystone Copish. Many of the nightmarish stories we have heard were very true.

There really aren't too many truly socialist countries. Those that are closest have a great deal of regulated capitalism at their core.
 
Sounds to me like there has been a group of people with really loud voices and radio stations and tv shows who for 30 odd years have clenched their sphincters and screamed “socialism” every time even the most sensible and logical collective solution has been put forward, and the next generation just said “ok, socialism then :noidea: “
 
Pretty much. They called Obama a socialist. Teenagers and young adults said “He’s pretty cool.” Then Bernie came out and said he’s a socialist. Young adults going into their careers said “He’s right. The game is rigged.” Now AOC is out there dropping truth bombs and she’s just like them.
 
WakeandBake said:
Sounds to me like there has been a group of people with really loud voices and radio stations and tv shows who for 30 odd years have clenched their sphincters and screamed “socialism” every time even the most sensible and logical collective solution has been put forward, and the next generation just said “ok, socialism then :noidea: “
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There’s probably a lot of truth to this.
 
WakeandBake said:
Sounds to me like there has been a group of people with really loud voices and radio stations and tv shows who for 30 odd years have clenched their sphincters and screamed “socialism” every time even the most sensible and logical collective solution has been put forward, and the next generation just said “ok, socialism then :noidea: “
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Agreed. FDR was frequently called a socialist, but he supposedly said that he wasn't trying to destroy capitalism with the New Deal, but instead he was trying to save capitalism from itself. William T. Sherman was reported to have said that Southern slaveowners who supported secession were the greatest practical abolitionists, because they were forcing the issue and starting a war that in his opinion they couldn't win, and which would ensure that the slaves were eventually freed. It's kind of the same, I think, with laissez-faire types who prefer unregulated capitalism - they may prove to be the greatest unintentional advocates of socialism ever.
 
WakeandBake said:
Sounds to me like there has been a group of people with really loud voices and radio stations and tv shows who for 30 odd years have clenched their sphincters and screamed “socialism” every time even the most sensible and logical collective solution has been put forward, and the next generation just said “ok, socialism then :noidea: “
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As let usual, great post.
 
WakeandBake said:
Sounds to me like there has been a group of people with really loud voices and radio stations and tv shows who for 30 odd years have clenched their sphincters and screamed “socialism” every time even the most sensible and logical collective solution has been put forward, and the next generation just said “ok, socialism then :noidea: “
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Yep
 
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