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2017-11-05 Home Front: Culture Wars

Millennials would rather live in socialist or communist nation than under capitalism: Poll

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-11-05 06:06|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 I don't blame the kids: all of their teachers and professors are socialist - and most of them live very well indeed.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-11-05 06:30|| 2017-11-05 06:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Well, when you throw out history what do you expect? It is not just the historical charnel house of death and suffering from communism/socialism but the fact that so many of those of Euro ancestry can't figure out that their predecessors either were thrown out or left on their own accord. The Millennials need to be encouraged to do the latter if they find capitalism so abhorrent.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-11-05 07:27|| 2017-11-05 07:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Tell them they have to use an old Nokia Brick if they do.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-11-05 08:02|| 2017-11-05 08:02|| Front Page Top

#4 That is because they have only been taught a fantasy version of it.

They have no idea what it really is even with examples like Venezuela.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-11-05 08:36|| 2017-11-05 08:36|| Front Page Top

#5 But Darth, VZ is not REAL socialism being done correctly.

The millennials, led by the likes of Bernie and Barack will do it right and the Unicorns will start farting rainbows.

Posted by AlanC 2017-11-05 08:58|| 2017-11-05 08:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Another dull example of Lib % Obamer public education. The hate America First crowd fully embedded in formation of our vulnerable youths.

Posted by Woodrow 2017-11-05 09:32|| 2017-11-05 09:32|| Front Page Top

#7 They'll all tell you about Sweden as if it's heaven on earth.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-11-05 10:04|| 2017-11-05 10:04|| Front Page Top

#8 ...well, given that it is 98+% white with a embedded Lutheran culture, you need to follow the full model. Wouldn't that be cultural appropriation?

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-11-05 10:09|| 2017-11-05 10:09|| Front Page Top

#9 There is no such thing as Communism, it's always Party Capitalism, with someone else being The Party.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2017-11-05 10:35|| 2017-11-05 10:35|| Front Page Top

#10 There is no such thing as Communism, it's always Party Capitalism, with someone else being The Party.

You mean like crony capitalism?

Posted by Abu Uluque 2017-11-05 10:46|| 2017-11-05 10:46|| Front Page Top

#11 I doubt they, despite their druthers, can put together a cogent explanation of either.

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2017-11-05 12:53|| 2017-11-05 12:53|| Front Page Top

#12 Bright Pebbles, a Nokia brick might not be a bad idea. They would actually hkave to interact live in real time.

Posted by Cheaderhead 2017-11-05 14:04|| 2017-11-05 14:04|| Front Page Top

#13 with long-distance rates. Remember those?

Posted by Frank G 2017-11-05 14:56|| 2017-11-05 14:56|| Front Page Top

#14 with long-distance. Remember those?

Posted by Frank G 2017-11-05 15:03|| 2017-11-05 15:03|| Front Page Top

#15 ...you mean like getting echos on a long distance phone call?

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-11-05 15:38|| 2017-11-05 15:38|| Front Page Top

#16 So how many have applied for visas to go live in North Korea or Cuba or Venezuela? Thought so.

Posted by Tom 2017-11-05 16:14|| 2017-11-05 16:14|| Front Page Top

#17 P2K. Yup. Yup.

Posted by Frank G 2017-11-05 16:39|| 2017-11-05 16:39|| Front Page Top

#18 or anywhere really... go start a business in NZ or OZ. Go work in Nor,Den, or Swed. and watch most of your paycheck disappear

Posted by 746 2017-11-05 17:17|| 2017-11-05 17:17|| Front Page Top

#19 Let them drive in a trabant (or whatever the best car the Soviets could produce) for awhile.

Posted by rjschwarz 2017-11-05 20:49|| 2017-11-05 20:49|| Front Page Top

#20 "That is because they have only been taught a fantasy version of it.

They have no idea what it really is even with examples like Venezuela."

As Trump said it is not that they failed to implement socialism in Venezuela, They implemented socialism Faithfully.

Posted by newc 2017-11-05 22:37|| 2017-11-05 22:37|| Front Page Top

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