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That's A Hard Pass On Socialism, Millennial Suckers
A companion to my previous post in opinion[Townhall] While the unkillable ideological cockroach that is socialism seems to be enjoying a resurgence primarily among stupid and/or evil millennials, there are three key groups who will oppose any such transition here in America. There are ex-military folks like me who served in the ruins of socialist countries and saw the way they poison a culture (and literally the land too ‐ socialism is always an environmental atrocity). There are folks, like my wife, who escaped from murderous socialist hellholes ‐ wear your scummy Che t-shirt around her and she’ll cut you. And then there are the rest of the Normal Americans who are both aware of socialism’s 100 million corpse tally and who don’t particularly want a bunch of aspiring campus Castros taking power and telling bossing them around for eternity. ... first we need to define "socialism," because there seems to be a lot of confusion about what socialism is among the young people supporting it. "Socialism" is defined as "socialism." You have probably seen on social media where smug dorks in knit caps post memes about how, "If you support having roads and armies, you support socialism!" Okay, if every kind of government has roads and armies, then roads and armies are not an attribute of a socialist government in particular but of government in general. This kind of soft thinking is the sad result of too many years spent watching The Daily Show, which offers its audience such pseudo-smart insights designed to blow the minds of credulous sophomores. Personally I believe that enchantment with Marxism among "cognitive elites" is due to the fact that these people were educated beyond their innate ability - on the principle "if you try teaching calculus to a dog, you'll drive it mad". Now I wonder, could you say the same thing about Marx? ...Understand that the real motivation behind "socialism," as they use the term, is to shift power and resources from people like you into the hands of the unaccomplished losers who make up the Democrat Party. In terms of specific policies, socialism, as imagined by our useless millennials, seems to be less about Marxist doctrine than about just stealing things that millennials really want from you ‐ that is, your money and your power. It’s an attempt to create a moral, cultural and political framework to justify making you an impoverished subject toiling for, and obedient to, the kind of hipster geebos who inhabit Brooklyn and Santa Monica. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-02-25 |
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