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| That's A Hard Pass On Socialism, Millennial Suckers |
| 2019-02-25 |
| 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 |
| #16 I'm most reminded of Pol Pot and his child warriors. |
| Posted by: al aSha-med 2019-02-25 23:34 |
| #15 "cognitive elites" is due to the fact that these people were educated beyond their innate ability Self-styled "elites" all have a sense of self-importance that vastly exceeds their native ability. Education only made that misapprehension worse. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2019-02-25 12:06 |
| #14 What #11 (rjschwartz) said ^ !! The lack of intellectual rigor is mind boggling. They hate Big Business™ but have no clue that replacing it with an all powerful state monopoly simply removes any freedom of choice that they have... Fascism was Good for Italy, it will be Good For America! (/sarc, if it's needed!) |
| Posted by: magpie 2019-02-25 11:33 |
| #13 ...but don't think deeply on how different socialists (Chavez, Mudara, Hitler) were elected before they shut down democratic apparatus. See - California |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-02-25 11:11 |
| #12 Historically, the US is run by old men who talk left but govern right-center. As long as I can have 20 more years of that I really don't care what they do to themselves after that. Just don't do it to me. Selfish? You bet. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-02-25 10:39 |
| #11 Among young people socialism seems to be 'everything I like' and capitalism is 'everything I don't like'. There isn't much thought beyond that. They use Democratic socialism to dodge the inevitable history but don't think deeply on how different socialists (Chavez, Mudara, Hitler) were elected before they shut down democratic apparatus. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2019-02-25 10:13 |
| #10 I wear jeans (definitely not skinny) and a black t-shirt most of the time. I'm invisible... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-02-25 08:15 |
| #9 Probably because their moms don't help them buy their clothes anymore, B. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2019-02-25 08:13 |
| #8 Sterotypes, you just never know. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-02-25 08:12 |
| #7 Skinny jeans and the sport coat or suit jacket that appears to be at least 3 sizes too small. I often wondered if the goal of this type of wear is simply arse exposure. Does anyone here know ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2019-02-25 08:05 |
| #6 Proof that stereotypes are a bad way to go. Thanks, g... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-02-25 08:00 |
| #5 MM one of my students last semester was a guy with a beard and skinny jeans - company sergeant in tank unit. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-02-25 07:51 |
| #4 Please post the video of it if they do. :-) |
| Posted by: gorb 2019-02-25 07:46 |
| #3 Really. Can't wait for the guy with the beard and skinny jeans to tell me to submit. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-02-25 07:40 |
| #2 that millennials really want from you ‐ that is, your money and your power. Just call them commies. They have no inhibition to call you fascists. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2019-02-25 07:03 |
| #1 Mencken said "Every problem has a simple, easy to understand, wrong solution..." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2019-02-25 06:53 |