A Lot of America’s millennials approve of communism

[aufbahrung]

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... -approve-/

More than a third of America’s millennials approve of communism
By Robert T. Wood, Washington Times - - Thursday, July 22, 2021

This month, 31-year-old Arizona state representative Daniel Hernandez (D-Tucson) mocked the notion that communist ideology was a threat to American society. He remarked in a jocular tone: “We keep hearing about the threat of communism,” that it’s a “great threat, it is such a bad threat. You know what’s a bigger threat? White nationalism.”

Mr. Hernandez’s comments drew the ire of state representative Quang Nguyen (R-Prescott Valley), who, at 12-years-old, left Tan Son Nhut airport in Vietnam a week before the fall of Saigon.

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[laklak]

That's because they're thicker than pigshit and spoiled fucking rotten.

[aufbahrung]

Given it takes only 25% of a population to overthrow norms and bring in new ones I guess its game over for the US within a generation now?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog ... ial-change

[aufbahrung]

Bigger statues though, bigger than anywhere else. Bigger than Rushmore heads. Should be a sight?

[JimC]

The "communism" they approve of is most probably, for the majority of them, a version of the fairly standard European social democracy political position. I rather doubt it has any serious connection to real Marxism...

[aufbahrung]

The "communism" they approve of is most probably, for the majority of them, a version of the fairly standard European social democracy political position. I rather doubt it has any serious connection to real Marxism...

Dollar collapse will produce a much impoverished nation. Don't write it off. Man/Woman with nothing got nothing to lose.

[laklak]

Given it takes only 25% of a population to overthrow norms and bring in new ones I guess its game over for the US within a generation now?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog ... ial-change

We got about 40% heavily armed rednecks.

[Seabass]

The "communism" they approve of is most probably, for the majority of them, a version of the fairly standard European social democracy political position. I rather doubt it has any serious connection to real Marxism...

Washington Times (not to be confused with Washington Post) is a far-right rag run by a cult called the "Moonies". Best to ignore it.

[Seabass]

That's because they're thicker than pigshit and spoiled fucking rotten.

Thicker than pigshit, perhaps, but definitely not spoiled. Millennials can't afford to exist because our psychopathic boomers foisted supply side economics on the rest of us thereby destroying any chance of future generations having a decent economy.

[Tero]

Isn't communism like communes and free love and pot?

[JimC]

Isn't communism like communes and free love and pot?

That was certainly Oz in the early 70's.

Memories...

[Sean Hayden]

Why Socialists Are Despised, As Explained By George Orwell

If one accepts Orwell’s premise that for the common man socialism means improved living and working conditions, why is socialism unpopular? The fault lies with socialists. For one thing, socialism attracts a fair number of cranks. “One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ‘Socialism’ and ‘Communism’ draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, ‘Nature Cure’ quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.” Some of those categories should be dropped and new ones should be added, such as gender studies students. However, the sentiment is correct. An ideology that appeals to a large number of oddballs has little hope of being adopted by the average man.

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George Orwell was a rare individual, a socialist with worldly experience and a capacity for introspection. Capitalism’s future is secure for as long as the political left fails to produce men like him.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/timreuter/ ... rwell/amp/

[Seabass]

That article has almost nothing to do with Orwell. It's just a right-wing Forbes guy repeating right-wing tropes about the left.

The left is despised in the US because right-wing billionaires fund anti-left media.

[Tero]

And we kill babies. Only, you kill your own babies. But still!

[Sean Hayden]

Yeah right. If they'd just stop lying about us there would be nothing to hate.