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More than a third of millennials polled approve of communism
« on: October 28, 2019, 07:32:21 PM »
More than a third of millennials polled approve of communism
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/for-millennials-socialism-and-communism-are-hot-capitalism-is-not-2019-10-28

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Somewhere, Bernie Sanders is smiling.

A new survey released by the Washington, D.C., nonprofit Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation reflects that, if the younger generation gets out and votes in 2020, those running for office on the far left have reason to be hopeful.

According to YouGov, which conducted the poll, capitalism, amid a widening divide between the haves and have-nots, has plunged in popularity from a year ago, with one out of every two millennials — ages 23 to 38 — supporting it.

We live in scary times.

Communism has killed hundreds of millions in Soviet Union, China, Cambodia, North Korea, Vietnam, and Ethiopia.
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Re: More than a third of millennials polled approve of communism
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2019, 01:28:19 PM »
Biden is an illegitimate President.  Change my mind.

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Re: More than a third of millennials polled approve of communism
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2019, 05:35:09 PM »
And this is what's truly maddening about our politics. By all rights, communism should be dead as an ideology. And yet, not only is it not dead, it has somehow become the default way of thinking for some people.

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Re: More than a third of millennials polled approve of communism
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2019, 08:09:02 PM »
And this is what's truly maddening about our politics. By all rights, communism should be dead as an ideology. And yet, not only is it not dead, it has somehow become the default way of thinking for some people.

I have written elsewhere on other forums: Conservatives have simply not fought hard enough for control of the educational system: vacuums will be filled.

And they need to support religious and independent Conservative schools.  As an example, my own Catholic school is part of an upper-middle-class/upper-class parish where a majority of the children do NOT attend the school!  The tuition is reasonable ($4,000 a year).  What is the problem?   The people with $300,000 McMansions and $75,000 Teslas and Cadillacs the size of Optimus Prime and $1,000 Apple Phones have made their toy choices #1...and so their children get propagandized at the local atheist Leftist Public Schools. 
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