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Why is socialilsm so attractive to younger voters?
We really don't have any socialism in the us and the voting percentage that supports it is less than 1 percent so it's a nonfactor. It's a scare tactic.
We really don't have any socialism in the us and the voting percentage that supports it is less than 1 percent so it's a nonfactor. It's a scare tactic.
Bernie Sanders did very well in the 2016 Dem primaries. All those young people supporting socialism ought to at least get your attention.
I think that socialism is attractive to many young people for the same reason that it is attractive to many old people (like me): The idea of socialism is wonderful.
Just ask anyone who works for the government (police officers, teachers, letter carriers, career members of the armed forces, etc.) why socialism is wonderful: Those government employees usually have a job for life, they get very generous salaries, they get a defined pension, they get health insurance. What's not to like about socialism?
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Sadly, socialism is NOT economically feasible for the whole population. (That's why socialism has failed in Cuba and Russia and China and Sweden and the United Kingdom.)
This was intended as a comment on society as it is today, not an endorsement of what has not been defined as "socialism". We cannot discuss a subject so charged with emotion and absent rational logic. Americans tend to deal with all their beliefs as they do with their religious beliefs, and their religious beliefs are very childish. When they believe in "capitalism" (an equally ill defined term), they believe that all that is good is invested in it. Therefore, anything that vaguely resembles criticism is 'evil'. There can be no discussion in that environment, so such a thread is clearly just another excuse to trot out clichés and name-calling.Society forced social issues upon purely profit based economics. Women were acknowledged as people, slavery was ended, workers were recognized as a sector with a voice, education was seen as necessary to the functions of a democracy (including republican democracies, just to get that silliness out of the way), common wealth was applied to common problems, and much more.
There has been an effective disinformation effort that has destroyed the constructive use of certain words and terms. Although political correctness is often criticized, the political destabilization of verbiage goes without comment. We cannot speak intelligently here of "socialism", "capitalism", "progress" or many other areas that would otherwise be interesting topics. We are going to have to create new vocabularies unless we just want to continue as so many do in these threads, regurgitating favorite vitriol.
P.S. If economists understood economics, they would be psychologists.
Very true 4eyeAm
By definition we've socailist programs we all benefit from>
75 Ways Socialism Has Improved America
and anyone who's followed up on Glass Steagal ,along with credit derivatives ability to 'bubble' would obviously realize capatalism is in need of legislative leash
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synonyms: leftism, welfarism;
hmmmmmmmmm
.you should have looked up the definition of socialism before you posted that.
Here, here!We really don't have any socialism in the us and the voting percentage that supports it is less than 1 percent so it's a nonfactor. It's a scare tactic.
Bernie Sanders did very well in the 2016 Dem primaries. All those young people supporting socialism ought to at least get your attention.
Nah, 'tis true enough. Not that you're all wrong either.Nonsense....
I think a big factor is that The Communist Manifesto is not self-contradictory.Well, to begin with it is like the old adage....'if a socialist understood economics he would not be a socialist'
Well, to begin with it is like the old adage....'if a socialist understood economics he would not be a socialist'
I think a big factor is that The Communist Manifesto is not self-contradictory.Well, to begin with it is like the old adage....'if a socialist understood economics he would not be a socialist'
I think a big factor is that The Communist Manifesto is not self-contradictory.Well, to begin with it is like the old adage....'if a socialist understood economics he would not be a socialist'
Homophobe?OMG, another circle jerk in progress! Is this board entirely gay or what!
And we get to stand in line for bread and toilet paper?Well, to begin with it is like the old adage....'if a socialist understood economics he would not be a socialist'
Why is socialism so attractive to young people.
Because they look at their parents working two jobs each to pay to stay in the Middle Class and they realize that Capitalism is a crap sandwich. Because they look at getting out of college with tens of thousands of dollars of debt and indentured servitude to corporate America to pay it off.