re: This poll scares me.....capitalists MUST somehow gain them back. They are the future

Wonder why they skipped the 35-54 age range?

Ya know, the people that basically run shite

When so many USA companies moved hq to Caymans and Switzerland kids learned that companies are raptors.

We can have social safety nets and capitalism.

If the question was phrased as:

Do you support local, state, or federal government taking over small and large businesses to control the production, distribution, and exchange of goods?

You would get a very different answer. Republicans have diluted the meaning of the term "socialism" to include progressive tax systems.

I can telll you what I am doing about it...

My wife and I are friends with a couple that the husband is from Cuba and the wife is from the former Soviet Union. Just to hear either one of them talk for about 10 minutes is pretty eye opening.

They simply cannot understand why any country would willfully vote for this. Their personal stories are very interesting, so my wife arranged for them to speak at our daughter’s school.

It may not work, but I am sick and tired of bitching about it when I know that these people who espouse socialism are direct threat to every single thing that I hold dear.

I always said you'll start life as a liberal and end as a conservative

Ok, and?

Yeah it's scary, and what are we (including myself) doing about it, other than bitching on a message board?

The harsh fact is that for all the shite we throw at liberals, specifically liberal progressives, they kick the shite out of Republicans in the long game. They've infiltrated the schools, government, everywhere in positions of authority and over time have reshaped and molded this country to their liking.

Our not too distant relatives fought for this country to never become a fascist, Socialist country, and what are we doing? Bitching on a message board. So brave.

And yeah we make jokes about having jobs, spending time hunting and fishing, etc. but if our contribution to this country is complaining on a message board, we'd just as soon give up. It's already over.

Downvote away.

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what in the frick happened that caused this huge age divide?

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Older folks grew up in an era of New Deal capitalism. Top marginal tax rates were really high compared to now, and the idea that "Government is evil" was far less prevalent. It was a softer form of capitalism. As we've moved away from liberal capitalism to a "purer" from, economic life has gotten harsher, and more alienating, for a lot people. The decline of unions exacerbates these trends. Bippity-bobbity-boo, Socialism seems a lot more appealing.

Silly kids. No long term threat. Check the rhetoric from the 60’s and early 70’s.