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re: Why is it so many think socialism will work (this time)?

Posted on 7/4/26 at 10:02 am to
Posted by oldskule
Down South
Member since Mar 2016
25644 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 10:02 am to
Only the lazy government dependents are for socialism....and that number is growing!

Raise your kids right, and vote for YOUR values!
Posted by Ailsa
Member since May 2020
10212 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 10:05 am to
Conservative Scholar Victor Davis Hanson Analyzes Hard Left Turn of Democrats – Lays Most of Blame on Higher Education...
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We’ve had 50 years in the university where all we hear is a melodrama of how bad we were at our creation, our founding. We got worse during our maturity, and now we’re really bad, and that goes all the way down to K through 12. And then the university really, you know, they racked up 1.7 trillion in student loans, they triple the rate of inflation. They have these kind of non — they’re not really degrees, sociology dash studies, and so they, they get all these kids in debt, and then they have these worthless degrees, and they have delusions of grandeur, and so they’re very susceptible to socialism.

We never had 53 million immigrants, and we never had 16 percent of the population, and this came at a time when we do not believe in the melting pot, acculturation, assimilation, integration, and we have people coming mostly from the third world now, and they’re poor, and they come here, and the Democratic Party welcomes them, and saying, you’re the other, or you qualify for DEI, and as long as you agree with our negative appraisal of our own country, there’s a lot of repertory advantages, affirmative action scholarships for you, and they buy into that very easily, and we don’t make any effort with civic education anymore.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/conservative-scholar-victor-davis-hanson-analyzes-hard-left/


Posted by SlidellCajun
Slidell la
Member since May 2019
16588 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 10:09 am to
If you okay it out, it’d be very hard to bring about total socialism in the US

It’s been gradual for the past 250 years but to get to the ultimate goal would be many years of back and forth.

Mandami can implement taxes to steal wealth but it won’t be without repercussions. Money tends to flow through the path of least resistance and will leave NY.

Consider also that to bring about a total socialist economy, it will require seizure of property and natural resources. Kinda tough to do.
Posted by bluedragon
Birmingham
Member since May 2020
9779 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 10:19 am to
It was tried more than 250 years and failed.

Stupidity starts with uneducated teachers standing in front of classrooms.

Our teachers were in DOD schools, where there was a standard over what you were taught.
Posted by AUstar
Member since Dec 2012
19696 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 10:27 am to
Bertrand Russell knew all about it. He visited the USSR in 1920, met Vladimir Lenin, and had a long conversation. He came away despising the communists.



By the way, Russell was raised by his grandfather. His grandfather met Napoleon and told him about it.
Posted by Auburn1968
NYC
Member since Mar 2019
27080 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 10:31 am to

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Because they are putting that magic word “Democratic” in front of it now.


Democratic People's Republic of Korea
Posted by Sofaking2
Member since Apr 2023
21743 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 10:38 am to
Always one idiot who doesn’t understand the Nordic countries are free market economies. That’s how they pay for all that free stuff. They have thrived and benefited more when they’ve had more of a free market approach. If they switch to a Socialist model they will be punished like always happens. We have the 20th century to show how evil that ideology is.
Posted by Average_Comments
ATX
Member since Jan 2024
300 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 11:28 am to
Roosevelt would be a socialist by your standards, think about that.
Posted by JCdawg
Member since Sep 2014
9630 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 11:31 am to
The could care less whether it works or not. All it means to them is taking from rich and/or white people they hate.

Jealousy and vitriol for white/jewish/asian wealth.
Posted by Doctor Strangelove
Member since Feb 2018
3482 posts
Posted on 7/4/26 at 11:32 am to
Pure ignorance of history and lack of critical thinking skills. The Marxist have taken over our universities and most public school systems. The kids have been brainwashed for their whole lives and don’t hear the dangers and deadly consequences of communism. Where are the parents? Playing on their phones and watching Netflix !
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