Anyone who isn’t a socialist at 20 has no heart, but anyone who isn’t a conservative by 40 has no brain: That old epigram is certainly playing out in today’s Democratic Party.
Millennials — ignorant of socialism’s appalling economic and human-rights history — increasingly embrace socialism and its naively unrealistic prescriptions for ending all human want.
Yet so are a growing number of veteran Democratic pols who should know better, but are clearly terrified by the growing star power of the likes of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. And never mind House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s warning that “this is not a bumper-sticker war.”
Gallup reports that 57 percent of Democrats have a positive view of socialism. But do they even have any idea what they’re talking about? The same poll shows respondents supporting small business and free enterprise and rejecting the idea that government is doing too little.
And today’s Democratic socialists don’t seem to embrace the classic definition of socialism as government control of the means of production — which has traditionally meant nationalizing whole industries.
These socialists insist they don’t support repressive states like the Soviet Union or North Korea. But Sanders and the rest refuse to say a critical word about Venezuela, which is on the brink of social and economic collapse due to socialism.
More at the NY Post
Gov’t control over private firms is not as far away as it sounds.
Just today, several news outlets (Bloomberg, The Street, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal) are reporting that gov’t regulators WANT to put limits on salaries of CEOs.
They’ll start with bank CEO’s and work their way into all CEOs if it is allowed, or, worse yet, welcomed.
Back in Obama’s 2010 he tried to get this policy in play but there was such pushback he gave up.
I guess we’ve shifted Left since then.
They never give up.
This started with Obama’s class warfare campaign of vilifying the wealthy and his “income inequality”, which he only made worse. The left utilizes class envy, jealousy and laziness to grow their support and that has gotten out of hand to the point that lay-about commune warts like Bernie is the voice of their movement.
Oh… but THEY will do it right this time; isn’t that what they tell us? It won’t be a disaster like Venezuela or Cuba or a genocidal nightmare like Maoist China, the Soviet Union or Nazi Germany. Why, just look how well the War on Poverty turned out! $20 trillion spent to wipe out poverty and, until Trump took office, the number of those in poverty just kept growing. Or, that recent miracle, Obamacare, the VA on steroids!
The brutal facts of events like World War II are not taught in their factual completeness; that has been replaced by rewritten histories of the Civil War and the “reality” of global warming. So, we shouldn’t be surprised by how stupid and easily led the youth are. Many get out of higher “education” with a diploma and a lifetime of debt, thanks to government management of college loans, and no employees who find themselves needing a “poly sci” or liberal arts expert. So, they got screwed by “the man” and, like Hillary’s defeat, it’s everyone else’s fault.
The upcoming election is a turning point. Hopefully, Bernie’s support grows and he provides a disruptive force within the Democrat party that can overcome the negative effects of all the phony investigations, leaks of lies and the support the corrupt liberal media will lend while ignoring the good news of record low unemployment and a booming economy. Maybe another 4 years of Trump will wear out the socialist trend and even pave the way for another Republican conservative that loves the nation as much as Trump does. But the Democrats HAVE to be defeated in 2020. They are a sickness.