Millennials Would Support Trump If They Were Told The Truth

By Pamela Adams October 23, 2016

A recent study revealed a third of millennials believe President George W. Bush killed more people than Joseph Stalin. In fact, 75% are oblivious that communist governments have slaughtered over 100 million people. This ignorance of history is completely by design.

Liberal progressives are actively scrubbing Imperial Japan, the Holocaust, Nazi Germany, and socialism from our history books.

They have already succeeded in removing Stalin and other communist dictators as the recent polls revealed.  Stalin initially joined forces with Adolf Hilter leading up to World War II. Since Stalin massacred his own people and starved millions of Ukrainians, he saw no problem with Hilter. Stalin’s breaking point only came after Hilter invaded parts of the U.S.S.R. The Soviet Union quickly changed sides and cooperated with the Allies to defeat him.......During his 30-year reign, Stalin killed an estimated 20 million of his own people but it could be as high as 60 million. As accurate records were not kept, no one knows for sure...........To Read More....

China's COVID Cover-Up Mirrors Rewriting of Communist History in U.S. Classrooms

By Mary Grabar | May 6, 2020

As the dead bodies in New York City, the epicenter of the pandemic, were fork-lifted into refrigerated trucks and the stock market tanked, the political demarcations became acuter, with disagreements even about what to call the virus—Wuhan Virus, COVID-19, Chinese Virus, etc.

Leftists, seeing an opportunity to restructure the government, agitate for a long national shutdown and using emergency stimulus funds for illegal aliens and for reparations for “Black + Brown communities” for “redlining, environmental racism, [and the] wealth gap.” For some, like Naomi Klein, the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University and an admirer of Howard Zinn and the late Venezuelan communist dictator Hugo Chavez, the unfolding tragedy offers an opportunity to “beat” “coronavirus capitalism.”

 Many Republican governors, especially of less hard-hit states, resisted complete shutdowns. Conservatives worried about long-term threats to civil liberties and the economy. They criticized the hostility with which help from the Christian charity, Samaritan’s Purse, was met, and how offers from the Remington gun factory and an Upstate New York nursing home went unheeded—even as Gov. Andrew Cuomo threatened to send the National Guard to seize health care equipment from Upstate New York facilities.

Some have compared this moment to the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. Americans back then, even staunch anti-interventionists, rallied round the commander-in-chief, volunteering for military service. Today, Americans cannot agree on who the enemy is.

Though mistakes were made here by both sides, it is now clear that the attacker was communist China, which lied with the help of the UN’s World Health Organization, thus allowing the virus to spread, and persecuted and killed their own whistleblowers, while buying up supplies from countries that were unknowingly about to face shortages as the virus hit. Such disregard for human life has been characteristic of communist regimes throughout history. Yet celebrities, led by Lady Gaga, are fundraising for the World Health Organization.

The Chinese Communist Party’s “Open Letter calling for closer international cooperation in the fight against COVID-19,” signed by 230 parties in 100 countries, including the Communist Party USA, proclaims that all governments should “foster the global governance outlook of achieving shared growth through discussion and collaboration” and that the United Nations and the World Health Organization should lead “in global public health governance.” In a clear move to deflect blame, it declared that all must stand “firmly against all discriminatory comments and practices against any country, region, or ethnic group. . . .” 

On April 20, it was revealed that 42 percent of likely voters and 60 percent of Democrats did not blame China or the World Health Organization for the pandemic, and instead blamed President Donald Trump. Our largest media outlets, especially The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Comcast/NBC, who have lucrative deals with Communist China, obscure CCP culpability in their reporting.

A disturbingly large percentage of Americans do not understand the nature of the Chinese regime. A 2019 Victims of Communism poll showed that only 57 percent of Generation Z and 62 percent of millennials “believe China is a communist country and not a democratic country” (compared to 88 percent of baby boomers and older).

But even the knowledgeable may not see this as negative.

The same VOC poll showed that more than one in three millennials viewed communism favorably, and a rapidly growing percentage of those under 40 are willing to vote not only socialist but communist. This could be related to education. Generation Z and millennials were much more likely to report getting a favorable presentation of communism, in grades K-12 (23 and 25 percent, respectively), and in college (36 and 37 percent).   

The rising opinion of China and communism parallels the increased use of Howard Zinn’s "A People’s History of the United States" in classrooms. What in actuality was a bloody Soviet-led communist takeover of China is presented by Zinn as a “movement with enormous mass support” led by the communists at the end of World War II. Heroically, the “Red Army, which had fought against the Japanese, now fought to oust the corrupt dictatorship of Chiang Kai-shek, which was supported by the United States.”

The occupation of Peking by “Chinese Communist forces” in January 1949 was a welcomed ending to the civil war. China was now “in the hands of a revolutionary movement, the closest thing, in the long history of that ancient country, to a people’s government, independent of outside control.” Mao Zedong could hardly have improved upon this version!

Furthermore, this “mass movement,” a “people’s government,” compares favorably with the United States, which is presented as being founded as a clever scheme by a group of wealthy white men. As Zinn describes it, “Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery....They found that by creating a nation, a symbol, a legal unity called the United States, they could take over land, profits, and political power.” U.S. imperialism then quashed “peoples’” communist movements around the world. CPUSA chairman William Z. Foster described it the same way in his 1951 book, "Outline Political History of the Americas!"

In the last year, there have been new disturbing developments. A second public official, following an Oklahoma City Council member—a Fairfax County school board member—took her oath on Zinn’s book. The Smithsonian conducted two Zinn Education Project-sponsored teach-ins for teachers about Christopher Columbus. In 2019, Washington, D.C. and five states replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous People’s Day.

More and more professors assign "A People’s History," repeating Zinn’s claim to have written history from a different “perspective”—of the people—from the “bottom-up.” This is the refrain of a professor who criticized Hannah Wright, a student who wrote me this winter. 

The professor told her that calling Zinn “biased” was “offensive” because it meant “that either the author ignored evidence that would have changed his conclusions, or he didn't bother with evidence at all.” Those who would “criticize” Zinn’s book are the “people who have a problem with any history book that does not seek to stimulate a nationalist pride in America” or are “some Joe Schmoe on the internet.” They “never provide evidence for their criticism.” 

Repeating Zinn’s own boasts, she stated, “The focus of this book is to examine the history of working class people—Native Americans, African Americans, women, other minorities and white, poor working class people,” not “the rich and powerful.” Claiming that such “focus” doesn’t make Zinn’s book “biased,” she went on, “The truth does not lie somewhere in the middle of two sets of opinions; it lies with the evidence. Zinn provides a lot of that and his negative commentators do not.”

I have heard many similar stories from students. The assertion that Zinn is chronicling the history of overlooked groups and thus offering a new historical perspective is Zinn’s own big lie that he put forth to cover up his lies of fact, omission, and distortion. Zinn’s “evidence” consists of plagiarized disreputable sources, vague references, and deceptive quotations.

Hannah’s professor presents Zinn as infallible—a status no legitimate scholar would claim. At this critical moment, it is more important than ever to learn about what is arguably the most influential work of communist disinformation in our country.

Mary Grabar is a resident fellow at The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization and author of "Debunking Howard Zinn."

Bernie Has Faded, but Socialism Is Still a Threat

March 5, 2020 by Dan Mitchell @ International Liberty

I would like to think that the election results from Super Tuesday signify a rejection of the evil and destructive ideology of socialism. After all, despite promising the most handouts, Bernie Sanders was defeated in most states and quickly went from being the front-runner to a long-shot candidate.

This chart shows how political betting markets have dramatically changed in the past couple of days. Crazy Bernie (in green) has collapsed with Biden (in blue) has skyrocketed.

Moreover, the other explicitly hard-left major candidate, Elizabeth Warren, saw her support collapse even earlier.

Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal opined today on the implications of this week’s political earthquake.

Before the voting began Tuesday it was conventional wisdom…that something called progressivism was on the march in the U.S., sweeping aside decades if not centuries of belief, history and tradition with a new agenda of wokeness, identity politics and socialism. …Guess what? The voters still get the last word. …Progressives, however much they dominate the culture, keep losing big, competitive elections. …Joe Biden, hardly a commanding presence, is a proxy for Democratic voters’ pragmatism and their doubts about Mr. Sanders, socialism and the American left.

By the way, it’s not just that Crazy Bernie got trounced.

As reported by the New York Times, many hard-left congressional candidates also are being rejected.

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez previously suggested that Democrats who were not sufficiently loyal to an emergent brand of progressive politics should have others like her run against them in a primary. She is now suggesting that, exit polling be damned, Mr. Biden’s latest string of successes is because of the strong-arming of corporate lobbyists, something Mr. Sanders has underscored by repeatedly calling Mr. Biden the establishment candidate. But the results speak for themselves. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez threw her weight behind Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez in her Senate primary campaign in Texas to defeat the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s chosen candidate, M.J. Hegar. Ms. Hegar ended up easily outpacing a crowded Democratic field.

All of this is very encouraging, but I’m still worried.

There are three reasons why I’m not brimming with optimism.

First, as explained by Annie Lowrey for the Atlantic, a non-trivial number of young people are enamored with the evil ideology of socialism.

A striking generational divide has emerged. Older people still see socialism and communism as dangerous, authoritarian political systems, whereas younger people are more likely to see them as economic systems, and to care far less one way or another. For millions of potential voters, the Red Scare is no longer so scary. …The simple passage of time explains a lot. Millions of Millennials and Gen Zers were never exposed to the threats of the Soviet Union; they did not live through the fall of the Berlin Wall… A recent poll conducted by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation showed that 36 percent of Millennials have a favorable opinion of communism, as do a quarter of Gen Zers. Roughly half of the members of those two generations have a favorable view of socialism and thinks the government should act as an employer of last resort. One in five Millennials thinks the Communist Manifesto better “guarantees freedom and equality” than the Declaration of Independence and thinks society would be better off if the government abolished private property.

I’ve shared plenty of additional data to confirm this worrisome trend.

Second, older Democrats may not embrace the socialist label, but they have shifted in that direction.  I previously wrote about how even prominent folks on the left agree that Joe Biden is far to the left of both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

This graphic from the New York Times illustrates how the rest of the Democratic establishment (as measured by party platforms) has also veered toward statism.

For what it’s worth, the “Median party” line shows the average position of the world’s other political parties, so the takeaway is that America’s Democrats (and the U.K.’s Labour Party) are now further to the left than some of the world’s socialist parties.

Third, while the Republican Party hasn’t moved to the left based on its platforms, I fear that the GOP isn’t motivated today by a Reagan-style belief in limited government and individual liberty.

It’s not just that Trump is a big spender (and a protectionist). Every major Republican in the post-Reagan era has expanded the burden of government and rejected the principles of classical liberalism.

When it comes to knowledge of American history, we are a nation at risk

By Arthur Levine, opinion contributor — 10/17/18

Only one in three Americans is capable of passing the U.S. citizenship exam. That was the finding of a survey recently conducted by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation of a representative sample of 1,000 Americans. Respondents were asked 20 multiple choice questions on American history, all questions that are found on the publicly available practice exam for the U.S. Citizenship Test.

This research could be lumped in with a multitude of previous studies that lament shortcomings in Americans’ knowledge and skills in a host of fields. But that would be a serious error because this finding is not about bashing our schools, our students, or our fellow citizens. The importance of this study is that the future of our nation is at stake. Knowledge of a nation’s history by its citizens is essential to preserving all democratic societies...........To Read More..... 

The Boomer Revolution and Its Consequences

The infantilized mentality of our times is an echo of the adolescent revolt of a half-century ago that produced it.

Matthew Boose August 30th, 2019

The Wall Street Journal this week published the results of a survey that found Americans’ values are shifting drastically, and not in a good way.

The poll, conducted with NBC News, found that Americans care less about patriotism, family, and faith than they did 20 years ago. The percentage of Americans who regard family as very important dropped 16 points, to a mere 43 percent. The importance of religion dropped 12 points, to 48 percent; and patriotism fell 9 points, to 61 percent.

The trend was most pronounced among Millennials and older members of Gen Z—or Zoomers, as they are sometimes known, who consistently rated these values lower than older Americans: 79 percent of Americans 55 and older valued patriotism, compared with 42 percent of younger Americans; nearly two-thirds of older Americans say they value religion highly, compared with less than one-third of younger Americans.

Taken together, the statistics tell a neat story of moral decline. So young people really are a bunch of godless egoists who think brunch and having pets instead of children is the summum bonum! It’s not quite wrong, but it isn’t quite fair, either.

Young people get a lot of grief from Boomers, but their confusion wasn’t formed in a vacuum. Sure, university, mass culture, and public schooling all have played a role in bringing about these changes, but Millennials are the products of the Boomers, the first true “Me Generation” in American history.

The shifts in core values reflect the ascendance of a culture of selfishness and mindless consumption, but that culture didn’t come from the Millennials or the Zoomers. Before today’s “Me Generation” came into being, there were the hedonist faux-ascetics of the 1960s who melted their brains with hallucinogens while dabbling in Eastern religions of self-denial to stick it to their uptight suburban parents.

The law of the Self has left Americans lost and confused. How could it fail to, when it stifles the deepest human yearnings, for love, family, community, justice, and belonging? ...........To Read More.....

Many Millennial ‘Socialists’ Aren’t Socialists

Benjamin Powell August 20, 2019

According to a new poll, nearly 40 percent of college students have a favorable opinion of socialism. Polls like this astound older Americans, who witnessed the economic stagnation and human atrocities in socialist regimes during the 20th century, because most Millennials we know seem like good people. How could so many good young people favor such an awful system?

This new poll sheds some light on this question. And the light it sheds is consistent with what I learned while researching a new book on socialism when I attended the largest gathering of self-identified socialists in the United States.

Support for socialism is unevenly distributed across majors. Support is greatest among the majors least likely to study how economic systems function.

Seventy-eight percent of philosophy majors, 64 percent of anthropology majors, and 58 percent of English majors hold favorable views of socialism.

Yet, in the disciplines most likely to study how economic systems function, economics and finance, 61 percent and 63 percent of students respectively, hold unfavorable views of socialism........

I asked many young people why they were there. One young woman told me “The urgency is because of Trump, immigrant rights, Black Lives Matter, indigenous rights.” Her answer was typical. Others told me it was because of the environment, gender rights, abortion, or LGBT rights. I was told that “uncompromising socialism is fully committed to systematic change and ending oppression of all types.”............To Read More.....

My Take - Shades of Animal Farm and 1984. As you read this article it becomes uncomfortably clear these kids are all worked up because they're stunningly ignorant.  Perhaps I should say they're stunningly stupid.  Why?  Because ignorance is fixable.  There is so much knowledge out there we can't possible be knolwedable of it all, as a result we're all ignorant about a great many things.  Ignorance means we just don't know, but that's fixable by finding out. 

Stupid is caused by refusing to find out. They're over educated under smart by choice, and now they've found "religion".  Leftism is a secular neo-pagan religious movement, and all it requires of it's adherents is outrage, molded by greed, hate and violence.  All of which is easily aroused in the young.   And stupid!

Education, the Real World, and the Millennials

Our education system seems to do more to create unrealistic beliefs than to impart knowledge and skills to students. 

By Mary Grabar August 24, 2012  This first appeared HERE. 

It’s always interesting to see how educational policies play out in the real world, especially when complaints come from a 32-year-old Generation X-er, like Mayra Jimenez, co-founder of the designer swimwear company, The Orchid Boutique.  In a recent article in Inc., she listed five “rants” about the lack of work ethic among her slightly younger employees, the under-30 “Millennials.” 

Education bureaucrats tout preparing workers for the “21^st century global economy.”  But instead of helping students improve their knowledge and skill levels, their policies seem to do more to prolong adolescence and lead to the very behaviors that Ms. Jimenez “rants” about.  

Here are Ms. Jimenez’s five rants followed by my observations:

#1.“They are cocky.”  Ms. Jimenez complains that once elevated to positions like “assistant buyers,” her employees treat bosses, clients, and other employees in a condescending manner.  They do things Ms. Jimenez would never have dreamed of doing to her “superiors.”

Ms. Jimenez may not know that in the minds of Millennials, “superiors” or “superiority” is equated with outmoded notions from the Dark Ages because this is the view of history they have been taught.  Their teachers, who consider themselves similarly more advanced than the school marms or professors of old, have rejected authoritarianism and act as “facilitators” who nurture the creative abilities of each of their charges.  Modern educational theory is opposed to the idea that students are in any way inferior. That explains a frequent complaint on my and "old school" colleagues’ end-of-the-semester evaluations: “The professor thinks she knows more than we do.”

Such ego-grooming presents challenges for college instructors.  At a teaching workshop at a community college where I used to teach, we were advised that Millennials expect justification for every task and grade assigned. They’ve been told not only that they’re all above average, but that they harbor infinite potential for creativity and “leadership.” 

#2.“They take things for granted.”  Millennials do not expect to pay their dues or do menial tasks in their entry-level jobs, observes Ms. Jimenez. 

This is a natural result of #1 above. How can someone who is a “leader” be expected to fetch coffee?  How can someone who has been groomed to have high self-esteem expect to take orders?  This is the generation whose teachers have been told that comments in red ink can crush sensitive souls.

Whenever I fill out a recommendation form for a college freshman, I am asked to evaluate him on his “leadership abilities.”  Consider some of the administrative positions in our colleges that revolve around students. They have names like “Director of Student Leadership and Engagement” and “Director of Student Involvement and First-Year Class Director.”

With campuses full of such highly paid personnel devoted to nurturing “leaders,” why would an entry-level employee expect anything other than a Club Med experience? 

#3.“They think they’re exempt from rules.”  Ms. Jimenez cites sloppiness in obtaining answers and in grammar in emails among the troubles with her workers. 

That is because they have largely been exempt from rules! Teachers have been told now for a least a couple decades to ignore spelling and grammatical errors in student writing.  One of the best-known and established composition scholars, Peter Elbow, at last year’s meeting of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, declared that the grammar we internalize as four-year-olds is “good enough” for the writing being done today. 

The same goes for math, where teachers are told not to get hung up so much on “correct” answers as on the “process,” and to give credit there. As I’ve observed on our local educational channel, elementary school students are not required to sit up straight at desks, but are encouraged to mill around, work “collaboratively,” and write in journals sitting on the floor as if they were at home in their pajamas. 

In fact, today many college students arrive in class clothed in t-shirts, flip-flops, and pajama bottoms. Naturally, many find even workplace dress requirements offensive.

#4.“They don’t follow through.”  They don’t finish tasks, or even seem to think that it is their responsibility to keep track of their own assignments, Ms. Jimenez observes.

Well, they’ve never really had to do time management—as in “your 15-page research paper is due in two weeks.” Read a typical lesson plan to see how their time is micromanaged.

For example, a “[Common] Core-Aligned Task” devised by New York City educators--for eleventh- and twelfth-graders--described as “Building reading comprehension,” involves “extracting and analyzing relevant information from [Depression-era] ‘Migrant Mother’ photos.” 

The teacher is instructed to “Place students in pairs or trios” and then have the students spend “at least ten minutes looking closely at the sequence of images” and then “ask them to infer what was selected and what was deflected from earlier photos, when making the final photo.” (Such dumbed-down “reading” exercises now enter the college classroom, as evidenced by scholarship on “visual rhetoric,” “film studies,” and “graphic novels.”)  

When I looked at the curricula produced by Public Broadcasting for a recent report, I was struck by how much tasks were broken down. Research for a major high school history project was to be conducted in only 45 minutes, on the Internet, and in groups. At the community college, we too were encouraged to put students into groups, and to allow them to hand in multiple drafts of papers. 

When tasks are so broken down, with hands held along the way until the final consequence of grade (and even then with the fallback of “extra credit”) and when tasks and thinking itself are shared with peers in a group, how can we expect graduates to have the discipline to “follow through”?  Ms. Jimenez’s employees have had little or no experience with such old-fashioned solitary assignments as long research papers written and rewritten until perfectly organized, punctuated, and spelled.  (See #3 above.)

#5.“They don’t want to pay their dues.”  Working your way up does not apply to Millennials, who expect to earn high salaries doing glamorous tasks immediately. That too is a consequence of their education.

Instead of being asked to read long books (with no pictures), students watch “documentaries” or “webisodes,” or play interactive games, or “read” photos.  The facilitator and peer group then let them know what the right attitudes are (“tolerance,” “empathy,” “collaboration,” “global citizenship”).  After a short time they are then asked to engage in “critical thinking” (collaboratively) to come up with an answer for global warming, poverty, crime, the threat of nuclear war, prejudice and hate, and the Middle East conflict. They regard themselves as instant experts!

We are not doing our students—much less their future employers--any favors with all of the fashionable ego-stroking pedagogy. Perhaps business owners like Ms. Jimenez should support efforts to undo the educational policies that have put us into this situation.

I would like to thank Mary for allowing me to post her work.  RK

 

 

Millennial becomes unhinged after boss corrects her spelling of ‘hamster’

August 15, 2019 By Selwyn Duke

Being simultaneously comical and tragic, perhaps nothing reflects our descent into Idiocracy more than millennials who’ll insist their misspellings of words are correct. Just yesterday I read an eyebrow-raising story about this that was quite timely, as I’d experienced millennial spelling moronity just the day prior.

My case involved a leftist who emailed me with some deep, substantive criticism: He said I was “insane,” “nuttier than a fruitcake” and “f*****g” nuts.”  I responded to him. While I generally don’t play the spelling Nazi, leftists’ characteristic superciliousness inspired me to mention to him, kindly, that he’d written “you’re” as “your” three times in six sentences. His response? “I am under 40,” he wrote. “Your vs you’re is interchangeable.” ...........To Read More....

 

When Do Grown Kids’ Privileges Expire?

June 5, 2019 By Dr. Michael J. Hurd

A Coast Press reader writes, “I’m hoping you can help out with my 27-year-old son. He was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) back in high school, and nothing has been the same since. He’s just an older version of the kid he was in high school. He started college, but dropped out. He doesn’t hold a job for very long, either. He doesn’t abuse alcohol or drugs, and I don’t think he’s depressed, because he has a girlfriend (who is about as unambitious as he is). He hangs out with friends and isn’t particularly gloomy.

“The problem is that he’s living with us, and it’s a glaring reminder that he’s not getting on with his life. If he were living with us to pursue college, that would be one thing. But he’s going nowhere.

“Friends have suggested that we kick him out of the house and give him notice that living at home has an expiration date! But what if we push him out and he becomes depressed? Maybe it’s better to stick with the trouble we know?” ... To Read More...

Do Any Young Voters Have Brains?

Posted on June 16, 2019 by Dr Michael J. Hurd

From my recent Facebook post:

Worth taking the time to read. Eloquent words attributed to a young person grappling with widespread cluelessness in her generation. Thanks Rick Camerino.

I don’t know how many millennials think as she does but I hold hope that more will wake up and realize what she is saying is absolutely right! Do we dare think there may be hope for our future? This young lady has a head on her shoulders and actually knows how to use it.
April 6, 2019
Alyssa Ahlgren

“I’m sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of Democratic candidates calling for policies to “fix” the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook’s, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we’ve become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose. These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don’t give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty. One. Times. Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful..........To Read More.....

Letter to Gen X, Y and Z

Apr 16, 2019 | Posted by Linda Martinelli, Entrepreneur, Weekly Columnist |                               

As a baby boomer, I’ve lived a few more years than any of you in the alphabet generations of X, Y and Z. I’m not saying that makes me smarter, age alone doesn’t give us that gift, though I wish it did.
 

What life does give us, if we are lucky enough to still partake in the feast that is life, is a rear view mirror, a camera with a long lens, and more years of history. ............What we know at our age, better than you know at yours, is how truly fast life goes by..........As I travel around this country and through other countries and meet so many people both personally and professionally, a question keeps coming to my mind.......

I see so many of you waiting to start your life, just being a pebble in the waves of life with no direction. You still live with mom and dad or friends into your late thirties and even 40’s. You stay in college long past the time you could be advancing your life, earning a living, making yourself a valuable asset to a business or being an entrepreneur in your own right.

Many of you have expectations that life owes you and are waiting for someone to make you happy in a relationship or in a job. Life doesn’t hand us those things, they are for us to earn. To have a great partner, you must be a great partner. To have a great job, you must be a great asset to your employer. Greatness is not gifted to us, and we are not entitled to it. It is a gift we give to others, thereby giving to ourselves.......To Read More....

Cartoon of the Millennials

If this isn't chosen by someone as the best cartoon of the year that will be a huge miscarriage.

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What Americans Must Know About Socialism.

Lee Edwards November 30, 2018

 

Is a specter of socialism haunting America, especially among our millennials? There is disquieting evidence of many young Americans’ sympathy for socialism. Exhibit A: 2.052 million people under the age of 30 voted for democratic socialist Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primaries and caucuses. Exhibit B: Polls find that, not only do a large majority of millennials have a favorable opinion of socialism, a near majority would prefer to live under socialism rather than capitalism. Exhibit C: The no-longer sleeping Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) now boasts 30,000 members, most of them in their twenties and eager to follow the socialist banner.

 

We’ve come a long way since the 1988 presidential race when George H. W. Bush buried his Democratic challenger Michael Dukakis by labeling him a “liberal.” Socialism is no longer a parlor game for academics but a political alternative taken seriously by millennials who are not put off by the radical DSA platform.

 

DSA believes in ending the private ownership of industries whose products are viewed as “necessities.” The production of such products, it argues, should not be left to “profiteers.” It also believes that government should “democratize” private businesses — that is, give workers control over them — to the greatest extent possible. “Socialism,” explains a member of DSA’s national steering committee, “is the democratization of all areas of life, including but not limited to the economy.”...........To Read More......

Republicans Lost the House Due to Millennials Moving to Suburbs

November 30, 2018 By Chriss Street

Republicans lost control of the House of Representatives this year due to a big jump in liberal Millennials moving to the suburbs to buy houses, start families, and begin the transition into conservatives. The latest Ernst &Young LLP, Research regarding the changing preferences for the Millennial age group of 18 to 34 for the period from June 2016 to June 2018, found the percentage of older Millennials between the ages of 28 to 31 that owned a home spiked from 27 to 47 percent, and the percentage of younger Millennials between the ages of 20 and 23 that lived with their parents plunged from 63 to 36 percent.

Despite Millennials increasingly holding full-time jobs and the percentage feeling positive about the economy spiking from 28 percent in 2016 to 41 percent in 2018, only one-third believe their standard of living will be better than their parents in the long term.

A major reason for Millennial angst about the future is that 50 percent are paying off or plan to take out student loans. About 80 percent say student debt has forced them to delay home ownership. This burden may explain why Millennials’ median age for a first marriage has jumped by seven years since 1960 to 27.4 for women and 29.5 for men. As of result, only 38 percent of Millennials versus 50 percent of U.S. adults are now married............To Read More.....
 

Youths Embracing Socialism Is a Major GOP Failure

By Rich Logis

At this moment in time, projected demographics in the U.S. over the next two to three decades do not bode well for the Republican Party and, more specifically, America First politics.   Our youth and Millennials are quite smart, actually, but they're the dumbest group of smart people in our history. Look at a recent Gallup poll, which states:

Americans aged 18 to 29 are as positive about socialism (51%) as they are about capitalism (45%). This represents a 12-point decline in young adults' positive views of capitalism in just the past two years and a marked shift since 2010, when 68% viewed it positively. Meanwhile, young people's views of socialism have fluctuated somewhat from year to year, but the 51% with a positive view today is the same as in 2010.

Pundits blame the usual suspects: schools and universities, public education, Hollywood, immigration, and social media. Sure, there are absolutely some uncomfortably truths in these answers. I don't think I have all the solutions, but my upcoming book, 10 Warning Signs Your Child is Becoming a Democrat, will serve, I hope, as a political playbook for parents.

That said, isn't the GOP culpable, to some extent, for the rise of socialism? .........To Read More...

Death by Entitlement

By Bruce Bawer August 10, 2018 chat 115 comments

On August 7, the New York Times ran a story by Rukmini Callimachi about Jay Austin and Lauren Geoghegan, a young American couple, both graduates of Georgetown University, who decided to quit their humdrum office jobs and go on an epic bike ride and camping trip that would take them all over the world. “I’ve grown tired of spending the best hours of my day in front of a glowing rectangle, of coloring the best years of my life in swaths of grey and beige,” Austin wrote. “I’ve missed too many sunsets while my back was turned.”

So in July of last year, they flew from Washington, D.C., to Cape Town, and from there bicycled through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zambia, and Malawi to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. From there, they flew to Cairo, and after seeing the pyramids flew on to Casablanca, from which they cycled through Morocco, Spain, France, Monaco, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Greece, to Turkey. From there, another flight took them to Kazakhstan. They biked through Kyrgyzstan and entered Tajikistan. It was in that country that their journey came to an abrupt end this past July 29, when five ISIS members deliberately plowed their car into the two adventurers, killing them along with two temporary cycling companions, one from Switzerland and the other from the Netherlands. “Two days later,” wrote Callimachi, “the Islamic State released a video showing five men it identified as the attackers, sitting before the ISIS flag. They face the camera and make a vow: to kill 'disbelievers.'”......To Read More....

My Take - As one of my correspondents observed: "Young US couple bikes through Africa, central Asia, ISIS strongholds. What could possibly go wrong?"

Based on where they worked I'm guessing they voted for Obama....twice.....and Hillary once.  This is just one example of how these moonbeams think - or not think I should say - insisting on the world being as they wish to be versus how it really is. 

Well, since this their disaster, and it was of their own making.  They had more than enough lessons to know this end result was a very real possibility, and yet they continued.  It really is true.  You just can't fix stupid. 

Unfortunately, disasters are what happens to the rest of society when this foolish type of thinking becomes policy! 

 

 

 

Millennials, Socialism, and Equality

Eileen F. Toplansky

Zach Carter of the Huffington Post is telling Baby-Boomers that they are getting their knickers all in a twist and really should tone down their worries since, after all, "socialism is good now."

Carter, senior political economy reporter at the HuffPo, evinces dazzling ignorance and misdirection as he leads Millennials down a path that will prove disastrous to them. Carter asserts that we are re-entering the "Golden Age of American Paranoia" and any genuine concerns about the spread of communism are delusional. Has Carter ever perused The Black Book of Communism (1999), edited by Mark Kramer?

He would learn "the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres." Astonishing in the sheer detail it amasses, the book is the first comprehensive attempt to catalogue and analyze the crimes of communism over seventy years.............  More

Feel the Bern: Dancing with Socialism, Ignoring Reality

Robert Knight May 27, 2018

In the United States, surveys show that many Millennials are not merely soft on socialism but openly support it. They think capitalism benefits only the “one percent” and no one else, despite America’s matchless record of upward mobility and prosperity.

Since the 1960s, the media, Hollywood and the education system have presented a warped view of America along with a sugarcoated version of socialism. So, we should not be surprised when we see so many young people fooled by the false promises of redistributive economics.

The Millennials are the main force behind Vermont’s Democratic Socialist U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, and they are pushing the Democratic Party even further to the Left.

On May15, four Democrats backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) won primary elections for state legislative seats in Pennsylvania. Arielle Cohen, co-chair of the Pittsburgh DSA chapter, told HuffPost that the promise of socialized health care and “free education” helped seal the deal. “We’re turning the state the right shade of red tonight,” she crowed...............Under the Castro regime, Cuba became and still is an economic basket case with jails full ofdissidents........Venezuela’s socialism has created one of the worst inflation rates in the world. ........ To Read More...

My Take - The only way to fix this is to destroy the education system in America as we now know it. Make all universities for profit institutions with absolutely no government grant money, loans or subsidies.  End all public employee unions, including teacher's unions and promote vouchers. 

The left is apoplectic over a girl, a white dress, and an AR-10

By Ed Straker May 17, 2018

The left lays special claim on so-called "Millennials," the latest class of brainwashed zombies to roll out of their four-year indoctrination factories who are programmed to be even more liberal than their predecessors, in favor of things like "social justice," men pretending to be women, and increasingly confiscatory gun control. Imagine, then, how threatened they must be by one of their own who turns against them........Predictably, liberals simply can't understand the difference between a criminal having a firearm and a law-abiding citizen carrying one:.........To Read More....

Feel the Bern: How Millennial Socialists Endanger America

April 27, 2018 By Jeffrey Folks

Millennials, those born between 1982 and 2004, are the largest age cohort in American history, and according to a recent poll, most of them (44%) prefer socialism to capitalism (42%). An earlier 2015 poll found an even larger number of Millennials (53%) with a "favorable opinion" of socialism. Inference: America is in trouble.

Maybe Donald Trump can stem the tide for another four or even eight years, but support for socialism will continue to mount as long as Millennials remain ignorant of what socialism really is. The greatest danger to this country comes from the fact that so many Millennials don't understand politics and economics.

How else to explain Millennial support for Bernie Sanders, an avowed socialist? With a 75% approval rating overall, and higher among Millennials, Sanders is "the most popular politician in the country," according to the Observer.

According to his official website, Sanders supports a long list of liberal causes: free health care and college tuition for all, "combating climate change to save the planet," "fighting for women's rights," "fighting for LGBT equality," "fighting for nurses," "empowering tribal nations," "fighting for the rights of native Hawaiians," "standing with Guam" (huh?) – all of it paid for by "making the wealthy pay their fair share." It seems that Bernie is "fighting" for just about everybody except straight white males and that nebulous crowd he calls "the rich ......................Read more