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Originally Posted by Ohio

And I would think that you would have a lot more sense than these millennials.

Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Castro, Chavez, etc. were all socialists, yet you support the same policies that brought these dictators into power. They all promised to end the evils of Capitalism, only to produce something far worse. There may still be income inequality with Capitalism, but at least there is income. With socialism, there is still inequality, yet no income.

It sure seems from your posts, that you are ready to accept anything, including socailism, as long as MSM is for it and Trump is gone. Careful what you wish for.

First of all, I do have more sense.

But this subject is complicated. America is a democracy. So if the millennials vote in a type of socialism there's nothing we can do about it if they have majority.

I don't know about all of them, but I don't think the socialism being banter about by millennials these days is a orthodox Marxism, nor a Stalin, USSR, type of socialism. I think they're thinking of a Canada type, or British type, or the type found in the other various democratic socialism's, or a Social Democracy. (you can google both to learn more about these types of socialism).

Howbeit, the label socialism has become the bugaboo of the Right. It's their big scary bogeyman, to knock down entirely these ones espousing socialism. Apparently they aren't scaring the millennials.

For example, this morning I picked up a article on Drudge Report (is that a fake news site, I can't keep up with which is which any more?) that pointed out a Devin Nunes tweet, where while at a California restaurant , when ordering a drink, was asked if he wanted a plastic straw.

He busted out with the "Straw Police" and knocked socialism. However it was quickly pointed out that his family enjoys government substitutes for their farmland ; which is way more socialism then control of the use of plastic straws. Proving ... In the end, Nunes turned out to look like such an idiot that all the Mojo was drained out of his attack on socialism. He's a hypocrite.