The messaging of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and now Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., is reaching young Americans – which will be 37 percent of the electorate in 2020, according to Axios – and "socialism" is no longer a dirty word in America, once the heartbeat of capitalism.
Generation Z and millennials take more kindly to socialistic policy than past generations. In fact 49.6 percent of young voters would prefer to live in a socialist country, according to a new Harris Poll given exclusively to Axios.
That figure has dragged American society as a whole to be 37.2 percent favoring living in a socialist over capitalist society, according to the poll.
Younger voters put more emphasis on universal healthcare, free college and abolishing ICE than the electorate as a whole, per The Harris Poll.
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Of those 49.6%, 98% have no idea what that really means.
ReplyDeleteGeneration Zombies???
ReplyDeleteKeep dumbing the education system down and it will only keep getting worse.
ReplyDeleteThis is why there IS GOING TO BE A CIVIL WAR.
ReplyDelete1:49- Have you nothing else to state? We get it! You want a civil war. You only post that same comment 5 times every day. You stupid or something?
DeleteVenezuela is awaiting them now
ReplyDeleteLet's give that 49.6% a free two, make that three week vacation to sunny Venezuela. Give them for spending money the same as the average worker makes. They want free, I would be glad for my tax dollars to pay for it.One condition...they have to stay the full 3 weeks, no early returns!!
ReplyDeleteAnd American freedoms will allow them to move.
ReplyDeleteThis is what happens when you stop teaching REAL History and start teaching liberalism. The younger generations have no idea what happened in the past therefore they are clueless of what the outcome of Socialism could be. They have heard the term "Entitlement" used so much they have confused it with handouts and have no clue where the money comes from to pay for their 'entitlement'. They do not realize Social Security was paid for by the person receiving it. Unlike the Food Stamps,Energy Assistance, Rental Assistance and Free Medical they receive just by asking for it. They desperately need to be re-educated quickly and the handouts need to stop. Put stiffer regulation and requirements on assistance programs. Force them to work and pay taxes. It would not take them long to get a little better understanding of who pays for the 'freebies' they seem to have no problem accepting. It would look different when it is their tax dollars being so generously handed out to those unwilling to work.
ReplyDeleteThat's why the Bern' wants education to be 'free'. So, even more schools have the chance to infect liberal ideas into even more young people.
ReplyDeleteThe brain does not reach full potential (growth) untill your middle 20s. You are a fool if you think that is incorrect. Others are just dropped on their heads at birth if they make it that far.
ReplyDeleteSend them to a socialist country for 5 years, maybe they will stay.
ReplyDeleteYup, free everything! Just keep printing money to pay for it, and give it away free to all! Call it the Green Deal.
ReplyDeleteThat's because their the stupidest generation of all time!
ReplyDeleteready for school vouchers yet!!.decades of re-education camps known as public schools have destroyed generations of minds. warped them into the lies of luciferian idealogy instead of GODS truths. we are just reaping what was sown, but school vouchers would stop it...
ReplyDeleteYou like socialist countries,by all means move to one.
ReplyDeleteLet's give that 49.6% a free two, make that three week vacation to sunny Venezuela. Give them for spending money the same as the average worker makes. They want free, I would be glad for my tax dollars to pay for it.One condition...they have to stay the full 3 weeks, no early returns!!
ReplyDeleteGood thing young voters don't outnumber the rest of us. The percentage of young voters that actually exercise their right to vote is low, to boot. Don't over read more into this so-called fact than it warrants.
ReplyDeleteWell there you go. Young voters are the stupid ones. They'll change their minds as they get older (and wiser).
ReplyDeleteAnd this is exactly why we needs guns. These morons will be in charge one day and our freedom will really be at risk.
ReplyDeleteWith this year’s Fight for $15 bill to bring Maryland’s minimum wage up to $15/hour recently passing both the Senate Finance Committee and the House, it’s looking like Maryland will finally pass a $15/hour minimum wage bill after years of attempts — though not the bill Maryland workers need and deserve. The full Senate vote is pending.
ReplyDeleteThis year’s Fight for $15 bill in its original form was a progressive activist’s dream:
It would have fully implemented the $15 per hour wage by 2023.
It was chained to the consumer price index, which would have made the wage go up automatically every year to keep up with rising inflation and costs of living.
It covered nearly every group of workers that traditionally get left out of Fight for $15 bills, including tipped workers, youth workers, agricultural workers and more.
According to a study from the Maryland Center for Economic Policy, passing the bill in that form would have given raises to 573,000 workers, amounting to $2.6 billion extra per year into the pockets of low-income workers.
Unfortunately, the initial Fight for $15 bill was too good to be true, and both the House and Senate versions of the bill were watered down horribly in committee.
The House bill was the first bill to make it through committee, and that’s where most of the damage was done. This amended version of the bill exempted agricultural workers, created a lower “training wage” for workers younger than age 18, pushed the full implementation of the wage back from 2023 to 2025, exempted tipped workers and removed the attachment to the consumer price index.
Without an attachment to the consumer price index, we will for sure have to fight this battle again in 2025 when $15/hour finally gets implemented, because $15 per hour by that point will no longer be adequate, and without an automatic increase every year, labor activists will have to form yet another coalition equivalent to Fight for $15 to mount a similar multiyear movement to increase wages again. Some other Fight for $15 bills that have been implemented in other states have covered tipped workers, meaning our Fight for $15 bill could be among the weakest in the country.
The Senate Finance Committee version of the bill did not adopt all of those same amendments, but it did adopt an amendment pushing back the implementation for businesses with 15 employees or less (76 percent of all Maryland businesses) until 2028 — nearly 10 years from now, when $15 per hour will be hardly worth more than $10.10 per hour is worth now.
As Maryland workers, we all need to come together and realize we are being denied fair wages for our work by our state legislators. Clearly they’re prioritizing the wants of businesses over the needs of workers, so we need to make our voices heard and demand a clean Fight for $15 bill that covers all workers by the year 2023.
The Conference Committee to get the House and Senate bills to say the same thing before going to the governor to sign might be our last chance to get this Fight for $15 bill as strong as possible. Please call your state legislator and ask them to amend the bills to try to get them as close to the Fight for $15 bill in its original form as we can.
Jake Burdett
Vice Chair
Wicomico County Democratic Central Committee
student activist at Salisbury University.