Hayek’s characteristics of a totalitarian mob seem to fit today’s American Bolshevik wannebes like a glove. In a recent survey of self-described socialists, 95 percent of whom were under the age of thirty, 48% were unemployed; 61% still lived with their parents; 69% were “uneducated”; only 14% supported free speech; while more than three times that number, 46%, supported riots as a means of advancing their cause.
They’ve attacked and beat up elderly people attempting to attend Trump-for-President rallies; attacked people with solid iron bicycle locks, bike racks, clubs, rocks, mace, baseball bats, and bottles filled with urine and feces. They threw cement blocks through storefront windows in D.C. on inauguration day, claiming it to be a protest against capitalism. They’ve set police cars, civilian cars, and buildings on fire to interrupt campus speeches by conservatives. They hospitalized a female university professor for the “crime” of inviting conservative political scientist Charles Murray to speak at Middlebury College.
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ReplyDelete:) That poll is mind boggling.
DeleteYes. I don't know what to make of it. Because the universities also tend to push people to the Left.
DeleteThe most conservative people tend to have little education but *do* work. And raise families, etc. And the rootedness thing.
Also, many today can't define "socialism". So, the word doesn't necessarily mean the same to the people responding.
Many have a fuzzy sense that Bernie will improve things. They're angry at an elite, and they assume Bernie has the answers.
I've never liked capitalism really, but I've always been very right-wing. The demographic change and destruction of the South is what I cared about. Capitalism didn't seem to offer an answer there. So, for me, preserving the South and figuring how a society could resist suicide were my dreams.
Whichever ideological god offered preservation, I was willing to serve.
I wanted to stand athwart the hordes of Yankees, and yell, "Go back!"
Keep in mind that millennials and younger aren't expected to see social security. Our real wages are declining or stable, and the wealth gap is expanding. Many retirees to support.
DeleteAnd "conservatives" get on tv defending all this, then call for a new expensive war. Also, we see significant pollution. And corporations seem willing to hire slave labour, anything for profit!
Socialism is just a bunch of bs, but it promises the answers. "Give me total power, and I will protect you. Religion and nationalism are the source of evil. Since I, the socialist, believe in nothing but science; I can be entrusted."
Really, socialists nowadays seem to want direct democracy. They want voters to vote on everything, no representatives. But who could be trusted to count the votes?
That's based on my experiences, not statistics. So, I could be misrepresenting.
Another key part: White children are told from very early to resist white racism. So, they can do little but embrace ideology. And they come to take a global perspective, wanting to help the globe. Anything else they see as evil.
The demographic change and destruction of the South is what I cared about...... for me, preserving the South and figuring how a society could resist suicide were my dreams.....Whichever ideological god offered preservation, I was willing to serve.....I wanted to stand athwart the hordes of Yankees, and yell, "Go back!"
DeleteHear! Hear!
White children are told from very early to resist white racism.
DeleteForeign to me. http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?p=243#243
I meant, the parents don't do that, but the schools and movies/music do.
DeleteSounds like you had a nice childhood.
And my school experience wasn't much anti-white. It was somewhat anti-Southern though. My college was anti-white (also we read a book that basically told us the US War in Serbia was good). The pop culture around me at the time was poisonous.
Thanks and where/when did you go to school?
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