Millennials Don't Like Socialism or Capitalism

[libertybele]

So much for Trump's claim that he does well with millennials!

Millennials don’t like socialism or capitalism, poll says

A national poll of millennials found a majority of those surveyed don’t support capitalism or socialism, and they generally have a negative view about the future of the United States.

The Harvard Institute of Politics survey, released Monday, showed that 42 percent of 18- to 29-year olds supported capitalism as an economic theory, while 33 percent backed socialism.

However a majority of likely voters in the survey — 52 percent — said they supported capitalism.

Overall, the generation struggling with student debt and an uneven economy had a dire outlook on the country. Just 15 percent said the nation was on the right track, while 47 percent disagreed and said the nation was on the wrong track.

“Young Americans are sending a strong message. They care deeply about the future, but are concerned that the current state of our institutions and our politics is not sufficient to meet our nation’s challenges,” said institute polling director John Della Volpe. “We hope that in the remaining months of the campaign, candidates from both parties work to rebuild the trust that’s been eroded and inspire millennials to not only vote, but engage in civic life.”

Unlike millennials, members of Generation Z are too young to remember a world without problems.

In the presidential race, the Democratic Party appeared to be the better option among the more than 3,000 surveyed over three weeks in late March and early April. Support for a generic Democratic presidential candidate has doubled compared with Republicans in the last survey, taken last spring.

In a hypothetical match-up between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump, Clinton has a 36-percentage point advantage. Clinton leads Trump, 61 percent to 25 percent, with 14 percent of respondents saying they were unsure about the race.

Trump is hurt by his lack of support from young Republicans in the poll. His score is lower than a generic Republican candidate.

The poll showed US Senator Bernie Sanders was the only candidate who was more liked than disliked by survey respondents.

The survey showed that millennials were also distrustful of institutions in general. They expressed distrust for Wall Street, Congress, the president, and most of the media.

The one institution that more than 50 percent of respondents said they trusted was the military.

The millennial age group also largely rejected labels in the poll. Less than half identified themselves as feminists or patriots, though 57 percent said they backed the concept of patriotism.

This group was also deeply cynical about the advancement of women and the criminal justice system.

Nearly 60 percent believed that women face a glass ceiling in business and government, and 64 percent thought men had an advantage in these areas.

What’s more, fewer than half of the millennial respondents expressed confidence that the criminal justice system was fair and without bias.

The survey polled 3,183 young Americans between the age of 18 and 29 using KnowledgePanel, an online survey service, in both Spanish and English.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2016/04/25/millenials-don-like-capitalism-socialism-poll-says/9F1FPM1uEMOCc6ffuoMv1J/story.html

[mountaineer]

Socialism’s Bloody History Shows Millennials Should Think Twice Before Supporting It
Socialism demands that we place blind trust in whoever takes the power to distribute society’s goods and services. History shows those who have this power abuse it in horrific ways.
By Stella Morabito
March 15, 2016

Nikolai Bukharin was executed by shooting in Moscow on March 15, 1938. He had been revered as a giant of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, as one who even worked side by side with Vladimir Lenin himself. Alas, Bukharin’s Marxist chickens had come home to roost by the time he was shot like a dog during Josef Stalin’s reign of terror. His execution marked the pinnacle of Stalin’s show trials of high-level officials.

You see, Bukharin invested in building a political system that inevitably puts the reins of power into the hands of just a few strongmen who end up calling all the shots. It’s a system in which suspicion and the smell of treason tend to hang in the air.

Socialism, by the way, is just such a system. This is the case whether you call it by any other name, whether communism, utopianism, or collectivism. Oh, go ahead and slap some lipstick on that pig and call it “democratic” socialism or “progressivism” or “communitarianism.”

Lenin and his gang all started out calling themselves socialists. Social democrats, to be exact. So the fact remains: the path of socialism is ultimately paved with coercion, censorship, and, yes, terror. Does stating this make me an alarmist? No. It makes me a realist.
Socialism Is a Bait-and-Switch Scheme

Socialism and communism both involve ceding to the state control over the distribution of goods and services for the masses. This involves giving up individual rights, and giving the state a good measure of control over our personal lives. This road always leads to tyranny, no matter what you pave it with, and no matter what you name it. ...

Rest of essay at The Federalist

[uglybiker]

Socialism’s Bloody History Shows Millennials Should Think Twice Before Supporting It

Before one can become old and wise, one must first be young and stupid.

[GilesB]

The more I read about what Millennials think, the more i'm convinced they don't.

[mountaineer]

The more I read about what Millennials think, the more i'm convinced they don't.

It doesn't seem that way, does it. If you really want to be depressed, spend some time on a college campus. There are a few exceptions, granted, but for the most part it's indoctrinated drones (i.e., skulls full of mush) sitting around tables in the student union texting each other instead of talking. Needless to say, critical thinking is not part of the picture.