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Fewer Than Half of Young Americans Are Positive About Capitalism (cnbc.com)
gollum123 writes: According to a new poll from Gallup, young Americans are souring on capitalism. Less than half, 45 percent, view capitalism positively. "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 percent viewed it positively," notes Gallup, which defines young Americans as those aged 18 to 29. Meanwhile, 51 percent of young people are positive about socialism. This age group's "views of socialism have fluctuated somewhat from year to year," reports Gallup, "but the 51 percent with a positive view today is the same as in 2010."
I don't think you realized that I just trash talked that notion of "joining the rest of the industrialized world". America Lead the world in the industrial revolution even though it started in England. The desire to "be like the rest of world" is the problem here. Our government was setup by the founding fathers to explicitly be unlike the rest of the world for a reason and folks like you not only do not understand that or why and instead keep picking on the minority as you usually do. Loot at the economic deficit those industrialized worlds have now. How do you expect anyone with any real knowledge and information to take your argument seriously? To be a leader means leading, not joining the rest of the world, but that appears to be lost on you.
Talk about being amazed... maybe you should check the mirror some time. You are wearing the rose tinted glasses, and tell me exactly what lessons these countries learned? Case to put anything other than nebulous prattle in words? Afraid they will be debunked? All you have are rose colored ideas that do not bear out in reality, just like every other socialism communist state like Old Russia, Venezuela, Argentina, and lets not forget Greece... the list is quite long!
This video below is making direct fun of folks like YOU!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Tell me jythie, who is going to bail you out when this fails after you have "joined the rest of the broke as world with broke economies!"
Not an option, unless you're a wanna be Pol pot.
"Old man yells at systemd"
Whatever you want to call the system we have now, it is the most successful system the planet has ever had.
Name one system that has even come close to raising the standard of living for everyone in the world like this one has.
And before you spit out your milk, yes, it has its flaws and you could even say it's failed some people. But over all there is NO better option.
If you think there is, Name it. Provide evidence that its worked on as wide of scale as this one.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.