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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (45217)	11/15/2017 5:00:10 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 364831

Oh, I know they do, but they are young. Give them time. Millenials have had it very hard. So climbing back out of their run of bad economic luck is going to build character for them. They will have earned their money the hard way and they will be loath to have it redistributed when they get older, because they will remember how hard it was to earn and save it. I have faith in them. My son is one of those and he's a Bernie fan. I support his choices only because he is an independent thinker and is not very ideological. We have great debates. :) BTW, did you know that even the Russians have largely dismissed Socialism as unworkable? I just came across this article below. It's weird to me how Marxism, Leninism, and Stalinism, that lead to the United Socialist Soviet Republic, fell apart and resulted in the dictatorship of Putin. Then somehow with all of that failure and the loss of tens of millions of lives as a result, we've decided to adopt that way of thinking in the West. I'm amazed at how history repeats itself over and over. Russians, meanwhile, have mostly concluded that socialism was impossible. In the late Soviet years, the ostensibly free services turned into a corrupt system in which the quality of health care and education depended on one's ability to shell out bribes and the official jobs didn't pay enough to live on. For most Russians today, a kind of libertarian self-reliance is the only ideology. Read more: afr.com