New Mexico governor deliberately violates Constitution

[Belsnickel]

(09-13-2023, 11:05 AM)Bengalion Wrote: According to a 2018 Gallup poll, just 45% of millennials view capitalism positively. To the contrary, 51% of millennials view socialism positively. This means that young Americans largely support socialism over capitalism. These views conflict with the views of every single other generation of Americans. Just 28% of the Silent Generation, 30% of Baby Boomers, and 41% of Generation X view socialism positively. 

Wooo! I am a young American!!!

FWIW, Millennials in 2018 were between 22 and 37. I turned 33 that year.

I'll tell you the real reason my generation doesn't view socialism in the same way, though. We didn't deal with the Cold War. Islamic extremism was our communism. Meanwhile, we saw the failure of trickle-down economics, the dismantling of the middle-class, a continual rise of the Gini Coefficient in the US after decades of it being relatively stable, and all of this the result of the abandonment of the progressive policies of the early twentieth century and a turn towards the more conservative, pro-business-neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism that was the hallmark of the two major parties during our lifetimes.

In short, removing the regulatory system around our market economy resulted in giving us the shaft with the sweet nothings being predominantly anti-brown people instead of anti-communist. So the ones running the show really screwed the pooch on that one and have no one to blame but themselves. The free market sucks, Adam Smith was wrong because people also suck, deal with it.