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Sailor said:
People were doing well in Venezuela before they became socialist. Its failure has zero to do with the U.S.
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This is where the lack of world history being honestly taught through high school over the last 20 years have robbed a lot of millennials of a ton of knowledge.
 
Stretch said:
This is where the lack of world history being honestly taught through high school over the last 20 years have robbed a lot of millennials of a ton of knowledge.
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And of course they generally have no desire to bother to look it up on their own.
 
Sailor said:
And of course they generally have no desire to bother to look it up on their own.
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Usually not, I agree. There's been a decline in motivation (generally) in many of them. They're content to
keep living at home, stay glued to Twitter and FaceBook screens with imaginary "friends", unable to have social skills
in real life, civilly debating or arguing things face to face, take on a couple of real jobs, make some money to even just
go to a few foreign places to learn more on their own to witness other government systems and how they work, etc.

Then I think about those folks of the Greatest Generation.........wow what a contrast in maturity at a young age. :(
 
Stretch said:
Usually not, I agree. There's been a decline in motivation (generally) in many of them. They're content to
keep living at home, stay glued to Twitter and FaceBook screens with imaginary "friends", unable to have social skills
in real life, civilly debating or arguing things face to face, take on a couple of real jobs, make some money to even just
go to a few foreign places to learn more on their own to witness other government systems and how they work, etc.

Then I think about those folks of the Greatest Generation.........wow what a contrast in maturity at a young age. :(
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Far be it for me to stand up for millennial's, and I won't, but they have seen some f'd up economic situations in their lifetimes. From the great recession (caused by the Fed but blamed on capitalism) and Bush and Paulson bailing out the big banks to Obama and his anti-business rhetoric and regulation producing the worst recovery since the Great Depression. Then we had Trump and pro-growth policies for two years and now he's turned his back on that in the name of economic nationalism, it's not surprising some ask questions.

What's unfortunate is they think the answer is to turn to socialism. We don't have anyone on the national stage, that people will listen to, giving full throated support for capitalism which is what we need.

I'm 46. I came up during the Reagan era. I remember the capitalism vs communism debates and how that shaped me. Very few have ever spoken about capitalism like Reagan did. There's a reason he's referred to as the great communicator. We haven't had anyone close to him since.

Socialism and free everything sounds so tempting on the surface. It's why so many young people gravitate to it. We as adults aren't doing our job selling the virtues of capitalism.
 
Sailor said:
It was not working there at all. Just a time bomb that exploded. Do a little research on something other than twitter or facebook.
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I have. And I found that it was doing well until America got involved and Venezuelan Capitalists started sabotaging their own country. If anything, there was too little regulation when dealing with the Capitalists.
 
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