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TL;DR: Kids these days... [sigh]

The youthful romance with socialism does not appear to result from ignorance of facts, but rather a resistance to understanding those facts and the truths that they demonstrate.

Like many of the criticisms of the past, young people tend to attribute the failures of socialism to the unenlightened generations that tried to implement them rather fundamental defects in the doctrine itself.

Someone who points to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holodomor, the tyrannical excesses behind the Iron Curtain, or the torture, disappearances and impoverishment of Venezuela and Cuba are more likely to met with a dismissive “O.K. Boomer,” than an open-minded “tell me more.”

Young people may have a favorable view of socialism, not because they do not have access to historical facts, but because they do not care about them. They do not care to reason from them, and therefore are willing to substitute slogans and social media sophism for actual thinking.

[Source](https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/10/parsing_the_appeal_of_socialism_to_today_s_young_people.html) TL;DR: Kids these days... [sigh] > The youthful romance with socialism does not appear to result from ignorance of facts, but rather a resistance to understanding those facts and the truths that they demonstrate. > Like many of the criticisms of the past, young people tend to attribute the failures of socialism to the unenlightened generations that tried to implement them rather fundamental defects in the doctrine itself. > Someone who points to the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holodomor, the tyrannical excesses behind the Iron Curtain, or the torture, disappearances and impoverishment of Venezuela and Cuba are more likely to met with a dismissive “O.K. Boomer,” than an open-minded “tell me more.” > Young people may have a favorable view of socialism, not because they do not have access to historical facts, but because they do not care about them. They do not care to reason from them, and therefore are willing to substitute slogans and social media sophism for actual thinking.
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They think it's all free stuff when in reality it's being given what the state deems necessary for you to have and shooting you if you're not loyal enough.

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I remember something from years back - an interview with a leftist female who was excited about a socialist utopia. She commented something like she'd 'spend the days working on her farm' to contribute to the cause. The interviewer responded with, 'Your farm? it won't be your farm.'

She didn't understand that she wouldn't have the choice of how and where to contribute.

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Yep. The Commissar would assign you a position based on where you born. Perhaps if you're really lucky you'll be able to show you have some intellectual ability and be allowed to move to one of the cities to work in research or something.

Perhaps you'll have been born in the mountains. You'll be lucky enough to work in one of the metal mines. Metals are important to the party, you'll have access to a range of goods your fellow comrades can only dream of. Things like tinned peaches from the south or a bit of chocolate advent calendar at Christmas!

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Never thought I might die fighting the zoomer commie death squads.