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]
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
