Why do so many millennials like socialism and communism?

In PJ Media, Stephen Green tries to figure out why so many millennials like socialism or communism.

...My first thought was that these young Americans are merely the victims of a bad education. They probably know nothing of the brutalities of Lenin's secret police, or of the millions of Ukrainians purposely starved to death so that Stalin could have his collectivized farms. Millennials have never been taught that Cambodia's energetic communists killed no less than a quarter of their own people. They might not know about the retributions and "re-education" camps that North Vietnam brought to the South after American forces left. Semi-capitalist China is today a wealthy country, but Millennials know little of the tens of millions of random deaths in Mao's attempt to fully communize the country. They've been taught nothing, at best, about the approximately 100 million deaths attributable directly to communism.

But then I had a second thought.

We're seeing the results of another one of Lenin's quotes: "The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses." The press, the universities, and even the dominant popular culture have all been co-opted by the progressive left, after a decades-long march through the institutions.

So if you've been taught that your victimhood group has rights superior to your own... If you've been told your whole life that economic progress is killing the planet... If you believe in your heart that needs and wants trump economic reality...

...well, then what's wrong with a little communism? Hell, a lot of communism? They've been taught this; no wonder they believe it. Or as Lenin also said, "Give me your four-year-olds, and in a generation I will build a socialist state."

One misinformed Millennial, one vote... one time.

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