Millennial Socialism: Stupid, Evil, or Both?

Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter

Millennial Socialism: Stupid, Evil, or Both?

Congratulations, oh most insufferable of generations – against all odds and confounding the experts, you have still somehow managed to make yourselves even more annoying. Apparently, the hep new jive among your tiresome cohort is “Democratic Socialism,” resurrecting a poisonous nineteenth-century political death cult and putting a kicky new spin on it to make it palatable for the suckers. It’s the political equivalent of hipsters who insist vinyl records are superior because they didn’t grow up forced to crank their tunes on that miserable format.

The “Democratic” part is some cunning rebranding. Just stick “Democratic” in front of something awful and it’s good-to-go. “Democratic haggis”? Yummy! “Democratic herpes”? Sexy! “Democratic Nazism?” Hey, what’s the difference? National socialism, democratic socialism? It’s really just a question of who runs the camps because regardless of the particular brand of socialism, there are always camps.

Always.

That these millennial Marxoids lack personal experience with socialism does not stop them from embracing it. After all, socialism’s biggest fans are always the people who aren’t trapped inside it. Remember the progs who always fly down to Havana and/or Caracas to party with the local caudillo? They always fly home again.

Today’s millennial socialist dilettantes might consider consulting with some of us who have personal experience with this ideological cancer, but millennials tend to prefer to rely upon their arbitrary feelz rather than on boring old facts, evidence, and history.

What the boring old facts, evidence, and history demonstrate, beyond any rational dispute, is that socialism is a bloodstained abomination with north of 100 million corpses to its accursed credit. The It Girl of the current commie/Democrat daisy chain, wide-eyed half-wit Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, doesn’t let bourgeois concepts like “knowing things” stop her from sharing her sophomore-grade insights all over the left-wing media, which is to say “the media.” Gulag Barbie is a clown, and even the late nite hack hosts stare back at her adolescent babbling, amazed as she tosses an incoherent word salad about her workers’ paradise.

Why, it will be just like Switzerland. Or Sweden. One of those. Like, are they different?

By the way, that’s satire (Def: “trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly”) in case you are, like her, too dumb to tell.

No one loves socialism quite like a moron who has never experienced it firsthand. No one hates it like someone who has seen it up close. I walked around in its ruins overseas; it’s an abattoir. My wife escaped it, though her granddad didn’t – he rotted in Castro’s prisons for nearly two decades because he refused to play ball with the reds. Then he died. Oh well, gotta break a few eggs to create a paradise where somebody else pays for your college, right?

Just remember that you are an egg.

The free stuff thing is a really big part of what today’s “Democratic Socialism” is –getting the leftist government to send people with guns to take the stuff you’ve worked for and give it to the people who like socialism.

Free college? Well, free for the people who vote for the democratic socialists.

Free healthcare? Well, free for the people who vote for the democratic socialists.

Free whatever they decide they want for free next? Well, free for…you get the idea.

Three guesses as to who gets stuck with the check for all this free stuff, because someone always gets stuck with the check because there is no such thing as free stuff. All those millennial mommies who read their theybies that insufferably stupid kiddie book The Giving Tree implanted the dual notions of entitlement and economic illiteracy into their useless spawn. The promise of socialism is that someone else will do the toiling – and that someone is always the people who reject socialism.

You guessed right! It’s normal Americans once again, the draft horses of America, who will be expected to carry their own weight as well as the weight of all the cool kidz in Brooklyn and ‘Frisco. But as my upcoming book Militant Normals: How Regular Americans Are Rebelling Against the Elite to Reclaim Our Democracy demonstrates in vicious and hilarious detail, Normals are getting tired of snobs who disrespect and despise them while simultaneously expecting them to maintain, feed, fuel, and defend this country all by themselves.

The socialist cheerleaders don’t want to be normal. Normality requires work. They want to be part of an elite that will run things from their progressive urban coastal enclaves, and in socialism there’s always a lot of running things going on. But they always assume that once the revolution comes, they will be the ones running things, clothed in government authority and making all the economic decisions that individuals and their companies make today. None of them imagine they will be the ones stuck with the dirty jobs – they dream of being commissars, not garbagemen.

SJWism is perfect training for the aspiring cog in the totalitarian oppression machine – policing campuses for forbidden thought teaches them the skills they can put into action policing society for forbidden thought. I wrote about what these wannabe Bolsheviks will do if they aren’t stopped in my novels People’s Republic and Indian Country, which depict both the nightmarish world they seek to create and the proper response to tyranny by American patriots.

Spoiler: All Normal American citizens should take advantage of their First and Second Amendment rights to act to prevent leftist tyranny – at least, until some majority of leftist judges decides that the rights of free speech, a free press, and to keep and bear arms don’t actually exist just because they are there in the text, but the right to force others to give you free stuff and to “pronoun justice” do exist because of penumbras and emanations and reasons.

Now, democratic socialists will always deny that getting on the pathway to tyranny will lead to tyranny, and they will always tell you that true socialism has never been achieved. Basically, their argument is that we should throw out the ideology that brought the world the freest and most prosperous country in human history and instead give an ideology that has failed every single time it’s been attempted yet another shot because they are tired of paying for the things they want.

This is not a compelling argument for Normals, who have enough life experience to realize that things that fail every single time they are tried are certain to fail again.

Socialism’s perfect record of failure, misery, and slaughter is kind of a problem for them, so they pivot and distract, playing an ideological shell game by claiming that what they really want isn’t socialism. Why, they just to be more like Canada! This, of course, begs the question of why they call themselves “socialists” if they don’t want socialism. But Normals are woke; they prefer their freedom and abundant toilet paper. They know that the current socialist fad is a lie, because socialism is built on lies. The democratic socialists keep promising Denmark and Norway, and but they always deliver Cuba and Venezuela.

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Dutchman
Dutchman

I believe there are several factors at play: The hatred for Trump is so great, that the media will embrace any wild ass idea, just to get even with him. In the last election, crazy Bernie struck a note, so she is trying to leveral off of that. The Millennials are the first generation to have been totally indoctrinated in the government schools. The only education these ‘kids’ received was that of activism. Thus they have no idea about socialism, or where money comes from, or what money represents. This is especially true, since many of them can’t make change for a dollar.

I’d love to see the debate between this mindless bitch, and the conservative opponent.

Hollywood Rob

It’s NYC. There is no conservative opponent.

SmallerGovNow
SmallerGovNow

Ever notice how all car commercials seem to be centered in NYC? Are these the only assholes buying cars? And those stupid Liberty Mutual Insurance commercials. Where do they get the idiots that “act” in those commercials? Chip

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

Maybe a spineless RINO squish who will continuously apologize for being a non-commie. If we had a Black female conservative in the mix, commie ass would be kicked.

James
James

Dutch,plenty of news programs were she has hung herself when questioned about her ideas,a quick net search will provide you with plenty of entertainment.The problem is,a lot of voters will never research their candidates.

Skip Gregory

I do enjoy your articles and will look forward to your book but I have ask why you used democracy in the title rather than republic?

Desertrat
Desertrat

Casual thought for a Monday: Under Capitalism, you don’t have to stand in line to buy food or toilet paper.

22winmag - when you ask certain persons which floor they'd like, and they respond with "ladies lingerie"- they're referencing the AEROSMITH SONG!!!
22winmag - when you ask certain persons which floor they'd like, and they respond with "ladies lingerie"- they're referencing the AEROSMITH SONG!!!

I feel sorry for the useful idiots who fell, and continue to fall for socialism- both inside and outside the USA.

It seems like most folks here reserve their pity for foreign victims of socialism (example “100 million dead”). What about the domestic victims of socialism? They are vilified and labeled as the enemy, when they are in fact American CASUALTIES of the culture war.

TC
TC

When you control media, entertainment, government and education then cuck parents into forfeiting their kids over to the above systems for indoctrination, you can pretty much push whatever harebrained idea you want because there’s nothing to counter it.

Mike
Mike

22 said ‘… I feel sorry for the dupes …’
I used to. But we all learned “don’t hit other people and take their stuff” by kindergarten. Maybe collectivists are a little retarded – but – like us, learn or die. We can’t build civilization based on the lowest common denominator. That “lord of the flies” existence won’t even maintain ‘tribal society’ status. Like Bracken says – Bosnia x Rwanda.

Now, I just had a thought that I’ve been told should be horrifying, but … what if? Remember all those people that Hitler and Stalin sent off to camps, that historians (paid by who?) told us that they were Normies just like us?

WHAT IF they were the 1939 equivalent of Antifa, BLM, all those campus SJW agitators, etc, that were threatening a fragile govt coalition, (sound familiar?) violently threatening overthrow, spreading anti-free speech, whatever? What if they were the sort of “people” that now we’re now wondering why someone doesn’t send off to summer camp? What if the orderly Germans voted for a Hitler Fly Swatter?

I haven’t read Peikoff’s Ominous Parallels, or any other WWII history since the 90’s, but it seems that Amerika has followed Germany every step of the way down that Weimar Road that ends with the country in rubble.

Parenthetically, some of the Revisionist history theorizes that if the US had stayed out of WWII, the conscription based and absolute austerity 3rd Reich would have ended in internal civil war, collapsing from within and withdrawing from all invaded countries. Weimar was a fractious democracy, never as peaceful as they told us.

This wasn’t intended as a tangent, but like he said, Ominous Parallels are happening.

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

I think if we had stayed out of WW2 we would have had to go to war against the Axis at some point regardless. The Japs did attack us first and Germany declared war on us first.
Would we have made atomic weapons first? Would Germany have eventually built four engine bombers and pounded the East Coast? At the ground level what would it have been like to go up against Germany with all their troops armed with Stg 44 assault rifles and G43 semi auto battle rifles? The famed American F-86 Sabre Jet was a German design scheduled to be built in 1946. Without us in the war we would have faced a much more powerful enemy with much better weapons all by ourselves later on. Who knows? Bottom line, we don’t have to worry about it now.

Coalclinker
Coalclinker

Here is a whole host of H.L. Mencken quotes that summarizes much of what Millennial Socialism amounts to:
” Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
” At the bottom of Puritanism one finds envy of the fellow who is having a better time in the world, and hence hatred of him. At the bottom of democracy one finds the same thing. This is why all Puritans are democrats and all democrats are Puritans.”
” Socialism is the theory that the desire of one man to get something he hasn’t got is more pleasing to a just God than the desire of some other man to keep what he has got. ”
” The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think. “

Steve C
Steve C

You left out the one that explains why these morons are so infatuated with socialism in the first place.

“…No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the average American…” — H.L. Mencken

Morongobill
Morongobill

But a lot did overestimating the intelligence of our elites.

James
James

Coal,one of Menckens best tis”Sometimes you want to spit on your hands/hoist the black flag/and start cutting throats”.

I do not need arguments against socialism,that said,understand young folks especially falling for it when they see banks bailouts/corporate welfare of all sorts/endless wars/corrupt uni-parties ect.We want to fight/defeat socialism we adults need to fight the corrupt system and change all the bad parts to best of ability.

I love my country,hate my govt.!

As for the camps,well,personally look forward to the welcome to Camp FEMA cake,you know,the cake made in those giant plastic molds the paranoid keep insisting are caskets.I would also say do not worry about the hermetically sealed doors at camp,they are there for your personal comfort!

Keep prepping/buckle up for the impending ride,and,till it all goes down,enjoy the day!

Mike
Mike

🙂 Mencken hates everybody! 🙂 Love it. My Hero.
I’m not sure whether he was a Misanthropic Curmudgeon or a Curmudgeonly Misanthrope! ROFL
But he did see things more clearly than the rest of us.

Love Kranky Kurt and Kranky Kunstler too, and even Kranky Karl the Ticker Guy.

James … young folks falling … interesting that they grew up in Fascism (BigGuv+BigBiz Merger) and are now seeking Socialism as a remedy. Hmmmm … didn’t Hegel have something to say about that?

And Quigley’s version for us normies:
“The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies… is a foolish idea. Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can throw the rascals out at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy. Then it should be possible to replace it, every four years if necessary, by the other party which will be none of these things but will still pursue, with new vigor, approximately the same basic policies.”

But Molyneux just had an interesting observation that “… any party or organization not explicitly anti-Leftist will drift leftward over time, eventually ending up Leftist”

Must be entropy in the water on the Left and Right coasts. 🙂

And many King’s Ransoms and millions of lifetimes have been spent to bring that sort of “Cultural Enrichment” to our society.

overthecliff
overthecliff

Stupidity now when people mindlessly vote for them.

Evil comes later when the Stalin and Mao and PolPot consolidate their power.

Count on it.

Aodh Mor MacRaynall
Aodh Mor MacRaynall

You need to stop bashing Millenials. Who raised them? Did they rise like Venus Anadyomene. No they were raised by the likes of Baby-Boomers and Gen-Xers. I am old enough to remember the lie the Baby-Boomers accepted; free love, free hugs, free beer, free drugs, everything free, free, free. After they accepted the degenerate lies they were fed and another foot-hold was achieved in our society, they were let go to enjoy ‘the fruits of capitalism.’ A good expose of some of the most successful of these people is found here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lYA7c1Pnuo&t=345s. A more pathetic bunch of old cucks, to my knowledge, has never been in the history of the world. The point is not that they were evil people; they were just people and this is what happens to people when they are given plenty of capitalist shit and no discipline. The point is to stop this generation-bashing and start trying to heal the problems we have.

These problems will not be healed economically. This is the lie of both capitalism (as we know it) and socialism (as we know it) alike. Economics is downstream of ethics. Besides, you know nothing about socialism that you haven’t learned reading Ayn Rand. And if you do, why are you talking to the people who read your posts like that’s all they know about socialism. The stain of libertarianism is strong here. If you want a truly libertarian society, move to Somalia. Your knowledge of socialism sounds as if you learned it during the Cold War…and that’s it.

Baby-boomers, Gen-Xers and Millenials alike need to shut the fuck up. They need to stop the voices in their heads and start reading. It doesn’t matter if you start with Das Kapital, The Wealth of Nations or Mein Kampf. Just start reading and thinking. Unless we get some adults in this society and the adults only come from the people, our Millenials will learn soon enough the lies of what Americans call socialism. They will also learn that leftists know exactly how to enforce laws and mores. Which is a hell of a lot more that rightists and libertarians know. The truth is there. We only need to ask the right questions; what is good for my people, what is good for my family, what is good for my society. Capitalists and “Cawmniss” alike do not ask these questions they only ask what the individual wants. “Wisdom crieth without, she uttereth her voice in the streets. …How long ye simple ones will ye learn simplicity? And the scorners delight in their scorning and fools hate knowledge?”

Dutchman
Dutchman

MacRaynal: Get your head out of your butt. All that ‘free shit / free love’ – was a marginal number of people. I can tell you – I went to Penn State 1969 – 1971. I don’t think 5% of the students acted like that. However it was good fodder for the media.

The Democratic party was very successful in being stealth. Beginning in the 1970’s they infiltrated the public schools / teachers union / public employees unions. Unions are like socialism – they all get something (like huge pensions) for nothing more than the work the rest of us do. Additionally, the Democrats realized that they couldn’t reach ‘normal people’ – so they went for the ‘freaks’. How to build a base – use the Constitution against the normals – to elevate the freaks. With Hillary Clinton, we see how well that went.

The tragedy is that the Government Schools went to indoctrination / PC / activism / freak agenda. Students received little education. This is why most young people who go to school need remedial English and math. Over 25% of the population of Detroit – are functionally illiterate – yet they have HS diplomas.

JR Wirth
JR Wirth

Wrong. “Democratic Socialism” IS democracy. All democracies become socialistic, as people vote to pick each other’s pockets. The average human being is not smart, incredibly stupid. It’s a miracle of modern engineering that so few people die of their stupidity daily.

This is why a “republic” or oligarchy by another name, is preferable. Oligarchy is the natural order of mankind, assuming the oligarchs have their feet held to the fire to curb their rapaciousness. That’s a republic, something we lost between 1890 and 1915. The 17th Amendment was the final nail in the coffin.

It’s all Ms. Cortez as far as they eye can see going forward, just different players.

In 50 years you will be able to drive from Anchorage to Buenos Aires and not pass through one “democracy.” And when the definitive history of the U.S is written it will say that it was hollowed out by the 1970’s, but central bank debt priming was able to keep it going for several decades longer, to the moral detriment of the society at large.

Mike
Mike

JR, perhaps we should Offer Trump the Crown?
http://www.amerika.org/politics/offer-trump-the-crown/

This one has some very interesting observations: perhaps tldr.
http://www.amerika.org/politics/understanding-how-leftism-created-globalism/
Individualism > consumerism > communism > flocking > authoritarinism > globullism.

miforest
miforest

this is real socialism here. this movie should be seen by every high school student in their history class. VHS’s of it are very rare, so see it before YouTube pulls it .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj8fP5wCy9g

22winmag - when you ask certain persons which floor they'd like, and they respond with "ladies lingerie"- they're referencing the AEROSMITH SONG!!!
22winmag - when you ask certain persons which floor they'd like, and they respond with "ladies lingerie"- they're referencing the AEROSMITH SONG!!!

Thanks.

When does the American equivalent of this film come out? Next year?

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

Stupid – by design. That is the goal of the government monopoly school system.

Ignorant – by design. That is the goal of the government monopoly school system. Folks with a clue are a direct threat to the establishment.

Evil – by design. That is the goal of the Progressive movement and has been since its uptick in the late 1800s.

JustTruth
JustTruth

VERY STUPID AND EVIL.

None Ya Biz
None Ya Biz

The boomers didn’t start the fire. That fire was lit when the Constitution of the united States was brought into play. The vague wording of sentences, clauses and paragraphs are a testimony to how stupid even educated people can be. The pro liberty faction against the adoption of the Constitution forewarned all of the things that are currently destroying this country.

By 1860, when the tyrant Lincoln was erected to the office of head mother fucker in charge, the country was feeling the effects of abuse of the various clauses in the Constitution. If you read the Constitution of the CSA you will see it is very close to the one ratified in 1789 by the united States. The big differences were the vague sentences, clauses and paragraphs were removed.

So the die was cast in 1789. It created the division between north and south so that in 1860 Lincoln decided to wage war on states that refused to collect the tariffs that targeted the southern population. He made it perfectly clear he would wage war on any state that refused to collect the tariff and convey it to Washington in his first address as presickdent. These tariffs In essence, made the southern people slaves to the northern interest.

To add a point here, if the CSA had agreed to keep paying tribute to the USA, it is highly likely that Lincoln would have allowed the CSA to exist. After all it was really all about the money. If the CSA had done that and waited until Lincoln was out of office four/eight/twelve/sixteen years later, there is a more than better chance the CSA could have stopped the tribute. After being independent for a number of years, the USA would have to explain to the world why they declared war on the CSA!

Meanwhile, each generation has done its share to corrupt the government. It was the WW1 generation that passed the Federal Reserve Act. It was the WW1 generation that ratified the direct tax on individuals known as the income tax. It was the so called greatest generation that waged WW2 and enacted Socialist Security, the WPA, the CCC and other socialist schemes. It was the boomers that in 1965 foisted on the people the communist crap to destroy the family unit, enabled unfettered immigration from shithole countries and destroyed freedom of association. Generation X brought communist feminism to the forefront and Roe VS Wade. I could go on but you get the idea. No single generation fucked the country. All had a hand in enabling the government to destroy liberty using the 1000 cuts method.

So think about that the next time you feel the need to place blame on a single generation.

Rdawg
Rdawg

“Generation X brought communist feminism to the forefront and Roe VS Wade.”

Roe v. Wade? Let’s see, Roe v. Wade decision was in 1973. Gen X is roughly folks born 1965-1985.

So the oldest Gen X’ers were 8 years old when Roe v. Wade came down. How’s that work?

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

Indeed, Roe vs. Wade is a Baby Boomer product if there ever was one.

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