{"id":1132799,"date":"2019-08-15T11:20:38","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T16:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kereport.com\/?p=53360"},"modified":"2019-08-15T11:20:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T16:20:38","slug":"cal-thomas-on-socialism-thanks-for-submitting-this-mr-howe-by-the-way-big-al-agrees-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1132799","title":{"rendered":"Cal Thomas on Socialism. Thanks for submitting this Mr. Howe. By the way, Big Al agrees 1000%"},"content":{"rendered":"

Socialism never?<\/h1>\n

BY CAL THOMAS Tribune Content Agency<\/p>\n

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President Trump has repeatedly promised, \u201cAmerica will never be a socialist country.\u201d Since Franklin Roosevelt began expanding government in the 1930s, the United States has increasingly adopted big-state policies associated with socialism.<\/p>\n

We may not be at the stage Bernie Sanders would advocate, but more millennials appear to favor a system under which they have never lived. Free stuff is appealing until one realizes its costs.<\/p>\n

In an attempt to reach Generation Z \u2013 those in their teens and 20s \u2013 a new organization is starting this month to combat socialism\u2019s appeal.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s called Young Americans Against Socialism\u201d (yaas.org<\/a><\/strong>), according to its site, a nonpartisan nonprofit \u201cdedicated to exposing socialism\u2019s failures to young Americans by creating viral educational videos for social media.\u201d Its founder, Morgan Zegers, worries that \u201cmore than half of young people believe socialism should be implemented in America.\u201d The reason, she says, is because many of them know little about it. Her campaign will be largely on social media where she notes young people spend hours every day.<\/p>\n

\u201cYaas is taking the Left\u2019s tactics of injecting emotion into everything,\u201d she says, \u201cand throwing it right back in their faces.\u201d One Yaas video includes statements by two men. One, Raydel Armas, says he escaped Cuba by \u201cwindsurfing for 10 hours.\u201d The other, Daniel Di Martino, a Venezuelan, challenges Sanders\u2019 promotion of socialism.<\/p>\n

Sanders is shown in a video from the \u201970s in which he calls food lines in some countries \u201ca good thing,\u201d presumably referring to non-socialist countries. \u201cThe rich,\u201d he claims, \u201cget the food and the poor starve to death.\u201d Daniel Di Martino responds, \u201cIt wasn\u2019t that I was rich; it was because politicians like him destroyed my country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Armas suggests young people who wear Che Guevara T-shirts are ignorant of history and of the number of people Guevara killed during and after the Cuban revolution. Surveys back him up.<\/p>\n

In a 2017 opinion column for The New York Post, Karol Markowicz cited a 2014 report by the National Assessment of Educational Progress that showed \u201can abysmal 18 percent of American high school kids were proficient in U.S. history. When colleges such as Stanford decline to require Western Civilization classes or high schools propose changing their curriculum so that history is taught only from 1877 onward \u2026 it\u2019s merely a blip in our news cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Markowicz also noted a 2012 story in Perspectives on History magazine by University of North Carolina professor Bruce VanSledright, who found that \u201c88 percent of elementary school teachers considered teaching history a low priority.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the reasons are varied, she says, \u201cVan-Sledright found that teachers didn\u2019t focus on history because students aren\u2019t tested on it at the state level. Why teach something you can\u2019t test?\u201d<\/p>\n

When history is taught, especially at many liberal universities, there is often a bias against America because of slavery and the \u201cinvasion\u201d of white Europeans who killed and displaced Native Americans. Markowicz concluded, \u201cWe talk often about how fractured our country has become. That our division increases while school kids are taught less and less about our shared history should come as no surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her video, Zegers says, \u201cCapitalism has lifted more people out of poverty than any other economic system.\u201d Even China, though still officially communist and socialist, has had to adopt more of the principles characteristic of capitalism to lift large numbers of people from poverty.<\/p>\n

Socialism has long needed pushback in America from those opposed to it. President Trump has begun pointing out how harmful it is elsewhere. Zegers hopes to target young Americans with testimonies from people who have lived under the reality of socialism.<\/p>\n

This year marks Cal Thomas\u2019 35th year as a syndicated columnist. Readers may email Cal Thomas at <\/em>tcaeditors@tribpub.com<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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