(01-31-2021, 10:47 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote:

(01-31-2021, 10:33 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: Don't underestimate people's ability to recognize extremism. She plays well in narrow segments but not widely. Have you ever noticed how Bernie receives high regards from the left but his ideas are either mitigated or dismissed? Bernie and AOC work in the 'aspirational' realm.

For now, but I think the point was young voters are being brainwashed into their ideology.  It's really a numbers game at this point.  At this rate, "someone" like AOC is bound to be in serious power sometime in the next 20 years. The problem is, by the time these young people grow up and understand the true ways of the world, they are replaced by more young, dumb voters. 

Since accurate history is slowly not being taught these days, we are bound to eventually repeat the bad parts of it.

Not all young voters are supporting the left. It's important to remember that we are in the infancy of a technological and information revolution. It's so new that those of us with grown children can still reminisce with them about the old days of VCRs, landlines and CRT televisions. It's an ever evolving battleground which is making history quickly on its own and how opposing ideologies utilize it. 

It's also important to realize that history wasn't always taught accurately. Glorification of some events and persons have been taught at the expense of glossing over some ugly chapters in U.S. and world history. What may be claimed as inaccurate may just be history taught from alternate viewpoints. Maybe it's best to learn the bad parts of it to avoid repeating them. 

Unclench, guys. Don't interpret the present zeitgeist as the future.

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