PragerU: Can you define socialism?

[jsbhike]

Another problem I have noticed is far too many people (both for and against) tend to believe a system more akin to fascism = free market capitalism.

[flenna]

I thought socialism means everyone gets a free Prius, free iPhone, free college education and a 6 figure salary. Have I been misled?

[Grand58742]

Talking to the wrong crowd then. Ask the wrong (or right) student in the history department about Japan, and you'll get a couple hour-long lecture. Or, in my case, a rant about how it's a shame we swept Japan's crimes under the run to the extent we did.

Actually, I've seen the narrative we forced Japan into war through our trade practices. We should have kept trading with them (despite the horrors they were inflicting in China) and "minded our own business."

You really want to see a liberal pop their top? Mention Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

[jsbhike]

Actually, I've seen the narrative we forced Japan into war through our trade practices. We should have kept trading with them (despite the horrors they were inflicting in China) and "minded our own business."

You really want to see a liberal pop their top? Mention Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

I don't think we forced them in to it, but not sure about the official story of total surprise being accurate either.

I have seen claims American business made Japan's rise possible by selling them steel and Smedley Butler mentioned in 1935 his opinion we were trying to piss them off.

[Grand58742]

I don't think we forced them in to it, but not sure about the official story of total surprise being accurate either.

I have seen claims American business made Japan's rise possible by selling them steel and Smedley Butler mentioned in 1935 his opinion we were trying to piss them off.

It's not a huge secret FDR wanted us in that war, though I think he was more provocative towards the Germans than the Japanese.

I don't want to thread drift too far, but the videos where they go on campus and ask about military history are always funny.

[kerplode]

College kids are always so confident in their moral and intellectual superiority while, all the while, knowing exactly jack shit.

At least some of them sort themselves out when they're kicked into the cold reality of the real world.

[KUSA]

At least a few of them learned something by the end of the video.

[jsbhike]

At least a few of them learned something by the end of the video.

Kind of surprising, but that guy does seem to have a good way of interacting with others.

I wish I(and a lot of others) could pull that off.

[Hank6046]

College kids are always so confident in their moral and intellectual superiority while, all the while, knowing exactly jack shit.

At least some of them sort themselves out when they're kicked into the cold reality of the real world.

So I went to college about 6 years ago after getting out, and I was really surprised at how many kids understood that progressive mindset is ultimately a failing one, even at a pretty liberal college. That being said, it was the faculty and staff that really pushed the liberal agenda down everyone's throats. I think that we have a massive gap in this country, where the "poor" aren't so poor and want to keep the handout they are getting, and then the liberal elite who think that their brilliance can save us from our selves. In the middle you have people who actual work for a living, college educated or not. These people elected Trump, or at least rejected Hillary.

[3 AE]

I am no longer surprised by how willfully ignorant college populations are.

If you asked them what Japan did during WWII I bet most couldn't tell you. If you can find anyone who actually knows Japan fought on the allied side during WWI I'd be amazed.

I'd probably pass out from shock if any of them could point to Japan on a world map!