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The Matt Walsh Show

Ep. 81 - Why My Generation Loves Socialism

The Matt Walsh Show

The Matt Walsh Show

News, News Commentary

4.727.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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It's not hard to figure out why young people today are attracted to socialism. The equation is pretty simple. Bad parenting + bad education = socialists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Well, I'm sure you've heard quite a bit about Alexandria,

0:02.6

Occasio Cortez recently, probably more than, probably more than you, probably way too much.

0:08.0

You've heard way too much about her and she, she is right now riding a wave of,

0:12.5

well, she's riding two waves. The first wave is a wave of attention from conservatives

0:17.5

like myself, like the attention that I'm giving her right now as we speak.

0:22.1

And that's the way you'll notice that it goes like this a lot, like the two sides,

0:26.3

conservatives liberals, they kind of pick out stars for each other because the star on one side

0:32.9

is going to be the person that the other side has decided to pay a lot of attention to. So

0:37.1

conservatives did that with David Hogg, now they're doing that with Alexandria, Occasio Cortez.

0:40.8

It's, it's, you know, I think 95% easily of the coverage that I've heard about this woman

0:48.3

has come from conservatives. The same thing with David Hogg and, you know, and you can make

0:54.1

the argument that Donald Trump is a, is probably the prime example of that on the right side of the

1:00.8

spectrum. But anyway, so she's got that wave and then she's also got the wave of socialist

1:07.6

enthusiasm among the younger generations. And that's why she's caught on because she's a

1:12.7

democratic socialist. The fact that young people are so attracted to socialism is, I think, a topic

1:21.1

worth inspecting, especially because many people have inspected it and talked about it, analyzed

1:26.0

it. And I just, I think that the, the analysis and the conclusions that are drawn are often

1:31.2

very, very wrong. Now, different surveys give you different figures, but they all seem to agree

1:37.5

that around half of all millennials at this point find socialism appealing on some level, which

1:44.1

is, which is really concerning. That's, I mean, that's a lot. Half is a lot, okay. And according

1:50.1

to a recent survey that I read, one in 10 millennials believe that Joseph Stalin, who killed 20 million

1:56.8

people as a conservative estimate, was a hero. One in 10. Again, that is, that's, that's an enormous

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