Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look, and an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

After winning the New York mayor race on November the 4th, Zoran Mamdani declared,

We will prove there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.

Well, that comment was, of course,

exactly the opposite of something that President Reagan once said, that the nine most terrifying words

in the English language are, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help. It did, however,

sound an awful lot like something another politician said. All within the state, nothing outside the

state, nothing against the state. That was

Manito Mussolini. While it might have once been problematic for an American politician to essentially

subquote a fascist dictator, many younger Americans seem ready to consider the failed ideas of the past.

For example, a recent U.gov and economist poll found that nearly half of Americans,

age 18 to 29, have a favorable view of socialism. That's the demographic, of course,

that overwhelmingly turned out for Bam Dani. A key factor is that the younger generation simply

does not know better. This is a crisis of memory and a failure of their

education. They've heard about the evils of capitalism, not about the many that were killed

attempting to escape socialist regimes, or why those escapes always and only went in one direction.

They've been taught to fear the impending catastrophes of climate change, but they've never heard about the mass

starvations that actually happened when states attempted to control industry and agriculture.

They've learned socialism is about sharing, not that that sharing is often forced at gunpoint.

What they've learned is that whenever socialism failed, it was because it was done wrong,

and that true socialism has never really been tried it was done wrong. And that true socialism

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