Oh, I don't think so. It's merely a testament to the awesome and undying power of wishful thinking. All the millennials today touting the benefits of socialism are not evil, power-hungry despots in the making, out to destroy this nation. They are sincere fools who have been convinced of the ideology's merits, partly by other sincere fools, and partly by some selfish opportunists who ARE evil, power-hungry despots in the making. Very, VERY few people are nakedly evil, and most of those who are still somehow manage to convince themselves that what they are doing is actually just what's necessary (in this case for the "greater good"). Even Hitler thought his twisted, pseudoscientific vision of the world was good, and he justified the horrific crimes of his regime in light of that misperceived "greater good." Only a tiny handful of people are out and out nihilists who want to watch the world burn. Socialism (along with the rest of the leftist agenda) SOUNDS so noble to so many people, because it sounds caring, compassionate, equitable, egalitarian. And that superficial appeal makes so many people not look past the surface, to see the greater, deeper truth -- that you CAN'T build a just society on legalized theft; that human beings, who ALWAYS act primarily out of self-interest WON'T be primarily motivated by an abstract greater good, so they'll have to be coerced to go along with the agenda; or that concentrating economic power in the same hands that wield the coercive power of the state establishes a winner-take-all system that creates an irresistible lure for the strongest and most ruthless to seize that power, which is why these "worker's paradises" always end up being run by mass-murderering "presidents for life" like Stalin, Mao, Castro, Pol Pot, et al.

@@Hibernicus1968 Maybe they gravitate to socialism because market solutions failed. You tell us that human nature stands in the way of a society based on the greater good, that we have to abide by rational economic incentives and self interest. Then you proceed to turn around and ignore what happens when your system no longer works for a ballooning portion of the population. What are their incentives, I wonder? All of the sudden they're supposed to ignore self interest and languish in poverty and hopeless for the greater good as the capitalist defines it. You said it yourself, socialism is theft. The implication is that the greater good demands we avoid theft, yeah? So which is it? Are we supposed to govern according to the limitation of human nature or are we supposed to govern according to what you define as the greater good?

@@juliusebola9389 What market solutions have failed, specifically?

You could make this same criticism of both sides.

@@juliusebola9389 Nope. Sorry, we can't. We have abundant real world examples of market-based economies generating enormous wealth and economic growth, and we have abundant real world examples of socialist economies failing to do so. We have Venezuela, the latest socialist experiment, imploding into a humanitarian crisis before our eyes as I type this. (And please, don't even bother to cite the Nordic countries as an example of socialism "done right," it isn't; they are NOT socialist. They are market economies with a huge welfare state perched on top -- not the same thing at all. Moreover, the Scandinavian countries have downsized their welfare states since the 1990s, because it turns out that's a massive drain on their economies, and they've had to scale it back -- Margaret Thatcher was right: sooner or later, you run out of other people's money.) Bottom line: when asked for specific examples to back up your assertion that socialism appeals to people because of market solutions failing, you either can't or won't provide them. Meanwhile, as I said, you only have to look at the wreckage of one socialist economy after another throughout history, and again, just look southward to Venezuela to see the latest abject failure playing out in real time.

I'm Herbert Biberman's grand nephew and Harry Sacher's adoptive grandson. A true red diaper baby like David Horowitz.

@@soapbxprod Ok, but will your children also be red diaper babies? Or have you broken the cycle of coercive collectivism?

The system is diseased. It must be changed. Hard Right Economics Hard Right Economics (Dexterism) is a third economic theory that corrects the issues with both capitalism and communism and produces economic development anywhere simple by using the resources available anywhere, the local human resources. dextarian.com/blog/f/hard-right-economics

YA KNOW HOW TO TELL A POLITICIAN IS LYIN' -- THEIR LIPS ARE MOVING(INCLUDING TRUMP).

Great time for movies however. Star Wars for example.

Don't forget, Panama Canal, inflation, Munich, Soviets invade Afghanistan, Iranian revolution and US embassy hostage crisis. What an awful decade for The United States.

@@Doc_Tar Woke up to the Desert One debacle, and said..."JESUS CHRIST...Can't We Do ANYTHING right Anymore!!!" the 1970's were not our finest hour.

You misunderstand disco. It wasn't aimed at the ear but at the feet. Music is serving a different function when you're dancing than when you're listening to, say, the B Minor Mass.

@@sanniepstein4835 200 years from now people will still be playing Bach's B Minor Mass, and disco will be (at best) a minor footnote in musical history.

Empathy is a progressive buzzword, but empathy is an intellectual construct, a form without substance. A pale version of what Paul meant by charity.

Government knows you’re a captive audience.

If contributions to the government were voluntary, they would be a lot nicer to you and the government would be much smaller.

Instead of complaining you could do us all a favor and include the charts. Otherwise be grateful someone took the time to put the video on KZfaq.

Read the book.

Yes, that made me a little sad. Just like her good friend George Will. This world without God is unbearable.

If man.does not work neither shall he eat.

@@stevenlight5006 , I never heard that. I like it!!

Ron Dail Yes, logical reason to poverty is someone else looking at you and deciding that you need their help. Better question, which she basically hints at in this video, why is government handling out money towards healthy people? The answer is because certain people are over achievers in “helping” others at the cost of the other person’s self-respect. Giving money is easy, dealing with a person is hard.

The popular music industry should NEVER, EVER be forgiven for disco.

@@williamf.buckleyjr3227 Once or twice a year I type into You Tube top ten songs. Pop music...Its gotten worse!

@@stevenwiederholt7000 disco was a mental disorder

@@markshabert5865 If memory serve Dr. Johnny Fever called it The Abomination known as disco.

@@stevenwiederholt7000 I think your right ,wkrp in cinci