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Bloomberg Said Young People Support Bernie Because They're Dumb

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has a surprising theory about why young people love Sen. Bernie Sanders: They’re morons.

In a wide-ranging interview one month after President Donald Trump won the 2016 election, Bloomberg said Sanders would have won that race if he had gotten the Democratic nomination in large part because young people have no idea what they’re doing.

Anyone who has grandparents from Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba, or any of the Eastern European socialists places should know full well how awful socialism is. It's the reason they are here. Both of my grandparents were fairly wealthy in China and had everything seized from them almost immediately by soldiers. This was done by pure force. Sanders and the rest seems to think if we do it by vote, that makes it better.

That being said, my younger sister, who should be well versed on all the horrors of socialism from her family history, has moved out to Oregon and become full on socialist. She also prefers to work part time as an able bodied 30 year old. She has a degree in Biological Science and is currently a school classroom aid in the high school. She easily has the ability to be the teacher and get paid 3 times as much. But she doesn't want the responsibility. This is your typical Bernie supporter.

This is your typical Bernie supporter.

Yes. Bernie appeals to those with an adolescent attitude. A true adult know that he/she must support not only themselves, but others (children) as well. An adolescent expects others to support him/her while the adolescent pursues interests such as education or finding oneself. The adolescent, although shirking adult responsibilities, expects adult benefits, especially sex. Think of the 19 year old who still lives in his parents house, expects full room and board to be covered, but expects his parents to allow him to bring overnight female guests to his room. Bernie is the ultimate adolescent hero, lived at home until his late 30s and then pushes an agenda of free stuff. Not provide an environment where you can earn it yourself, but have the government provide it just like a parent.

CovfefeButDeadly says

So disappointed Ruben didn’t respond

Got one of those too, but I wasn’t very polite in my response.

theoakman says

Sanders and the rest seems to think if we do it by vote, that makes it better.

That's "Democratic Socialism"

theoakman says

Anyone who has grandparents from Russia, China, Vietnam, Cuba, or any of the Eastern European socialists places should know full well how awful socialism is. It's the reason they are here. Both of my grandparents were fairly wealthy in China and had everything seized from them almost immediately by soldiers.

Fun fact:
Even though the zzyzzx family farm was in Belarus (pretty much right at the western edge of it) between October 1939 and June 22, 1941, they still managed to keep it. Stalin never got around to taking it before Operation Barbarossa started. After the war that part of Poland was given back (one of the two small slices of Poland that the Soviets actually gave back). In Poland they only took your land if you had more then 100 acres, and even then you still got to keep 100 acres of it, so it's still there, right along the Narew river. They never had more than 100 acres either, but yes after the communism people did complain and try to get stuff back.