At 18, Olivia Katbi was answering the phones and emails in a Republican state senator’s office in Ohio. Then the legislator threw his weight behind a particularly contentious anti-abortion law. “I realised that the party I’m working for is evil. After that I identified as a Democrat but I wasn’t really happy with their policies either,” said Katbi, now 25.
Back then, she couldn’t articulate her reservations about President Barack Obama. There were the drone strikes, and the limitations of his healthcare reforms. But mostly it was a frustrating sense he wasn’t serving her interests so much as those of a monied elite. So in the 2012 presidential election, Katbi voted for Jill Stein, the Green party candidate. But that didn’t change the world.
It was only last year, when Bernie Sanders made his run under the banner of democratic socialism, that it all started to fall into place.
The Guardian: 'The S-word': how young Americans fell in love with socialism
Zen Yogi: lotta words to say a simple thing and love wasn't one of them
That S-word is a beauty too, isn't it.
According to recent polling, a majority of Americans adults under the age of 30 now reject capitalism, although that does not translate into automatic support for socialism. For Katbi, though, the path is clear. Six months after the election, she is leaving Sanders behind. “I really don’t like saying that Bernie was my gateway to socialism, just because I feel like I’m more left than him now, and I also think there’s a very bizarre cult of personality around Bernie,” she said.
- Guardian
The article was documenting the factual basis fairly well and now a cult of personality.
Zen Yogi: what's the cult of personality?
It was a song from years ago which was highly cool unlike the instance in this case which is just another dumb cliche plus she adds very as an amplifier to make it even more banal. Bernie Sanders is a highly-likeable fellow but any charismatic individual will be; some have it and some don't. More importantly, Bernie Sanders is trustworthy and even people who don't agree with him know he doesn't lie about the things he he saying.
When she dismissed him in a single line, this starts sounding like just another manufactured Clintonesque attempt to undermine him.
Labour’s manifesto caught the attention of young leftwing activists in the US because, in contrast to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign platform, it laid out a clear set of ideas they could identify with. Some in the DSA are also finding common cause with Momentum, the leftwing British grassroots organisation formed in 2015 to back Corbyn which in turn has drawn inspiration from Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain.
“The people I’m friends with who don’t identify as socialist are definitely supportive of certain socialist policies, like single-payer healthcare,” said Katbi. “Everyone has student loan debt and everyone’s rents are exorbitant and everyone’s paying like $300-a-month premiums for Obamacare. It’s common sense for people my age.”
- Guardian
The young lady seems to advocate any Socialist except the one here. It's impressive that she does the reading but it apparently leads her in circles.
A young lad offers his thoughts as part of the stream as well.
“With the Bernie phenomenon, suddenly you’re able to utter the S-word in public,” said Nick Caleb, 35, a long time leftwing activist who joined the DSA shortly after the election, as membership of its Portland branch surged.
- Guardian
Bernie Sanders supporters hold a sign in Los Angeles during the 2016 election campaign. Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images
Zen Yogi: wtf is up with this S-word?
Unknown, Yogi, and maybe this lad is the one who coined it. Hearing of him as a long-time activist holds some comedy since I've got him by more than thirty years on that one.
Zen Yogi: maybe you just weren't much of an activist?
It's a a fair shot and I must not have been. That's one of my deepest regrets since perhaps if I and many others had been better at it America wouldn't be run by the corrupt, quomodocunquizing horrors who debase it now.
Zen Yogi: what is quomodocunquizing?
It means willing to do anything for money. I'm aware people can be intimidated by my language so there's the explanation.
Zen Yogi: what language is that, Brer Silas?
English, Brer Bear.
Zen Yogi: I guess you want a rim shot from the band for that?
Sure, that would be ok.
After that came the red scare, McCarthyism and the rise of global corporations. Still, President Lyndon B Johnson built on the New Deal’s legacy in the 1960s with his “war on poverty” and “great society” programs expanding welfare, greatly reducing the number of people living in poverty, and establishing Medicaid and Medicare – America’s system of public health insurance for the very poor and the elderly.
Then came Reagan revolution and the Democrats’ embrace of neoliberalism.
- Guardian
That brought Bill Clinton and Democrats haven't been worth a damn ever since they became nothing more than Wal-Mart Republicans. They didn't become like the shoppers but rather the Waltons, the owners of Wal-Mart, and Hillary Clinton was on their board for some time.
The source article goes on endlessly and I don't want this one to do the same thing but the link is there should the interested student wish to pursue it.
The remarkable thing isn't so much that the young are espousing Socialism when the young often do but rather why Old Boomer Democrats do not. Older Democrats who even identify as liberal have become brain-frozen as if they ate ice cream too fast and refuse to consider anything beyond their false frame of reference (i.e. Democrats are good and Republicans are bad).
Zen Yogi: both are bad?
You're ever the insightful bear, Yogi.
I've been spanking both parties for their corruption and incompetence for decades and that sure brought a swarm of people who want to love me long time.
Zen Yogi: are you whining, Silas?
Nah since I don't have to do anything to fix it now due to my circumstance. Y'all, well, y'all have got some fixing to do, mate.
Zen Yogi: do you have the glorious answer to shoot into the sky with fireworks?
I've had it for quite some time but, from the current reference, I'll offer the first step is to find MSM ...
Zen Yogi: and turn it off?
Your insight is astounding, Yogi.
Zen Yogi: I just have to be ten percent smarter than the average bear
Do you think I will make the cut to hang out with that exclusive cadre, Yogi?
Zen Yogi: you're not a bear, Silas.
Back then, she couldn’t articulate her reservations about President Barack Obama. There were the drone strikes, and the limitations of his healthcare reforms. But mostly it was a frustrating sense he wasn’t serving her interests so much as those of a monied elite. So in the 2012 presidential election, Katbi voted for Jill Stein, the Green party candidate. But that didn’t change the world.
It was only last year, when Bernie Sanders made his run under the banner of democratic socialism, that it all started to fall into place.
The Guardian: 'The S-word': how young Americans fell in love with socialism
Zen Yogi: lotta words to say a simple thing and love wasn't one of them
That S-word is a beauty too, isn't it.
According to recent polling, a majority of Americans adults under the age of 30 now reject capitalism, although that does not translate into automatic support for socialism. For Katbi, though, the path is clear. Six months after the election, she is leaving Sanders behind. “I really don’t like saying that Bernie was my gateway to socialism, just because I feel like I’m more left than him now, and I also think there’s a very bizarre cult of personality around Bernie,” she said.
- Guardian
The article was documenting the factual basis fairly well and now a cult of personality.
Zen Yogi: what's the cult of personality?
It was a song from years ago which was highly cool unlike the instance in this case which is just another dumb cliche plus she adds very as an amplifier to make it even more banal. Bernie Sanders is a highly-likeable fellow but any charismatic individual will be; some have it and some don't. More importantly, Bernie Sanders is trustworthy and even people who don't agree with him know he doesn't lie about the things he he saying.
When she dismissed him in a single line, this starts sounding like just another manufactured Clintonesque attempt to undermine him.
Labour’s manifesto caught the attention of young leftwing activists in the US because, in contrast to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign platform, it laid out a clear set of ideas they could identify with. Some in the DSA are also finding common cause with Momentum, the leftwing British grassroots organisation formed in 2015 to back Corbyn which in turn has drawn inspiration from Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain.
“The people I’m friends with who don’t identify as socialist are definitely supportive of certain socialist policies, like single-payer healthcare,” said Katbi. “Everyone has student loan debt and everyone’s rents are exorbitant and everyone’s paying like $300-a-month premiums for Obamacare. It’s common sense for people my age.”
- Guardian
The young lady seems to advocate any Socialist except the one here. It's impressive that she does the reading but it apparently leads her in circles.
A young lad offers his thoughts as part of the stream as well.
“With the Bernie phenomenon, suddenly you’re able to utter the S-word in public,” said Nick Caleb, 35, a long time leftwing activist who joined the DSA shortly after the election, as membership of its Portland branch surged.
- Guardian
Bernie Sanders supporters hold a sign in Los Angeles during the 2016 election campaign. Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images
Zen Yogi: wtf is up with this S-word?
Unknown, Yogi, and maybe this lad is the one who coined it. Hearing of him as a long-time activist holds some comedy since I've got him by more than thirty years on that one.
Zen Yogi: maybe you just weren't much of an activist?
It's a a fair shot and I must not have been. That's one of my deepest regrets since perhaps if I and many others had been better at it America wouldn't be run by the corrupt, quomodocunquizing horrors who debase it now.
Zen Yogi: what is quomodocunquizing?
It means willing to do anything for money. I'm aware people can be intimidated by my language so there's the explanation.
Zen Yogi: what language is that, Brer Silas?
English, Brer Bear.
Zen Yogi: I guess you want a rim shot from the band for that?
Sure, that would be ok.
After that came the red scare, McCarthyism and the rise of global corporations. Still, President Lyndon B Johnson built on the New Deal’s legacy in the 1960s with his “war on poverty” and “great society” programs expanding welfare, greatly reducing the number of people living in poverty, and establishing Medicaid and Medicare – America’s system of public health insurance for the very poor and the elderly.
Then came Reagan revolution and the Democrats’ embrace of neoliberalism.
- Guardian
That brought Bill Clinton and Democrats haven't been worth a damn ever since they became nothing more than Wal-Mart Republicans. They didn't become like the shoppers but rather the Waltons, the owners of Wal-Mart, and Hillary Clinton was on their board for some time.
The source article goes on endlessly and I don't want this one to do the same thing but the link is there should the interested student wish to pursue it.
The remarkable thing isn't so much that the young are espousing Socialism when the young often do but rather why Old Boomer Democrats do not. Older Democrats who even identify as liberal have become brain-frozen as if they ate ice cream too fast and refuse to consider anything beyond their false frame of reference (i.e. Democrats are good and Republicans are bad).
Zen Yogi: both are bad?
You're ever the insightful bear, Yogi.
I've been spanking both parties for their corruption and incompetence for decades and that sure brought a swarm of people who want to love me long time.
Zen Yogi: are you whining, Silas?
Nah since I don't have to do anything to fix it now due to my circumstance. Y'all, well, y'all have got some fixing to do, mate.
Zen Yogi: do you have the glorious answer to shoot into the sky with fireworks?
I've had it for quite some time but, from the current reference, I'll offer the first step is to find MSM ...
Zen Yogi: and turn it off?
Your insight is astounding, Yogi.
Zen Yogi: I just have to be ten percent smarter than the average bear
Do you think I will make the cut to hang out with that exclusive cadre, Yogi?
Zen Yogi: you're not a bear, Silas.
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