Some of us are old enough to remember a large cartoon bear telling us not to play with fire, and that only you can prevent forest fires. We also learned we could be badly hurt or killed if we crossed the street between cars or played with blasting caps at construction sites. Lessons like these, learned in our formative years, go a long way in shaping common sense and a value system for life to this day. I grew up with a strong sense of right versus wrong, applying many simple lessons to lead a caring and productive life. However, today, common sense and traditional life lessons, particularly those rooted in religion and the Bible, are often dismissed or discouraged, if not viciously attacked.
Fast forward to a state like Connecticut in 2025. Young people are often born in single-parent households and raised without a value system. There is no going out to play or physical activity unless it is a programmed activity. Children born as one gender are told by trusted adults that God made a mistake, and they really are something else. Discipline and mental focus are nonexistent. Reading levels are pitiful. Gutter racism is a school subject cloaked as DEI or Social-Emotional Learning. And these innocent children are led to a virtual scrapheap, courtesy of your Democrat political system and enabling so-called educators. This is the educational state of the union in 2025.
But this type of upbringing leads many young people to become fascinated with the warm and fuzzy side of socialism. With this in mind, we now see many young people on high school and college campuses embracing the idea that an authoritarian, communistic, state-dependent, or socialistic system of government and economy would somehow create a utopian society. Unfortunately, the belief that one all-powerful ruling authority that crushes dissent and makes lives better defies both logic and history. They are taught that living under a ruthless dictator and his politically connected henchmen controlling all aspects of life would be an improvement. They believe that silencing opposing thoughts by any means is acceptable, even violence. They are often visited on campus by lie-spewing Democrat politicians and candidates reinforcing these socialist and demonic tenets of faith, and who are known to hand over a pizza or a fast-food voucher affixed to a paper ballot when an election race gets tight. (For after all, Governor Ned Lamont is fond of saying "Connecticut, we got your back").
Predictably, this irrational and dastardly political philosophy of socialism is gaining strength among young people, particularly in liberal and socialistic enclaves such as New York City. Yet this ideology has been a catastrophic failure throughout history often enslaving populations through torture, starvation, and mass murder. Succinctly put, socialism has never worked, anywhere. Consider the death and suffering of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Consider Nazi Germany and the undeniable horrors of the Holocaust. Consider the bloody repression in Cuba under Fidel Castro. Consider the insanity of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, who killed three million Cambodians. There are countless other examples throughout the long, savage history of socialism and communism.
What is even more dangerous and despicable is that politicians such as Gov. Ned Lamont and Susan Bysiewicz, both with dubious (if any) experience and success in the world of economic reality, cheerily tell young naïve state college students of the brave new world of opportunity coming to Connecticut. They further describe vague and nebulous state-supported concepts in fields such as Quantum Computing start-ups and Venture Capital (interestingly both Lamont staple family industries). They will further say that the state will be "partnering with" these endeavors (which is nice work for the Lamont family). However, even state-supported capital endeavors are doomed to failure as affinity and political-correctness override production and innovation. If you do not believe me, read about “Fordlandia,” socialist Henry Ford’s great social experiment to make car tires and support culture at the same time in the 1930s. Fordlandia failed miserably and violently. Why would it not? Why is it different this time? The sad fact of the matter is, socialism does not work in business, either.
So, given the litany of abject failures and the corpses littered throughout history, why is socialism so attractive to some of today’s youth? Why are young people drawn to Democrat Socialist/Communist politicians? For many, their public schooling and college years have become an indoctrination, one that limits ideas and teaches that only a single ideology is acceptable. That ideology demands hatred of freedom, hatred of the truths that expose socialism and communism as failures, hatred of the Jewish faith and religion in general (as seen in the attacks on Charlie Kirk), hatred of nations that value personal and economic liberty, and hatred of individuals who question their political beliefs. On top of this is the lure of “free” food, “free” transportation, “free” housing, “free” medical care, and freedom from personal responsibility of any kind. This looks attractive at first. However, it invariably leads to a siren song of personal and financial disaster.
But it is the usual “what-me-worry” posture of the Connecticut government that rules the airwaves as it continues its descent to state-run stupidity. Connecticut is now in deep economic decline even as it continues promising “free” benefits to many. The much-touted state budget surplus created through excessive taxation is fool’s gold. Massive and unchecked unfunded mandates of 125 to 150 Billion dollars are never discussed by anyone in the political sphere and the amount of any "surplus" could not cause a ripple in that bucket. Yet the illusion of a surplus serves as an open invitation for the Connecticut Democrat Party to give it away to its politically connected allies and to buy votes from the weak- minded and ignorant that they, themselves, have manufactured. Socialism always encourages giving away other people’s money to those in the inner circle and to the plebian class, never ever directing these funds to the folks that earned them in the first place. Its your job to just turn the hamster wheel to create the energy that everyone else gets to benefit from.
So, what can be done to reverse this horrific and irrational trend to the radical Democrat Party left? Are we powerless to educate a generation that seems so lost and so pressured into embracing communism and socialism? Perhaps a good start would be for these misguided youths to read unbiased histories documenting the suffering these regimes inflicted as a condition of their middle and high school graduations. They should learn how ordinary people were brutalized while their dictators lived in luxury. Better yet, they should travel to these supposed socialist “paradises” and see firsthand the suffering and horrific conditions people endure, then visit the prisons where dissenters are held under brutal totalitarian rule. Possibly Ned and Annie Lamont can scrounge a few seats on the plane for young scholars to experience Cuba up close and personal while they depart for the second leg of the trip to the Cayman Islands to check on their holdings. As funny (or as ridiculous) as that scenario seems, it describes the operations of a socialistic society of the haves and the have-nots, almost perfectly.
It is time for America to wake up before our freedoms are stolen from us by what appears to be a lost generation steeped in wokeness and hostility toward free thought. It is safe to predict that the new Mayor of New York City will be an abysmal, hopeless, and incompetent failure in leading the city. And it is long past time to speak the real truths about communism and socialism. Let the voices of those who escaped these systems finally be heard loud and clear.
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