OPINION:
Election Day news coverage Tuesday evening featured a segment with this headline: “62% of U.S. young people have a favorable view of socialism.” Under discussion was the New York City election, which we now know has installed avowed communist Zohran Mamdani as the next mayor.
That outcome is evidence of the careful screening from students in our school systems, from kindergarten through graduate school, of facts about socialism — together with blatant criticism of capitalism and democracy — by Marxist and communist teachers and professors.
Our young people “approve” of socialism because they know essentially nothing about it — not its theory or its dismal history wherever it has been tried. They know only the worn platitudes about this historically (and currently, particularly in Cuba and Venezuela) failed system their teachers chose to pass along during their years of left-wing indoctrination.
However, “young people” did not elect Mr. Mamdani on their own. Many older (but apparently not wiser) voters must have also believed the empty anti-American rhetoric spouted by the man during his campaign.
Whether or not this election is the bellwether of a fundamental change in American politics remains to be seen, but it certainly is cause for concern for the upcoming midterms. We know Democrats will continue their shrill, baseless anti-Trump, anti-American socialist campaign. Who will be listening and voting accordingly in two years’ time?
DONALD BRETCHES
Waynesboro, Virginia
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