Fireside Chat Ep. 118 - Why Millennials Support Communism | Fireside Chat

More than a third of millennials now approve of communism. Dennis Prager discusses why this disturbing fact is a result of the poor education system. Students today are not taught to understand the evils of communism and why it is a dangerous ideology.
5-Minute Video: Why Isn’t Communism as Hated as Nazism? www.prageru.com/video/why-isn...
0:00 Hello And Thanks For The Otto Love
0:50 Millennials Approving Of Communism
2:00 Dennis Studied Communist Affairs
3:20 Our Poor Education System
4:49 Most Important Subjects To Learn
6:09 Live Free Or Die
7:26 Tremendous Communist Suffering
10:06 Preferred Pronouns Are Not An Issue
11:55 Enforced Ignorance
12:30 Too Much Money Given To Israel?
15:53 Romanticizing The LGBT Lifestyle
20:38 Key Attributes For Success
24:06 We Have Defined Success Incorrectly
25:08 Who Cares What College You Went To
27:40 What Does Success Mean?
30:30 All Firesides Are Valuable And Relevant

[@Jack__________]

I’m 37. I can’t believe it either. Looks like history is doomed to repeat itself out of ignorance and hubris...

[@alocal1334]

There is a saying. " all it takes for evil to succeed is for a good man to turn a blind eye"

[@DrakeLimOfficial]

I'm already seeing the early signs leading to the persecutions that we see in history. Sad, indeed.

[@sirbollocks5147]

fynes leigh what kind of drugs are you on its like you want to be witness to mass human suffering.

[@FS02012]

Like I said us early Millennials who grew up in the 80s and 90s because they changed the generation people who are between the ages of 33 to 41 were considered Gen Y now we're considered millennials and xennials we are the ones with reason it's the younger Millennials or gen Z that is pro socialism

[@dudicorn6503]

If by the history of communism you're referring to Marx and Engels writing the communist manifesto, then I don't recall anything else. Because the USSR was not communist, China is and was not communist, North Korea is not communist, no nations are communist. All of this is propaganda my friend, and everyone in this comment section believes the same misconception.

[@frikkiethirion8053]

"Give me a child till he's 7 and he'll be a comminist for life" - Stalin -- I guess Stalin realised the importance of 'education', i.e. indoctrination through state education.

[@calebblood872]

Fortunately he was wrong. I am also from formal comunist country and I can tell that in the 70s , 80s only a small group of fools bevieved in comunism, despite beeing brainwashed from early childhood. Comunist regime is about to force people to pretend to believe in this idiotic ideology.

[@justinallen2408]

@@calebblood872 yeah but here in the states there are a lot of people my age and a little older n younger who are staunch supporters of democratic socialism and communism, it sucks because they will not listen to another's beliefs without arguement or venom, they bring up past grievances on other cultures as if they were really bad things that humans don't normally like to do such as conquest and acquisition of resources for the betterment of said persons society. They dont realise the west has benefited the world on a global scale and will continue to do so through various means if it doesn't fall to the east or middle

[@standinstann]

@@justinallen2408 Wait, Democratic socialism is a western concept and Marx is in the western great books cannon.

[@bieberbazzejunge]

@@calebblood872 ...but the influence of the former fools before the time you're refferring to is affecting all following generations till this day for i don't know how many generations to come

[@mysteriousmuffin6017]

You can’t even get a quote right. Lenin said something similar.

[@JohnDoe-du6yi]

I can’t speak freely. I’m afraid to even quote a fact, in fear that I might get fired or crucified. I work at a high school and I am the only conservative, afraid of getting fired for my religious or political believes.

[@djthegrim]

I don't blame you. My old high school football coach got fired for his religious beliefs because he was catholic and criticized a catholic school they were playing because of how they recruited and ran their school

[@judithboulden3456]

Same here. Hang in there.

[@sam7559]

Maybe it's because your "facts" don't actually align with reality

[@JohnDoe-du6yi]

@@sam7559 or maybe it’s not my facts that are the problem. Maybe it’s just how sensitive millennials have made us with the new generation of pussyfication and the feeling police. I could say more, but your feelings will get hurt and trigger you. We all know how triggered people on the internet have the feeling police censor them. Violating their 1st amendment right to free speech.

[@jamesfrancese6091]

If you’re too scared to be a high school teacher why not get a job that’s less stressful for you?

[@williampalkow6647]

I'm a millennial and I don't support communism in any form.

[@Centrifugal-]

Unfortunately, you, yourself is a minority.

[@TheBarser]

@@Centrifugal- that is not true at all. I even live in one of these so called socialist countries (Denmark) and I know no one that wants communism.

[@Centrifugal-]

@@TheBarser ok just because you don't know anyone, does that mean it doesn't exist???

[@Centrifugal-]

@@TheBarser Denmark isn't absolute socialist is it???

[@TheBarser]

@@Centrifugal- I didn't say it doesn't exist. I just never meet anyone that wants communism. I meet people who wants a few more social reforms, but not full on communism. Like I take it you guys are from USA? Wanting free healthcare is not communism, which is what I take most young people are into.

[@benjaminmann6963]

“The goal of socialism is communism.” Lenin

[@brosephh7130]

Banjamin Mann The implementation of a socialist system, collectivization, and a centrally planned economy is supposed to eventually lead to a true classless stateless communist society. Unfortunately that pesky thing called human nature and it’s unyielding bloodlust for power leads to the same powerful hierarchy that they loathe about western civilization. Only it’s centralized to one party and most times, one person. Because there will always be dissent, violence and revolution go hand in hand.

[@Seaby41]

@@brosephh7130 the withered state starting tomorrow...

[@darkwolf4434]

Well, Hitler was a kind of socialist and he definetly didn't support Communism.

[@benjaminmann6963]

Temer1ty .....are you so stupid to actually think I don’t know what I said “means”?......It’s ok. Be a moron.

[@Aurumk1]

Which has never been tried.

[@mathewfowler7771]

I am a millennial and I remember in high school seeing a lot of pictures and films of nazis killing Jews and the camps. I don’t remember leaning anything about communism other than a brief explanation of the Cold War.

[@sebastiaosalgado1979]

Communism killed much more people than Nazism.

[@hebber1961]

Marxist teachers.

[@Babylon3232]

The jews in tented communism, karl marx, leon trotsky, stalin and 90% of the first communist government were all jewish.

[@johnpeters1441]

may be you should go on line and look up old movies we watched in school in the 70s. about the USSR. get a perspective on it.... on the side..we had air raid drills up to about 1972 in our school .3rd grade for me.....

[@x00p3]

@@Babylon3232 Stalin wasn't a Jew.

[@richardwilson2170]

He is exactly right. We needcto revamp elementary, secondary and collegiate education.

[@teresasanchez8853]

SUPER YES!!!!! But I hope we are not to late.

[@banditnip0345]

Hell! Why even have education? Let's just all get high on drugs. That's enough to keep this planet running on all cylinders.

[@adamjohnson7093]

State schools would never tell you anything that is anti-state. I swear to god conservatives are the easiest people to laugh at

[@JP-ud7xq]

We need to overhaul the education system. Our children have been brainwashed! Thanks to Hollywood and the mainstream media as well. The virus has exposed what the teachers have been doing! Hope we get change asap!

[@davesteller6301]

Nope. They got too much on their hands as it is, trying to teach the little kids how to choose their gender.

[@Klee99zeno]

It needs to be mandatory that every high school have a course on Twentieth century history, SAT tests should include questions about countries with gulags, totalitarianism, and secret police.

[@BenjWarrant]

"....gulags, totalitarianism, and secret police..." So - Guantanamo Bay, building a wall around the country, and Homeland Security? Or do you think those things only happen away from the US?

[@tylerbozinovski427]

@@BenjWarrant Guantanamo Bay doesn't even remotely compare to the Soviet gulags. Unless you want schools to stop talking about the Holocaust aswell?

[@johnnybuxtons5489]

and not to mention south american dictators, overpopulation, religious terrorism and so on.

[@svencejohanson9051]

Sorry - no tests anymore. Hurts a furry's feelings. Safe Space.

[@williamgreenfield9991]

Should they also be taught about the genocide of the Native Americans, who were put in concentration camps, euphemistically called "reservations"? (Hitler was a fan of our reservations). Should they be taught that most of the hard labor that built the US into a world power was done by black slaves? As far as gulags, should students be taught that "the land of the free" now has the highest per capita incarceration rate of any nation in the world?

[@MgBrCH2CH3]

I’m a millenial and it’s really hard to even speak with other millenials just because they think they are right but with no argument whatsoever

[@ozu2647]

BigCat6906 gen y is millenial

[@ktcarl]

Ask your millennial friends if they are aware of how many people have been killed and/or murdered by communists and socialists. They must be on guard to not become what Lenin termed as "useful idiots".

[@jareddunlop8411]

@@ozu2647 gen y is millennial. Before millennial existed marketers were calling them gen y. Xennial is tail end of Gen X and beginning of Gen Y. I wish it were more clear like cutting up millennials and Gen X and having a separate group from 75-85 called xennial or some shit, but it's not that clear. Gen X, Gen Y, Gen Z were already conceived concepts before millennial or xennial even came around though. As for thinking they are right, isn't that pretty much most people everywhere and always?

[@jareddunlop8411]

@@ktcarl is it a contest. Do you have a number of how many deaths occurred under capitalist regimes? I'd bet it has more to do with people trying to retain their authority, standing and material assets then the objective economical models themselves.

[@jareddunlop8411]

@Bob Gnisir Yeah, that never happened in the US to people who acted against slavery in the 1800s. No one was ever executed by the capitalist state. You wanna see propaganda, it is called commercial marketing now.

[@donja9666]

The fact they haven't had to experience any violence during their lifetime probably has a lot to do with these ideologies creeping back into the mainstream .

[@ElessarEstel]

I have experienced violence. Extreme violence. So have 90% of my friends. Don't let the media convince you that the hipster liberal millenial stereotype is actually what most of us are like.

[@PawOfRizzo]

WHAT!? They have experienced violence in thousands of hours of video games fighting zombies, monsters, and aliens!!! How dare you!!

[@aperta7525]

Everyone has experienced violence. The measure of the scale can be different.

[@donja9666]

@@aperta7525 If u think words can result in violence, I will have to disagree .

[@aperta7525]

@@donja9666 There is such a thing as verbal, psychological, emotional, physical, financial, social, and spiritual abuse. There is PTSD and C-PTSD. But that was actually not what I was referring to. I was referring to how everyone has experienced violence because of Sin and what it has done to the human nature. As to the notion that words cause violence? No, but they can certainly provoke it. Contempt destroys relationships. The 5 senses but especially the eyes and ears are gateways for either sanctification/light or evil/darkness - Man (inclusively) owes due diligence to God and neighbor to vigilantly maintain custody of the mind and heart, tongue, and irascible passions and concupiscent appetites. Every word communicated, be it spoken or written, gifts the world and those inhabiting it with a light of purification toward sanctification, or a false light for its desecration toward condemnation - a blessing, or a curse. The abundance of what fills the heart is what the mouth speaks. And only those who live most frivolously and selfishly would say that words don't matter and have no power to effect change. (Disclaimer: No, I am not referring to "magical incantations" and other delusional be-all pursuits of vicious people - power, wealth, fame, honors, pleasure.)

[@lewisbeeman]

This video could be very short answer the question like this, “Poor parenting”.

[@pvbaelen]

They've been brainwashed through ideological subversion. KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov explained this 40 years ago. Watch it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJawi3p9hpV4iM0&

[@shawnaweesner3759]

My thoughts, exactly!

[@zachredner8]

EXACTLY!

[@lewisbeeman]

fynes leigh your statement makes you sound like a dumb person trying really hard to sound smart.

[@simonlee9759]

Poor parenting is not a good answer. See this: To save you 30 mins, just watch this video first 15 mins (KGB defector talk about communism): In 1984, the official answer was already given in USA by this gentleman who came from KGB: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2q3p5x_qr2Diac

[@nathanzhang9872]

Well, the sad thing is that I am in China hoping to leave for the United States while you guys especially the young people have no idea what a great nation they are living in and trying to make it like China

[@sitarainbow8837]

Love & encouragement to you, Nate Zhang. You are so right. It's just amazing, how people can be programmed to NOT see. That starts when we're convinced we already know something. Emptiness is the way, bringing clarity. The bottom line is that we must get out of our own way. LOL. Most don't yet see this. _"To know that you do not know is the best._ _"To think you know when you do not is a disease._ _"Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it."_ ~ Lao Tzu ~♥~

[@Scrutarii]

Hope you get there! I'm also gonna try and make the move to the US. if president Trump wins again

[@paolabisoneaux4056]

I just came from China and I would tell you that America isn't what you see in the movies... Be smart and stay where you are.

[@kyleb308]

Hey Nate, best of luck to you! I hope you come here and love it!

[@matttheradartechnician4308]

Wait isn't youtube banned in china

[@cjr4286]

Let me summarize my grade school experience (2003-2016): -English: we read a disproportionate amount of literature about slavery and segregation. -Science: we learned that humans were singularly responsible for destroying the planet. -History: learning about American history was synonymous with learning about societal racism. -Math: we learned why "strong independent women" needed to go into STEM. -Humanities: we spent the least amount of time possible studying Western Civilization. -Economics: we spent a disproportionate amount of time studying Keynesian (government interventionist) policy. -Civics: we learned that politics was about "who gets what" and how minority voters were being "suppressed" with voter ID policy. Need I go on? The real indoctrination does not take place in universities; college is just the cherry on top. Young people are leftists because they are indoctrinated to be leftists beginning in Kindergarten.

[@exodusfivesixfivesix8050]

Cj R that is what happens when democrat teachers pay for unions that give huge donations to the democrat party. By paying for public school you are indirectly funding the democrat party.

[@PamelaBoyer]

I’m thankful that my son has always been in private catholic schools. My son is a Christian conservative with morals and intelligence. ✝️🇺🇸

[@uncledolan9271]

You are absolutely right on the Science part. Like Goddamn right the teach can't go one day without saying We are destroying the eco system.

[@Rickbearcat]

@@exodusfivesixfivesix8050 ...The problem seems to lie in who hires these teachers. And when you find out who that is, then the problem is whoever they are. Who then hired them? Because they are now the problem. Work your way up the chain to the point. Start getting rid of those points and the trickle-down effect will then solve itself and we can get back to teaching our kids what is really important.

[@AustinTheTerrible]

@@PamelaBoyer Then he has to fight the outside of school. Cultural decay directing morality.

[@mattj500]

I'm a freshmen in college and yeah I learned in high school "how bad america and white people are" and i didnt even learn anything about communism or the USSR. it's crazy:/

[@anotherpov5413]

First you need to differentiate between communism and socialism; you could define the UDSSR as a try of socialism (which I would argue against) but it wasn't even near to the idea of communism. Its funny how scared people are of an ideology, they never touched a single primary source of. I'm surely not a fan of socialism and communism, same as capitalism, is just an ideological utopia which can never exist but you should at least read what the founders of those ideology wrote in their own words before you condemn their ideas. Which in fact, both sides do: as little as Marx ideas had to do with any form of so called "socialism" (UDSSR, DDR, Venezuela etc.), as little has anything today to do with "neoliberalism". Pretty much every economic theory is based on an idealised picture of human beings, which isn't compatible with reality and so their ideas are foredoomed from the beginning. Instead of learning stupid mathematical formulas in basic economics at college, the should "force" students to read at least 20 basic economic books of different directions and even this would just touch the surface; because even Marx (at least in case of socialism; you could make an argument against communism) and Hayek (same as Smith, Mises, Friedman etc.) argued on the same assumption of shortage, which isn't true in parts of the economy anymore but neither of them thought about it, not to mention came up with a solution. I only know a handful of economics who are thinking about this and these are not the guys you see in media that often.

[@NwoDispatcher]

@@anotherpov5413 TLDR

[@apersonontheinternet8006]

@@anotherpov5413 here is the difference between communism and socialism Communism doesn't exist, it's a theory that as never actually been put into practice but sold as if it is a reality. Socialism is the vehicle to communism but the socialists never relinquish their power. This is all you need to know, everything else is just BS.

[@ShnoogleMan]

I mean that's probably because you live in the US and the USSR no longer exists, so you're gonna spend far more time scrutinizing your own country's flaws than those of a foreign country that no longer exists. Also, what class was this? Because depending on the class and context taking about America's flaws is totally legitimate.

[@blueyellow3621]

anotherPOV what is UDSSR??? Where did you get that abbreviation?

[@Tasluk]

They no longer teach History or geography in school. I have to educate my own kids in this area. They had trouble pointing to Italy on the map.

[@BenjWarrant]

Jesus, I remember watching Americans struggling to find Vietnam on a map in the 70s. Nothing new there. I very much doubt that history and geography are not taught in all American schools.

[@treasure_adventures]

That's true. Not only in the USA. I'm from South Africa, they discontinued history and geography in high school. My class was the last to learn History and geography. Thinking about it now, History students were considered rebellious because we understood our rights and what happens when rights are denied to individuals. Marxist ideology is spreading wearing the mask of compassion

[@senorpepper3405]

i heard that they teach cursive anymore🤣

[@romanes_eunt_domus]

@@treasure_adventures well said. Keep yourself prepared, always.

[@matt_tron1014]

Seriously............. 😬

[@fabledreamor]

My grandparents and my parents fled from Khmer Rouge. My eldest uncle was killed by Khmer Rouge. These millennials have no idea how evil it was.

[@BenjWarrant]

If your family came from 100 miles further East they could well have been killed because of American military insurgency into Vietnam. If it hadn't been for American insurgency into Vietnam and interference in 'French Indo-China' generally, the Khmer Rouge might very well have never gained traction. (I'm sorry to read of what actually happened to your family, though.)

[@banditnip0345]

They will when China drops an abomb on us.

[@godblessamerica9356]

Our schools need a speaking network of survivors to expose children to Communism the way Holocaust survivors used to come to our schools and teach us about the Holocaust. See if your relatives can start one!

[@BenjWarrant]

@@godblessamerica9356 There has never been a communist state on this planet. There have been a handful that _claimed_ to be communist, but they weren't.

[@godblessamerica9356]

@@BenjWarrant Keep California dreamin', with Great Uncle Karl. Hope you don't wake up in Walter Ciszek's nightmare.

[@RondelayAOK]

I've taught an occasional community college class. I'm always deeply stunned by the ignorance of HS grads: they have NO idea of ANYTHING about the Soviet Union. No idea whatever. This scares me.

[@williamarnn5240]

Okay so they don't know about Russia. But I don't know about the USA either. I don't know whose vice president is. They don't know who their congressman is, the speaker of the House, are the majority leader of the Senate.I might have some idea now if they're paying attention to the impeachment that's going on. But ask them about a rapper, or singer?

[@dufus2273]

i'm 75 and this government scares me way more than Russian government. We are truly living in a nite mare with "leaders " that are insane.

[@cyberblock7619]

@@dufus2273 The Democrats are just as scary as Nazism

[@thebes56]

When I was in we had Government classes. I'm thinking they did away with that for gender studies...

[@jamesmoriarty9433]

@@dufus2273 What exactly scares you about it? Trump's been nothing but good for the country. Prove me wrong.

[@kellygraham4451]

They who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

[@truck_yeah_440]

How fitting that that saying was on a sign hanging above Jim Jones's body after he murdered all of his followers with Cyanide laced kool-aid back in 1978. For those that don't know, his cult was heavily communist-leaning. Let that sink in.

[@mrs8792]

I work with 2 millennials. I don’t plan on staying at that job. They are thrilled to be underpaid in our position. 😳 Our job couldn’t be crappier! Their time off they spend hours and days, building and drawing lawns in video games, but they have no experience building anything with their hands and aren’t interested in trying. I just can’t relate!

[@BenjWarrant]

Try harder.

[@ronniepirtlejr2606]

I don't blame you! There's nothing quite like experiencing the real world with your five senses that God gave you!

[@rugvedkulkarni1593]

Seems like you lack gratitude.

[@adamjohnson7093]

Have you ever considered that this is because building something in video games =/= building something in real life? Just, maybe?

[@birdwing98]

Can you taste one of the vegetables you grow in a virtual garden? Is a virtual poop as satisfying as a good one on a real toilet?

[@vicentedelay8245]

This is the first fireside chat I’ve watched. I loved it, thank you.

[@PallahDaOracle]

Was in high school from 2009-2013 and I never once heard anything about the gulags. People my age do not know what they were unless they sought out information that I have.

[@alanaadams7440]

They are surgically attatched to their phones GOOGLE IT

[@JustaGuy-pm9ub]

He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it.

[@user-se5gg5cy4y]

@J correct. and only socialists will stop the communists who are really relugious satan1sts

[@user-se5gg5cy4y]

.. its coming. the capitalist do not allow thenselves to be reveal as the communists. they spead 100's of trillions of dollars in communist programs that empowee the capitalist but they will never spend a dollar to help humanity. now we kill them. they are censoring people.

[@fornever]

it won't repeat exactly, but it will rhyme ...

[@user-se5gg5cy4y]

@@fornever the capotalists are animal servants of the xatholuc church. uts not about repeating history. its about blatant idiocy.

[@starscotten]

Amen.

[@benharrison2391]

Back in the late 1960s I attended a party with mostly engineering graduate students and professors. No one was doing drugs, but drinking a lot of beer and having serious discussions. One professor did something I have never heard before - he actually defended the concept of the Berlin wall on purely moral grounds. At one point he said "You can compare two countries with different governments - who are you to decide that one form of government is better than the other? That is a very complicated subject." One of the students said no, it is not complicated. "All you have to do is compare the number of people trying to get in with the people trying to get out." After more than 50 years, I can find no fault with this logic.

[@Kaelland]

"Live Free or Die" is New Hampshire's state motto, so it should be their license plates that bear the phrase.

[@mikemaz1234]

I was born in Eastern Europe, and immigrated to Canada at the age of 11. Communism sounds like a perfect utopia but in reality it is a horrible oppressive and unproductive system. To all you millennials out there that think this is a great idea talk to anyone that was lucky enough to escape any of these countries and they will shock you with their experiences.

[@vladimirlenin665]

Eastern Europe was not communist it was that some countries were socialists and other lile romania and albania were state capitalist

[@snowcrest7863]

@@vladimirlenin665 Nonsense!.....

[@miriammadhav5539]

Q

[@tkraid2575]

@@vladimirlenin665 I'm not surprised at what you said at all. You started all of this horsecrap anyway.

[@tomkunich9401]

The largest failure of the education system was telling people that they must have a college education. When 80% of college graduates never work a single day in their majors, that means that they learn their actual jobs the same way as a high school graduate does. And yet they lost at least 4 years to these high school graduates and end up working for them and carry a staggering tuition bill. People like Obama who said that everyone should go to college are themselves lovers. If you believe that Obama made his fortune honestly I'm sure you also believe in the tooth fairy. Is that someone you want to emulate? Does one person in this entire world respect Biden. He has done nothing and never will. At some point you will realize that most productive people learned it from scratch from other people that did so themselves.

[@paulvarn4712]

"They do not know what Gulag or Auschwitz is but they know what the preferred pronoun is. This is morally and intellectually sick"

[@nl3712]

Paul Varn 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@iarthur3211]

western educational system is infested with left tards

[@richardseibert1362]

@@iarthur3211 Betsy DeVos School Choice-The Kiss of Death... Do not allow ‘30 pieces of silver’ to be used to betray our country. Choice is the kiss of death. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is serving up America’s kids on a tax-credit scholarship platter. The future of the Republic hangs on the edge of political upheaval. Tax-Credit Scholarships are “the Trojan horse” of today. (Iserbyt). The vote for Socialism is near. The movement toward a managed economy is accelerating with the loss of sovereignty at the federal, state, and local government levels. Elected officials will be pushed out leaving only unelected councils. States’ rights will be shattered. No one will realize the havoc this will cause to our nation until it is too late. Betsy DeVos’s mantra of freedom are words that have no meaning. They are lies. Representative government will be destroyed by eliminating your locally elected representatives. Title I Schoolwide benefits ALL children not just poor children. Federal Tax-Credit Scholarship money goes directly to parental ESA’s eliminating states’ rights to control the budget. Property rights will be revamped by redistributing tax money from wealthy school districts. Your tax money follows a child directly into other schools or to other school districts that will regionalize your tax base called Title I supplement not supplant. Children will be psychoanalyzed and conditioned toward global citizenship. Tax free money for business and industry to access our children as a commodity will have a 100% tax write-off that is staggering. This vision will destabilize education, destabilize the equity in your property, regionalize your tax base, and collapse the public school system in favor of Common Core, CHOICE, and charter schools forced on ALL schools. This plan will ultimately control private and religious schools, day care centers, home schools, and charter schools creating a federal taskmaster (ombudsman) for all schools when the Tax-Credit Choice Scholarships are passed in the budget. Betsy’s plan is to collapse Blaine Amendment bans on public funding of religious institutions while she welcomes religious schools with open arms enabling them to accept public money but controlled by the federal government. Your neighborhood school will be turned into a charter school under a charter management system once our tax system is regionalized. All teachers will be hired from the state level since elected school board members would be removed from their positions when public schools fail financially and they are forced to match 50% of funding for all scholarship children who enroll in other schools, school districts, or another state. newswithviews.com/betsy-devos-school-choice-the-kiss-of-death/

[@standinstann]

What is "the preffered pronoun"? What does that even mean?

[@williamkerr2121]

@@richardseibert1362 What you socialist should be focusing on is how to deal with the next two term Republican replacing Donald Trump in 2024. By that time there will be at least a 7-2 conservative majority on the Supreme Court, Federal law will have dissolved sanctuary cities, our borders will be secure, mass deportations will be happening, media (both social and otherwise) held accountable and education will replace indoctrination. It's going to be laughable watching the Democratic Party become so unhinged during the next nine months they’ll be the biases for a network sitcom. Remember the Whigs? Neither does anyone else.

[@matthewa8264]

I am only 18 and I just graduated high school . I work in Manufacturing as a welder and I can't even fathom how I would love my country or even be an American if the country was Communist, or now Marxist with BLM . The first thing I'll do is vote so hard to stop that from happening if that doesn't work well we might need a new revolution liberty must live or else the basic human rights guaranteed by God protected by government will be gone forever.

[@dudicorn6503]

The fact that you believe communism abolishes human rights just proves the ignorance of people nowadays and how they have been affected by propaganda which has literally changed the definition of communism, into something evil.

[@tylerbozinovski427]

@@dudicorn6503 I think you got it the wrong way around. It's pro-communist propaganda that's the problem nowadays.

[@bhg123ful]

New Hampshire has “live free or die” on its license plate. Bernie Sanders is from Vermont. NH is a bit more conservative than Vermont.

[@JoJoJoker]

Them: “Trump is like Hitler!” *Me: “How much history have you studied? What do you know about Hitler?”* Them: “History is boring!“

[@hydrogenmissle]

How could anyone think history is boring?? :O

[@jonnyw82]

Joel D the historical method is a tool of White supremacists

[@PhilBagels]

@@hydrogenmissle By having bad history teachers.

[@jesussalvador8495]

Here’s an FYI trump him self has insulted Mexican immigrants in 2016 in his speech scape goating them as terrible people if that doesn’t sound messed up then I suggest that you get a check up

[@TWLee-sk7hb]

@@jesussalvador8495 you are a total liar!!! People like you are the problem!!!!! PS do not bother replying to me I will not answer you have a blessed day you freaking hypocrite I got a few more things

[@baraggia1]

They want a free lunch and get very upset when they have to work for it.

[@clauspapaya1227]

thats not how communism work

[@curtdenson2360]

We need a new law, if you resist rest, Death row awaits you, Problem solved!

[@johnblake8918]

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed." Thomas Jefferson

[@Edgy01]

“Live free or die” is on New Hampshire plates.

[@daveinspiration7333]

I recently learned in a talk with a Bernie Sanders supporter that they coin their version of "socialism"/ "democratic socialism" as different from "communism". That definition-misdirection name game is the game we are losing at

[@johnbrown4627]

Sure, you get one mob rule revolutionary vote- democracy. Then the same politicians and olegarks that are screwing us presently, continue to do so with enough power to not need a second vote-socialism.

[@buckhorncortez]

Bernie lies to his followers either on purpose, or out of ignorance. He keeps claiming that Denmark is socialist - it's not it is a market economy which is totally different than socialism.

[@JanetSmith900]

Yes, instead of the state seizing ownership of means of production, they instead seize the income from those who produce. It’s just communism in a different package. It’s allowing private innovation and then seizing the benefits and controlling the distribution.

[@jumpercable20]

A rose by any other name, still smells like a rose.

[@daveinspiration7333]

And antifreeze taste sweet, but it's not recommended you drink it.

[@triplea7536]

It's sad really. And even worse young Cubans like myself are also embracing this. The Cuban conservative generation is dying out, unacceptable the future is bleak.

[@danielfeatherby9053]

At least in Cuba a growing number of young Cubans are unhappy with the regime. Oddly enough, much of the government's support comes from the older folks who were around at the time before many of the revolution's effects took place. Odd...

[@averagebritishrailwaysappr5424]

Gusano

[@clonealpha4336]

I'm gen z and I'm 21 years old, and yo quite frank with you, I've learned nothing from high school. What put me ahead of my classes, was me watching military history, history one History 2, National Geographics, and Science Channel and Discovery Channel Channel. They were my teacher and I love them and miss them. Those Channel used to be so great.

[@undercatcards3080]

Loved this! I'm a millennial..never went to college and GLAD. I have been saying for a while that I felt my school years after elementary was a waste of time.-it was considered a good school too. I learned more in my past 10 years after highschool. Looking back it was almost all useless. Thought it was just me, but sad to see this is a major problem

[@sitarainbow8837]

That's an awesome comment that gives many of us old folks hope. So many young ones are just not seeing through the programmed daze brought on by their "education." I have 4 university degrees & don't think that much of them, either. Even in earlier decades, the programming was there, just not so in-your-face as it is, now. Those supposedly not educated - those not going to college - will likely be better off than the programmed ones with their degrees. Will close with a favorite quote - let the 3rd line, especially, sink in, as our solution is actually much simpler than most realize: _“To know that you do not know is the best._ _To think you know when you do not is a disease._ _Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.”_ ― Lao Tzu Bless you in following where Heart leads you. You've already come farther than many. ;) ~♥~

[@derrickmcadoo3804]

I'm sorry to hear you found K-12 education, 'Useless'.

[@marknacua7549]

Just letting y'all know, I am 20 years old, college educated and I am staunchly against socialism/communism, as are many people close to me. We're quiet - normal, educated people like us aren't rioting in the streets or being social media advocates, but we are here with you. I am great friends with a man I met at work in his fifties who escaped Cuba in the 1980's during the Castro regime. I think speaking to someone who escaped a communist country is an incredibly enlightening thing. But also... so is growing up and becoming an adult. It's why a lot of young folks tend to shift away from the left over time as they get older.

[@KM-zu9we]

Bob Builder great, glad to have you on the right. Unfortunately, kids aren’t being forced to grow up or move away from that home.

[@williamkerr2121]

@@KM-zu9we If you have to call the cops to kick your own kid out of the house it doesn't say much for your parenting skills. However, you'd be even a worse parent if you didn't.

[@EFChartley]

I think this is spot on. When kids come out of school they are at the bottom of the ladder, and as they work themselves up they realise that hard work is what improves your life, rather than resentment and protesting at society! Be useful to society and you will always be valued

[@artificial_S]

Same except for the rest, most people that I see about my age are communist bastards

[@okunwaamadasun5892]

@@EFChartley Yeah I know this is true but some things need to be changed at a societal level such as school. It's become so mandatory that it's basically degraded into a prison for children. And I say this as an A/B student entering 12th grade after this pandemic. I'm a Nigerian student though, so don't know how it is in American schools.

[@lex2951]

I’m a millennial and having my first child in the next month. I don’t support communism and I also plan on sending my daughter to private school.

[@kimobrien.]

Sheeeee Communist are working on young women with condoms and birth control pills.

[@lex2951]

michael shertz that’s great! We are starting to save for her schooling now before she’s born! God bless ❤️

[@corylangford5658]

How racist are you? You can not homeschool your own children that is bigoted and racist how dare you! No no i am only joking that's brilliant these aren't school these are indoctrination camps to steal the mind of your child. May God bless you.

[@ktcarl]

Yep, private schools and home schooling are much better than public education. In public schools and colleges the kids are getting an indoctrination instead of education. These Commie loving millennials are products of the Educational Industrial Complex.

[@BrianGivensYtube]

And you will vaccinate her for the sake of everyone?

[@karrisajoss4271]

Thank you for mentioning what success is. I got to be a boss for a day and learned success for me was: rely on God every second, let everyone else shine no matter higher or lower in position and stay humble. Thank you so much Dennis. God Bless you, your wife, kids and adorable dogs.

[@arpadzigisfari5819]

New Hampshire: Live Free or Die, the official state motto

[@keithknapp2244]

Better dead than Red? Love it.

[@ReuvenEtzion]

I’m sure Bernie avoids NH as a result. 😉

[@Chrissiela]

@Kay Morton Is it not still written on every single vehicle's license plate? It was when I lived there. from 1989-1991.

[@laurawestervelt]

When it becomes a deep blue state they'll have to change the motto. Here's one, Get Your Free Stuff Here.

[@3dot88]

What does that tell you. Not good

[@markwilding3828]

The book to read is "the deliberate dumbing down of America" - Charlotte Iserbyt

[@kimobrien.]

Obviously your the result of dumbing down.

[@markwilding3828]

@@kimobrien. Educated in New Zealand... so, No.

[@deeguenveur9987]

Don't forget the Bible too........

[@joelladrach6381]

no further evidence needed

[@mortishastyles1345]

Send 36% of millinilals to Venezuala and Cuba.

[@ozu2647]

BigCat6906 Idk why y’all think you’re so high and mighty for looking at any policy and immediately saying cuba or communism. No one is advocating for those systems, the left is aiming for more of a capitalist welfare state like the nordic countries, but the minute someone says the S-Word, yall get triggered

[@ozu2647]

BigCat6906 ok, again, no one is advocating for any of that, its increased welfare that people label socialist, and then from socialist we get these rants about us becoming the next cuba. The goal is norway or more likely german, not ussr. Your rant is literally the exact shit im talking about- we all know thats horrible, why are you bringing it up in response to something so unrelated?

[@rollingdudes8859]

In a matter of SECONDS the 36 percent will be begging to come back to america!!!

[@SPAZZOID100]

Ozu you are missing the point.

[@SL163475]

How about a row boat to China.

[@deborahnarendorf7106]

This is the first fire side chat I have seen and so enjoyed just simple conversation. I especially liked “I aimed for doing what was right”. Great point

[@hephaestus6365]

What's strange is I don't know anyone over the age of 20 who says Communism works. We are talking about a relatively small group of people making a lot of noise. This November, the majority must be heard. It is getting more and more out of control out there.

[@thecasual4880]

Everyone has got to vote. Every single person, well aside from the democrats 😂 they don't need to, they have 90 million automatic votes coming

[@ArturHedlund]

1/3 is a minority but really big

[@sandoncrowder7839]

It’s a depressing amount of people, at least on the internet, who defend socialism as if they know something that nobody else does.

[@adamjohnson7093]

@@sandoncrowder7839 As if you know what socialism is better than the people that you are talking about

[@clydewilson1141]

Everyone should read Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago.

[@reasbey]

Yep. It changed my life.

[@johneboy910]

Read his "200 Years Together" if you can get your hands on it. It hasn't been translated to English nor can you get it in the USA. Any guess why?

[@hardrockerfan1516]

I am a millennial. I was lucky to have a history teacher in 10th grade to really teach us about WW2 and the cold war. I have disliked nazism and communism since 10th grade after learning about the atrocities.

[@silvernova354]

"Nazism"? The actual name of the Nazis was "The German Worker's SOCIALIST Party". Did your 10th grade teacher inform you of that?

[@hardrockerfan1516]

@@silvernova354 I know what it is actually called. It is a Fascist movement and known to us as The Nazi Party. In Germany, yes it was referred to as The National Socialist German Workers' Party.

[@Jacob-yg8lg]

Silver Nova although it was called the “national socialist German workers party” is was not actually socialist because hitler still wanted to keep private businesses and hitler and the Nazi party was funded by wealthy businessmen. In fact hitler HATED Marxism and killed anybody that read the communist manifesto and he also insisted on protecting private property. Btw North Korea calls themselves a Democratic republic when it is neither a democracy nor a republic.

[@saricubra2867]

@@Jacob-yg8lg "Still wanted to keep private business" The economy of Germany was at the hands of the Government (the NAZI party). You can't have private business and a totalitarian state at the same time, that's impossible. By the way, Karl Marx hated Jews and he was a NAZI too. "On the Jewish Question" is a book that he wrote in 1843 and there are examples of his antisemitism/racism. Hitler embraced socialism but he wanted a different form of socialism . For Hitler, Marx was wrong.

[@KimikoMaui]

@@silvernova354👉 u got schooled!!! But I did too😖. I am super numb too wen it comes to history and government www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/how-big-business-bailed-out-nazis

[@zo3821]

I am 39, right on edge of generations. I will never support liberalism/socialism/communism!! President Regan said, the only form of fascism that will enter this country is liberalism. Trump 2020!!

[@sitarainbow8837]

Good for you! ~♥~

[@HugoVSSantos]

Dennis, you are right. Thank you by your good words about freedom. I am from Florianópolis, SC, South Brasil. We are with you a 100%.

[@godblessamerica9356]

Pray for us.

[@davidaward3696]

I'm a millennial and i never supported communism at all. Still don't.

[@kmacradio]

You're smarter than most your age.

[@davidaward3696]

@@kmacradio thanks man! I just can't stand the idea of it.

[@GilbertCarrizales]

Same here Davida, I simply cannot understand aside from what Dennis has already explained in this video as to why Millennials support communism. It's almost as if they support it just for the sake of being different & going against the 'system' as they refer it.

[@cyberblock7619]

Most millennials are leftist and support Socialism but do not realize it's the same as communism

[@stevied3400]

Davida Ward Same here.

[@kurtfranklin2680]

Before I watch this video, my answer to the question it’s title poses is: because they have never lived in a communist country.

[@Swoop180]

Before I watch this video. a follow up on your comment: If they had lived in a communist country, chances are they wouldn't be allowed to post a comment or, they wouldn't be alive to get the chance.

[@sahaiel]

i was born in a communist country, im millennial, and I'm against communism

[@Swoop180]

@@sahaiel You're lucky.

[@adayinforever]

The real question should be, why do Millennials support socialism? Because socialism and communism are not the same thing. And the answer to that question is that it makes life a lot better for people in Scandinavia. So the entire premise of this question and your answer is wrong.

[@sahaiel]

@@adayinforever younger people havent contributed a lot (yet), therefore they dont care as much if tax money is distributed to people who dont or didnt contribute enough, or at all. Because they are in the same situation. Its quite straightforward. They think they would only gain by socialism, as they would get a lot of staff for 'free' - that others worked for -, while they barely put in anything. So yes, socialism is ideal for young people.

[@tomhenry4993]

Awesome chat! You have articulated so many of my beliefs.

[@nunyabidniz2868]

Thank you for bringing PragerU to us; sorry that KZbin keeps trying to suppress your channel. Keep fighting the good fight!

[@jedimasterham2]

New Hampshire: "Live Free or Die."

[@rmack2x]

jedimasterham2 Seems to be a whole field of study of State mottos... NH adopted a State motto only in 1945. Live Free or Die comes from Gen Stark’s letter of 1809, while Vermont’s motto is Freedom and Unity, from 1778. In 2015, Vermont added a Latin motto, “Stella quarta decima fulgeat,” or, “May the 14th star shine bright.”

[@jedimasterham2]

@@rmack2x Interesting. Well I live in Washington State. Our state motto is, "Tax them to death."

[@DanStratocaster1]

jedimasterham2 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Democratically run state. Like mine, Illinois. Can’t wait to move.

[@rodwaltzer5002]

I live in Illinois, our license plates are made by former governors.

[@nightmaster5593]

Bernie's license plate says "Give free or die"

[@manxology]

Three reasons why: 1. Godless, 2. Fatherless, 3. Common [Communist] Core.

[@DEATHCHICKEN1337]

I don’t think it is because so called “godlessness” correlates with socialism/communism. I knew a Christian socialist.

[@Enter_channel_name]

@@DEATHCHICKEN1337 And I know a quite a few atheist or agnostic conservatives

[@veronicagorosito187]

Not so much. I am 100% anticommunist and fully atheist, don't even believe in sould or spirit, but oh sh*t I can't believe people are falling with socialist/communist ideology. It's just sadistic perverse ideology to opress masses. Maybe I'm a rarity between atheists.

[@veronicagorosito187]

@@Enter_channel_name That's true. I'm not conservative anyway but one thing you can be sure: I reject communism with every single atom of me. To death.

[@Enter_channel_name]

@@veronicagorosito187 Fascism is a wolf. Communism is a wolf in sheep's clothing. It's appalling how many people buy the socialist lie.

[@eltio1680]

its becoming a classic to smoke and listen to this series of videos, top stuff

[@stephenlibin9526]

Thank You Dennis! This is an incredibly important subject and you are terrific!

[@teblogger8475]

Thomas Sowell - Socialism is a great idea and horrible reality.

[@pushrod3022]

TE Blogger No, it’s not even close to a good idea.

[@teblogger8475]

@Joshua Hardy - Lacking math skills like most socialist? How many people were killed by socialism, both national and international. It goes in hundreds of millions. Don't even mention lost talent, opportunity and unspeakable suffering of additional hundreds of millions. Are these numbers too big for you little brain?

[@LukeLovesRose]

Not National Socialism. Regardless of what you think, they turned Germany into the most powerful country in the world, practically overnight

[@williamhays3322]

"Live Free or Die" is the motto on the New Hampshire license plates. "Brooklyn" Bernie moved to Vermont to raise marijuana, for fun-and-profit, and is instrumental in ruining the quality-of-life in the state. Not a good/nice person.

[@taxslave5906]

The “live free or die” license plate is New Hampshire, not Vermont.

[@mikeyd7435]

God bless Dennis! Love your chats!

[@sicilianeye]

I remember when I was a college student 40 years ago. I knew everything, too. Not so much, nowadays...

[@indigo6842]

Dunning-Kruger effect. When you know very little, you think yourself to be superior and can't see your own lack of ability. As knowledge increases, you start to realize you don't know shit. So the saying goes, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

[@hausgbear8284]

Thank goodness I'm not one of "those" millennials.

[@65sheilakay]

Very good talk. Thanks!

[@AP-iw9it]

Dennis, thank you for these Fireside Chats. Love your topics and your insights and your honesty.

[@jameskoralewski1006]

My ex-wife was a Communist from Ukraine. I imported her to the U.S. and married her on a fiance visa. She told me all about Communism and we surely don't want it here!

[@dks13827]

too late.

[@jameskoralewski1006]

@@dks13827 KILL A COMMIE FOR MOMMY!

[@katebatrak9068]

imported her like overseas goods? used or brand new?

[@tylerbozinovski427]

Prayers for Ukraine... 🇺🇦

[@johnnybuxtons5489]

let me guess, her grandfather was a kulak theif and her father ran the death camps?

[@adorabledeplorable5105]

“ give me four years to teach the children and the seeds I have sown will never be uprooted “ Vladimir Lenin

[@curtdenson2360]

We need a new law, if you resist rest, Death row awaits you, Problem solved!

[@ryandewhirst1579]

Never before in history has understanding history been so important

[@SisterShirley]

You are timeless Mr Prager!

[@allenatkins2263]

Prager: "Welcome to Otto Zone."

[@shanewhitefeather6298]

Poor Dennis always tries to get Otto to have his head and body facing the other way. One day, hopefully, Otto just might comply. Hang in there, Dennis

[@theresag1969]

Answer: Ignorance and following instead of leading.

[@SteveInLava]

@domhnall777 sounds like an antifa rally

[@jamesonbornholdt7302]

I actually think it's the opposite of following... I think millenials are trying to be quirky and new and they believe that all of the current policies are wrong. They want to set their own path. They don't want to take any real, wise advice... Now I'm talking about millennials like I'm their granddad but being born in 1997 I'm actually too young to even be considered a millenial.

[@SteveInLava]

@@jamesonbornholdt7302 so you're considered gen Z

[@AJ........]

Agree, but why and how did it get like this? From what I've researched it's been an engineered decline of our society, starting with the educational system that has been infiltrated by communists/Marxists since the 20s or 30s when the German communists from the Frankfurt School came here with their agenda to do just that. Their theory was that a small amount of them would teach/radicalize at our universities and their students would go on to teach/radicalize even more, multiplying each generation and getting their cultural marxism/political correctness to take root like a disease until the time we were so transformed socially that we'd be ready for real communism. They played the long game, and knew they'd probably never be alive to see it, but they were patient. And in case others claim it a conspiracy theory, it's documented. Just read up about the Frankfurt School

[@user-se5gg5cy4y]

@@jamesonbornholdt7302 you have two groups of marxists and neither of them are good people. every comment i read is a common belief of an animal kind. sub human.

[@RamSadeh]

So eloquent n wise- thank you

[@kathekozlowski6578]

Pager U is such a great free learning opportunity. Great topics.

[@jayoscran27]

How do you convince someone when they dismiss all of it as, “not real socialism”

[@aperta7525]

Nothing is free. There is always a sacrifice to every decision human beings make. What do you *think* socialism sacrifices? What does socialism *really* sacrifice? If you do not know or do not care to know, you should not stoop so low as to presume upon the privilege extended to you of voting in this country - or in any country for that matter.

[@aperta7525]

Jordan Peterson would have something to say about this.

[@aperta7525]

@John Taylor It's not right to project your assumptions onto another person's character. I was friends with an outspoken individual in this sort of crowd who used the "not real [...]" point, and he came - not necessarily by argument between he and I, but he did - to recognize how fatally flawed Communism is.

[@aperta7525]

Coming to the Truth about anything (Truth does not effect symptoms of PTSD, mind you) is by the grace of God in His Mercy. Period. Different people from the same background can study the same things and have all the same privileges and liberties, and one may see the light while the other stays where they are. It's all and always the mystery of God's grace. Jay, encourage them to always seek the Truth about anything and everything. I assume this person is very atheistically inclined. But they must stay true to seeking the Truth however they understand it.

[@grantjohnson5785]

You've hit upon one innate problem. They don't need to seek "the Truth" because they already have "their truth" - in fact, they often deny that there even is "the Truth". This underlying belief is just one of a series of flawed premises that leads them inevitably to horribly wrong conclusions.

[@BluntlyBlondie]

I believe my love of history brought me to going from a total hippie lefty, to a married conservative woman.

[@jonathanbowling2904]

That's awesome. Do you mind elaborating on that transformation a little bit? I have gone from being a neutral moderate who didn't know anything to a conservative who Conservative who prays for the nation and get involved in Protecting our Freedoms.

[@BluntlyBlondie]

Jonathan Bowling If you go to my channel check out my #WalkAway That is a brief synopsis but I will be going into more detail later on.

[@moondancer9066]

@Jason A lot of people running for president want to do away with the Constitution.

[@jillrsimmons]

Thank God the plate “live free or die” is New Hampshire’s!

[@yt.602]

Mentioned that these chats don't age, this is the first one I've come across and it's 2 years old, your statement is true as were the statements in the chat.

[@randallflagg1582]

LOVE the setting and format of this show with the top left topic timer ! :)

[@onur97able]

Excuse me millienial here and i am opposed to communism on an extreme stance

[@victorleinonen3776]

Thanks Dennis for sharing at the Fireside Chat. I purchased your audio book today, The Rational Bible.

[@JorgeAL01]

I’m a millennial who scaped from communism and belive me you don’t want that, what you can read or listen is nothing compare with reality, please don’t let communism happen to the USA, please

[@strictnonconformist7369]

As things are going, I expect we’ll be in undisputed civil war soon with the “cultural revolution” that’s being fought right now intensifying. I’m a gen-X, and remember when the USSR fell, and knowing why: communism doesn't work with how humans work, but against it: what I see now is a marxist left mob bullying everyone towards that goal, and I’d rather die fighting it than live with it.

[@ronniepirtlejr2606]

@@strictnonconformist7369 I was born in 1970. I'm happy that you've been around long enough to appreciate what being a true American is about! I'm happy to fight right beside you! Red white and blue. These colors don't run!

[@johnmcintyre9741]

I used to be an educator. I quit after the numerous meetings on social change that were all focused on minorities and LBGQT lifestyle acceptance. We never discussed improving the students knowledge or character. If you mentioned character, it was an offense that got you wrote up for not going with the curriculum. Changes to curriculum never happened except to benefit a special interest group.

[@laurenkerr7557]

I'm watching it happen right now at the high school I work at. Luckily I'm out of there in less than 2 years. I can't take it anymore

[@atl5033]

racist homophobe

[@exopol1214]

Kill Team Charlie Can you explain?

[@atl5033]

Kill Team Charlie it’s not being pushed on anyone moron, the arc of history has always bent to progress.

[@atl5033]

Kill Team Charlie cope. even if regression exists there is still a net progress.

[@maryturcotte7]

I really love these fireside chats, Thank YOU Mr Prager, and Otto. 🐾🐾

[@a68riz]

Are you saying that auto is the main star of the show? He does demonstrate to us on a regular basis how to enjoy life. Which is an easy thing to forget in crazy times like this. Thank you Otto. For showing us the way. Thank you Mr Falker for being an excellent sidekick to Otto.

[@anonymike8280]

"Live free or die" is on the New Hampshire plate, but I believe people are allowed to opt out at their own request.

[@hebber1961]

One reason is the 2008 crash. No-one was really held accountable and in swept Bernie to fool them with candy.

[@bossdog1480]

Remember the hippies in the '60's? They said "We'll bring down the system from within." This is the end result.....

[@simonlee9759]

To save you 30 mins, just watch this video first 15 mins (KGB defector talk about communism): In 1984, the official answer was already given in USA by this gentleman who came from KGB: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2q3p5x_qr2Diac

[@bossdog1480]

@@simonlee9759 Yes, I've seen several of his talks. He was right but not a lot of people were listening at the time.😊

[@barbbutler6937]

Thank you for always being the rock in our lives.

[@resinvillarama1287]

Communism is not popular - that should be their clue 😂

[@mauiswift6391]

History is the first clue.

[@tubelarr]

I was watching one of Jordan Peterson's videos yesterday and learned that the man who conceived Pol Pot's Killing Fields studied at the Sorbonne in France.

[@michaelg7904]

tubeler Which one? Thanks!

[@tubelarr]

@@michaelg7904 kzbin.info/www/bejne/hperaXx9bKaqoZI

[@Mrwhale99]

Did you also learn that the VietCong where the ones who removed Pol Pot from power

[@tubelarr]

@@Mrwhale99 No, Peterson just mentioned it in passing when discussing marxism and universities. He could not even recall the name of the man who created the Killing Fields. You should watch the lecture. it was fascinating.

[@mrwednesdaynight]

@@Mrwhale99 that doesn't make a lick of sense. As a comrade and fellow communist, I would think that Charlie would have been in full support of Pol Pot.

[@RobinP556]

I believe that the begging of the end of our education system occurred when the Dept. of Education was created and the federal government got their claws into the system with such things as standardized testing. I graduated high school in 1980, and have siblings that were 3 & 5 years behind me. Even at that distant point I can see a difference with them not supporting but having a softer view of socialism. As for Otto, you’ve become his moral support person!! I’m in the same boat with a pair of rescues that I adopted. Dogs are the best.

[@raibeartcahill4295]

I agree complely! I was class of '68 and the difference between what I experienced in school vs my children and now my grand children is dramatic and terrifying! If it were possible to go back in time and change something then I would vote for the removal of Woodrow Wilson. A significant amount of the advancement of "progressivism" today is the result of that evil person and his policies, the creation of the dept of education (indoctrination) being a major one!!!

[@carolrobinson7779]

84 here my two brothers were 6 & 8 yrs behind me, it's amazing the difference between our viewpoints all based on what we were taught in school. We all went to the same school, just a different generation of teachers except 2-3. When my kids attended the same school it was eye-opening how things had changed. Common core curriculum had me learning all over again, and it made no sense. Math was ridiculous in how complicated they had made finding an answer to a simple equation. I'd ask the teachers what difference does it make how they came up with the answer as long as it was right? Oh that's not how we do it now was thier response. I left parent teacher conferences shaking my head in disbelief lol they take a equation you can solve in seconds and now it takes 5min!

[@SS-wd5wi]

Or maybe, you just had an out of date education and people are much smarter now. Ever think about that genius? LOL!!

[@carolrobinson7779]

@@SS-wd5wi judging by the education levels of todays youth by the neas own standards the education level has gone down since I graduated genius! I have a master's in biology I'd gladly go take the sat again and would probably end up scoring higher than 85% of others taking it if not more. Been there done that!

[@RobinP556]

S S Yeah, and that explains why so many new students going to college have to take numerous remedial English composition and math courses before they can even start college courses.

[@54WMD]

As I was moving the mouse over the various selections, the title of this one caught my eye, as I thought it said, " Why Millennials Support Cannibalism". I'm sure they do.

[@andrewmagana8093]

Excellent episode keep up the good work 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@metalmomrambles9005]

I was in high school in the mid 90s and I remember one of my history teachers specifically telling us that capitalism was to blame for everything. So what you learn in HS is apparently the opposite of what is true.

[@BenjWarrant]

Liar. Nobody ever said 'capitalism is to blame for *everything.*

[@metalmomrambles9005]

@@BenjWarrant He did, actually.

[@BenjWarrant]

@@metalmomrambles9005 Sorry, I don't believe anyone capable of becoming appointed as a teacher could say that.

[@metalmomrambles9005]

@@BenjWarrant "Appointed" as a teacher? I wouldn't look at the free market and personal choice that way. Having worked in higher ed now for 14 years, I can assure you that a large number of those folks are entirely Marxist/Communist at heart.

[@BenjWarrant]

@@metalmomrambles9005 Teachers are appointed by... the School Board, the local education authority, whatever.

[@spectrevector1115]

I'm a Constitution loving Millennial. Long live the Republic!

[@SugaryPhoenixxx]

High five! (me too)

[@curtdenson2360]

We need a new law, if you resist Arest, Death row awaits you, Problem solved!

[@gavinreid5387]

Lol. The Republicans in Spain were communists.

[@MikaelCedergren]

You're amazing Dennis.

[@angiesewtherapy6628]

Awesome talk. Thank you.

[@reneejunette9952]

Millennials support communism because they simply don’t know any better. As a mother of three millennials I can say that their public school education was so lacking that there are just huge gaps in subjects we aging baby boomers take for granted. Liberals are teaching our children trash, watered down history and and have smeared and bad mouthed US history and culture. My daughter had a professor (women’s studies- total BS course!) that Catholic women are the most repressed group of any religious group! I said, is there anything that your grandmother and I cannot say or do? Is anyone dictating how we dress? Do we need a man’s permission to travel or cover ourselves and walk around like a ghost with our heads covered? I bet if I asked my son who Stalin was that he would not be able to answer correctly.

[@carla8687]

Catholic women are the most repressed group of any religious group... Wow that's truly bizarre. As a catholic woman, I'm wondering what the professors argument for that theory is

[@qtaro-7097]

Renee Junette you shouldve just homeschooled your kids smh

[@raibeartcahill4295]

YOU are responsible for not filling in the "gaps"! Parents are the MOST INFLUENTIAL teachers a child or youngster will ever be exposed to! It is YOUR MAJOR RESPONSIBILITY as a parent! Absolutely nothing except their physical well-being is more important, and then just barely! DO IT NOW! As long as you are alive you are responsible.

[@illuforce]

Many people in my class don't even know what state is north of them and many can't do basic math plus most of them don't understand anything about history(high school).

[@minermike61]

My schooling was 1960s-70s and in History and Social Studies, Communism was definitely discussed but I wouldn't say that even then it was in-depth. That said, there was a lot of knowledge and information that we all shared in common from our parents and just general awareness of what happens in the world. By the time we heard about it in school, most of us already had a fair idea of what that was all about. Fast forward to 2002. I found myself having to learn a new line of work OJT. I get paired with a kid who was 23 at the time and about 40 years old now. He had a tattoo on his shoulder of a man running with a hatchet in his hand. This was a culture thing amongst young folks for a while. Related to a pair of white rappers I believe. The face on the tattoo was distinct and could not be mistaken for anyone else. It was Vladimir Lenin. I asked him if he knew who the face was and he replied he had no clue. He didn't know who Lenin was and even less of what he represented. Somewhere there are other old people like myself laughing to themselves about that kid's tattoo.

[@michelemarvell1147]

I just love these fireside chats! I curl up with my cup of tea and feel like I’m there just having a conversation with you in front of the fire, scratching Otto’s tummy! Thank you for the nuggets of wisdom!

[@judithboulden3456]

Hello Mr. Dennis and Otto. I hope he is feeling better.

[@LifeChangeAdvicewithTiffany]

A lot of great points!