@@eos_2366 Socialist Russia WAS socialism though. It was exactly the same as Socialist Germany under Hitler, Socialist China under Mao, Socialist Iraq under Saddam Hussein , etc. All of them enjoyed slavery of the citizenry & rampant mass murder.
I want to know why John never does one over National Socialism, Seems no one of these people want to discuss the truth of WW2 NatSoc Germany and its success that was only ruined by war brought on by Politics, money/bankers.
Interesting and entertaining but “important?” No as much as this man has covered stories time and time again he’s never taken seriously and nothing ever changes, great Journalist all the same.
@@nobodyspecial6267 He has 799,000 subscribers. America has too many perpetual children. No. Things are not going to get better. It would take another "Great Depression" to force young Americans to grow up. Hunger makes you grow up fast. When FDR was president, children were eating out of garbage cans in the big cities. As FDR was punishing farmers for not plowing their crops under and killing enough pigs. FDR made it more difficult to hunt for food. Making it even harder to feed your family. He learned from his "Uncle Joe" Stalin. FDR had his own race-based concentration camps. He had his own Nazi-like master race medical experiments performed on black men. He allowed his party's KKK to run wild. Americans had to grow up fast. Those were the young men who fed their human flesh into Nazi war machines until they choked! In battle after battle!
@@Hunterchuck See history. "The purpose of Socialism is Communism". - Vladimir Lenin. Communism has killed well over 100 million people, and counting. It has failed, miserably, every time it's been tried, in every decade, on every continent. "Talk to a Socialist"? You mean talk to a student who has ZERO experience with it, but goobles up every word some, "enlightened" academic, spits out? Try talking to someone who has lived under both systems (survived Socialism/Communism). Ask them why they escaped it to live here. Ask them why they don't move back to "Utopia".
My father showed me John Stossel many years ago and I've been philosophically and liberty-minded ever since. My Bulgarian family immigrated to the U.S. two decades ago; this video feels very personal for me.
@@Devils.harp.player I've been to Norway and Sweden. They are thre most boring places I've been having traveled all over the world. Just about everything people might enjoy is either regulated heavily or prohibitively expensive due to high taxes.
@@Devils.harp.player just shows socialism, like anything else, has to be done correctly. the standard of living in Norway, Sweden, etc... exceeds America in every way
Many of my socialist loving professors would say you “brainwash” these “gullible” students with your videos. Keep on producing them. Discussion of ideas is a good thing.
@@thelefthandedshooter5760 Stossel actively engages in debate and discussion with those of opposing views. His Stossel in the classroom website has an entire section dedicated to examining 2 sides of an issue.
The weird thing for me was that college made me less liberal. They taught all these concepts but the problem is that none of those concepts stand up to logical reasoning and questions. In fairness, I also approach things from a scientific standpoint. Most college students say they do, but they actually don’t because they never question anything
@@colten53 and that’s the main problem , most kids in college don’t think critically and look for the real world application. Instead they just go with the herd.
@@cajun1253 here's a real world application, and let me preface this by pointing out that this video began by saying how crazy it was that some Americans want more laws. In some states, car insurance companies tie your credit score to the cost of your insurance premium. I.e., bad credit = high premium. Their reasoning is that "there is a correlation between credit score and risky driving." Well, anyone who went to college probably took a logic course and one of the first things he learned in that course is that correlation isn't causation. Now, in this capitalist nation, the number one CAUSE of bankruptcy is medical debt, because capitalism. Bankruptcy is a direct CAUSE of a poor credit score. In short, when a bad run of luck puts you in the hospital and financially ruins you, your car insurance will go up - in some states - for something that was completely unrelated to the risk associated with you being a driver. Do you know why it wouldn't happen in all states? Because some states have made laws against insurance companies doing that. But why? I mean, car insurance companies are just capitalizing, right? Yet they probably call these kinds of laws Socialist. "Socialism" is just a fear-mongering word, and I would fiercely contend that laws like what I described above do need to be in place. There is a difference between opportunism and capitalism, and if striking down opportunism is socialist, so be it. Whether or not a business practice is legal is a very low bar to set for standard of excellence.
I had a high school teacher who would show us Stossel videos (10 years ago now) and I am so grateful that they did. John Stossel is the unappreciated voice of the the people.
I agree. In school in the 70s, we were shown films taken out of the Nazi deathcamps. Also, films of the results of those two Atomic Bombs dropped on Japan. And films of men and women tied to posts. Japanese soldiers had cut their breasts and sex organs off. The soldiers were laughing. The victims' mouths were wide open. Turning their lungs inside out. We were also shown people Japanese doctors were dissecting, while they were alive. This is what happens when the people have no guns. America's 120 million gun owners could be 120 million freedom fighters. Just as Hitler took the Jews' guns, the Socialist Democrats want our guns.
Stossel is a narrow minded idiot. Every economy on earth is a balance between socialism and capitalism. Only libertarian psychopaths try to convince you otherwise.
I really appreciate this video and you reaching out to these kids. I was a student at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. I went for free because I was from a low income house. I didn’t have a dad for most of my life, and my mom was never in the picture. I was raised by my grandma. I began studying economics on my own time, and read Thomas Sowell in high school. I then went to college to study economics and political science. I was the first in my family to go, and the first to even finish high school. I swear to god, one of the first few weeks there a kid had a Socialists of America stand, advertising Che Guevara. I had to to listen to professors lecture us on black people not wanting to get shot in their daily life. I had to take a privilege test. After Covid happened, and one semester after tuition rising even though overhead dropped and all classes were online, I dropped out of college to see what I could do to help stop this, and began interning in the state Senate. Then I was hired, and within 2.5 years, I managed my first campaign, helped get a strong conservative elected, and secured a career in what I want to do without having to give these colleges a penny.
Your description of your personal life doesn't help your case at all. The majority of kids will become socialist because business owners and landlords are too greedy. When people work hard and still can barely survive the cost of living, that's when they get radicalized. This has happened throughout the world in history. Happened in Russia which lead to the Soviet Revolution, and it's happened in America too with the many battles that the working class fought such as the Battle of Blair Mountain for starters. The working class formed many unions and kept fighting for better conditions, which you now get to enjoy. I suppose ignorance is bliss for you though. Keep voting in Republicans that will keep pushing people into socialism with their terrible policies or lack there of.
Don't worry, when she leaves her house and engages with regular people and the terrible economy, she will become radicalized to the left. Her perspective is very shallow and lacks any real understanding of how the world actually works.
There is still hope. I'm ex-Army and fought in Iraq. IYKYK....... Today's military gives me hope. Lots of it. There are still those who will raise their hand and 'support and defend the United States Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.' We older guys give the younger guys some grief, but it's all in good fun. The military is one of the few institutions left in this country that respects its elders and their wisdom.
@@energeticstunts993 That's just false. The data bears out that someone moving from a socialist country to a place like the USA for instance will do significantly better than if they had stayed in their home country where 60+% of their income goes to taxes that provide services that they might use sometimes.
Programs like this only work when you have teachers willing to introduce them to the children. The sad reality is that too many current teachers actively indoctrinate children into socialism.
If you took all the money in the world and divided it up equally among everybody, it would soon all be back in the same pockets. And that's the way it is. Thank you for your thoughtful videos and especially Stossel In the Classroom. You're a helper.
It's actually worse than that, if everybody had $10M for example, there would be nobody doing the jobs that make the whole thing work. Money would then become the most useless thing you could have and humanity back at square 1.
My only problem with this video is when Stossel calls them kids. I teach at a college, and more than 90% of my colleagues also call them kids. These are young men and women. I have to admit, when I first started teaching, I too called them kids, but something in me clicked and said “They are old enough to die in a war; therefore, I am going to stop calling them kids.” As Marine and Iraqi War Veteran myself, I knew they were adult, and when I started telling my brain to stop calling them kids, the dynamic of the classroom completely changed. I think that I also became a better teacher too because of it.
Some very young "kids" fed their human flesh into Nazi war machines until they choked. But men grew up fast back then. There was something called the Great Depression. That FDR's New Deal caused. I am sure you have read FDR's Folly. How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression. By Jim Powell. Also, The Jews Should Keep Quiet. By Rafael Medoff. For years, FDR was in love with Mussolini. He never lost his love for his "Uncle Joe" and "Blood Brother" Stalin. FDR had a deep dislike for Churchill. Churchill said something that later came out in history books. FDR's New Deal caused his Great Depression. That means FDR starved Americans to death. He forced farmers to plow crops under, as Americans were already starving. He allowed the Socialist Democrats' KKK to run wild. FDR was not just a Jew-hating racist, he was a eugenicist. No interracial marriage allowed. The tracks leading to the deathcamps could have been bombed. FDR said no. He was more worried about saving some famous dancing horses. FDR never asked other countries to take in any Jews. He, in fact, said Jews caused the stock market crash and the Great Depression, and that he understood why some hate Jews. When young, he said there were too many Jews in law school. FDR refused to see an Olympic gold medalist. Because he was black. Hitler saw him. FDR refused. I have been forced to believe education in America died with my World War Two vet teachers! Those who do not know history will repeat past generations' mistakes. The first shots fired in the American Revolution were over the human right to own and carry guns. Tools of freedom. We now have a senile Socialist president who said he would use nukes on America's 120 million gun owners. "To save lives" with gun control. Just as when Hitler took the Jews' guns. Some years back, he said allowing blacks and whites in the same schools would turn them into racial jungles.
They are kids. Pre frontal cortex does not mature until mid 20's. I stopped making foolish decisions around age 27. Not sure if it was the maturity of my pre frontal cortex or getting married did it. 20 some years later, 3 kids and still married.
It isn't necessarily an "insult" to call young people "kids." While we all hated that when we were adolescents ourselves, including myself, I have come to understand it as sort of a term of affection. After all, to me, at 71 this October, more than half the population literally were children well with the last 40 years. Someone who is 50 wasn't even born until 1973. In 1973, I was 21. So, it's all relative to one's perspective and, trust me, your perspective will change as you age.
It feels me with joy to hear students discussing ideas freely and using logic. The winner of the competition is very sharp and articulate, congratulations!
Not "best give it" that would have socialist willfully giving the money, it's more of a "better tell others who to vote for until my people are elected so I can finally have this money compelled from me".
A friend of mine told me a story of a philosophy class he took at Drexel 10+ years ago. The professor decided that the best way to get students to challenge him was to start by taking the most extreme, outlandish, and racist positions possible from the start of the class in order to provoke them. Most students still refused to stand up to the crackpot ideas the professor was suggesting.
Kids are brainwashed into just accepting whatever an authority figure tells them to believe. I'm glad to see some kids haven't been taken in by the nonsense, but it doesn't stop the schools from effectively being indoctrination centers focused towards unreasonable collectivist fantasies.
Because they're shy, disinterested, hung over, playing on their computers in class, not wanting potential public humiliation, or just kinda there for the class credits. There's a difference between actual refusal, and simple inaction. You might have a few odd ducks who leap at the opportunity for some debate but that's not most people.
When I was in college, I was the only person in an auditorium U.S. Government class of 150 who would speak out against the pompous professor, and for my troubles I was berated by my fellow students.
I was the only “realist” in any of my Drexel Political Science courses. I had more in common with my older professors than my classmates. Most of these students have had their heads buried under the sand their entire lives. They’re just walking talking points, with zero original thoughts. It’s a shame.
Great. Perhaps you can show them the films I saw in the early 70s. Films taken out of the Nazi deathcamps. They need to know what happens when government takes your guns. My World War Two vet and Holocaust survivor teachers are gone. One was a Bataan Death March survivor. One, a Holocaust survivor. Another one grew up under Nazism. We were told the Nazis put Jewish flesh in cans and fed it to their solders. Jews were used in horrible medical experiments. I read about the "White Rose." The White Rose is mentioned in John Grit's Feathers on the Wings of Love and Hate. Let the Gun Speak. Find his books at Amazon. Grit's books expose the verities of the human heart.
He looks fantastic at 76 yrs old. I would have guessed 64 (just because of how long he has been on TV) but even then I would have added that he doesn’t look anywhere near 64
As a post-communist child in my country, growing up listening to the stories of my parents and close family who lived through it, it's far from idealistic the youth believe in will make their lives better, because it won't. If they think that capitalism creates inequality, they should see what happened during socialism then. Not to mention that the USSR restricted our own innovations to the point where many clever heads have fled for the US or other countries where they had actual freedom and could thrive on their inventions. Being occupied by Russians was no joke and frankly, we managed to have a peaceful transition of power back to the hands of the people who were born and lived in the Czechoslovakia, at that time, thanks to the Velvet Revolution.
sorry to tell you this but what you lived through is called "state capitalism"; we don't even have the technology to try communism as it necessitates machines doing ALL the work (and I actually doubt such a state is possible)
a few things I wanna point out: communism is not synonymous with dictatorship. You can have socialism with the market economy of socialism but without the dictator censoring things for you. I don't know why people think that socialism is going to limit personal freedom, if anything it's going to improve it. The USSR never restricted their own innovations, had the USSR continued, they would've taken over the USA in terms of GDP. The USSR had a powerful army as well, enough to even put America on the edge, they literally competed in the race war with America, despite America starting out much richer and having more time to develop, the USSR was quickly catching up.
@@energeticstunts993 That's just wrong. What happens to dissenters in a communist state? What if I decide that I don't want to "own nothing and be happy"? I mean, if we look at the USSR, dissenters got forced into gulags in Siberia where they were worked to death chopping lumber to fund the very state that turned them into slaves for having a "wrong opinion".
@@johntheherbalistg8756 - Actually we started with socialism after our independence in 1947. Till 1992 we were about to be bankrupt, at that time our then Prime Minister P.V Narsimha Rao changed the policy and liberalised our economy. But still the country is infested with leftist socialists and communists who create narrative of how capitalists are cruel, evil monsters and they are the saviours.
@@hennagaijin7856 Yes, India really took off after moving toward capitalism. I think it was Thomas Friedman who discussed it at length about when Nehru was Prime Minister.
Some of my favoring videos for my homeschool co-op growing up were the Stossel ones. Loved how even handed his interviews were where he would always take the opposing side in an interview even if it were a faction he agreed with.
Not direct action alone. There's also practicing what you preach by having integrity and being ethical. that is especially been proven to be important for parents today. to prove that, all you have to do is look at the parenting "style" received by 90% of convicted felons.
To me direct action means taking to the streets and taking the country back from the criminals in office and in our institutions. And I'd gladly stake my life on that.
Tbh John Stossel has been the biggest influence for me as a young man when it comes to politics.. now I am a libertarian and trying to get to NH from Greece! Keep up the amazing work!!
If older and presumably wiser people can't get socialism to work, why do the arrogant youth believe they can make it work? These kids that participated in this contest will one day be leaders and I commend them on their work!
The easy answer is because of what is and isn't taught in schools these days. The evils of Germany before and during WWII are taught but little is mentioned of what happened in the Soviet Union, China, N.Korea, or any other socialist/communist countries around the same time period and after. Academia is full of people that think these forms of government have never been "properly tried" and that they have the right answers and that if they could implement it then it would work even with all the evidence to the contrary.
Because they’re brainwashed to think the world always needs drastic changes every generation. The older you get, you realize that stability, freedom and slightly optimizing certifying mechanisms in society gets you farther than handing over your rights to a central system who is almost always corrupt. Decentralizing encourages debate and accountability. Freedom is what promotes innovation of thought and ideas.
because it's new to them and fresh trends. they'll get bored eventually. they are good at listening since it's easy to hack an impressionable mind. most dont think, their glued to phones and tech and are told.
I first encountered Stossel in my Government and Economics class in 07, when my teacher showed us the video about pan handling. She also pushed back when students were saying (as they'd been taught since elementary school) that minimum wage was basically self-evidently good.
If employers could pay people nothing but room and board, they would. See: The Confederacy. Is this socialism? "Federal Reserve to lend additional $1 trillion a day to large banks" -PBS
@@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL Avoid being "mistreated" by employers by starting your own business. The last job I had was in 1975. But you will soon learn that you can work over 100 hours a week and make nothing. That is when you grow up and face the real world.
@@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL When the banks went under, that was the beginning of the Great Depression that FDR made much worse. We no longer have real men, or women, anymore. If he had another Great Depression, the Democrat ruined cities would burn to the ground. And millions would starve.
I wish we could hold politicians accountable for the oath of office that they take when sworn in. As we all know, they swear to uphold the constitution and it is hard to find one that has actually done that.
I don't give a flying F about the american constitution if it's wrong. It's not a force of nature. I would say it is illegal in that it cannot be changed. That's not a democracy.
If you are reading this or responding to this. It's because Capitalism made it possible. Remember...you can be a socialist in a Capitalist society. You can't be a Capitalist in a Socialist society
I really dont see how this is an argument for what you call a "capitalist" society. All you are saying is that you wont deal with disruptive elements while the other side will.
@@miniaturejayhawk8702 It's all ✡ish and all bad. We need to honor our ancestors and go back to a more natural way of living instead of living in this ✡ish clown world.
We need socialist institutions like the police and hopefully healthcare. We need capitalism for freedom. To solve the problem of lack of meaning we need education on making life meaningful. Right now the reason to work is to own more things, the reason should be to help more people.
if schools actually went into the details of what socialism entails, nobody would support it therefore, they cover it up with feel-good words and private ownership as being inherently evil (they even go so far as to call the nazis capitalists without realizing that the nazis saw capitalism and jews as the same inherently evil thing)
Seeing this young woman getting the point that our liberties and freedoms can be easily lost while hard to get back gives me hope that not all young people are mindless lemmings who will follow liberal politicians and socialists off a cliff.
Don't be fooled by the sheer number of misguided people my age. We aren't all the same and there are a lot of us who understand the true dangers of not only government overreach, but also of socialism and communism. It is refreshing to see the smart ones take center stage tho for a change
Most of the problems socialists/communists point toward aren't a cause of free market capitalism because our economy is a mixed economy, not a full free market.
She'll do fine. She's a spoiled child who will never work a real job so she'll stay firm in her ignorance. Most of the youngsters will get paid the bare minimum and get overworked, to then come to extremely high rent prices from greedy landlords. Most youngers will understand how the world really works. Her? Nah, she'll do fine!
When they say you aren't allowed this or that under socialism, you need to ask who is making the rules and why do they get to make them over your decision to debate them. The loss of freedom is the loss of life itself.
John, that turtleneck-suit combo is quite something. The fact one of your guests had it too was pretty funny. I must be behind the times in terms of fashion.
Nah, you love it. That's why people like you vote for republicans that use government to get REALLY involved in our lives. I don't buy the "I want small government" remarks from your ilk anymore lol
I thought that was one of the most ironic moments in this video. Two people who have benefited tremendously from capitalism, decrying it. It’s disturbing though, because they don’t see it as hypocrisy, rather than their privilege.
Exactly. If these supporters of socialism actually practiced what they preached and still demonstrated content and happiness, we may take them slightly more serious. There is absolutely no evidence where socialism is an exemplary system beneficial to an entire population. Pockets of it can thrive under capitalism but to switch completely over would be disastrous...as shown across history.
Sometimes watching the stuff on YT makes me very pessimistic concerning the future of America. Most people are just too stupid to survive without government handouts. But then, I find something like this video and I see young people with brains and ambition. It restores my faith. Thank you.
"Most people are just too stupid to survive without government handouts" Including all those wonderful capitalists that took PPP loans (hundreds of billions) and the wonderful banks (trillions in quantitative easing).
@@Archedgar Leftism is just the left-wing of capitalism. The capitalist system requires massive government intervention and always has, from the tariffs of Hamilton's American system and State subsidies for the British East India Company to the New Deal.(which was indeed capitalist - "I am the best friend the profit system has ever had", wrote Franklin Roosevelt to future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter) to Bush's Quantitative Easing and Trump's Paycheck Protection Program.
I want a hell of lot less government in my life. There is way too much already. I also want a lot of the bureaucracies we have disbanded, like the ATF, FDA, IRS, EPA, and BLM (The Bureau of Land Management,), etc.
Thumbs up for this important video! Because people should be free to listen to stupid songs with awful messages like _Highway To Hell._ Only with the free exchange of ideas (and goods and services) can real progress be made.
I’m 57, worked for decades as a sales manager. The past 3 years have been the worst as far as supply, pricing and DEI being shoved down our throats. I’m starting my own small business this year because of these things. In a socialist country I would not have been able to do this.
Pretty strange then that so many independent companies have started in China. You do know that you can have socialist leaning capitalism? If the laws went back to pre WW2 nobody would have much reason to complain about today's society.
After my first year out of high school, I was self-employed all my life. Until I retired young on my savings and investments, that included a commercial building I paid cash for. Even when I was in high school, I had a lawn-mowing service. Then I went on to better things.
I take issue with the statement that in socialism, all are equally poor. Not the case for the government aristrocrats. Its like arguing capitalism vs socialism on merits when socialism is a lie. Guess the same thing could be said for Cronyism
Indeed, the senior socialist political elite always live much more opulently than the masses. There is always a class divide. Even more drastically in socialist governments. It's just a way for those party elites to take control of everything and everyone while promising them a utopian lie that can never be delivered.
I believe capitalism is the best system. The problem that is hard for me to understand is the 2008 banking bail out and the homeowners that were left out of all of that. Maybe that was not capitalism at work at all, just welfare for the rich?
The bailout wasn't capitalism as much as crony politicians paying for support using your money. The communist always talk about the greater good, while it makes the greater population poorer, makes friends of the bureau wealthy.
Upper echelon gov't corruption inherently grows, along with bureaucratic self indulgence, the longer a state exists. Checks & balances only slows such things. Doesn't matter what form of gov't it is, capitalist, socialist, monarchist. At least capitalist western republics theoretically have some form of pushback available against open corruption, until the latter gains enough power to circumvent it.
@Joshua Wadsworth Crony Capitalism. Those banks that did not make political contributions like Washington Mutual were not bailed out, went under. Many non political banks left behind.
The band she talks about is named Shturcite which means "The Crickets" and the only reason I know this is because I had a Great-Uncle who after serving in WWII worked in the US intelligence services behind the iron curtain and when he died in 1997 his daughter gave me his records he collected from behind the iron curtain because I was always into music. I still have their record called XX (20th century). I always found Eastern European music from that time to be very interesting. I'm not a communist or anything. But as a cold war kid I always wondered what music was like on the other side of the wall, because before 1989 to 1991 no one in the west really knew.
@@hennagaijin7856 If you really want to annoy them, tell them the definition of socialism is "state control of the means of production." They will try to correct you by saying it's actually the "people," but then remind them that individuals have no say - only those at the top.
@@mikeguilmette776 It's a bit funny to talk about "means of production to the people" in America, because we have exported all means of production to China.
@@CameraMystique Well, that's changing as we speak, since China is on the decline. Second, those decisions were not carried out at the explicit direction of the state.
@@mikeguilmette776 I went to high school with those who are now "the State". They were not the smartest in any class. And then they decided to isolate themselves from the real practice of any profession, by becoming Academics or Politicians... you do the math.
Something i found as a student is that almost no one knows what communism and socialism are. I am in honors 8th grade and literally me and 1 other student knew what it actually meant. This is probably one of the main reasons someone young might start to support it because the first lesson they learn about it is from a source like the new York times or another communist supporting journalism platform.
Here's something that's been around a while that you can show to your classmates to help them understand how it all works: Socialism: If you have two cows, you give one to your neighbor. Communism: If you have two cows, you give them to the Government and the Government then gives you some milk. Fascism: If you have two cows, you keep the cows and give the milk to the Government; then the government sells you some milk. New Dealism: If you have two cows, you shoot one and milk the other; then you pour the milk down the drain. Nazism: If you have two cows, the Government shoots you and keeps the cows. Capitalism: If you have two cows, you sell one and buy a bull.
@@rudyschwab7709 i have been slowly telling them. You see all of the classmates in my honors classes are actually intelligent so they can see the failures of the systems. I've already explained what it is to half of them and they agree it is bad.
@@honeysauce5244 Remember that every capitalist country including the US is a blended system with both socialism and capitalism. If you go to a public school, that's a socialist program that's free for the kids attending but is paid for by everyone including those who don't have kids. The fire department, police department, military, libraries, Medicare, Social Security, etc are paid for by everyone. The socialist debate in America is more to move toward a system more like many European countries where we still have capitalism but would provide things like free healthcare, free college, and paid leave.
They think socialism is basically you take money from billionaires and put it into public programs. And they want an increase of public programs. And when a company makes money, the workers should have a way higher salary, and the CEO should have a much smaller salary. And everyone has an equal share in the company they work for, even if they only just joined and the founder risked and sacrificed everything to start the company, they should have an equal share. Basically, unintelligent low skilled workers who just showed up should reap huge rewards from a company even though they took none of the risk in starting it. Socialists have a thief mindset.
Root out all the corruption in government that allows these big corporations to continue to keep getting larger and capitalism will flourish. The younger generations don't understand the benefits of capitalism because they sadly haven't experienced it in its purest form.
Love it! I've been in numerous Communist and authoritarian countries where people literally are slaves. They have little choice in what job they do, spiriuality they can pursue, or even what's available at the stores. A rocket scientist makes the same amount of money as a street sweeper, so there is little motivation to thrive and become the best you can be. It's a system where the leaders are extremely wealthy (not so different than America) but the regular people cannot make many choices for themselves and by default have much less opportunity and have very few choices available compared to Westerners.
I love seeing young people thinking and using their brains. It's easy to say you want socialism because you care about people but it doesn't take too much digging to see that socialism hurts people far more than capitalism ever could. Most of the flaws that capitalism has comes from government-controlled entities or monopolies. These things are supposed to be small and non-existent under capitalism so when people are criticizing capitalism they're usually criticizing socialism and they don't realize it.
I'm first generation Bulgarian born in America. My grandmother is turning 90 in May of 2023. Her stories would absolutely floor you. She faced poverty, starvation, torture, slavery, rape and the death of loved ones to come to this country. Watched communist soldiers beat and butcher innocent village people. Her own family members stabbed or starved to death. She and my grandfather (RIP) survived Bulgaria, Serbia and Belgium in post world war 2 and she was pregnant at 15! They lived in refugee camps and ate moldy food. Learned new languages to find work and shelter. Nearly losing their lives to mercenary soldiers in Serbia. The list goes on and on. They risked everything to leave their homes to come to the USA. Not for a vacation but to survive. They left the people they loved and the land their ancestors farmed in order to have the mere hope of a better life. Just a glimmer was enough to motivate their journey to a completely different continent and they had absolutely nothing! Where their work gave them merit and their money gave them freedom. My baba survived so much tragedy and even today she mires in so much illness but you know what? Her spirit is not broken. Her heart is full of love and joy for her family and her fellow human. You can't make a person like her without woe and yet there is no stronger kind of person. When I see these people in media crying and shouting for communism I want them to be flung into space. They have no clue - not a single sober thought - about what they think they are arguing for. I am in a state of such deep appreciation for my grandparents and my own parents. Yet, I am also struck with such intense pity for my beautiful country. This is supposed to be the freest place on Earth. The best attempt by man in the history of mankind to create a society where every person has a fair chance. To at least try to be who they want. To live how they want. To see so many young minds learn hate and persecute their fellow Americans just about brings me to tears. Where is the brotherhood? Where is the compassion? Think of the great men like Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy who literally gave their lives to do one thing: Unite the common people. To help us learn how to enjoy our differences and to protect that belief. Through work, morals and principles. To desire to be good. For that is what the good heart wants. To love thy neighbor and find peace of mind. I am truly the saddest I have ever been in my life and I can only imagine what my baba must think. Somehow I still have hope. I have hope in the young. It is them after all that will change the world. Not us. We will only cry for it but they, I hope, will fight for it.
After the fall of communist party in 1989, the newly formed Bulgarian government gave the land and houses back to the original owners. You should go back and claim your ancestors' land back. I am from Hong Kong and moved to Bulgaria this year. From the Bulgarian people I have met I don't see anyone really hated or scared of communism. I have been told in tours they had a pretty good life back then, every family got an apartment, had a job, and education is free for all. They can travel to other communist countries, and they seem very proud and content with that. It almost seems that they missed the communist days. Comparatively, it seems way worse in China under communist rule.
@@jesusissavior333 Well, I agree with you on the issue of socialism and Communism these days. After all, what happened in some of the supposed socialist or Communist nations have NOT been based on REAL or TRUE socialism and that some of the policies of those countries just did not seem to go in the right direction at all. They only had failed to follow the philosophical statements of Marx, Engels, and Lenin in the end.
I'm a 55 year old highschool dropout, but I built my first small home on a mortgaged 1 acer lot back in 1992. Now where I live is paid for & I've been renting out my first home since 2015. That rent $ has more than paid: for the house, the lot & the interest on the lot. The way I did it back then is unavailable to you young people today & it's all because of government control closing in tighter & tighter every single year. It make me sad to know how much freedom has been lost, just in my lifetime. Never give up, never give in & never bow down. Home ownership w/out a mortgage should be your goal. Buy small, buy ragged & fix it up yourself. Last word: get out of debt & stay out of debt, FAST.
John is the best. He understands private beats public anytime - except for the pay and perks and qualified immunity bureaucrats have granted themselves. Please do a video about social workers, police, dog catchers, and our friendly postman- what they really do.
I’ve been saying this for a while now: I think what today’s youth needs is some punk rock. Not having a creative outlet and not having any real sense of camaraderie leaves them feeling hopeless. The baby boomers had all their outlets, free love, rebellious music, etc. Today’s youth are way more restricted in so many ways. Anything they do that resembles being original or unique is immediately shot down from the thought that there’s no way it’s a good idea. This not only suffocates their hope and motivation, but stifles innovation and originality.
A lot of youth culture these days seems self-sanitized. Vaping fruit flavors instead of smoking, razor scooters and full pads instead of skateboards, and rap and indy sounding music that takes itself too seriously.
As the old saying goes "you can always vote your way into Socialism, but you will have to shoot your way out of it".
And they often do shoot their way out when they realize what it's like under that particular jackboot.
Second Amendment is rather important.
@@eos_2366 Because they could barely afford food, let alone bullets 😂
@@eos_2366 Socialist Russia WAS socialism though. It was exactly the same as Socialist Germany under Hitler, Socialist China under Mao, Socialist Iraq under Saddam Hussein , etc. All of them enjoyed slavery of the citizenry & rampant mass murder.
@@eos_2366 Well, Yeltsin did need to shell the Duma to finally oust the hardliners . . .
John Stossel does such great and vitally important work.
I want to know why John never does one over National Socialism, Seems no one of these people want to discuss the truth of WW2 NatSoc Germany and its success that was only ruined by war brought on by Politics, money/bankers.
Yes this is a great video. I always liked John Stossel. Couldn't find him on tv anymore. Glad I discovered his youtube channel.
Interesting and entertaining but “important?” No as much as this man has covered stories time and time again he’s never taken seriously and nothing ever changes, great Journalist all the same.
Indeed
@@nobodyspecial6267 He has 799,000 subscribers. America has too many perpetual children. No. Things are not going to get better. It would take another "Great Depression" to force young Americans to grow up. Hunger makes you grow up fast. When FDR was president, children were eating out of garbage cans in the big cities. As FDR was punishing farmers for not plowing their crops under and killing enough pigs. FDR made it more difficult to hunt for food. Making it even harder to feed your family. He learned from his "Uncle Joe" Stalin. FDR had his own race-based concentration camps. He had his own Nazi-like master race medical experiments performed on black men. He allowed his party's KKK to run wild. Americans had to grow up fast. Those were the young men who fed their human flesh into Nazi war machines until they choked! In battle after battle!
Just hearing an intelligent young woman who can express her thoughts without saying “like” or “I feel” multiple times per sentence is so refreshing.
100 %
That because the public education (teacher's union) system has spent decades indoctrinating our children. Few escape their agenda lies.
You clearly have never spoken to socialist. Keep staying in your conservative safe space bubble dude lol
@@Hunterchuck See history. "The purpose of Socialism is Communism". - Vladimir Lenin. Communism has killed well over 100 million people, and counting. It has failed, miserably, every time it's been tried, in every decade, on every continent. "Talk to a Socialist"? You mean talk to a student who has ZERO experience with it, but goobles up every word some, "enlightened" academic, spits out? Try talking to someone who has lived under both systems (survived Socialism/Communism). Ask them why they escaped it to live here. Ask them why they don't move back to "Utopia".
Yesss! Our future has hope, and I love it.
My father showed me John Stossel many years ago and I've been philosophically and liberty-minded ever since. My Bulgarian family immigrated to the U.S. two decades ago; this video feels very personal for me.
You are Xristo Botev and Basil Lefski.... Since 1977...
I was fortunate enough to have a high school teacher who showed a few of his videos in class
Something we should ask these kids is “Have you ever been to a socialist country and if not why?”.
Just deport them all to North Korea, that would change their minds
They’ll probably say Norway or Sweden. But not Venezuela or Cuba.
@@Devils.harp.player I've been to Norway and Sweden. They are thre most boring places I've been having traveled all over the world. Just about everything people might enjoy is either regulated heavily or prohibitively expensive due to high taxes.
@@Devils.harp.player just shows socialism, like anything else, has to be done correctly. the standard of living in Norway, Sweden, etc... exceeds America in every way
@@eatpigsnot And Norwegians would be even better off if they didn't live under a socialist system that steals their wealth.
Many of my socialist loving professors would say you “brainwash” these “gullible” students with your videos. Keep on producing them. Discussion of ideas is a good thing.
Those professors are angry that Stossel’s brain washing is more effective than theirs.
Stossel is rather un-brainwashing these students! Some of those socialist professors need to quit their jobs.
Free thought is important to prosperity.
@@thelefthandedshooter5760 Stossel actively engages in debate and discussion with those of opposing views. His Stossel in the classroom website has an entire section dedicated to examining 2 sides of an issue.
Yes the brainwashed Marxist professors do think that.
God bless her!
We need more people like her.
The weird thing for me was that college made me less liberal. They taught all these concepts but the problem is that none of those concepts stand up to logical reasoning and questions. In fairness, I also approach things from a scientific standpoint. Most college students say they do, but they actually don’t because they never question anything
@@colten53 and that’s the main problem , most kids in college don’t think critically and look for the real world application. Instead they just go with the herd.
@@cajun1253 here's a real world application, and let me preface this by pointing out that this video began by saying how crazy it was that some Americans want more laws.
In some states, car insurance companies tie your credit score to the cost of your insurance premium. I.e., bad credit = high premium. Their reasoning is that "there is a correlation between credit score and risky driving." Well, anyone who went to college probably took a logic course and one of the first things he learned in that course is that correlation isn't causation. Now, in this capitalist nation, the number one CAUSE of bankruptcy is medical debt, because capitalism. Bankruptcy is a direct CAUSE of a poor credit score. In short, when a bad run of luck puts you in the hospital and financially ruins you, your car insurance will go up - in some states - for something that was completely unrelated to the risk associated with you being a driver. Do you know why it wouldn't happen in all states? Because some states have made laws against insurance companies doing that. But why? I mean, car insurance companies are just capitalizing, right? Yet they probably call these kinds of laws Socialist.
"Socialism" is just a fear-mongering word, and I would fiercely contend that laws like what I described above do need to be in place. There is a difference between opportunism and capitalism, and if striking down opportunism is socialist, so be it. Whether or not a business practice is legal is a very low bar to set for standard of excellence.
I had a high school teacher who would show us Stossel videos (10 years ago now) and I am so grateful that they did. John Stossel is the unappreciated voice of the the people.
I agree. In school in the 70s, we were shown films taken out of the Nazi deathcamps. Also, films of the results of those two Atomic Bombs dropped on Japan. And films of men and women tied to posts. Japanese soldiers had cut their breasts and sex organs off. The soldiers were laughing. The victims' mouths were wide open. Turning their lungs inside out. We were also shown people Japanese doctors were dissecting, while they were alive. This is what happens when the people have no guns. America's 120 million gun owners could be 120 million freedom fighters. Just as Hitler took the Jews' guns, the Socialist Democrats want our guns.
remember when 20/20 was actually a prime time news program? Remember when "Nightline", with Ted Koppel, was too?
Stossel is a narrow minded idiot. Every economy on earth is a balance between socialism and capitalism. Only libertarian psychopaths try to convince you otherwise.
I really appreciate this video and you reaching out to these kids.
I was a student at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. I went for free because I was from a low income house. I didn’t have a dad for most of my life, and my mom was never in the picture. I was raised by my grandma.
I began studying economics on my own time, and read Thomas Sowell in high school. I then went to college to study economics and political science. I was the first in my family to go, and the first to even finish high school.
I swear to god, one of the first few weeks there a kid had a Socialists of America stand, advertising Che Guevara. I had to to listen to professors lecture us on black people not wanting to get shot in their daily life. I had to take a privilege test.
After Covid happened, and one semester after tuition rising even though overhead dropped and all classes were online, I dropped out of college to see what I could do to help stop this, and began interning in the state Senate. Then I was hired, and within 2.5 years, I managed my first campaign, helped get a strong conservative elected, and secured a career in what I want to do without having to give these colleges a penny.
Your description of your personal life doesn't help your case at all. The majority of kids will become socialist because business owners and landlords are too greedy. When people work hard and still can barely survive the cost of living, that's when they get radicalized. This has happened throughout the world in history. Happened in Russia which lead to the Soviet Revolution, and it's happened in America too with the many battles that the working class fought such as the Battle of Blair Mountain for starters. The working class formed many unions and kept fighting for better conditions, which you now get to enjoy.
I suppose ignorance is bliss for you though. Keep voting in Republicans that will keep pushing people into socialism with their terrible policies or lack there of.
Awesome.
Fantastic
Thank you for helping Michigan! It really needs your help.
The key components for success is drive and ambition......not a degree.
This gave me hope for the young students in college! Thank u John! Keep educating…ALL OF US! 😊
Don't worry, when she leaves her house and engages with regular people and the terrible economy, she will become radicalized to the left. Her perspective is very shallow and lacks any real understanding of how the world actually works.
There is still hope. I'm ex-Army and fought in Iraq. IYKYK....... Today's military gives me hope. Lots of it. There are still those who will raise their hand and 'support and defend the United States Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.' We older guys give the younger guys some grief, but it's all in good fun. The military is one of the few institutions left in this country that respects its elders and their wisdom.
I would like to point out no socialist country has ever solved inequality.
neither has any capitalist country
Yea, only theoretically equal.
@@eatpigsnot There's a difference in the paradigm in that only one mindset thinks that it's inherently a problem that needs solving.
despite that, socialist countries provide more benefits for its citizens with the same economic growth.
@@energeticstunts993 That's just false. The data bears out that someone moving from a socialist country to a place like the USA for instance will do significantly better than if they had stayed in their home country where 60+% of their income goes to taxes that provide services that they might use sometimes.
I really hope that your foundation takes off in schools our children Need people like you to help motivate them and inspire them to be better humans.
Programs like this only work when you have teachers willing to introduce them to the children. The sad reality is that too many current teachers actively indoctrinate children into socialism.
If you took all the money in the world and divided it up equally among everybody, it would soon all be back in the same pockets. And that's the way it is. Thank you for your thoughtful videos and especially Stossel In the Classroom. You're a helper.
I'm seventy, and my dad use to tell me that exact truth when I was young... and he emphasized it would only take about six months.
Ummmm that’s not socialism
It's actually worse than that, if everybody had $10M for example, there would be nobody doing the jobs that make the whole thing work. Money would then become the most useless thing you could have and humanity back at square 1.
@@Space-Diver not if we got rid of money altogether and embraced a resource based economy ala The Venus Project
If I won a million dollars tomorrow, I couldn't spend it all, too old.
My only problem with this video is when Stossel calls them kids. I teach at a college, and more than 90% of my colleagues also call them kids. These are young men and women. I have to admit, when I first started teaching, I too called them kids, but something in me clicked and said “They are old enough to die in a war; therefore, I am going to stop calling them kids.” As Marine and Iraqi War Veteran myself, I knew they were adult, and when I started telling my brain to stop calling them kids, the dynamic of the classroom completely changed. I think that I also became a better teacher too because of it.
Some very young "kids" fed their human flesh into Nazi war machines until they choked. But men grew up fast back then. There was something called the Great Depression. That FDR's New Deal caused. I am sure you have read FDR's Folly. How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression. By Jim Powell. Also, The Jews Should Keep Quiet. By Rafael Medoff. For years, FDR was in love with Mussolini. He never lost his love for his "Uncle Joe" and "Blood Brother" Stalin. FDR had a deep dislike for Churchill. Churchill said something that later came out in history books. FDR's New Deal caused his Great Depression. That means FDR starved Americans to death. He forced farmers to plow crops under, as Americans were already starving. He allowed the Socialist Democrats' KKK to run wild. FDR was not just a Jew-hating racist, he was a eugenicist. No interracial marriage allowed. The tracks leading to the deathcamps could have been bombed. FDR said no. He was more worried about saving some famous dancing horses. FDR never asked other countries to take in any Jews. He, in fact, said Jews caused the stock market crash and the Great Depression, and that he understood why some hate Jews. When young, he said there were too many Jews in law school. FDR refused to see an Olympic gold medalist. Because he was black. Hitler saw him. FDR refused. I have been forced to believe education in America died with my World War Two vet teachers! Those who do not know history will repeat past generations' mistakes. The first shots fired in the American Revolution were over the human right to own and carry guns. Tools of freedom. We now have a senile Socialist president who said he would use nukes on America's 120 million gun owners. "To save lives" with gun control. Just as when Hitler took the Jews' guns. Some years back, he said allowing blacks and whites in the same schools would turn them into racial jungles.
Jason: Don’t get so hung up on semantics.
They are kids. Pre frontal cortex does not mature until mid 20's. I stopped making foolish decisions around age 27. Not sure if it was the maturity of my pre frontal cortex or getting married did it. 20 some years later, 3 kids and still married.
It isn't necessarily an "insult" to call young people "kids." While we all hated that when we were adolescents ourselves, including myself, I have come to understand it as sort of a term of affection. After all, to me, at 71 this October, more than half the population literally were children well with the last 40 years. Someone who is 50 wasn't even born until 1973. In 1973, I was 21. So, it's all relative to one's perspective and, trust me, your perspective will change as you age.
You have it backwards. We're sending kids to die in wars.
It feels me with joy to hear students discussing ideas freely and using logic. The winner of the competition is very sharp and articulate, congratulations!
"I don't trust myself enough with my own money. I best give it to the government, they knows what's best for me."
Not "best give it" that would have socialist willfully giving the money, it's more of a "better tell others who to vote for until my people are elected so I can finally have this money compelled from me".
In reality: "I don't trust myself with my own money so I'll give it to someone else to mismanage, and everyone else must also do so, .... or else ..."
"Don't worry. If you just give _me_ the power, I'll do it _right."_
Definitely never heard that one before.
A friend of mine told me a story of a philosophy class he took at Drexel 10+ years ago. The professor decided that the best way to get students to challenge him was to start by taking the most extreme, outlandish, and racist positions possible from the start of the class in order to provoke them.
Most students still refused to stand up to the crackpot ideas the professor was suggesting.
Kids are brainwashed into just accepting whatever an authority figure tells them to believe. I'm glad to see some kids haven't been taken in by the nonsense, but it doesn't stop the schools from effectively being indoctrination centers focused towards unreasonable collectivist fantasies.
Because they're shy, disinterested, hung over, playing on their computers in class, not wanting potential public humiliation, or just kinda there for the class credits. There's a difference between actual refusal, and simple inaction. You might have a few odd ducks who leap at the opportunity for some debate but that's not most people.
When I was in college, I was the only person in an auditorium U.S. Government class of 150 who would speak out against the pompous professor, and for my troubles I was berated by my fellow students.
I’m not paying 20000 a year for my professor to give a bad grade
I was the only “realist” in any of my Drexel Political Science courses. I had more in common with my older professors than my classmates. Most of these students have had their heads buried under the sand their entire lives. They’re just walking talking points, with zero original thoughts. It’s a shame.
GLAD TO HEAR IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have been showing these to my students for years.......thank you John! Still miss your 20/20 segments!!! :)
Great. Perhaps you can show them the films I saw in the early 70s. Films taken out of the Nazi deathcamps. They need to know what happens when government takes your guns. My World War Two vet and Holocaust survivor teachers are gone. One was a Bataan Death March survivor. One, a Holocaust survivor. Another one grew up under Nazism. We were told the Nazis put Jewish flesh in cans and fed it to their solders. Jews were used in horrible medical experiments. I read about the "White Rose." The White Rose is mentioned in John Grit's Feathers on the Wings of Love and Hate. Let the Gun Speak. Find his books at Amazon. Grit's books expose the verities of the human heart.
Seriously, John is looking suave for being damn near 80. Dude looks like he’s getting younger with each video.
Seriously he's that age I honestly thought that he was years younger than that he looks fantastic for his age
He looks fantastic at 76 yrs old. I would have guessed 64 (just because of how long he has been on TV) but even then I would have added that he doesn’t look anywhere near 64
He's hiding wrinkles w/facial hair.
The benefits of capitalism extend into moisturizers and plastic surgery.
As a post-communist child in my country, growing up listening to the stories of my parents and close family who lived through it, it's far from idealistic the youth believe in will make their lives better, because it won't. If they think that capitalism creates inequality, they should see what happened during socialism then. Not to mention that the USSR restricted our own innovations to the point where many clever heads have fled for the US or other countries where they had actual freedom and could thrive on their inventions. Being occupied by Russians was no joke and frankly, we managed to have a peaceful transition of power back to the hands of the people who were born and lived in the Czechoslovakia, at that time, thanks to the Velvet Revolution.
sorry to tell you this but what you lived through is called "state capitalism"; we don't even have the technology to try communism as it necessitates machines doing ALL the work (and I actually doubt such a state is possible)
Sorry to tell you this but as far as I can tell it was communism.
@@larrote6467 funny, communism in practice always ends up that way. Words are meaningless, if we can see what Communist do in action.
a few things I wanna point out: communism is not synonymous with dictatorship. You can have socialism with the market economy of socialism but without the dictator censoring things for you. I don't know why people think that socialism is going to limit personal freedom, if anything it's going to improve it. The USSR never restricted their own innovations, had the USSR continued, they would've taken over the USA in terms of GDP. The USSR had a powerful army as well, enough to even put America on the edge, they literally competed in the race war with America, despite America starting out much richer and having more time to develop, the USSR was quickly catching up.
@@energeticstunts993 That's just wrong. What happens to dissenters in a communist state? What if I decide that I don't want to "own nothing and be happy"? I mean, if we look at the USSR, dissenters got forced into gulags in Siberia where they were worked to death chopping lumber to fund the very state that turned them into slaves for having a "wrong opinion".
Trying my best to promote these videos in India. These are eye opening knowledge.
Is India having problems with socialism, too? If so, you have my condolences
@@johntheherbalistg8756 - Actually we started with socialism after our independence in 1947. Till 1992 we were about to be bankrupt, at that time our then Prime Minister P.V Narsimha Rao changed the policy and liberalised our economy. But still the country is infested with leftist socialists and communists who create narrative of how capitalists are cruel, evil monsters and they are the saviours.
@@priyabratasinha1478 I guess that explains a lot about immigrants from India. Good luck fighting that, my friend
If you need more democracy in India let me know. I got a buddy of mine ready to invade to help take out the socialists that the British left behind
@@hennagaijin7856 Yes, India really took off after moving toward capitalism. I think it was Thomas Friedman who discussed it at length about when Nehru was Prime Minister.
Keep fighting the good fight John! I'm glad that you are here!
Some of my favoring videos for my homeschool co-op growing up were the Stossel ones. Loved how even handed his interviews were where he would always take the opposing side in an interview even if it were a faction he agreed with.
This woman is wise beyond her years. I'm a huge fan of hers.
Direct action is how we change this world, and you are doing that with your life, John. Maximum respect.
hell yea stossel!!!
Not direct action alone. There's also practicing what you preach by having integrity and being ethical. that is especially been proven to be important for parents today. to prove that, all you have to do is look at the parenting "style" received by 90% of convicted felons.
To me direct action means taking to the streets and taking the country back from the criminals in office and in our institutions. And I'd gladly stake my life on that.
I had Professor Tokarev for comparative economics. One of my most informative classes with fun material. Glad to see he is still doing well!
I invested utilising professor Tokarev's method and now I own 3 shopping centres
Tbh John Stossel has been the biggest influence for me as a young man when it comes to politics.. now I am a libertarian and trying to get to NH from Greece! Keep up the amazing work!!
Great video. I hope you're well John. Thank you for doing what you do, in spite of it all.
If older and presumably wiser people can't get socialism to work, why do the arrogant youth believe they can make it work? These kids that participated in this contest will one day be leaders and I commend them on their work!
The easy answer is because of what is and isn't taught in schools these days. The evils of Germany before and during WWII are taught but little is mentioned of what happened in the Soviet Union, China, N.Korea, or any other socialist/communist countries around the same time period and after. Academia is full of people that think these forms of government have never been "properly tried" and that they have the right answers and that if they could implement it then it would work even with all the evidence to the contrary.
Because they’re brainwashed to think the world always needs drastic changes every generation. The older you get, you realize that stability, freedom and slightly optimizing certifying mechanisms in society gets you farther than handing over your rights to a central system who is almost always corrupt.
Decentralizing encourages debate and accountability. Freedom is what promotes innovation of thought and ideas.
To be fair, Biden isn't exactly wiser
because they live in fantasy island whilst having the advantages of capitalism. They also are brainwashed by the corrupted education system
because it's new to them and fresh trends. they'll get bored eventually. they are good at listening since it's easy to hack an impressionable mind. most dont think, their glued to phones and tech and are told.
A small and limited government is ESSENTIAL!!!
That young lady gives me hope for our youth!
I first encountered Stossel in my Government and Economics class in 07, when my teacher showed us the video about pan handling. She also pushed back when students were saying (as they'd been taught since elementary school) that minimum wage was basically self-evidently good.
and?
Minimum wage jobs were originally for high school teens. Not jobs for adults. Why should putting burgers in a bag pay enough to live well on?
If employers could pay people nothing but room and board, they would. See: The Confederacy. Is this socialism?
"Federal Reserve to lend additional $1 trillion a day to large banks"
-PBS
@@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL Avoid being "mistreated" by employers by starting your own business. The last job I had was in 1975. But you will soon learn that you can work over 100 hours a week and make nothing. That is when you grow up and face the real world.
@@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL When the banks went under, that was the beginning of the Great Depression that FDR made much worse. We no longer have real men, or women, anymore. If he had another Great Depression, the Democrat ruined cities would burn to the ground. And millions would starve.
I wish we could hold politicians accountable for the oath of office that they take when sworn in. As we all know, they swear to uphold the constitution and it is hard to find one that has actually done that.
I don't give a flying F about the american constitution if it's wrong. It's not a force of nature. I would say it is illegal in that it cannot be changed. That's not a democracy.
Do you how much that thing weighs?
Love your work John ❤
If you are reading this or responding to this. It's because Capitalism made it possible.
Remember...you can be a socialist in a Capitalist society. You can't be a Capitalist in a Socialist society
I really dont see how this is an argument for what you call a "capitalist" society. All you are saying is that you wont deal with disruptive elements while the other side will.
Capitalism and communism are both entirely ✡ish concepts.
@@miniaturejayhawk8702 It's all ✡ish and all bad. We need to honor our ancestors and go back to a more natural way of living instead of living in this ✡ish clown world.
@@miniaturejayhawk8702 glad you joined the conversation. Capitalism made this possible.
We need socialist institutions like the police and hopefully healthcare. We need capitalism for freedom. To solve the problem of lack of meaning we need education on making life meaningful. Right now the reason to work is to own more things, the reason should be to help more people.
This gives me hope for the future of this country.
John you are a GREAT American 🇺🇸
That was refreshing to hear! Definitely a silver sliver in a very dark cloud!!
Welfare doesn’t just incentives the people to not work. It incentives the company to pay lower and let the gov absorb the remainder.
My faith in the younger generation is increased somewhat by this video!
if schools actually went into the details of what socialism entails, nobody would support it
therefore, they cover it up with feel-good words and private ownership as being inherently evil
(they even go so far as to call the nazis capitalists without realizing that the nazis saw capitalism and jews as the same inherently evil thing)
Seeing this young woman getting the point that our liberties and freedoms can be easily lost while hard to get back gives me hope that not all young people are mindless lemmings who will follow liberal politicians and socialists off a cliff.
Refreshing to see these good looking young folk talk rationally.
Congratulations Kristin from a fellow "Woodie"
Smart kids. Maybe the future is not doomed. There's hope with young folks like these
I educated my own kids about the stupidity of communism and socialism.
Don't be fooled by the sheer number of misguided people my age. We aren't all the same and there are a lot of us who understand the true dangers of not only government overreach, but also of socialism and communism. It is refreshing to see the smart ones take center stage tho for a change
@@adamcheeseplease Her perspective is too shallow and if she has a discussion with her socialist peers, she will find that out pretty fast.
Another great video, I applaud these young people who see the truth behind the wall being built today.
Most of the problems socialists/communists point toward aren't a cause of free market capitalism because our economy is a mixed economy, not a full free market.
Yes, it's either a (unfree) market distorted by governmafia intervention, and/or corrupted by cronyism.
Greetings from Bulgaria. We do need more students and videos like this too.
Поздрави от Пловдив!
Been listening to John since the 60's. Yes, I'm old. I Have lived in one of the most tumultuous eras in this nation's history. Ain't it great.
Stay strong, young woman! Too many of my generation have simply capitulated, and here we are.
Ya, but what's a woman? LOL
@@my3dviews Since I was born with the equipment, I pretty much know :-)
@@vickiroman189 Also helps to have a brain, which a lot of people seem to lack today.
@@my3dviews 100%.
She'll do fine. She's a spoiled child who will never work a real job so she'll stay firm in her ignorance. Most of the youngsters will get paid the bare minimum and get overworked, to then come to extremely high rent prices from greedy landlords. Most youngers will understand how the world really works. Her? Nah, she'll do fine!
Thanks for making your videos .
When they say you aren't allowed this or that under socialism, you need to ask who is making the rules and why do they get to make them over your decision to debate them. The loss of freedom is the loss of life itself.
Also, socialism is never for the socialists, it's for everyone else, while those in charge don't suffer the same BS.
John, that turtleneck-suit combo is quite something. The fact one of your guests had it too was pretty funny. I must be behind the times in terms of fashion.
3:29 Perfectly said👏🏼. Want something that you don't know about👀😪
People like to tweet how they hate capitalists from their iPhone while sitting in a starbucks
Thank you for your content.
Brilliant as always! We need this now more than ever. Thanks John!
I DO NOT want more government. NOT AT ALL. I want less government involvement. Much much less.
Nah, you love it. That's why people like you vote for republicans that use government to get REALLY involved in our lives. I don't buy the "I want small government" remarks from your ilk anymore lol
Well done John, and she's brilliant.
Share this with every person, especially teachers, you know!
Gotta love Ari Melber $1.5M a year talking to Micheal Moore net worth $55M about the horrors of capitalism. Irony at its finest.
I thought that was one of the most ironic moments in this video. Two people who have benefited tremendously from capitalism, decrying it. It’s disturbing though, because they don’t see it as hypocrisy, rather than their privilege.
Exactly. If these supporters of socialism actually practiced what they preached and still demonstrated content and happiness, we may take them slightly more serious.
There is absolutely no evidence where socialism is an exemplary system beneficial to an entire population.
Pockets of it can thrive under capitalism but to switch completely over would be disastrous...as shown across history.
Sometimes watching the stuff on YT makes me very pessimistic concerning the future of America. Most people are just too stupid to survive without government handouts. But then, I find something like this video and I see young people with brains and ambition. It restores my faith. Thank you.
"Most people are just too stupid to survive without government handouts"
Including all those wonderful capitalists that took PPP loans (hundreds of billions) and the wonderful banks (trillions in quantitative easing).
You're absolutely right all these companies which got government handouts during the pandemic should sink
@@ericpreston8877 That's called LEFTISM. It's literally a core aspect of leftist orthodoxy (tyranny & corruption).
Nice try though. Better luck next time.
@@Archedgar Leftism is just the left-wing of capitalism. The capitalist system requires massive government intervention and always has, from the tariffs of Hamilton's American system and State subsidies for the British East India Company to the New Deal.(which was indeed capitalist - "I am the best friend the profit system has ever had", wrote Franklin Roosevelt to future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter) to Bush's Quantitative Easing and Trump's Paycheck Protection Program.
@@ericpreston8877 Nope.
leftism (tyranny) and the right (liberty) are not the same thing. Nice try though, leftist. Better luck next time.
From one of the silent majority, keep up this always welcome, amazing, information, and perspective! Toronto Fan.
Thank you John. I really appreciate your work.
She is wise beyond her years
I want a hell of lot less government in my life. There is way too much already. I also want a lot of the bureaucracies we have disbanded, like the ATF, FDA, IRS, EPA, and BLM (The Bureau of Land Management,), etc.
You mean "disbanding" like the KGB? Which still exists just with a different name.
Thumbs up for this important video! Because people should be free to listen to stupid songs with awful messages like _Highway To Hell._ Only with the free exchange of ideas (and goods and services) can real progress be made.
@P¡nned_by John Stossel thanks for inviting me to your spam scam! 😂
Happy birthday Mr Stossel
Thank you for your hard work
John Stossel is an American treasure. Continue to fight for honest journalism John.
I’m 57, worked for decades as a sales manager. The past 3 years have been the worst as far as supply, pricing and DEI being shoved down our throats. I’m starting my own small business this year because of these things. In a socialist country I would not have been able to do this.
Best of luck! I hope you do better than your wildest expectations.
Pretty strange then that so many independent companies have started in China. You do know that you can have socialist leaning capitalism? If the laws went back to pre WW2 nobody would have much reason to complain about today's society.
@@lewisgrace7777 Thank you! And yes, they are wild. Never thought I’d be paid to be a pilot but here we are.
Actually, less extreme socialist countries allowed owning small private businesses. Barring growth or hiring non relatives though.
After my first year out of high school, I was self-employed all my life. Until I retired young on my savings and investments, that included a commercial building I paid cash for. Even when I was in high school, I had a lawn-mowing service. Then I went on to better things.
I take issue with the statement that in socialism, all are equally poor. Not the case for the government aristrocrats. Its like arguing capitalism vs socialism on merits when socialism is a lie. Guess the same thing could be said for Cronyism
Indeed, the senior socialist political elite always live much more opulently than the masses. There is always a class divide. Even more drastically in socialist governments. It's just a way for those party elites to take control of everything and everyone while promising them a utopian lie that can never be delivered.
exactly, with any govt, it's always the elites that are richer than everyone else
Tears of joy at the proof that there young Americans that are thinking for themselves! TFS
A glimmer of hope from our youth. it only takes a spark to start a fire.
A lot of news makes me frustrated and hateful... But John always moves me to shed a tear. Truth is most powerful when it is felt.
I believe capitalism is the best system. The problem that is hard for me to understand is the 2008 banking bail out and the homeowners that were left out of all of that. Maybe that was not capitalism at work at all, just welfare for the rich?
Bingo
The bailout wasn't capitalism as much as crony politicians paying for support using your money. The communist always talk about the greater good, while it makes the greater population poorer, makes friends of the bureau wealthy.
Upper echelon gov't corruption inherently grows, along with bureaucratic self indulgence, the longer a state exists. Checks & balances only slows such things. Doesn't matter what form of gov't it is, capitalist, socialist, monarchist. At least capitalist western republics theoretically have some form of pushback available against open corruption, until the latter gains enough power to circumvent it.
That would be cronyism
@Joshua Wadsworth Crony Capitalism. Those banks that did not make political contributions like Washington Mutual were not bailed out, went under. Many non political banks left behind.
She gives me hope.
John doing great work like always. Always a classy guy, too.
My favorite journalist! 👏👏🙏🙏
The band she talks about is named Shturcite which means "The Crickets" and the only reason I know this is because I had a Great-Uncle who after serving in WWII worked in the US intelligence services behind the iron curtain and when he died in 1997 his daughter gave me his records he collected from behind the iron curtain because I was always into music. I still have their record called XX (20th century). I always found Eastern European music from that time to be very interesting. I'm not a communist or anything. But as a cold war kid I always wondered what music was like on the other side of the wall, because before 1989 to 1991 no one in the west really knew.
Socialists: Capitalism will lead to monopolies!
Also socialists: Lets give all power and all property to one single entity! That will solve it!
@@hennagaijin7856 If you really want to annoy them, tell them the definition of socialism is "state control of the means of production." They will try to correct you by saying it's actually the "people," but then remind them that individuals have no say - only those at the top.
@@mikeguilmette776 It's a bit funny to talk about "means of production to the people" in America, because we have exported all means of production to China.
@@CameraMystique Well, that's changing as we speak, since China is on the decline. Second, those decisions were not carried out at the explicit direction of the state.
@@mikeguilmette776 I went to high school with those who are now "the State". They were not the smartest in any class. And then they decided to isolate themselves from the real practice of any profession, by becoming Academics or Politicians... you do the math.
@@CameraMystique I encountered them as well. You're not wrong.
Something i found as a student is that almost no one knows what communism and socialism are. I am in honors 8th grade and literally me and 1 other student knew what it actually meant. This is probably one of the main reasons someone young might start to support it because the first lesson they learn about it is from a source like the new York times or another communist supporting journalism platform.
Here's something that's been around a while that you can show to your classmates to help them understand how it all works:
Socialism: If you have two cows, you give one to your neighbor.
Communism: If you have two cows, you give them to the Government and the Government then gives you some milk.
Fascism: If you have two cows, you keep the cows and give the milk to the Government; then the government sells you some milk.
New Dealism: If you have two cows, you shoot one and milk the other; then you pour the milk down the drain.
Nazism: If you have two cows, the Government shoots you and keeps the cows.
Capitalism: If you have two cows, you sell one and buy a bull.
@@rudyschwab7709 i have been slowly telling them. You see all of the classmates in my honors classes are actually intelligent so they can see the failures of the systems. I've already explained what it is to half of them and they agree it is bad.
@@honeysauce5244 Remember that every capitalist country including the US is a blended system with both socialism and capitalism. If you go to a public school, that's a socialist program that's free for the kids attending but is paid for by everyone including those who don't have kids. The fire department, police department, military, libraries, Medicare, Social Security, etc are paid for by everyone. The socialist debate in America is more to move toward a system more like many European countries where we still have capitalism but would provide things like free healthcare, free college, and paid leave.
They think socialism is basically you take money from billionaires and put it into public programs. And they want an increase of public programs. And when a company makes money, the workers should have a way higher salary, and the CEO should have a much smaller salary. And everyone has an equal share in the company they work for, even if they only just joined and the founder risked and sacrificed everything to start the company, they should have an equal share.
Basically, unintelligent low skilled workers who just showed up should reap huge rewards from a company even though they took none of the risk in starting it.
Socialists have a thief mindset.
Root out all the corruption in government that allows these big corporations to continue to keep getting larger and capitalism will flourish. The younger generations don't understand the benefits of capitalism because they sadly haven't experienced it in its purest form.
I'm glad John Stossel is promoting the next generation of liberty defenders.
Long live our constitutional republic through uncensored discussion and free exchange of ideas!
Let’s all just be thankful that we still have John Stossel.
We need to get you more subribers John. Some of the best content on UA-cam for conservative libertarian values. Thank you
Love it! I've been in numerous Communist and authoritarian countries where people literally are slaves. They have little choice in what job they do, spiriuality they can pursue, or even what's available at the stores. A rocket scientist makes the same amount of money as a street sweeper, so there is little motivation to thrive and become the best you can be. It's a system where the leaders are extremely wealthy (not so different than America) but the regular people cannot make many choices for themselves and by default have much less opportunity and have very few choices available compared to Westerners.
No you haven't lmao
Thank you Stossel, for your work and honesty.
I love seeing young people thinking and using their brains. It's easy to say you want socialism because you care about people but it doesn't take too much digging to see that socialism hurts people far more than capitalism ever could. Most of the flaws that capitalism has comes from government-controlled entities or monopolies. These things are supposed to be small and non-existent under capitalism so when people are criticizing capitalism they're usually criticizing socialism and they don't realize it.
I'm first generation Bulgarian born in America. My grandmother is turning 90 in May of 2023. Her stories would absolutely floor you. She faced poverty, starvation, torture, slavery, rape and the death of loved ones to come to this country. Watched communist soldiers beat and butcher innocent village people. Her own family members stabbed or starved to death. She and my grandfather (RIP) survived Bulgaria, Serbia and Belgium in post world war 2 and she was pregnant at 15! They lived in refugee camps and ate moldy food. Learned new languages to find work and shelter. Nearly losing their lives to mercenary soldiers in Serbia. The list goes on and on. They risked everything to leave their homes to come to the USA. Not for a vacation but to survive. They left the people they loved and the land their ancestors farmed in order to have the mere hope of a better life. Just a glimmer was enough to motivate their journey to a completely different continent and they had absolutely nothing! Where their work gave them merit and their money gave them freedom. My baba survived so much tragedy and even today she mires in so much illness but you know what? Her spirit is not broken. Her heart is full of love and joy for her family and her fellow human. You can't make a person like her without woe and yet there is no stronger kind of person. When I see these people in media crying and shouting for communism I want them to be flung into space. They have no clue - not a single sober thought - about what they think they are arguing for. I am in a state of such deep appreciation for my grandparents and my own parents. Yet, I am also struck with such intense pity for my beautiful country. This is supposed to be the freest place on Earth. The best attempt by man in the history of mankind to create a society where every person has a fair chance. To at least try to be who they want. To live how they want. To see so many young minds learn hate and persecute their fellow Americans just about brings me to tears. Where is the brotherhood? Where is the compassion? Think of the great men like Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy who literally gave their lives to do one thing: Unite the common people. To help us learn how to enjoy our differences and to protect that belief. Through work, morals and principles. To desire to be good. For that is what the good heart wants. To love thy neighbor and find peace of mind. I am truly the saddest I have ever been in my life and I can only imagine what my baba must think. Somehow I still have hope. I have hope in the young. It is them after all that will change the world. Not us. We will only cry for it but they, I hope, will fight for it.
After the fall of communist party in 1989, the newly formed Bulgarian government gave the land and houses back to the original owners. You should go back and claim your ancestors' land back.
I am from Hong Kong and moved to Bulgaria this year. From the Bulgarian people I have met I don't see anyone really hated or scared of communism. I have been told in tours they had a pretty good life back then, every family got an apartment, had a job, and education is free for all. They can travel to other communist countries, and they seem very proud and content with that. It almost seems that they missed the communist days.
Comparatively, it seems way worse in China under communist rule.
@@jesusissavior333 Well, I agree with you on the issue of socialism and Communism these days. After all, what happened in some of the supposed socialist or Communist nations have NOT been based on REAL or TRUE socialism and that some of the policies of those countries just did not seem to go in the right direction at all. They only had failed to follow the philosophical statements of Marx, Engels, and Lenin in the end.
As a 22 year old college student, I hear people blame their problems on capitalism everyday. It's also dangerous to disagree with them
Same thing as a 20 year old - it's really aids when I'm getting to know someone and they seem really nice then pull out some rhetoric
I'm a 55 year old highschool dropout, but I built my first small home on a mortgaged 1 acer lot back in 1992. Now where I live is paid for & I've been renting out my first home since 2015. That rent $ has more than paid: for the house, the lot & the interest on the lot. The way I did it back then is unavailable to you young people today & it's all because of government control closing in tighter & tighter every single year. It make me sad to know how much freedom has been lost, just in my lifetime. Never give up, never give in & never bow down. Home ownership w/out a mortgage should be your goal. Buy small, buy ragged & fix it up yourself.
Last word: get out of debt & stay out of debt, FAST.
@@irishamerican4558 thanks for the advise! I appreciate it
I'm really glad that Stossel in the Classroom exists. Some of my teachers used to have us watch Stossel's videos when he was still on cable.
I didn’t know John Stossel’s videos were shown in any schools…. I send his videos to my teenage son all the time! Love it.
John is the best. He understands private beats public anytime - except for the pay and perks and qualified immunity bureaucrats have granted themselves.
Please do a video about social workers, police, dog catchers, and our friendly postman- what they really do.
So glad to see young generation is able to carry the torch of liberty and freedom.
I’ve been saying this for a while now: I think what today’s youth needs is some punk rock.
Not having a creative outlet and not having any real sense of camaraderie leaves them feeling hopeless. The baby boomers had all their outlets, free love, rebellious music, etc. Today’s youth are way more restricted in so many ways. Anything they do that resembles being original or unique is immediately shot down from the thought that there’s no way it’s a good idea. This not only suffocates their hope and motivation, but stifles innovation and originality.
A lot of youth culture these days seems self-sanitized. Vaping fruit flavors instead of smoking, razor scooters and full pads instead of skateboards, and rap and indy sounding music that takes itself too seriously.
Love your work John, thank you
I watched yoir show in high school back in 2012 the teachers loved yoir show as well. 👍 thank you John
Thank you for exposing this to the youth. Freedom needs this to remain free.