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<\/a>Americans are increasingly embracing socialism, and this is particularly true for young adults under the age of 30. As you will see below, four out of every ten Americans now prefer socialism to capitalism, and if current trends continue it is just a matter of time before those that prefer socialism are in the majority. Of course our society has already been very heavily socialized. We have been trained to believe that if a problem exists, then it is the job of government to fix it, and over time government on all levels of our system has just gotten bigger and bigger. But what most Americans don\u2019t realize is that the United States never would have become an economic powerhouse without free market capitalism, and the further that we drift away from our roots the deeper that our economic problems will become. We need leaders that are willing to stand up and proudly declare that free market capitalism works incredibly well when the shackles are taken off, and that is precisely\u00a0what I intend to do<\/a>.<\/p>\nNot too long ago, a survey of U.S. adults was conducted by the American Culture and Faith Institute, and the most disturbing thing that was discovered was that\u00a040 percent<\/a>\u00a0of all Americans now \u201cprefer socialism to capitalism\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n \u201cThe most alarming result, according to [George] Barna, was that four out of every ten adults say they prefer socialism to capitalism,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0the ACFI noted in its commentary on the poll. \u201cThat is a large minority,\u201d Barna said, \u201cand it includes a majority of the liberals \u2014 who will be pushing for a completely different economic model to dominate our nation. That is the stuff of civil wars. It ought to set off alarm bells among more traditionally-oriented leaders across the nation.\u2019\u201d That 40 percent of Americans now prefer socialism to capitalism could spell major change to the policies advanced by legislators and political leaders and to the interpretations of judges ruling on the application of new and pre-existing laws.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n So what happens when that figure rises above 50 percent?<\/p>\n Are we going to go down the exact same road that Europe has gone?<\/p>\n And support for socialism is particularly high among our young people. A Gallup poll conducted in 2016 found that an astounding\u00a055 percent<\/a>\u00a0of Americans under the age of 30 \u201chave a positive view of socialism\u201d. Also, a Harvard University study that was reported on by\u00a0the Washington Post<\/a>discovered that 51 percent of U.S. adults under the age of 30 \u201cdo not support capitalism\u201d.<\/p>\n These numbers help to explain why politicians such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have such high levels of support among Millennials. These young people were raised in schools that taught them that we have a \u201cfree market system\u201d in America today, even though that is not really true at all. And as economic conditions deteriorate, millions of these young people are becoming disillusioned. The following comes from an extraordinary piece that was published by\u00a0Business Insider<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n Wages\u00a0are stagnant or falling<\/a>. The costs of health care, child care, and tuition continue to\u00a0rise exponentially<\/a>. Full-time jobs turn into contract positions while benefits are slashed. Middle-class jobs are\u00a0replaced<\/a>\u00a0with low-paying service work. The expectations of American life your parents had when you were born \u2014 that a\u00a0\u201clong boom\u201d<\/a>\u00a0will bring about unparalleled prosperity \u2014 crumble away.<\/p>\n Baby boomers tell you there is a way out: a college education has always been the key to a good job. But that doesn\u2019t seem to happen anymore. The college graduates you know are drowning in\u00a0student debt<\/a>, working for minimum wage, or toiling in unpaid internships. Prestigious jobs are increasingly\u00a0clustered<\/a>\u00a0in cities where rent has tripled or quadrupled in a decade\u2019s time. You cannot afford to move, and you cannot afford to stay. Outside these cities, newly abandoned malls join long abandoned factories. You inhabit a landscape of ruin. There is nothing left for you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Years upon years of \u201ctraining\u201d in our failing system of public education has convinced large numbers of our young people that the solution to our economic ills is to move more toward socialism.<\/p>\n But of course that is about the last thing that we need. What we really need to do is to rediscover the principles that made our economy great in the first place, but there are very few national leaders\u00a0that are standing up for those principles any longer<\/a>.<\/p>\n Socialism simply does not work.<\/p>\n If we continue our steady march down the road toward socialism, we will ultimately end up like all of the other failed socialist experiments\u00a0throughout history<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n Let us look at the socialist alternative favored by Sanders and Warren. The miseries, deprivations, and backwardness it has inflicted on populations wherever and whenever it has been tried are boundless. They amount to the biggest empirical data set of political and economic failure in the history of humankind. In Venezuela, to take only the latest unfortunate experiment, it has meant the world\u2019s largest oil reserves being wasted and stolen\u00a0while children starve<\/a>\u00a0on the streets. The historical legacy of Soviet socialism, National Socialism, and Maoist Communism, to cite the most egregious versions of this poisonous left-wing political ideology, is so well known that it does not need to be rehearsed here.<\/p>\n Even those countries that experienced the more gentle \u201cdemocratic socialism,\u201d such as modern South Africa and Brazil, socialism has allowed corrupt politicians to pilfer state industries while the poor live and die young in slums. Even in the socialized utopias of Europe, it has meant\u00a0destructive<\/a>\u00a0youth unemployment rates, a\u00a0dearth<\/a>\u00a0of innovation, and\u00a0death panels<\/a>in hospitals.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n