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13370258, And it's working
Posted by Walleye, Tue Mar-03-20 01:37 PM
Maybe not fast enough, but I spent my childhood watching Red Dawn at my Opus Dei neighbor's house* and reflexively cringing at the word "socialism". And that's not really the experience of children growing up now, which is the result of de-fanging the rhetoric around this compassionate ideology devoted to imagining a more equitable world where we recognize our shared humanity and direct our labor towards the ideal that if one of us isn't free than none of us are free.

I also teach about a hundred students per semester and take every possible opportunity to indoctrinate them. I am utterly unemployable in any other field and time is definitely on my side.

*I realize it's odd to say that I spent my childhood watching one particular move, and that's obviously an exaggeration but between the 80's style capitalist paranoia they sought to instill in their kids at a horrifyingly young age and the family's much more supportable love for Patrick Swayze, I'd say I watched it no fewer than two dozen times.