The 'Pikers': 1 In 5 College Students Believe US "Deserved" 9/11 & Roughly Half Favor Socialism

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The 'Pikers': 1 In 5 College Students Believe US "Deserved" 9/11 & Roughly Half Favor Socialism Authored by Jonathan Turley via Jonathan Turley,It appears that Hasan Piker is not…

It appears that Hasan Piker is not alone in saying that the United States deserved the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack. As the New York Post reported, a new poll shows that one in five college students say the U.S. deserved the attack that killed nearly 3000 fellow Americans. Forty-two percent said they would prefer to live under socialism, while only 28 percent favor capitalism.

The Buckley Institute poll also found that 38% of students favored Palestine as an ally to 25 percent for Israel.

Roughly half of the students - 47 percent - agreed with this extraordinary statement, "While socialist countries like Cuba and the Soviet Union have not been perfect, they offer a better economic model than capitalist countries like the United States."

These students have been educated in an ideological echo chamber of higher education where conservative and libertarian professors have been gradually eliminated from faculties. They have been taught by faculty who run from the left to the far left. This is the entirety of what they know of socialism. They have no memory or experience with the collapse of such systems in the last century. They hear figures such as Zohran Mamdani offering the "warmth of collectivism" and believe that socialism offers free stuff that the wealthy will have to pay for.

They see Piker prancing around in his Mao suit and have no association with a Cultural Revolution that killed millions.

In "Rage and the Republic, I discuss how this year we are celebrating not just our 250th anniversary as a Republic but the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. The book was not a great success in Great Britain. In addition to its foundational support for capitalism, it challenged the mercantilist policies of the British Empire and supported the claims of the colonies in seeking greater economic freedoms.

Smith, however, was immediately embraced by the founders, who saw his work as the perfect economic theory to advance their political theory.

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