Clueless For Communism

In his show yesterday, Bill Maher ridiculed clueless Millennials for supporting communism (36% of people under 35, he said, want to give it a try). But when he tries to tell them that communism is a bad idea, he says, they tell him he is old and just doesn't get it. "No, I get it," he said. "The problem isn’t that I don’t get what you’re saying or that I’m old, the problem is your ideas are stupid.”

And Maher is right, I suspect, in thinking that many Millennials don't have any inkling what happens when communists take power. Jordan Peterson says that almost none of the students in his University of Toronto psychology classes have ever heard that 60-to-100 million people in Russia, China, and Cambodia lost their lives in disastrous communist attempts to change nature, reality and common sense. But that doesn't matter to social justice warriors, says Peterson. They are unfazed by the mountains of corpses and rivers of blood. They say if they were in charge, this time they'd do it right. "Yes," says Peterson. "And there would be someone standing behind you ready to shoot you the first time you tried to do something good."

I know that my younger relatives and friends already know these things. For Millennials whose high school or college teachers ignored such matters, or never knew of them themselves, here is a graph showing the world population growth rate over the last 60 years. Notice the startling 45% drop in the growth rate between 1958 and 1961. That was caused by China's Great Leap Forward in which 30 million people died.