Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Talking Points Memo: Why Do Younger Americans Love Socialism?

Episode Date: May 1, 2019

Younger folks are eating up the Green New Deal. What does that mean for our future? O'Reilly does a nightly 30 minute news broadcast on video. Watch it on BillOReilly.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly, and this is the Talking Points Memo. You know, there's always been a divide between younger Americans and those of us who are more mature, all right, for a better word. There's an old adage, Horace Greeley once said, go west young man. And what Greeley was getting at was that there was far more opportunity to make a good life for yourself in the West. part of the United States in the 19th century, because you could forge your own way, you could build a business or a farm or whatever, self-reliance. Well, now in America, the younger people are going away from the self-reliance deal into the government should provide for us philosophy. And it's very interesting to watch it. The headline here is the Green New Deal and a soundbite

caught my attention. I used it on Bill O'Reilly.com and my analysis there. Beto O'Rourke, fading fast as a Democratic contender because of Mayor Pete, said to a group, said on MSNBC, of course, I want to make sure those who work in the oil and gas industry,

those who work in the fossil fuel industry, are brought along as partners to make sure that we make this transition in the 10 years, we have left to us. Now, was Mr. O'Rourke saying the world is going to end in 10 years, that global warming, climate change is going to cause the death of mankind? I don't really know. And of course, the MSNBC anchor, yeah, yeah, of course, didn't say, well, what do you mean? But no, no, no, no, no, no. But it is clear, clear that Beto O'Rourke and many, many other of the Democratic contenders,

want the Green New Deal. And the Green New Deal is essentially the government controls every aspect of our lives. Everything. What we eat, what we drive, what kind of appliances we have in our house, what kind of doctor we can go to sea, what kind of job we get, how much we are paid in that job. All of it is tied into the Green New Deal. So that there's an essential apparatus in Washington. in D.C. and in the state capitals, which would carry out Washington's orders, that would

provide a new deal for Americans that would wipe out any kind of climate menace. Now, this is insane on a number of fronts, but the most important for the younger Americans to understand, and I don't believe they will, is that you are basically saying, we'd like Joseph Stalin to come in here and run the United States, because you cannot impose this kind of a thing, this Green New Deal, unless you have totalitarianism. You can't. The government has to say, this is what you're going to do, and if you don't do it, we're going to punish you. So if you drive a car that we don't like, you'll be fined, or we'll take the car away, or we'll arrest you. If you eat food that we don't believe is proper, we're going to make you pay for it. Not the food, but the action of actually

eating it. So it becomes a dependency. And many, many young Americans, maybe most, are willing to sacrifice their autonomy for dependency. They want to be dependent on a government to tell them what to do. Because then, climate change would go away. I'm telling you, ladies and gentlemen, I've seen some pretty frightening things in my 45 years in journalism. But when I read the polls that say millions and millions of Americans under the age of 35 want socialism, want the Green New Deal, think that Ocasio Cortez, Beto O'Rourke, and the others are brilliant people, it frightens me. It really does. because this kind of stuff does lead to a totalitarian government, a strong man.

They think Trump's a threat? Trump's a capitalist. He's a free marketeer. He's a libertarian socially. This is close to fascism. I'm Bill O'Reilly for Newsmax, reminding you we will have more commentary on Bill O'Reilly. And you might want to check out my new book, Killing the SS, Great Father's Day Gift. Mom might like it too, but it's a little tough.

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