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Millennials rushed to the polls to vote for Bernie Sanders running as a Democratic socialist last election season. However, did they fall in love with socialism or just want free college and healthcare? A new video suggests they have no idea what socialism is.

Campus Reform interviewed George Washington University students and asked them two questions: Do you think socialism is good or bad?

I think people throw that word around to try to scare you, but if helping other people is socialism, then Im all for it, one girl answered.

It could really benefit our country in the future, another said.

Socialism as a concept, as a philosophy, is good, a male student said. I think its got a bad rep.

Trying to spread the wealth is definitely a good thing in America, another said. I think its needed.

It definitely seems like a more feasible option and it could help more people, like, just as a broad term, it could help more people, another responded.

I would say I have a more positive [reaction to socialism than negative]. Im definitely more open to it.

But when asked to define socialism, many came up short.

I mean, honestly, that definition gets thrown around a lot Im not exactly sure, one girl responded.

To be quite honest, I dont know, another girl replied.

Uhhmmmm, captured the rest.

Millennials dont actually know what socialism is. A Pew Research Center poll found that 43 percent of 18-29-year-olds reacted positively to socialism. However, according to a 2010 CBS/New York Times poll, only 16 percent of millennials related socialism to government-owned production.

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Millennials just dont know that socialism means that the government owns businesses or the means of production. Instead, many connect it to countries like Denmark and the Netherlands, which are not purely socialist, but use the free market to fund massive social welfare spending. They dont think of Venezuela, where the inflation rate is over 800 percent, food, electricity, and water are rationed, and parents give away their children because they cannot feed them.

A Reason-Rupe poll found that when defined, millennials respond differently. 64 percent of millennials favored a free market economy, compared to the 32 percent who preferred an economy managed by the government.

Furthermore, millennials disagree with income redistribution more as their income rises. 57 percent also favor smaller government providing fewer services, with low taxes compared to the 47 percent who prefer a big government, providing more services, with higher taxes.

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Campus Reforms media director Cabot Philips said in a Fox News interview with Jesse Watters that former President Barack Obama and liberal college professors have skewed millennials minds.

President Obama for eight years made mainstream this concept of spreading the wealth and he brought class warfare back, he explained. Also weve got liberal professors that are teaching a revisionist form of history.

As millennials will be the largest voting bloc in the 2020 election, it is imperative they understand and research economic systems not just chase empty campaign promises.

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In a man-on-the-street style interview with Campus Reform, a number of Washington, D.C. students spoke positively about socialism.

Some students thought people throw that word around to try and scare you, but if helping people is socialism, than Im for it.

Others said its a good idea and could really benefit our country in the future.

Trying to spread the wealth is definitely a good thing in America and its definitely a thing thats needed, another responded.

One student even declared we should have a standard of living for all people.

it definitely seems like a more feasible option and it could help more people, like, just as a broad term, it could help more people, said another.

The problem, however, is that when pressed to define it, the students had no idea what it is.

Um, was a common first response, with some admitting they needed to think about that for a second.

Another passionate student explained that its definitely more of an open form of government and it feels like a lot more accessible to a lot more people. But when she was asked what exactly that means, she admitted, to be quite honest, I dont know.

This is quite disconcerting, as millennials have now surpassed baby boomers as the largest voting bloc in the country, according to population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2016.

In an interview with Fox Newss Jesses Watters, Campus Reforms media director Cabot Phillips explained we have former President Obama and college professors to blame for the reason millennials love socialism without know what it is.

President Obama for eight years made mainstream this concept of spreading the wealth and he brought class warfare back, he explained, and also weve got liberal professors that are teaching a revisionist form of history.

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Students Love Socialism, But Have No Idea What It Is - Townhall

Our great United States is playing with socialism. President Obama, an undeclared socialist, introduced Obamacare. He promised that everyone could now have medical care.

Socialism is a program which bills the givers to take care of the takers. But when there are more takers than givers, collapse is inevitable unless we raise taxes. Obamacare wasn't working out, and was headed for collapse. Then President Trump was forced to promise repeal and replace. However, no matter what you call it, when a government pays our medical bills, it is socialism.

We already have Medicare and Medicaid. Now the Conservatives are in the uncomfortable position of claiming to be conservative, while acting like liberals. We're forced to try to replace Obamacare with something better. President Trump couldn't have run on a ticket which promised to repeal Obamacare, period. He would not have been elected.

Once socialism rears its "gimmee" head, it's difficult to back out. The Conservatives are forced to replace Obamacare with some other form of socialized medicine, even though they would rather not. We have reached the point, with Obamacare, of having more takers than givers. When the takers outnumber the givers, the takers will outvote the givers. We're into socialism and can't get out!

While Europe has already discovered that socialism is ruining them and are begging to make changes and can't, America is headed for the same cliff. We won't know when we reach it, because our eyes are closed.

Our nation became stronger than any other country in the world, because we embraced self-sufficiency. When we expect the government to pay our bills, we are no longer self-sufficient, and we will cease to be the most powerful nation in the world.

With socialized medicine, our taxes must go up, because we are the government! Dear Lord, help us!

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With the help of millennials, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a self-described democratic-socialist, rose to nationwide prominence with the promise of bloated central government and socialized policy.

According to a Harvard University survey conducted last year, a majority of young people ages 18-29 support a socialism-style economic system versus the traditional capitalist-esque economic system in America. Otherpolls have showed similar results.

So when Campus Reform polled young people in the Washington D.C., area to collect their views on socialism, the responses were far from surprising.

When asked whether they believe socialism is a good thing or a bad thing, one young woman said: I think people kind of throw that word around to try to scare you. But if helping people is socialism, then Im for it.

[Socialism] could really benefit our country in the future, added another.

Socialism as a concept, as a philosophy is good. I think its got a bad rap, said a young man.

Trying to spread the wealth is definitely a good thing in America, and its definitely a thing thats needed, another said.

However, every person Campus Reform interviewed on its video gave socialism which traditionally is very unsavory in America, but is quickly becoming more popular rave reviews. But when asked to define it, every person was stunned and couldnt give socialism a proper definition.

I mean, honestly, that definition gets thrown around a lot. Im not exactly sure, one woman said.

Um one stumped woman said.

Hmm Im gonna have to think about that, a man said.

Only two people were able to provide any sort of definition that might somehow resemble socialisms actual definition.

Geez, uh . I guess just, specifically, just, you know, getting rid of that wealth gap in the United States, said a man.

Hmm, I mean, its definitely more of an open form of government and it feels like a lot more accessible to a lot more people. And thats kinda how I see it, a woman said. Like being more accessible and kinda equal ground yeah.

When the woman was asked what her response meant, she admitted defeat. To be quite honest, I dont know, she said.

For the record, Merriam-Webster defines socialism as: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.

In other words, the dictionary says socialism is a system of society or group living in which there is no private property where the means of production are owned and controlled by the state.

It also describes it as a stage of society in Marxist theory transitional between capitalism and communism and distinguished by unequal distribution of goods and pay according to work done.

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By Cabot Phillips, CampusReform.org

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Ask most college students, and they'll tell you that socialism is a wonderful thing. Just don't ask them to define it, because you'll get the same answer.

Last year, a poll was released showing 53 percent of Americans under age 35 are dissatisfied with our nations current economic system and think socialism would be good for the country.

The same poll found that 45 percent of young Americans would be willing to support an openly socialist Presidential candidate.

The findings of this poll coincide with the rise of Senator Bernie Sanders, an avowed Democratic Socialist from Vermont who received millions of votes in the 2016 Democratic Primary, many of them from millennials.

While its clear that young people increasingly view socialism in a positive light, its also clear that many of them are uneducated about what it entails, or the impact its had throughout history.

The same poll found many millennials are unfamiliar with historical figures often associated with socialism, such as Che Guevara, Joseph Stalin, and Karl Marx.

Wanting to see what millennials in D.C. thought of socialism, Campus Reform headed to Washington, D.C. to ask students two simple questions: Do you like socialism? and What is socialism?

It quickly became clear that while most of the people we spoke with held an idyllic view of socialism, most had little idea of what it actually is.

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