Occupy Writer Posts 5 Conservative-Backed Policy Reforms, Gets Backlash Over "Communist" Ideas

[The Real]

Here's the original article. Note the comments section that is bloated with paranoia and ad-hominems related to Communism.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politic...s-millennials-should-be-fighting-for-20140103

It sparked a massive discussion. A lot of big authors are talking about this on twitter and in other newspapers right now.

Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/sites/maurape...tone-millennials-wont-fall-for-those-reforms/

An actually decent piece by Yglesias at Slate on the matter: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/01/06/definining_communism_down.html

Reason: http://reason.com/blog/2014/01/04/rolling-stones-5-economic-reforms-millen

Fox News: http://video.foxnews.com/v/3020270549001/rolling-stone-article-on-economic-reforms-sparks-debate-/

And many others.

And here's a sharp rewrite of the original article from a Right perspective showing how every one of these reforms has been proposed by Conservatives and free marketers.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...e-reforms-millennials-should-be-fighting-for/

And here's a piece from Salon on the extent to which these reforms already exist at the state level in the US and elsewhere: http://www.salon.com/2014/01/06/con...nds_over_economic_reforms_that_already_exist/

 

[Shogun]

Bipolar political ignorance goes both ways.

Fall for the trap, brehs.

 

[villain]

the comments on the original and rewrite are gold

Really shows the extent to which people's political beliefs are based on presentation and not the ideas behind them.