Teaching our children "Me Last", not "Me First"

[FrodosPet]

If anyone is serious about moving America towards socialism, we must first accept the fact that "rugged individualism" has got to go. We must foster at the earliest age the concept that each of us is an interdependent member of the collective, and we must put aside selfish interests and comforts and work for the benefit of ALL, not merely for ourselves and our families.

We must replace luxuries and non-essential material goods for a few with making sure everyone has the essentials. We must teach them to despise big houses and expensive cars and privately owned boats and planes, and instead insist on tiny houses or apartments and mass transit for all.

If you want to be an "individual", color your hair, get some piercings and tattoos. But don't engage in selfish economic ventures. People should be working for paychecks and rations, not investing for profits. When the mass of people are saying with passion, "I live and work for thee, not for me", perhaps we will finally be able to have a truly socialist society.

[xfundy]

1. WTF?

[FrodosPet]

2. Socialism is about universal needs fulfillment. About self-sacrifice to serve the collective.

Not individual greed and material acquisition.

[YarnAddict]

3. Most people in this country

DON'T want to move toward socialism. Most people in this country LIKE ostentatious materialism. And any parent who teaches his/her child "me last" in this environment might as well embroider "Kick Here" on the back on the kids' pants.

[BubbaFett]

4. My parents taught we three children (me and my siblings)

to share, to put other people before yourself, to wait until everyone else got their plate filled first.

We were poor as church mice, but our parents taught us to care about others first.

[YarnAddict]

5. Manners and politeness doesn't seem to be what the OP was about

And there are plenty of people on both sides of the aisle who teach their kids to care about others. But, they don't want to "move toward socialism."