Former President Barack 0bama said this week that despite the "challenging times" we face, he remains hopeful that 
"If we could form a network of those young leaders, not just in the United States, but around the world, then we got something," said Obama, adding: 
Speaking at a packed arena at Bell MTS Place in Winnipeg, Canada on Monday, Obama explained how he plans to create a "university for social change" that will act as a jumpoff for young people in the US and around the world who don't believe in the "old institutions." 
"If we train them — if we give them skills, support, financing, media training, spotlights, then they're the ones that are going to carry forward the solutions that we so desperately need," he said.
[0bama's training center sure sounds a lot like the embattled Obama Presidential Center - a sprawling complex slated for construction in a park beside Lake Michigan, which is currently being sued for an illegal transfer of park land to The Obama Foundation.]
			
			
			
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"If we could form a network of those young leaders, not just in the United States, but around the world, then we got something," said Obama, adding: 
Speaking at a packed arena at Bell MTS Place in Winnipeg, Canada on Monday, Obama explained how he plans to create a "university for social change" that will act as a jumpoff for young people in the US and around the world who don't believe in the "old institutions." 
"If we train them — if we give them skills, support, financing, media training, spotlights, then they're the ones that are going to carry forward the solutions that we so desperately need," he said.
[0bama's training center sure sounds a lot like the embattled Obama Presidential Center - a sprawling complex slated for construction in a park beside Lake Michigan, which is currently being sued for an illegal transfer of park land to The Obama Foundation.]
I thought there already were millions of young Baracks and Michelles.
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				Now, there's a slice of Marxism you can take to the bank.
Educate them whilst young, and they are yours forever.
			
			
			
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Educate them whilst young, and they are yours forever.
That's usually what happens.
			 
			
			
				That's what most leftist want-- to churn out brainwashed bot-like followers that don't think for themselves.

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				I note he uses the term "activist". That is pure socialist terminology.
The right rarely engages in "activism", if at all.
			
			
			
				Pfffttt. As though they are a flawless blueprint to emulate. How hilarious. Absurd. Hope and change have come around before they came into the picture.
			
			
			
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The right rarely engages in "activism", if at all.
Two reasons for that.
1. We work and have responsibilities.
2. We do not have billionaire sugar daddies like Soros, Steyer, the Rockefellers, Bezos and the Tides Foundation paying people to promote their globalist causes.
			 
			
			
				There's a third. Revolution and rebellion is core to Marxism philosophy. Thus, it's embedded into the DNA of all those who believe in such nonsense. It's positively encouraged as a responsibility of young revolutionaries to protest, rebel and destroy the status quo. By any and all means possible. "Activism" is just the first step.
			
			
			
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Revolution is the cause. They never reach a place where they say we achieved our goals. In Stalin's USSR there were always bogeymen to persecute.
			 
			
			
				He has said this before..
He is in love with himself..
			
			
			
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...and yet, I seriously wonder how 'radical' these 'revolutionaries' in the United States are.
'Excessively Demanding' the following:
1. A working livable wage above the $3 minimum wage that is paid to many workers in the United States. I believe its around $20 in Australia- even for busboys/bus girls.
2. Universal healthcare
3. Safe streets and college and school campuses & controlling the spread of dangerous unauthorized firearms  
4. Maternity Leave for new moms in the workforce
Cripes these are basic staples that citizens in many other democracies including Australia take for granted and already get.
The average American working class schmo reminds me of Oliver Twist asking or more grool;
https://youtu.be/BbdNgbCOq_s
In a way I see a bit of him in you.
Didn't you say you started off growing up poor?
That what its like for the poor in America, BT.
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				Joe, what you posted is not a response to Bricktop or even related to this thread..
But, while we are on the subject of minimum wage, servers in Alberta make less money since the provincial government here raised minimum wage to fifteen dollars per hour..
The government got a raise in the form of taxes, but minimum wage earners took a cut..
I've told you this before, but you ignore what we write, and that is so rude.
			
			
			
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But, while we are on the subject of minimum wage, servers in Alberta make less money since the provincial government here raised minimum wage to fifteen dollars per hour..
The government got a raise in the form of taxes, but minimum wage earners took a cut..
I've told you this before, but you ignore what we write, and that is so rude.
Since Joe already derailed this thread, I'll say it. Raising a minimum wage for service jobs that are disappearing is not only stupid, it's incredibly selfish of governments. Servers earn less and pay more in taxes.
			 
			
			
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That what its like for the poor in America, BT.
Your point being?
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That what its like for the poor in America, BT.
Your point being?
 ac_dunno
He aint getting the attention he wants. Particularly from the gals.
			 
			
			
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That what its like for the poor in America, BT.
Your point being?
 ac_dunno
He aint getting the attention he wants. Particularly from the gals.
And I bet you don't get any living in the middle of nowhere in rural Saskatchewan.
			 
			
			
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That what its like for the poor in America, BT.
Your point being?
 ac_dunno
He aint getting the attention he wants. Particularly from the gals.
And I bet you don't get any living in the middle of nowhere in rural Saskatchewan.
He's married JOE.
			 
			
			
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That what its like for the poor in America, BT.
Your point being?
 ac_dunno
Well all these young American 'socialists' you & others like to put down so much - thats all thst many are asking for, BT. 
The basic staples that young people get in just about every other democracy invluding your own.
Thats a major part of their platform advanced by individuals like Ocasio-Cortez.
She's labled as some radical and yet in many advanced democracies like Scandinavia they'd label her as a 'conservative '
Even Conservatives in Britain advocate universal healthcare and social welfare programs, stuff the American elite wishes to deny many Americans
			 
			
			
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That what its like for the poor in America, BT.
Your point being?
 ac_dunno
He aint getting the attention he wants. Particularly from the gals.
And I bet you don't get any living in the middle of nowhere in rural Saskatchewan.
He's married JOE.
This is old Joe's wife.

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But, while we are on the subject of minimum wage, servers in Alberta make less money since the provincial government here raised minimum wage to fifteen dollars per hour..
The government got a raise in the form of taxes, but minimum wage earners took a cut..
I've told you this before, but you ignore what we write, and that is so rude.
It us relevant Fashionista because you and others take swipes at these American 'socialists' who are trying to get basic services that most citizens enjoy in other democracies such as universal healthcare.
I believe Tauwan provide affordable healthcare for its citizens too.
America is even behind 3rd world countries like Cuba and Costa Rica which are providing it to their citizens
			 
			
			
				The Obamas, AOC and Bernie Sanders are not socialists. They are progs. Their core beliefs like open borders is antithetical to blue collar workers. If I hear or read another disingenuous troll call them socialists again, I am going postal.
			
			
			
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That what its like for the poor in America, BT.
Your point being?
 ac_dunno
He aint getting the attention he wants. Particularly from the gals.
And I bet you don't get any living in the middle of nowhere in rural Saskatchewan.
He's married JOE.
This is old Joe's wife.

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With your violent criminal past, be glad you live in a nation as compassionate ad Canada, Herman.
In the USA they treat your kind like shit & put them behind bars wearing black stripes to work on chain gangs, eh?
I've got friends who did hard time in the States & it wasn't a workers paradise like your hero Trump has claimed. In America's prison you'd be working for 13 cents an hour.
			 
			
			
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That what its like for the poor in America, BT.
Your point being?
 ac_dunno
He aint getting the attention he wants. Particularly from the gals.
And I bet you don't get any living in the middle of nowhere in rural Saskatchewan.
He's married JOE.
This is old Joe's wife.

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With your violent criminal past, be glad you live in a nation as compassionate ad Canada, Herman.
In the USA they treat your kind like shit & put them behind bars wearing black stripes to work on chain gangs, eh?
I've got friends who did hard time in the States & it wasn't a workers paradise like your hero Trump has claimed. In America's prison you'd be working for 13 cents an hour.
Herman worked in the states you trolling asshole. Go back to your spic forum virgin.
			 
			
			
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Don't do that IHJ..
Besides, it's the type of reaction JOE wants.
			 
			
			
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"If we could form a network of those young leaders, not just in the United States, but around the world, then we got something," said Obama, adding: 
Speaking at a packed arena at Bell MTS Place in Winnipeg, Canada on Monday, Obama explained how he plans to create a "university for social change" that will act as a jumpoff for young people in the US and around the world who don't believe in the "old institutions." 
"If we train them — if we give them skills, support, financing, media training, spotlights, then they're the ones that are going to carry forward the solutions that we so desperately need," he said.
[0bama's training center sure sounds a lot like the embattled Obama Presidential Center - a sprawling complex slated for construction in a park beside Lake Michigan, which is currently being sued for an illegal transfer of park land to The Obama Foundation.]
There's no political choice in Canada and America as it is. And Obama wants even less.
			 
			
			
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"If we could form a network of those young leaders, not just in the United States, but around the world, then we got something," said Obama, adding: 
Speaking at a packed arena at Bell MTS Place in Winnipeg, Canada on Monday, Obama explained how he plans to create a "university for social change" that will act as a jumpoff for young people in the US and around the world who don't believe in the "old institutions." 
"If we train them — if we give them skills, support, financing, media training, spotlights, then they're the ones that are going to carry forward the solutions that we so desperately need," he said.
[0bama's training center sure sounds a lot like the embattled Obama Presidential Center - a sprawling complex slated for construction in a park beside Lake Michigan, which is currently being sued for an illegal transfer of park land to The Obama Foundation.]
There's no political choice in Canada and America as it is. And Obama wants even less.
And yet there are a lot more prisons and homelessness in the USA gaon.
You'd notice that if you went there.
https://youtu.be/mxV6RUf_jI0
Prisons are America's social welfare system
I saw men wearing black stripes working on chain gangs beside the highway in Florida.
			 
			
			
				Sure you did liar. You were driving a limo and they were all young good looking women one third your age. And you didn't get laid.
Fash, this old virgin is killing every discussion with bs anecdotes and deliberate derailment.
			
			
			
				
And speaking of training leftists, take a look at the article by Walter Williams.
Last week's column discussed the highly publicized university corruption scheme wherein wealthy parents bought admission at prestigious universities for their children. That is dishonest and gives an unfair advantage to those young people but won't destroy the missions of the universities.
There is little or no attention given by the mainstream media to the true cancer eating away at most of our institutions of higher learning. Philip Carl Salzman, emeritus professor of anthropology at Mcgill University, explains that cancer in a Minding the Campus article, titled "What Your Sons and Daughters Will Learn at University".
Professor Salzman argues that for most of the 20th century, universities were dedicated to the advancement of knowledge. There was open exchange and competition in the marketplace of ideas. Different opinions were argued and respected. Most notably in the social sciences, social work, the humanities, education and law, this is no longer the case. Leftist political ideology has emerged. The most important thing to today's university communities is diversity of race, ethnicity, sex and economic class, on which they have spent billions of dollars. Conspicuously absent is diversity of ideology.
[size=150]Students are taught that all cultural values are morally equivalent. That's ludicrous. Here are a few questions for those who make such a claim. Is forcible female genital mutilation, as practiced in nearly 30 sub-saharan African and Middle Eastern countries, a morally equivalent cultural value? Slavery is currently practiced in Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Chad and Sudan; is it morally equivalent? In most of the Middle East, there are numerous limitations placed on women, such as prohibitions on driving, employment and education. Under Islamic law in some countries, female adulterers face death by stoning. Thieves face the punishment of having their hands severed. Homosexuality is a crime punishable by death in some countries. Are these cultural values morally equivalent, superior or inferior to Western values?[/size]
Social justice theory holds the vision that the world is divided between oppressors and victims. The theory holds that by their toxic masculinity, heterosexual white males are oppressors. Among their victims are females, people of color and male and female homosexuals. The world's Christians and Jews are oppressors, and Muslims are victims.
Increasingly, the classics of Western civilization are being ignored. Why? Because they represent the work, almost exclusively, of "dead white men." Only works of females, people of color and non-western authors are seen as virtuous. The same is true with political history. The U.S. Constitution should be less respected because its writers were white slaveholders. The academics who teach this nonsense to students are grossly ignorant of the struggle over the slavery issue at our 1787 Constitutional Convention.
Professor Salzman concludes his article with the observation that "Marxist social justice offers all the answers anyone needs, so no inquiry or serious research is required. Be confident that at university your children will learn 'the right side' to be on, if little else." As a result of leftist indoctrination, many college students graduate illiterate, innumerate and resistant to understanding. A survey of employers showed that over 70 percent found college graduates were not well-prepared in skills such as "written communication," "working with numbers/statistics," "critical/analytical thinking" and second-language proficiency.
The American Council of Trustees and Alumni publishes occasional reports on what college students know. One report found that nearly 10 percent of the college graduates surveyed thought Judith Sheindlin, TV'S Judge Judy, is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court. Less than 20 percent of the college graduates knew the effect of the Emancipation Proclamation. More than a quarter of the college graduates did not know Franklin D. Roosevelt was president during World War II; one-third did not know he was the president who spearheaded the New Deal. Such ignorance might explain why these young people are the supporters of today's presidential candidates calling for America to become a socialist nation.
By the way, one need not be a Westerner to hold Western values. One just has to accept the sanctity of the individual above all else.