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A reporter for FOX News recently asked some college students to describe what they think socialism is and how it works. The results are a little depressing but it’s important to see this.

This is video proof that colleges are brainwashing students to think socialism is something that it isn’t. These students think it’s all about fairness and taking care of people. A brief glance at actual history shows nothing could be further from the truth.

If you have wondered why so many young people are open to socialism, this explains why.

Townhall has details:

In an interview with Fox News, an American university student explained that she had learned in a government class that socialism amounts to little more than social democracy, or, in her words, the government spending more money to help others. Never mind government control over the means of production, the replacement of individual ownership with collective ownership, or the subordination of productivity to a government-defined “common good.”

“Socialism doesn’t mean like anti-capitalism. Based off what I learned in my gov class, it’s basically like spending more money on helping society,” the University of Michigan student told Fox News. “Socialism to me is a concept in politics where everybody gets a little bit of everything. Everybody benefits and everybody is really taking care of kind of that social net that you see in other types of politics. I think a lot of people get the economic system of socialism confused with the government system of communism.”

In other words, according to this student, socialism is little more than compassion made manifest. And while people will be quick to blame her for being ignorant, the deeper failure lies with American education, and with professors more interested in turning their worldview into political reality than teaching students what these systems actually mean.

See the video below:

WILD: University of Michigan students PROVE just how STUPID and BRAINWASHED they truly are when they were asked to define what socialism is, while a Fox poll shows nearly half of young Americans still view it favorably.

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— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) October 26, 2026

The left counts on this kind of ignorance to advance their agenda.

Colleges are failing the very people they’re being paid to educate.