Morgan Zegers, founder of the nonpartisan and nonprofit organization Youth Resist Socialism USA.
One young American says her peers increasingly subscribe to socialist ideology because they don’t have a deep understanding that the ultimate consequence of socialism is communist revolution and oppressive dictatorships. But she is now debunking these lies and seeking to change that.
Morgan Zegers is the founder of Young Americans Against Socialism, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that focuses on exposing examples of socialism’s failures by producing online educational videos and promoting them on social media.
“The growing acceptance of socialism in our generation is very concerning, and I will do everything I can to turn it around.” Zegers told the talk show American Thoughts Leaders at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday, Feb. 26, that “when words and When words and language are distorted from their original meaning, it’s a very difficult position to be in. And the left is doing this to control the discourse.”
Zegers says it is a failure of the American Education system that young people are being duped by the positive propaganda of socialism.
“When I was in high school, I didn’t learn the part of history where these (socialist) regimes promised to bring progress and change the treatment of the working class and fight for them and fight for the people.” Zegers said.
That, she added, was “the beginning of these terrible totalitarian dictatorships.”
Zegers is trying to link the progressive movement and totalitarian regimes to educate their generation, because it is the lack of education that causes this generation to show interest in socialism when they grow up.
Zegers’ favorite quote is by Frederick Douglass (an American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, Writer and politician): Knowledge does not make a man a slave.
Because of a proper knowledge of history, she said, “you know what is true and what is right, and you can defend yourself and stand up against your oppressors. That’s why the regime tries to hide and suppress the truth.”
She notes that their generation has not “felt directly threatened by socialism,” which she attributes to the 70 percent of people who say they would vote for a socialist leader.
“I have a strong feeling that they don’t actually want socialism,” Zegers said, “and they’ve probably never heard of socialism taking away the means of production or nationalizing businesses. But they still say they want to do it, so I’m focusing on making that point to them.”
One of the first things Zegers did was to debunk the lies of Nordic “socialism,” which is often cited as a socialist success story.
“I’ve been trying to get my generation to distinguish between socialism and Scandinavia,” she says, “which is a capitalist economy. (Although) they have high welfare and high taxes, at the end of the day, they have private industry and private enterprise and respect for capitalism and the capitalist system.”
But true socialism is when the state takes private enterprise out of the hands of individuals and “nationalizes” it.
Zegers notes that the implementation of “economic socialist policies” is often driven by “the acceptance of a radical, authoritarian movement to abolish Culture. We have seen in historical socialist uprisings that such cultural movements eventually evolved into communist, radical, oppressive regimes.”
“That’s when I became worried.” She added.
Zegers linked the phenomenon of social media cancellation culture to the oppression of the “Leninist and Maoist” era, warning that “it’s here on American soil.
She cited the example of Solly Baby, whose owner launched a fabric product that wraps babies around their breasts. The company was accused of stealing ethnic designs and using them to sell for profit. Most people thought the first apology was sincere, she said, “but a few angry leftist “woke up” thugs who only saw identity and only valued the cultural Marxist aspect, and they weren’t satisfied.
It took three apologies from the owner of Solly Baby to calm things down, which Zegers likened to “going out into the public square” to apologize and “being whipped until the mob is satisfied.
“It’s very worrisome because they won’t let you go until you satisfy them and make them happy and say what they want you to say,” she said. She said.
To address the problem, Zegers has launched a project to paint a more “vivid picture” of her generation and give them a better understanding of what socialism is really like by telling the stories of those who survived and escaped in socialist countries.
One of the most popular videos has received 25 million views.
“It tells the story of a man who sails across the ocean from Cuba to the United States from the Florida Keys on a sailboard. Eventually, he went through the immigration process and joined the U.S. Army to serve in Afghanistan. He did this as a token of gratitude to the country that granted him his freedom. It’s a very powerful story that teaches you a lesson about why America is a great country.”
She added, “Despite our problems, and we’re not perfect. But we are so fortunate to live in this country.”
A Michigan State University study found that an effective way to ensure that young people “deeply understand” an issue is to talk to them as if they were friends. Zegers is focusing on using this peer-to-peer approach to reverse what she describes as a “disconnected” education system for young people.
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