Posted on 12/09/2018 10:15:52 AM PST by Impala64ssa
A recent Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation survey found that 51 percent of American millennials would rather live in a socialist or communist country than in a capitalist country. Only 42 percent prefer the latter (http://tinyurl.com/ybsejy3f). Twenty-five percent of millennials who know who Vladimir Lenin was view him favorably. Lenin was the first premier of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Half of millennials have never heard of Communist Mao Zedong, who ruled China from 1949 to 1959 and was responsible for the deaths of 45 million Chinese people.
The number of people who died at the hands of Josef Stalin may be as high as 62 million. However, almost one-third of millennials think former President George W. Bush is responsible for more killings than Stalin (http://tinyurl.com/yb43dlhm). By the way, Adolf Hitler, head of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, was responsible for the deaths of about 20 million people. The Nazis come in as a poor third in terms of history’s most prolific mass murderers. According to professor Rudolph Rummel’s research, the 20th century, mankind’s most brutal century, saw 262 million people’s lives destroyed at the hands of their own governments (http://tinyurl.com/lu8z8ab).
Young people who weren’t alive during World War II and its Cold War aftermath might be forgiven for not knowing the horrors of socialism. Some of their beliefs represent their having been indoctrinated by their K-12 teachers and college professors. There was such leftist hate for former President George W. Bush that it’s not out of the question that those 32 percent of millennials were taught by their teachers and professors that Bush murdered more people than Stalin.
America’s communists, socialists and Marxists have little knowledge of socialist history. Bradley Birzer, a professor of history at Hillsdale College, explains this in an article for The American Conservative titled “Socialists and Fascists Have Always Been Kissing Cousins.” Joseph Goebbels wrote in 1925, “It would be better for us to end our existence under Bolshevism than to endure slavery under capitalism.” This Nazi sentiment might be shared by Sen. Bernie Sanders and his comrade Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Goebbels added, “I think it is terrible that we and the Communists are bashing in each other’s heads” (http://tinyurl.com/yd4lqxvs).
When the tragedies of socialist regimes — such as those in Venezuela, the USSR, China, Cuba and many others — are pointed out to America’s leftists, they hold up Sweden as their socialist role model. But they are absolutely wrong about Sweden. Johan Norberg points this out in his documentary “Sweden: Lessons for America?” Americans might be surprised to learn that Sweden’s experiment with socialism was a relatively brief flirtation, lasting about 20 years and ending in disillusionment and reform (http://tinyurl.com/lvdwzhr). Reason magazine reports: “Sweden began rolling back government in the early 1990s, recapturing the entrepreneurial spirit that made it a wealthy country to begin with. High taxation and a generous array of government benefits are still around. But now it’s also a nation of school vouchers, free trade, open immigration, light business regulation, and no minimum wage laws.” School vouchers, light business regulation and no minimum wage laws are practices deeply offensive to America’s leftists.
Our young people are not the first Americans to admire tyrants and cutthroats. W.E.B. Du Bois, writing in the National Guardian in 1953, said, “Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature.” Walter Duranty called Stalin “the greatest living statesman” and “a quiet, unobtrusive man.” There was even leftist admiration for Hitler and fellow fascist Benito Mussolini. When Hitler came to power in January 1933, George Bernard Shaw described him as “a very remarkable man, a very able man.” President Franklin Roosevelt called Mussolini “admirable,” and he was “deeply impressed by what he (had) accomplished.” In 1972, John Kenneth Galbraith visited Communist China and praised Mao and the Chinese economic system. His Harvard University colleague John K. Fairbank believed that America could learn much from the Cultural Revolution, saying, “Americans may find in China’s collective life today an ingredient of personal moral concern for one’s neighbor that has a lesson for us all.”
Are Americans who admire the world’s most brutal regimes miseducated or stupid? Or do they have some kind of devious agenda?
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Socialism/Communism will never work.
Never.
It is impossible.
It is impossible because governments and countries are run by people.
And people are just bags of emotions walking around.
Too old to be a Millennial, that's for sure. Nonetheless, every word I wrote is true.
Honestly, I'm surprised every Millenial isn't a full-blown commie considering the giant economic turn sandwich their parents and grandparents gifted them with.
"Here you go, grandson. We got to enjoy our comfortable middle-class lives followed by our comfortable 30-year retirement. You're going to pay for it. Thanks!"
It was pretty obvious. Notice that four responses came in just 17 seconds?
“why was that damn wall built in the first place? To keep the Mexicans out?”
Well, lets face facts here. After they built the Berlin wall, East Germany never had a problem with illegal aliens from Mexico since then. ;-)
The cold, hard fact of this world is
There are people in this world who want what you have, even if you don’t think it’s that much, and they don’t give a shit if you die in order for them to get it.
Sheesh...you got something inside you driving you crazy. Every word you wrote is the biggest cry face load of horsesh!t I ever read. Peace out.
Talk about an appropriate misspelling!
Yes, and yes.
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Here's Emerson's explanation of capitalism. What do you think?
This speculative genius is the madness of few for the gain of the world. The speculators are sacrificed, but the public is the gainer.
Each of these idealists, working after his thought, would make it tyrannical, if he could. He is met and antagonized by other speculators, as hot as he.
The equilibrium is preserved by these counteractions, as one tree keeps down another in the forest, that it may not absorb all the sap in the ground.
And the supply in nature of railroad presidents, copper-miners, grand-junctioners, smoke-burners, fire-annihilators, etc., is limited by the same law which keeps the proportion in the supply of carbon, of alum, and of hydrogen.
Kill all the lawyers {without exception, including my relatives}, then kill half of all public school teachers {you pick'em you shoot'em}, then kill 79% of all college perfessers, {sort'em them out should be easy}, by this time antifa should have disbanded, if not kill all of them.
After this cleansing, stop.
"Go home, stay calm, come back at 4:00 PM. We need to plan." Wally in {Gran Torino}
I was going to mention evil right away but figured I would read down the comments first.
So debunk what I wrote. Except you can't because you know it's true so you end the conversation with a "peace out" --the equivalent of closing your eyes, covering your ears, and screaming "La la la! I can't hear you!"
The answer is right at the start. All younger generations seem to be stupid and useless, this one pervasively so as time goes on.
The issue is they feel they have gotten screwed. This is because the media and social media has made them jealous. The covet my house. But they don’t covet the payments. Or the work that went into making them during hard times.
They think they are smarter. They think they are better. They don’t understand why they don’t “get” the same stuff.
This jealousy leads to socialism, where we “can give up” just to give them a taste.
I would not count on that from what I see. They are just able to afford more tattoos as they get older.
Both.
- Edward Bernays
Support for tyranny is a function of low self esteem.
I asked a liberal friend recently, “{What would be required for you to become conservative.”
He could not answer.
I told him, “I know precisely what it would take for me to become liberal. If I gave up my self respect and moral decency it would be an easy slide. I would fit right in.”
He said, “That is what is wrong with you conservatives. You are too moral. You need to loosen up. Take a hit on this pipe. Get yourself a girl on the side. Get dirty once in a while. It will do you good.”
I rested my case.
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