[Yorlik803]

The Spanish Civil war is a communist wet dream. Too bad they got their asses kicked by Franco.

[cloudmountain]

"I am the only son, and it hurts my mother and father and my family a lot that I am putting myself at risk. But ... I can't sleep in my bed knowing what's going on here," said Davilla-Rivas,

And a couple of Spanish parents spawned this incredibly spoiled son whose own wishes supersede everyone else's.

[alloysteel]

These are the grandsons and great-grandsons of the participants in the Spanish Civil War. One would think that it would be a highly irregular thing for such passions to run on for generations later.

But of course, we have the Red diaper trust fund babies of our own in the territory once known as “the United States of America”. THEY have been reproducing for several generations now, with little dilution of the ideology of which they are so fond.

Both the culture of socialism and the culture of Islam, while two distinct and sometimes conflicting ideologies, are transmitted from one generation to the next even more reliably than the genetic composition of the populations. But the ideology is NOT genetic.

It is the proliferation of “free will”, badly applied, and in each instance, “free will” is not tempered with any kind of critical thinking.

Applying critical thinking to any sort of philosophy or ideology usually results in discarding or eliminating the faulty effects of bad reasoning, and using the lessons learned to come up with a more workable solution to the vexing problems of the day.

Economic freedom, as exercised in the basic concept of capital accumulation and investment with an eye to a positive return and growth, has proved over and over to be the engine that enhances civilization and encourages intellectual growth in every sphere. It is the very substance of all life, applied to a society. Grow or die.

Religious freedom, in a similar manner, when encouraged in a relatively level playing field (no admixture of government with the religion, or using the religion as government), also helps iron out the various errors of interpretation of the will of some divine Creator, and while tempers may and do rise sharply a times, eventually cooler heads prevail, and the errors are to some degree purged, and a more real definition of the eternal verities emerges. Learn or wither.

[elcid1970]

In the Spanish Civil War, Franco won all the battles, but at least the commies had all the good songs.

Google `Abe Lincoln Brigade’ for snits & giggles. Lefties in America went to Spain to fight & more were killed by the Soviet NKVD than by the `evil fascists’.

Ernest Hemingway’s supporting the Reds during the civil war was shameful, to say the least.

The commies’ living saint, Dolores Ibarruri aka La Pasionaria kept the Red Spain mythology going on U.S. campuses well into the 1980’s where it flourishes even today.

Looks like it’s still active in Spain & now it pops up in Ukraine? Geez.......