Posted on 11/15/2017 10:25:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Thanks for posting the entire article.
We need to thank the Good Lord above at least daily, if not more often, for the privilege of living in the USA.
I have two kids in college right now and much of what you saw is pretty accurate.
I did go out of my way to specify “the ignorant ones” because I know not all “millennials” are basement dwelling ignorant clods.
Hahahaha...what is it with a five year interval? All communist entities seem to buy into that...
In 1989 Boris Yeltsin visited the US and Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX. He went into Houston and visited a super market and was floored at the quality, quantity and low prices of everything in that store.
His one comment that places Communism/Socialism into perspective is that if the Soviet people saw that store and the others like it they would completely revolt. He also said that the entire Party elite did not have access to anything near as good or in such quantities.
Here is a quote from his autobiography:
“When I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, cartons and goods of every possible sort, for the first time I felt quite frankly sick with despair for the Soviet people,” Yeltsin wrote. “That such a potentially super-rich country as ours has been brought to a state of such poverty! It is terrible to think of it.”
The fundamental flaw in Communist/Socialist/Fascist ideology concerns ACTUAL human tendency and behavior.
Humans naturally work hard to two things. And one of those things makes us different from animals. 1) We will work hard for survival 2) We will work hard for wealth (by whatever definition you attribute to wealth).
If you remove the potential for wealth, human behavior resorts to only survival. Behavior will adapt to whatever it takes. Then, the state must motivate productivity on behalf of the wealth of the state. This is most efficiently achieved by threatening survival. If survival is the lone motivator for humans, than survival can be used to also motivate production in a workforce, but only to a certain point.
Millennials do not believe in “live to work”. They think that they should “work to live”. It would take on a whole new meaning if they got what they think they want.
The idea of Socialism/Communism is driven and perpetuated by a utopian falacy and is desired by lazy people.
“I won’t have to work hard and nobody will have it better than me because the government will take care of everybody the same.”
>>All around us was oppression, even in the education system. Brilliant teachers or priests who didn’t conform to communist ideology or spoke against it were imprisoned, tortured, or killed. Our history books were rewritten, and we were taught lies about our own history.<<
That this is happening here, right now, isn’t just deja vu. It may be happening under the labels of liberal, progressive, social justice warriors, but at it’s core it is communism.
Which Book? Apparently Yeltsin wrote at least a few.
It comes from the universities, since Socialism is the only system under which the pseudo-intellectual frauds that hold court there can obtain the most money and power in society - a position they think their educations entitle them to.
And if the consequences of their folly fell only upon their own tender and precious shoulders, I'd be willing to "live and let live." By all means, let 'em have collectivism. Entire boatloads of it. Let them enjoy experience collectivism to its fullest and foulest extent.
But the sad and terrible truth is that the disastrous consequences of their feckless folly falls upon us all. You rightly cite Venezuela. One look at what has happened on the South American continent is all it should take to wake these snowflakes up.
Tragically, so many Millennials remain enamored by the siren song of socialism in spite of this. They are deliberately blind. I dare say that you know this already.
"Against the Grain: An Autobiography"
I read something similar to what Boris Yeltsin was quoted about. It was the reaction of a pilot who had flown a MIG into an airbase in the West. When taken to the US, he was shown a super market. He told his escort “I believe that this store was stocked and prepared just for me to see.”
He was told, “no, there are many stores like this in every American town. They compete to sell their goods so they are fresh and priced right. If not, the customer goes to another store.”
It is amazing to hear how the commies kept their subjects in the dark, unaware of the “Western Way.”
My Polish neighbors also grew up in Communism there. They mentioned how there was only one radio station.
Which is part of the brilliance of the founders of the American Constitution...they went out of their way to take the negative aspects of human nature into account.
Of course, it doesn't mean anything if nobody actually follows the Constitution, but hey, they tried.
The snowflakes dumber than dont see what’s happening in Venezuela?
Bizarro it all is.
The book was: Mig Pilot, by Viktor Belenko.
I bought that book when it first came out and the last chapter was the best. After his debrief someone gave him the keys to a Cessna and a credit card and told him to fly wherever he wanted. His one big statement was our poor people were overweight and had big bellies due to too much food whereas the real starving people he saw were to due the bloat caused by actual starvation.
He went on to say that with the style of government we had at that time we had actually created a Socialist country that worked.
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