Posted on 02/02/2009 7:48:14 AM PST by NowApproachingMidnight
I rather doubt that.
If history is our guide once these people start down the road to communism it is impossible for them to ever recover due to the allure of the free stuff offered to them by the entrenched politicians.
Once they are living off the Government tit it becomes rare to leave it for freedom if said freedom means having to work hard and possibly still fail.
Just look at Russia right now. Most of the population seems to be indifferent to Putin's take back of the country.
I know there have been demonstrations put down in the last week or so but there was no real outcry when things might have been able to stop Putin.
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