The problem is, these bad ideas and lust for power and control over fellow humans will never go away. We freedom and liberty loving types are destined to battle them forever. They will always have their siren song of how good and idealistic socialism and socialist policies sound... The gotcha is they don't work, and they need to resort to brutal fascist level tactics to enforce them.
The gotcha is they don’t work, and they need to resort to brutal fascist level tactics to enforce them.
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And they resort to taking other people’s money to fund their unworkable ideas.
Imagine socialism taking over in a country that is already carrying trillions of dollars of debt that it has no chance of ever paying down. Yep, that would be us.
“... or in Russia/Soviet Union for the back half of the 20th century.”
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Try “the vast majority of the 20th century.”
Phuckers murdered one of my great grandfathers in 1937, whom they beat to death for the “crime” of renting out part of the house that he literally built with his own hands in order to put food on the table. He was in his mid-70s and sick with cancer, and all of his assets that he worked a lifetime for had been stolen years earlier (“for the people” don’t you know).
General Pinochet had the right idea for Communists, but sadly lacked enough time and helicopters. Yes, I am deadly serious - all that the Collectivists (including Communists, Socialists, Progressives, Nazisetc. - it is a big club) want to do is to rule over everyone else, and there is literally nothing that they won’t do to acquire or maintain such power, including the murder of millions of people. They did it many times before, and will again if given the chance.