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Surviving Socialism: Documentary offers reality check from those who escaped socialism
Washington Examiner ^ | 6/17/2023 | Heather Hamilton

Posted on 06/17/2023 9:31:02 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan

The new documentary Surviving Socialism offers the warning that the United States is at a crossroads between freedom and “more government control.”

“A recent survey revealed that 70% of young people would support socialist candidates,” Tea Party Patriots Action Honorary Chairman Jenny Beth Martin told the Washington Examiner. “This was alarming because if young people knew the effects of socialism, they would understand that it consistently results in economic failure, loss of basic human freedoms, and the deaths of tens of millions.”

Surviving Socialism was funded and produced by the Tea Party Patriots Action group. It features firsthand accounts of people who have escaped socialism.

“It’s a warning to Americans of what will happen to our country if we truly become a fully socialist country,” Martin said. “And it makes the argument that we are headed in that direction.”

“I hope that people will watch this documentary and that they'll share it with other people, sort of as a warning sign of the two different paths that Americans have before us for our country,” she added. “Our solution for that is one of freedom and liberty and individual responsibility and opportunity, as opposed to more and more government control, which is what would happen with socialism.”

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1 posted on 06/17/2023 9:31:02 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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To: Right Wing Vegan

The republicans allowed this by never attacking the Department of Education and getting rid of it.


2 posted on 06/17/2023 9:40:23 AM PDT by dragonblustar (They have conquered Satan by the blood of the Lamb and by their testimony….. Revelation 12:11)
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To: dragonblustar

Also, it’s getting rapidly worse because now WEF climate fascists are now pushing their agendas in the schools without any pushback.


3 posted on 06/17/2023 9:42:52 AM PDT by dragonblustar (They have conquered Satan by the blood of the Lamb and by their testimony….. Revelation 12:11)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

This was alarming because if young people knew the effects of socialism, they would understand that it consistently results in economic failure, loss of basic human freedoms, and the deaths of tens of millions.”


So why don’t they know this?

Hint: it is our fault. we didn’t tell the stories.

Tell the Coming Generation

Psa 78:1 A psalm of Asaph. O my people, listen to my instructions. Open your ears to what I am saying,
Psa 78:2 for I will speak to you in a parable. I will teach you hidden lessons from our past—
Psa 78:3 stories we have heard and known, stories our ancestors handed down to us.
Psa 78:4 We will not hide these truths from our children; we will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the LORD, about His power and His mighty wonders.


4 posted on 06/17/2023 9:43:46 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

if young people knew the effects of socialism...

That was intentionally omitted in schools. The teacher’s unions are openly pushing for socialism. But that leads to communism. Guess the teacher’s unions weren’t educated about what happens to teachers who disagree with big brother.


5 posted on 06/17/2023 9:43:54 AM PDT by Texas resident (We are living through Barak's fundamental transformation)
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To: dragonblustar

“The republicans allowed this by never attacking the Department of Education and getting rid of it.”

That would not have stopped the communists’ infiltration into our colleges and indoctrinating future teachers.


6 posted on 06/17/2023 9:46:39 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

A firm foundation would have helped and cutting funding to these leftists factories would have send a message. Our country is crap because of the weakness of the republicans. They have sold us out over and over again, playing games with the voters while sucking up to the donors.

I’d say more about the republicans but I don’t want to get kicked off for language. I’m absolutely furious with the traitors in power.


7 posted on 06/17/2023 9:53:36 AM PDT by dragonblustar (They have conquered Satan by the blood of the Lamb and by their testimony….. Revelation 12:11)
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To: TexasGator

Sure would have slowed things down.

It might have stopped it.

It would have been nice to give it a try.


8 posted on 06/17/2023 9:55:00 AM PDT by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Even if our Dem associates and relatives could see this they would just say “the earlier Marxist or socialist experiments failed because of pressure from the West but ours will be a new way.”

Phooey.


9 posted on 06/17/2023 9:57:54 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: PeterPrinciple

Well said.


10 posted on 06/17/2023 9:58:24 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Texas resident

Indeed.


11 posted on 06/17/2023 10:01:02 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Right Wing Vegan
Growing up, we had a neighbor who sponsored a relative to come to the US from Hungary. It was in the ‘60’s during some very bad times there.

While he was working on his naturalization, he didn't have great English and couldn't drive, yet.

My mom would take him on errands and with her to the grocery store. The first time they went to the grocery store, she said he stood in front of the counters for produce and meat ... and he cried.

At first she thought he was ill. But he said that he had never seen abundance like that, in his LIFE.

He had a daughter who learned English very quickly and was a straight A student all the way through HS. She was a genius and LOVED the US.

12 posted on 06/17/2023 10:05:18 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: No name given

Well said.


Folks,

It is never to late to tell the stories. If you can get one youth to understand that is a start.

Tell the stories of perversion LOUD and OFTEN. If you can just save one kid from it.........................


13 posted on 06/17/2023 10:13:49 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

If they escaped socialism by coming here, I don’t think they are out of the woods yet.


14 posted on 06/17/2023 10:17:46 AM PDT by enumerated ( )
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To: frank ballenger
I always love it when the reason given why socialism fails is because it is not getting help from greedy capitalist countries.

In other words, socialism can't succeed without assistance from capitalism.

15 posted on 06/17/2023 10:56:41 AM PDT by fhayek
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Especially when they blame the US Embargo for Cuba’s woes.

Cuba can trade with every other country on the planet, and yet, somehow, it’s all our fault.


16 posted on 06/17/2023 10:58:48 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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We need a steady supply of opportunistic people from those countries. The US embassies can look up their backgrounds and make sure they’re not coming here to grift.

Even the Mariel boat lift was an overall positive despite the number of criminals and mental patients. Castro was allowed to flush his toilet.

The ‘steady supply’ should have been going all along. Instead we let the left advocate the ‘comprehensive’ B.S. Throw in the 1965 Kennedy Act and Reagan’s amnesty and tis is what you get.


17 posted on 06/17/2023 11:10:03 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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To: enumerated

I was thinking more or less the same thing. I’d like to know where this mythical place without socialism is that they escaped to.


18 posted on 06/17/2023 11:11:40 AM PDT by SpaceBar (RIP Chester)
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To: Texas resident

if young people knew the effects of socialism...

In Russia, they REQUIRE that students learn just how horrific their Communist predecessor government was. In the US, the horrors of Communism is simply HIDDEN from kids. Virtually everyone on this site only learned the truth about Communism AFTER graduating high schools, but not in Russia...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-book-solzhenitsyn/solzhenitsyns-gulag-mandatory-in-russian-schools-idUSTRE69P4MT20101026


19 posted on 06/17/2023 1:01:13 PM PDT by BobL
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To: Right Wing Vegan

US .gov increase by 40% since 2020. We’re already there


20 posted on 06/17/2023 3:36:21 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth, Beauty and Goodness )
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