To the modern American left/media this has been scrubbed from history, "down the memory hole", to quote Orwell.
Two words
John. Kerry.
The movie ‘The Killing Fields’ was outstanding, in the same way Schindler’s List was.
We died by the tens of thousands in Vietnam for nothing.
We let Pol Pot kills millions just across that border and did nothing.
Worst Genocide by percentage ever. Marxism in all it’s forms(and I include Nazism, because it turned Marx’s theory’s into race) is the deadliest virus ever known to man.
The author focuses on "ideas" but ideas are only the seeds that sprout.
I am convinced America's Founders were indeed inspired by God - they looked beyond the "ideas" (knowing the future would always hold new, yet undeveloped tyrannical ideas) and focused instead on the conditions and not allowing those seeds to sprout
Divided Federal government powers. Broad powers to the States. Taking money creation out of the hands of central planners (we've already destroyed that). Letting the population hold arms, confirmed inalienable rights, freedom to worship, etc.
Don't worry about "the ideas" per se - rather, focus on not allowing the conditions they need to grow into stinking weeds
And if anyone brings it up the left blame Nixon for it not communism on steroids.
Fauci makes him look like a piker
My wife has a friend who’s parents both survived this.
Her Father was a worker in the Cambodian Embassy and was scheduled to leave to return to Cambodia where they killed everyone on the plane.
He got drunk the night before and missed the flight.
He met his wife sometime after that.
The New York Times called Pol Pot a “visionary agrarian reformer”.
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