Posted on 06/22/2005 5:14:38 AM PDT by America First Libertarian
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I would wonder why so many vote for the commies here in the US. There is more commie sympathy here in the US than most would admit. But you already knew that..
Because idiots want cradle-to-grave security and care and don't want to have to THINK for themselves.
"...Even the US (actually two)..."
The Dhimmicrat party is one; which is the other?
Because of rage at their own inability to master their destiny, they really want to crush the achievement of others under the guise of fairness and equality.
Communist like our own Democrats, offer something for nothing. The ignorant sometime believe such a thing is possible.
Yeow! That's probably more closer to the truth than anyone knows!
Well done.
It will likely take a full generation for the communist countries to adjust to freedom. But it will happen.
"democratic interventionist state" has brought us to point where private property in this country is declared "public places" then you cannot even smoke a cigerette in the now declared "public place."
"...at the same time they ask for their own wishes to be satisfied by others and for their own mistakes to be paid by others."
Sounds alot like Social Security, Medicaid, American with Disabilities Act, FDIC, FDA, FHA, SBA, Pension Guaranty Fund, WIC, Food Stamps, and the list goes on.
And to think we spent billions and billions of dollars during the "cold war" years, for decades, to fight communism and it now exists, without objection by virtually anyone in this country, enacted and approved by both democrats and republicans.
I think for some it's even simpler than that. Some people who feel they've been wronged (whether justified or not) blame the system they live under for what happened. So when someone comes along with a utopian idea of a different system, it thus sounds good to them. The actual nature of the system isn't as important as the fact that it opposes capitalism.
That's why the Communist Party used to recruit heavily among ethnic and religious minorities who had faced discrimination. The recruiters would just tell them lies like "All races are equal in communism" or "There is no anti-semitism in the USSR" and they'd buy it.
Hmmm, with Czechs the situation is a bit different. You see in most post-communist countries the communist parties have no real power, but the "social-democrats" (who are usually just ex-communists, that say that they changed their views) do. These "social-democratic" parties now of course say that they favor "social market economy" and that they don't want the return of communism (the ex-communists are now ruling in Poland, Hungary and Romania). You have to nevertheless remember that many people would actually welcome the return of realsoc (mostly old people who were members of the communist party, who hate church, the United States etc. but also many people who had a guaranteed job during communism and are now jobless) and they usually vote for ex-communists (who usually get at least 20% of the vote, during the last election in Poland post-communists got over 40% of the vote and that in an overwhelmingly Catholic country). In the Czech Republic, however, the commies didn't change their banners and their party is called Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia and they still say that communism was great and that they would love to see it back in the their country. On the other hand the social-democratic party consists mostly of members of the former anticommunist opposition (which is not the case in other eastern European countries). So it is no surprise that people who would like the return of communism in the Czech Republic don't vote for former anticommunists but rather for hardcore commies. Also remember that communism in the Czech Republic wasn't probably as bad as in other eastern European countries and the country was much richer than f.ex. Poland or Hungary (remember that Czechoslovakia was rather undamaged during WW II and that prior to it, it was one of the richest countries in Europe).
The Green Party.
People vote communist, and its first cousin liberalism, because they think you can get something for nothing.
All things are relative when it comes to politics. American Democrats, Socialists and even Communists know that they have to start gradually and work their way down. If any party were to try and push to change our system to a communist / socialist from its traditional republic/capitalist (it’s already moving from a republic to a democracy) it would be guaranteed to fail – as the Communist Party USA discovered.
Read later bump.
Vote for communists = "One man, one vote...once."
Because they went to college.
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