[varyouga]

Yep, government going after what you eat. The next step in socialized medicine aka the communist agenda.

Coming soon - what hobbies you can have, when to sleep, who can have kids and mandatory abortions for ‘difficult’ children that will be too expensive.

Eventually, taxes will be almost 100% and the government will control how your money is spent. Socialized medicine, housing, schools, transportation, vacations, food, etc. Basically the same thing as communism without the name.

I escaped grinding communism and thought it was destroyed. Much to my anger, it is very much alive in the west. Every year I feel more like I am back in the USSR with every new law and encroachment on freedom.

First they came after gun owners
I remained silent
I wasn't a gun owner

Then they came after smokers
I did not speak out
I’m not a smoker

Then when they came for me,
There was no one left to speak out...

[Jacquerie]

As a former inmate of communism you should write columns. Many columns. Submit them everywhere.

Alert the mentally fat and lazy here, those who either forgot or never learned what makes the US an exception in world history. Your words could resonate better than a dozen Ronald Reagans. Just do it.

[sionnsar]

I escaped grinding communism and thought it was destroyed. Much to my anger, it is very much alive in the west. Every year I feel more like I am back in the USSR with every new law and encroachment on freedom.

I grew up here, not there, but I concur -- this is not the country in which I was raised. And we're doing it to ourselves.