Read this last week and was stunned.
Shouldn’t have been but still.
Suppose this may have been the same tone used by the literati who were wowed and wooed by Stalinists back when.
I too, like the posted Stein, long for the good old days under Joe Stalin, with those exciting boom times of the 5-Year Plans! The bonding between citizens that went on with 5 families to a room, the shared sanitary facilities for the whole block, even those midnight knocks on the door, taking counter-revolutionaries to the camps in Siberia.
Boy, that was living! Every one knew what was what! Who was who! Mom, giving me her half-potato, even after I turned her in for sneaking into a church! Fast, effective, free healthcare for all, so advanced that mothers returned to mining work the afternoon after giving birth in the morning. Patriotic dads, back to work on the same machine tools that maimed them only hours before!
No need to ask yourself, "Golly, why can't we have a strong and effective, patriotic government like that?" Yes, Comrades, we can! Si se puede!
Not a day goes by that I don't thank our lucky stars that our POTUS and former British Subject, President for Life Barack Hussein Obama II, is rapidly setting up just such a government for me and you.