No Lenin, No Trotsky, No Bernie

Go, live your dream, and take your miserable followers with you so they, too, can be happy.

You said the forbidden word - “happy.” Socialism promotes ingratitude, and ingratitude is inimical to happiness.
Socialism Makes People Selfish Praeger University 5 minute vid.
Dennis Prager: Why Socialism Makes People Selfish Longer version.
Claims for reparations are claims that blacks are victims, and that they deserve to be made happy. But if your self-worth depends on being a victim, you cannot allow yourself to be happy. And your unhappiness makes you dangerous; no one can think that a suicide bomber is happy. Or that a happy person can be a suicide bomber.
Dennis Prager makes the point that “Happiness is a moral virtue.” And that feeling follows action - you will feel happy if you act happy, even if acting happy is the last thing you feel like doing at the time.
His book on the subject is

Happiness Is a Serious Problem:
A Human Nature Repair Manual

The five-minute Cliff Notes version is found at Prager University.
If you have time for the 52 minute version, I recommend it in preference.

Well, I can’t speak from experience since I’ve never lived in a country like Cuba, but I’m pretty sure that IF the snowflakes who hate America ever actually lived in a socialist/communist country, they’ll realize pretty quickly they won’t be HAPPY there. Free speech - go ahead; try it.

Right now, all of those socialist ideas are fantasies in their heads. If they see how it really is, maybe then, they’d shut their mouths and realize they had it pretty good — or not. They won’t know until they try.

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