Posted on 08/13/2025 11:52:18 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
When those who don’t know history inevitably repeat it, the greatest offense is not their profound ignorance (which is seriously painful), but it’s that their obliviousness has real consequences for those of us who know better.
Government by its very nature is, at best, a “necessary evil,” and in its worst state, “an intolerable one.” And, leftist ideologies, like communism, certainly fall under the “worst state” category.
Now, after millions and millions of taxpayer dollars and months of issues—like completely bare shelves, a “rancid odor” that filled the store, and rampant crime—one of the nation’s only taxpayer-funded grocery stores has closed up shop, citing circumstances “beyond our control,” offering no further explanation. (Hint: It’s the s**t idea, that’s the circumstance that caused the closure, and it is within control: don’t think like a dummy.)
Have government-run grocery stores ever been tried? Yes, of course.
The Soviet Union had an expansive network…and these were characterized by long lines, empty shelves, and rations. This era of history also includes the Ukraine famine of the 1930s, which saw the starvation of millions of souls after Joseph Stalin collectivized the farms.
Mao’s communist China was responsible for one of the “greatest man-made disasters” in history when his regime bungled food distribution so badly that tens of millions (some estimates put the number upwards of 55 million) of his own people starved to death in what’s known as the Great Chinese Famine.
With Marxists like Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro at the levers of power in Venezuela since 1999, there is barely any food. This is from NPR:
The Nightmare Of Grocery Shopping In Venezuela
Rising anger over food shortages — plus byzantine rules about when and where people can buy things — have made grocery shopping in Venezuela a nightmare.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Another socialist success story!
A chain of these disasters are Coming to NY soon.
Everyone who could collected their 10%. Eventually, you run out of other people’s money.
No doubt about it. The place has already degraded severely in the past 10 years. It will only get much, much worse in the coming years.
Is everything “free” at the government grocery store? It would only take a few hoarders to wipe a place out of inventory.
Where will the locals shoplift now?
The article doesn’t say.
Mamdani will probably say that he will do things differently, and avoid the problems others have had.
This is a common feeling among socialist types. They often say that where communism or socialism has failed, it’s because it wasn’t implemented properly.
But then we would have to believe, that Stalin, Mao, Castro etc. Just weren’t very good communists.......
Starry-eyed leftists all have one thing in common. They all believe that “This time it will be different.”
But of course it never is.
“””Mamdani will probably say that he will do things differently, and avoid the problems others have had.”””
He will make those evil rich people pay their fair share and then it will work just fine.......for about a week.
“After millions of taxpayer dollars and months of crippling issues, city-funded grocery store in Missouri abruptly closes its doors”
no problem: it can move to NYC pretty soon and reopen shop ...
Yet another example of attempting to fix a problem by “fixing” the symptoms.
Stevie Wonder could have seen this coming.
And will be coming to NYC should that guy get to be mayor.
Such socialist stores are not created for the potential customers, they’re created for the store owners and suppliers.
I never saw this coming.
NY, NY. Enjoy!
One of the mistakes anticommunists make is the emphasis on millions death. Like communism is some kind of death cult.
It is not, and the commies can just say, I will not kill anybody, those guys were abusers, I am different.
However, communism is totally failed economic system. They, Stalin, Mao, Castro, honestly tried to implement communism, and it never worked, lives of billions were turned into misery and depredation. The killings were just conclusion of this misery. People starved to death, and were killed because of failing system was forcibly tried to made to work.
Communism is an idea, which can NEVER work. Killing is just one result of it!
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