Posted on 08/08/2018 4:04:08 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
"Strongman politics are ascendant," Barack Obama warned in South Africa. He spoke passionately about "the politics of fear and resentment" at the Mandela Lecture. He worried that we were entering a world, “where might makes right and politics is a hostile competition between tribes and races and religions.”
While the media used the remarks to attack Trump's meeting with Putin, Obama had shared a stage with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa who had come to power promising to seize land from white farmers. Ramaphosa was the latest in a series of ANC strongmen, including his predecessor, an alleged rapist, beginning with the Communist terrorist whose legacy Obama was commemorating.
President Ramaphosa had vowed early on to seize land from white farmers without compensation. "The expropriation of land without compensation is envisaged as one of the measures that we will use to accelerate redistribution of land to black South Africans,” he had declared. And denied that such racist Communist tactics were unconstitutional. Now he’s moving to modify South Africa’s constitution.
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I was reading through the commentary and I came to this comment, and I said to myself "this is the most astute thing i've read on this thread so far." Then I looked down and saw your name and I said "Ah, that explains it."
:)
Here is my take on the American contrast to Socialism & the war on nature:
You’re right; they would be better off.
Botswana is a mess; stable by African standards, but with real problems (especially AIDS, which infects nearly a quarter of the adult population). Despite its size, it functions more like a city-state than a large country (with less people than the NYC metro area, living in a small part of the total land area).
Some colonizers were brutal, and all indefensible - but without them there wouldn’t be a single paved road or electricity there.
Poetic justice, indeed.
Those who destroyed others because they could. Will in the end be crushed by the weight of their own evil.
has happened before
a great opportunity for communists to wipe out segments of their population that disagree with them via ‘policy’
I don’t know what “chicken pie” means, nor do I wish to.
Yes, proven many times.
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