Wait, do you SERIOUSLY think there are people who don't know, who are unaware of the basic facts?
Are you one of those conservatives who presumes good faith on the part of the revolutionaries who are destroying the nation? "If they only knew the true facts"?
Pro tip: They know the facts. All of them.
And they are using their lies about those facts as a club to beat the naive fools who think it will all come out right if only they would look at a few pictures.
Remember Solzhenitsyn's account of praying with dying zeks, wasted from starvation, cold, and abuse? It was not uncommon for their last words to be, "If only Stalin knew", when Stalin, their hero, was the one who put them in the camps to begin with.
Yes. Absolutely. Not too many on Free Republic but maybe the enemy trying to check us out.
I go to lunch with some Democrat friends, and I guaran-damn-tee you they've never done the comparison, not looking beyond CNN or maybe CBS.
With them, we mostly talk about sports. With them, I don't start political discussions. I end them. They know now not to bring things up because they'll get their asses kicked.