You make an excellent and chilling point. Discussing this in terms of communism and its evils is simply beyond the intellect and the experience of these people. Countless millions of people have been living on the gov’t dole for 2,3 or 4 generations. They can’t even envision a life without that check. They have no notion of a better life nor a desire to make one for themselves. Why should they? All incentive has been removed.
They have not experienced the tyranny of communism and other totalitarian forms, so it is impossible to ask them to consider that what they are asking for is a recipe for a complete collapse of the system they depend upon.
Speaking about communism to this group is also a waste of time. They barely know what it is or what it means and they certainly have never been educated about its evil results in every single case. The expression “those who don’t learn the lessons of history...etc.” simply does not apply; they have no lessons of history to learn from.
In this light, Romney’s 47 percenter comment is very well taken, indeed.
I heard a few of them call into Sean Hannity’s show, I think he purposely had them on to show us all what we are dealing with here..I know these kind of idiots have existed before Obama, but the difference is that with Obama, he wants these kind of people supporting him, he is drawing more and more of these idiots into his corner because this is what he wants..a Communist society where everything is free and people with wealth become poor. Hearing this one guy tell Hannity that ALL of his wealth should be taken away, at first I thought he was kidding, no he was serious! For many people, why work when you can get it for free, that is their mentality. The same ones that you see begging for free health care and free food are the same ones you probably saw waiting in line at your local Apple store for the new iPhone 5..they DO have money, they just don’t want to have to pay for anything..that is the communist mindset and it scares the hell out of me