I agree, don’t bother. They have not tied the “progressive” movement in this country to the international communist movement that killed 100 million people, and they won’t get it until it happens again, if even then.
There is every intention to avoid the lessons of history on their part.
rather then calling it leftest politics so they don't tune you out right away you need to say government that goes bad or something that makes sense to them.
The way I put it is simple: Greed is the rot of any system of government. Which system handles greed the best. A system that has control over every aspect of our life or one that doesn't?
Socialist Far Left Mao took out 76,700,000 all by his lonesome from 1923 to 1987, not counting another 38,000,000 who died by starvation under his calm and wise watch.
Socialist Center left Stalin murdered a good 61,911,000 to finish in second place much to his chagrin.
When it came to murder by socialism, Hitler was a Socialist Rightwing piker, killing a mere 20,000,0000, but proud that everyone today thinks of him as the worst mass murderer in history.
The totals for the socialist monarchist Japanese are rather murky. Much of their killing was Japanese citizens who refused to join in the formation of their Greater Co-Prosperity Sphere. How many Chinese they killed is unknown, but it is in the millions, with 369,366 in Nanking.
As one Chinese general remarked on seeing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, “You Americans do good work.” Which is nothing to what the Chinese would have done had they had their way.
Most people today have no idea just how much slaughter happened from 1917 (the Russian revolution) to Cambodia in the 1970s.
This cost the US 408,000 combat deaths, with 81,000 of those in the Army Air Corps.
The total world combat deaths from 1900 to 1987 is 34,000,000 for perspective.
Our current conflict with Islam from 1979 to Present is likely on course for 1,000,000,000 dead before all is said and done.
Sources: Sokolov, Korol, Eckhardt, Encarta, Kinder, Urlanis, HarperCollins.