Posted on 06/08/2016 5:57:45 PM PDT by fella
I made both my kids read and watch ‘City of Ember’ when they were younger. I think they ‘got it’. Now I’m making my older one read ‘1984’ and ‘Animal Farm’ as he loves dystopian novels.
Everyone’s covered, thank goodness!
Even many of the soldiers aren’t getting food. There was an article not long ago about soldiers being caught stealing livestock because they didn’t have food.
During WWII, there was a cheap, single-shot .45 cal gun called the Liberator that was dropped by the thousands into Europe. Drop off a bunch of those and the locals can get their machine guns from the military.
See the story “What can a handgun do against an army”. Very enlightening. It’s been posted to FR on multiple threads.
My wife is taking care of a gal, she was born in Germany.
“So what caused you to come to America?”
“I was a child in West Berlin after the war. The boxes dropped with food had U.S.A. written on them. I told myself ‘I want to live THERE!’”
Got the title wrong. It’s “What Good Can A Handgun Do Against An Army”.
“Now Im making my older one read 1984 and Animal Farm as he loves dystopian novels.”
Take a look at “Flashback” by Dan Simmons for the older one; it’s an interesting contemporary dystopia. Good but not great, as it COULD have SO much more. I think Simmons is starting to do what Stephen King has done for the last 20 years: go for quantity rather than quality.
I frequently talk to Bernie supporters (and lets face it, Hillary is a socialist too), and I mention Venezuela, and for some reason, they can't connect the dots.
It’ll be like Ethiopia in the 1980s. There’s no communist regime. No regime whatsoever. It’s just a place. A place where people happen to be starving. Cuz that happens sometimes.
Venezuelans oil industry is in chaos. All of the senior engineers are gone and nationalization has created huge inefficiencies. Their equipment is breaking down every day.
There’s just something about the Hispanic language and culture that craves over bearing and extremely corrupt governments. Unfortunately we seem to have been infected.
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