People are a lot like sheep. It’s always been that way.
Sheep have brains. It’s always been that way, too.
So it must be something other than a presence of cogitation that causes some people to endorse Communism/Socialism.
Why? Because some people do not yearn to be free. It’s as simple as that.
Others yearn to wield power. It’s as simple as that, too.
They are not, nor should they be considered as, “Americans.”
I just listened to NPR tonight for the first time in many months. It is very slick propaganda. Most every story has an angle. Anyone who regularly listens with an uncritical ear will begin to think globally in no time.
NPR is far better propaganda than Goebbels ever dreamed of
producing.
Tonight they even had a Muslim refugee who dreamed of Haloweem, how American!
As Aldo Sterone said, while the right promotes rehab for junkies (welfare), the left promises better and cheaper drugs.
When I was a younger man I just assumed it was the natural state of humanity to desire liberty and freedom. Now I firmly believe we are essentially bipedal sheep. Liberty requires constant vigilance and a never ceasing quest for knowledge that will inform us when tyranny is becoming manifest. We may have had that at some point in our nation, I feel that the Founders certainly did. But over time we began to succumb to our natural state of apathy, diffusion of responsibility, the search for someone to show us what to do, how to think and react. I am of course speaking in generalities, there are true individuals who do desire liberty and it’s attendant responsibilities; but sadly I think these individuals are the exception rather than the rule.