Posted on 03/15/2009 2:46:56 AM PDT by Scanian
"Socialism, a luxury of the wealthy. To the poor, a suicidal creed ..." --David Hare, A Map of the World
Anyone who has lived inside the demoralized, unproductive, gray prison of a communist state, as I did in the mid-1980s, knows to what depths of impoverishment the egalitarian fantasies of socialism inevitably lead. They lead to decades of frustrated poverty and lifetimes of untreated illness culminating in early death. I remember the columns of death notices for men and women in their forties and fifties that appeared in the local newspaper. Gradually I learned to associate those death notices with the lack of fresh foodstuffs, the travesty of state health care, and the pervasive demoralization of an enslaved population drowning itself in cheap alcohol and cigarettes.
Gradually I came to understand that the condition of life under communism, so filled with repression, suspicion, and hopelessness, dragged one down into an early grave. Gradually I saw that within the communist state everyone-everyone except the leadership of course-subsists in a cage of gnawing bitterness and permanent defeatism.
Unnumbered lives were sacrificed on the ungodly altar of communism in the last century, not only in my temporary abode of Yugoslavia but throughout eastern Europe, Russia, and much of Asia, Africa, and South America, and now the American Left wishes to revive this monstrous ideology on our own shores. Every totalitarian regime begins with the same heartfelt promises of justice and equality, just those promises of fairness that Barack Obama has made the fixation of his political career. What tyrant, one might ask, has not risen to power on promises of benevolent change?
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
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Ping to excellent, sobering article.
Excellent article - thanks for the ping.
Reminds me of an old boyfriend who was part of the Merchant Marine. He worked on those big freighters that went all over the world carrying cargo from here to there. He'd be gone for months at a time, and always had great adventures to relate when he came back. His ship once got stranded in the USSR, and the crew had to hunker down in one of the big port cities for several weeks.
He said it was the most horrible, bizzare nightmare one could imagine. Everyone -- all ages, all types -- was drunk, he said, all the time, day and night. There were no pretty women in the clubs or bars where they passed their time -- all were hard, ugly, grim, and desperate. He said that the KGB watched every American to the point of laughable excess. Anywhere, everywhere, he went, he'd turn around and look behind him and some official dogging his steps would awkwardly dodge behind a tree or a corner.
This article made me think of that ol' boyfriend's stories and how much he hated having to deal with cargo anywhere near the USSR.
EXCELLENT article BUMP
I've pre-ordered my Hussein Truckster GT by Generalissimo Motors. It takes two years to get one due to productivity controls instituted by the United Auto Workers Collective. Per Comrade Commandante Carol Browner's Rule #BR-549 it runs on biofuel and the exhaust is recyclable.
I hate to bust your bubble,but the Animals Before People legislation that Obama signed states you are in violation of forcing that horse into slavery against it’s will and therefore his ACORN shocktroops will be coming to take you and your family to the local Obama/Soros ReEducation camp.
They already are, my FRiend, they call them abortion centers.
The ironic thing is that most, if not all, of the unproductive are Democrat voters. And they are too stupid to realize what is happening to them, even as it is happening.
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