People who have never known genuine liberty and the security of a virtuous culture can find freedom a rocky road to poverty, especially when their old socialist masters continue to rob them blind. They want the soft, Democratic Socialism of Western Europe, but that won’t be what they get in the end. That kind of Socialism requires wealth makers to plunder. Guess what these people will get.
pallis: “That kind of Socialism requires wealth makers to plunder.”
True. So true.
Pallis #11: You’ve hit one nail on the head about the failure of much of the old Soviet Union satellite countries (i.e. captive nations), to make much progress towards a better standard of living, of more democratic political structures/institutions, and a cleaning out of the old communist Old Guard.
There is another psychological phenomenon at play here, namely the fact that Communism so poisons the soul/mind of man, that even when free, he is still imprisoned by marxism/communism.
This happened to some prisoners in German concentration camps. When they were freed by Allied forces, they did not want to leave their hellhole for the unknown. They preferred the known (the prison barracks, little food, etc,) for the unknown beyond the wire. Most eventually got over this mental blockage, but they still suffered for a long, long time, some, forever.
Communism is not only a poison, it is also a cancer that eats away at one’s self esteem, drive, discipline, and desire to achieve things in life. One becomes a political zombie, living only to exist.
That is what Obama is trying to bring to America, and he is doing a pretty good job of it. Some still long for the days of FDR and the Depression and Obama is doing his damnest to bring back those times.
Democrats are either the camp prisoners who still follow their oppressors or who do a “Stockholm Syndrome” and become a part of them.
A Bob Hope/Richard Carlson scene from a movie about ghosts, had a line somewhat paraphrased here that describes what I’m talking about.
Richard Carlson, after seeing zombie-like people. “It was horrible. They were walking around lifeless, like zombie, empty stares, and mindless.”
Bob Hope: “Oh, you mean like Democrats.”
Nuff said.
Pallis #11: You’ve hit one nail on the head about the failure of much of the old Soviet Union satellite countries (i.e. captive nations), to make much progress towards a better standard of living, of more democratic political structures/institutions, and a cleaning out of the old communist Old Guard.
There is another psychological phenomenon at play here, namely the fact that Communism so poisons the soul/mind of man, that even when free, he is still imprisoned by marxism/communism.
This happened to some prisoners in German concentration camps. When they were freed by Allied forces, they did not want to leave their hellhole for the unknown. They preferred the known (the prison barracks, little food, etc,) for the unknown beyond the wire. Most eventually got over this mental blockage, but they still suffered for a long, long time, some, forever.
Communism is not only a poison, it is also a cancer that eats away at one’s self esteem, drive, discipline, and desire to achieve things in life. One becomes a political zombie, living only to exist.
That is what Obama is trying to bring to America, and he is doing a pretty good job of it. Some still long for the days of FDR and the Depression and Obama is doing his damnest to bring back those times.
Democrats are either the camp prisoners who still follow their oppressors or who do a “Stockholm Syndrome” and become a part of them.
A Bob Hope/Richard Carlson scene from a movie about ghosts, had a line somewhat paraphrased here that describes what I’m talking about.
Richard Carlson, after seeing zombie-like people. “It was horrible. They were walking around lifeless, like zombie, empty stares, and mindless.”
Bob Hope: “Oh, you mean like Democrats.”
Nuff said.