“I wonder if the aoc people even know what a dictator is. I kind of double doubt it.”
You know, it’s sad, but throughout my lifetime ( of now 78 years) I have watched as Socialism/Marxism has “made the rounds” in the countries comprising Central and South America. Each one, it seems, has “dabbled in Socialism” only to find itself saddled with a tinpot dictator, or a series of them. From my perspective, only America has managed to keep from going “all Venezuela.” Even Canada can’t seem to stay on the Capitalist bandwagon for very long. So, unless we secure our borders (all of them) the future does not portend our remaining a free, capitalist, republican country for very much longer because it would seem that the rest of the hemisphere is bent on somehow perfecting the “free lunch” through the use of “other people’s money!”
“Each one, it seems, had “dabbled in Socialism”
“DOUBLED-DABBED”, I would say.
I remember years ago the irony of standing in front of my university library (a building full of learning) but that’s besides the point, while a bunch of stinky tree huggers went on about the merits of socialism and reading above their heads on the stone facade George Santayana’s phrase.
It’s true what you say. Every generation is just as susceptible as the last to the disease of socialism.