They can also say, “Jack and the beanstalk” if they want. Just don’t count on them believing either.
They love to toss around the word “socialism” and apply it to us, as if WE were dangerous proponents of government control of means of production. This from the biggest group of control freaks to ever plague the North American continent! Look at their biggest role models of the 20th century: Stalin and Hitler. Stalin of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Hitler, Führer of the National Socialist (Nazi for short) German Workers Party.
If those are their heroes (and their actions of the last seven months certainly suggest it), well, good for them, but if they are going to slowly dismantle the free market and put it under government (their) control, they had better look in the mirror before calling US socialists. We could even help them out with a prediction of how their action will turn out. France elected a slate of dedicated Socialists to run their country in 1981. Predictably, the economy tanked, and although the Party got one more chance—with similar results—it never regained the popularity it had before it actually had to govern, and put its theories to the test.
The USA, alas, has shown no such inclination to learn from past (2016) mistakes. Maybe there’s something in the drinking water? How many more times are we going to hear, “I was so wrong to vote for him” from tearful ex-residents on their way to El Salvador? From people with seriously ill family members who can get no medical care? From people who can no longer afford food or housing? From business owners who can’t find people to work on their farms or in their factories? From people who expect their rulers to respect their country’s Constitution? The answer to that one is “A LOT!” My willingness to listen is beginning to diminish, however. We, the Democrats, said we’d help, that we were on their side. The Republicans said they would NOT help, and these people voted for them anyway! THEY STILL WOULD. They vote against us because we are supposedly socialists (because Fox Noise said so), while their leaders really act like it.
I need to move on from trying to win over people whose favorite pastime is sitting in a corner somewhere and singing the chorus to “Poor Poor Pitiful Me.” I need to tell them, “yes, indeed you are,” and move on to having a dialogue with people willing to listen.
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