There is so much wrong with almost everything the left is offering today that I will not even go there. If you're reading this, you already know anyway. These ideas are not new to me, I was BORN into them. I went to elementary school in communist Hungary in the 70's during the cold war. There was a framed picture of Lenin or Stalin or both in every classroom. We sang songs about the pleasures of sowing and reaping, and work in general. We looked identical in our blue bottoms and white tops and blue or red bandanas around our necks. Indoctrination started early in childhood.
Seeing people as they really are and how we wish them to be is two different things. The utopia described in movies and books and political propaganda writings are not possible in the real world. Why not? Because we are not ants, or bees, or even a colony of penguins. We are selfish, munipulative, capable of cheating and lying beings who are instinctively motivated by reward and/or punishment and will act in our own best interest. On the whole, will not work to support someone we don't know, who's not related to us, who doesn't work themselves even though they could. Nobody in their right mind would. And so since reward would no longer be an incentive in this brave new world, only punishment can be. You sing about the rewards of your hard labor, and inside you're cursing the ideological whip that keeps you working. This is just reality and fact.
And by the way, there were beggars on the streets of my youth. There were garbage pickers. There were bums sleeping in the subways. The communist utopia of my childhood was about quotas--the quotas that kept my dad out of university, the rationing that cut you off at the butcher counter just as you were getting your turn and they "ran out", my grandmother complaining about the voting ballot-there was only one name, Brezhnev, and you circled yes or no. Of course he always won with a resounding 95% yes! But my grandma would dare bitch about it all in her own kitchen and my grandpa would shush her like "Stop talking like that, women, before the neighbors hear you". He wasn't kidding.
I'm sad. Not even 300 years and it seems the end is near. And there is nowhere else left to go to try again, there is no more land where one can be truly free of the tyranny of the majority. I want my America back, the one where liberal meant 1) a woman's right to a safe and rare abortion before the first 12 weeks, 2) accepting same sex marriages 3)not being frowned upon for being non-religious 3)no discrimination based on sex, age, religion, nationality, sexual orientation or political affiliation. That would be the liberals of my youth in America. Love, peace, no more war, pass the joint. Their biggest clash with their parents was their long hair and refusal to go to church. Oh, and of course, all our military interventions were just plain wrong because who made us the policemen of the world? Who could argue with that? They did not, however, want to implement the very systems that us NATURALIZED CITIZENS were escaping from. At least back then.
But that is also changing. There are more immigrants coming to America today from already Democratic countries today than ever before. Well the Soviet block is broken up, the Berlin wall has come down, and Socialist Democracy is practiced all over Europe. So why are they still coming here, when they have basic human rights and free elections in their own countries? Because their economies run on socialism- as in the state controls all big money making enterprises. Like car factories, and oil pumps, refineries and all gas stations. Like farmland-think like a surf, you're only leasing the land and selling the product back to the landlord. Like all tv stations, news papers and magazines, anything in print. Also things like tourist attractions, large hotels, amusement parks. All schools, universities and vocational training schools. All state owned. Professional sports teams too! They might see a drop in their paychecks. And Hollywood too, the state would totally take ownership of production companies. So you understand that under Socialism, no one gets super rich. Like Donald Trump or Oprah or Bernie Sanders or Rockefeller or Shell or MGM or...you get the picture. A few who control the government in your name will get rich, like the Obamas and the Clintons. They were not rich when they started out, but they sure are now.
Naturalized Citizens Against a Socialized America!
Seeing people as they really are and how we wish them to be is two different things. The utopia described in movies and books and political propaganda writings are not possible in the real world. Why not? Because we are not ants, or bees, or even a colony of penguins. We are selfish, munipulative, capable of cheating and lying beings who are instinctively motivated by reward and/or punishment and will act in our own best interest. On the whole, will not work to support someone we don't know, who's not related to us, who doesn't work themselves even though they could. Nobody in their right mind would. And so since reward would no longer be an incentive in this brave new world, only punishment can be. You sing about the rewards of your hard labor, and inside you're cursing the ideological whip that keeps you working. This is just reality and fact.
And by the way, there were beggars on the streets of my youth. There were garbage pickers. There were bums sleeping in the subways. The communist utopia of my childhood was about quotas--the quotas that kept my dad out of university, the rationing that cut you off at the butcher counter just as you were getting your turn and they "ran out", my grandmother complaining about the voting ballot-there was only one name, Brezhnev, and you circled yes or no. Of course he always won with a resounding 95% yes! But my grandma would dare bitch about it all in her own kitchen and my grandpa would shush her like "Stop talking like that, women, before the neighbors hear you". He wasn't kidding.
I'm sad. Not even 300 years and it seems the end is near. And there is nowhere else left to go to try again, there is no more land where one can be truly free of the tyranny of the majority. I want my America back, the one where liberal meant 1) a woman's right to a safe and rare abortion before the first 12 weeks, 2) accepting same sex marriages 3)not being frowned upon for being non-religious 3)no discrimination based on sex, age, religion, nationality, sexual orientation or political affiliation. That would be the liberals of my youth in America. Love, peace, no more war, pass the joint. Their biggest clash with their parents was their long hair and refusal to go to church. Oh, and of course, all our military interventions were just plain wrong because who made us the policemen of the world? Who could argue with that? They did not, however, want to implement the very systems that us NATURALIZED CITIZENS were escaping from. At least back then.
But that is also changing. There are more immigrants coming to America today from already Democratic countries today than ever before. Well the Soviet block is broken up, the Berlin wall has come down, and Socialist Democracy is practiced all over Europe. So why are they still coming here, when they have basic human rights and free elections in their own countries? Because their economies run on socialism- as in the state controls all big money making enterprises. Like car factories, and oil pumps, refineries and all gas stations. Like farmland-think like a surf, you're only leasing the land and selling the product back to the landlord. Like all tv stations, news papers and magazines, anything in print. Also things like tourist attractions, large hotels, amusement parks. All schools, universities and vocational training schools. All state owned. Professional sports teams too! They might see a drop in their paychecks. And Hollywood too, the state would totally take ownership of production companies. So you understand that under Socialism, no one gets super rich. Like Donald Trump or Oprah or Bernie Sanders or Rockefeller or Shell or MGM or...you get the picture. A few who control the government in your name will get rich, like the Obamas and the Clintons. They were not rich when they started out, but they sure are now.
Naturalized Citizens Against a Socialized America!
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