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Rodger,
I
hope you are feeling well with Christmas approaching. If so,
here’s a big downer for you.
We
have been at war with communism for about 90 years. Not all our
politicians have been fully involved, but over time, we’ve stayed ahead
of the commies. The Soviet Union collapsed under the weight of
socialism and Ronald Reagan. However …
Europe
is socialist, despite proof it doesn’t work. While their
economies are collapsing, and the reason for the collapse is well known
(socialist spending schemes), there is no rush away from
socialism. Russia and its former empire are heading backward
toward communism, with few exceptions. Asia is mostly communist
or socialist, with China attempting to have it both ways with a
semi-free economy in cities, but crushing socialism in the
interior. Only Japan and South Korea are not fully
socialist. India, which began as socialist, is having second
thoughts. There’s hope there. South America and Africa are
generally socialist. Mexico is a socialist narco government,
imitating Afghanistan.
The
United States has been sliding toward socialism, and now has a
communist president. Republicans, supposedly the opposition, seem
bent on going the same way, just more slowly. Maybe not much more
slowly anymore.
So
Rodger, is the war already over? Before we actually have a chance
to win? Look at a map and tell me what you think. The
communists may already have won.
Skoonj
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Good
points skoonj. There does appear to be some disagreement about
which countries are socialist/communist. For instance, Wikipedia
does not even hint that the United States is socialist
despite
this
As a rule of thumb and four fingers, I propose that any member of
the UN is a card carrying socialist nation.
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Countries with a history of aristocracy will often go communist or socialist. Many countries that claim to be capitalist are, like Paraguay, actually fascist, or, like Bolivia was, actively feudal. Russia and China was essentially feudal, as were the Kuomintang and the White Guard, the communists were the only party actively offering a change, and of course, they did bring a change, much based on the money of the old aristocracy and it's hangers on.
ReplyDeleteWe threw our aristocracy out, so communism never had a chance here, although many blacks were attracted. Mexico threw it's own govt out and produced a quasi-socialist govt, which became corrupt, and was removed in the '90's.
From my observations, peoples will gravitate away from collectivism and towards capitalism and freedom, but it takes education and liberty to maintain a free country, witness the attacks on education and liberty in our country. Frankly, I think we are winning, but the dice are still rolling.
--Sapo Mal