Socialism is a hard thing to uproot once it gains power in a country. The reason is very simple: Socialism has appeal to the masses, even though it is a really a construct of a political elite that wants to wield total power over those masses. Once in power, the Socialist elite knows that its ideology will lose popularity as soon as the …
Socialism is a hard thing to uproot once it gains power in a country. The reason is very simple: Socialism has appeal to the masses, even though it is a really a construct of a political elite that wants to wield total power over those masses. Once in power, the Socialist elite knows that its ideology will lose popularity as soon as the ideology is fully imposed upon the masses, so the Socialist elite must always must be prepared, able, and willing to exterminate anyone who threatens the regime. History is filled with examples--Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and--yes--Hitler. Hitler was every bit a Socialist, just a slightly different flavor of Socialist than a Communist. Hitler despised the Communists, not because they were Socialists, but because Hitler believed his flavor of Socialism was superior to theirs. Hitler said, "It is not Germany that will turn Bolshevist, but Bolshevism that will become a sort of National Socialism. Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separate us from it… The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communist always will."
Democrat elites love to call Trump and conservatives "Fascists," but the reality is that Trump and the conservatives reject every tenet of Fascist Socialism. Meanwhile, the Obama/Hillary/Biden/Soros cabal has embraced nearly every tenet of Fascist/Socialism, with some Communist/Socialism mixed in to placate the Sanders/Squad Communist faction of the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party's rudderless ship is wandering the political ocean aimlessly because its factions just bicker over what kind of Socialists that they should be. The only thing that they are unified enough about is that they hate Trump and conservatives--and that is no longer enough for them win elections. The Democrats know it, and that is why the Biden (Obama III) Administration basically tried to establish a de facto Socialist dictatorship before the 2024 election. They almost did, but came up short. Now, the Democrats are going to pay the price for what they tried to do, and I really hope that price that they pay is incredibly high--they deserve it.
Nah, Germany was National Socialist just like China is now. The latter has produced so many billionaires, surely you don't consider them still to be Communist? They guide their Capitalists. You can't hurt the Nation. Why is that a bad thing? Because lust for money is such that the greed heads don't care who they hurt.
Play ball with the nation - or else. If you do play ball was as Pinochet said: Of course you are good to people who do things and make things.
Chinese cities are immaculate? The Chinese city I live at in suburban Los Angeles is getting uglier by the year. Chinese developers are tearing down mid-century tract houses and slapping up identical, tacky McMansions
I won't defend them too much. But their cities are immaculate, the high tech futurism we were promised.
I can't remember: Was it Napoleon who said, Don't awaken the Dragon? A 19th century clergyman repeated it. Anyway, we did and they have taken vengeance on us and will take more yet.
Socialism is a hard thing to uproot once it gains power in a country. The reason is very simple: Socialism has appeal to the masses, even though it is a really a construct of a political elite that wants to wield total power over those masses. Once in power, the Socialist elite knows that its ideology will lose popularity as soon as the ideology is fully imposed upon the masses, so the Socialist elite must always must be prepared, able, and willing to exterminate anyone who threatens the regime. History is filled with examples--Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, and--yes--Hitler. Hitler was every bit a Socialist, just a slightly different flavor of Socialist than a Communist. Hitler despised the Communists, not because they were Socialists, but because Hitler believed his flavor of Socialism was superior to theirs. Hitler said, "It is not Germany that will turn Bolshevist, but Bolshevism that will become a sort of National Socialism. Besides, there is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separate us from it… The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communist always will."
Democrat elites love to call Trump and conservatives "Fascists," but the reality is that Trump and the conservatives reject every tenet of Fascist Socialism. Meanwhile, the Obama/Hillary/Biden/Soros cabal has embraced nearly every tenet of Fascist/Socialism, with some Communist/Socialism mixed in to placate the Sanders/Squad Communist faction of the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party's rudderless ship is wandering the political ocean aimlessly because its factions just bicker over what kind of Socialists that they should be. The only thing that they are unified enough about is that they hate Trump and conservatives--and that is no longer enough for them win elections. The Democrats know it, and that is why the Biden (Obama III) Administration basically tried to establish a de facto Socialist dictatorship before the 2024 election. They almost did, but came up short. Now, the Democrats are going to pay the price for what they tried to do, and I really hope that price that they pay is incredibly high--they deserve it.
Nah, Germany was National Socialist just like China is now. The latter has produced so many billionaires, surely you don't consider them still to be Communist? They guide their Capitalists. You can't hurt the Nation. Why is that a bad thing? Because lust for money is such that the greed heads don't care who they hurt.
Play ball with the nation - or else. If you do play ball was as Pinochet said: Of course you are good to people who do things and make things.
China is one of the worst they will sell their daughters into sex slavery, destroy their environment and lie about EVERYTHING TO MAKE A BUCK.
@Lugh the poster you said Nah to nailed it.
Chinese cities are immaculate? The Chinese city I live at in suburban Los Angeles is getting uglier by the year. Chinese developers are tearing down mid-century tract houses and slapping up identical, tacky McMansions
Immaculate?
None that I have seen.
Many of them suffer from both sewage pollution and air pollution.
It's not uncommon to see Chinese people blowing their noses right onto the ground and letting their kids publicly pee on the ground.
This is why they take their shoes off when they enter their houses because the streets in China are filthy.
I won't defend them too much. But their cities are immaculate, the high tech futurism we were promised.
I can't remember: Was it Napoleon who said, Don't awaken the Dragon? A 19th century clergyman repeated it. Anyway, we did and they have taken vengeance on us and will take more yet.