Chrissy, you blonde-headed dickweed, when you make statements like this:
The thing people didn't like, it wasn't the philosophy of communism they didn't like, it was the complete corruption of it, the failure of it to deliver to working people.
You're a DUmb**** pretend-journalist who wouldn't recognize what the Eastie Beasties were saying if they wrote it on crayon on your non-chest. You were there all of a few weeks while in your real gig as D.C. Bureau Chief for the SF Examiner. You wouldn't understand communism if it tingled up your leg and told you Barry was your bitch.
The truth is, you're only partly correct.
Most of the Easties were completely comfortable with the government telling them what to do in their lives. Most had gotten completely complacent about their lot in life and looked to The Great Benefactor as their Almighty. This is the fundamental danger of communism -- it takes people who are completely capable of thinking and acting for themselves, and turns them into doddering, unthinking fools who become what the real power brokers want.
The corruption that you speak of isn't nearly the issue as it is the complete brainwashing of entire generations of people who, over the course of 40 years, became quite adept at looking to the government for their every need.
If you weren't such a complete DUmb****, you'd understand this.
Chrissie, go stick your non-dick into a light socket and tell the world what kind of tingle you get with that.
Asshat.
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