I spent the first 15 years of my Army career waiting to go tank to tank with the f*cking Communists on the North German Plain against very bad odds if it ever came to that (And young people now have no idea just how real that prospect was), or sitting on strategic missile targets they had had dialed in for years. There is no way in Hell I'm going to vote in the cocksuckers or their little brothers, the Socialists.
Amen from me as well.....
Many here either have directly, or had family members looking down the bore of socialist/communist rifles from places like the Chosin Reservoir, Tet Offensive, Grenada, Central America, and a dozen other places........even more recently, we've had board members serving at the DMZ in Korea.......
It's doubtful that our new friend will find a receptive ear for these philosophies even if couched in somewhat benign economic terms. We are all aware that whatever the stripe, they all end up in the same place........totalitarianism, misery and genocide.........it happens every time it's attempted.
My questions for "AskaSocialist" would simply be........are you just one of those unfortunate souls that firmly believe that so far it's just been the incorrect people in charge when these grand experiments are attempted?
Next time, they'll get it right, and a workers paradise will indeed emerge?
Assuming Americans choose not to forgo their existing freedoms for a more "enlightened" economic/political system, and a significant percentage of us are armed to the teeth, how do you propose to accomplish such a goal?
Do you seriously believe that protests like OWS will accomplish anything? (HINT: the stock exchange is still opening on schedule every working day, and the protests have neither effected my portfolio nor my bank balance, and they never will).
Union activity/general strike? (HINT: union membership in the US has been plummeting for the past three decades, and now totals about 8% of the workforce.......a "general strike" would only affect those depending on government, or living in the liberal urban areas.......the rest of us could give a crap)
Armed insurrection? (HINT: We're uniquely experienced in coping with that sort of thing)
Indoctrination/propaganda? (HINT: that's been going on here for years in both our schools and the media, and it hasn't worked yet........citizens have an annoying habit of eventually "growing up" and looking reality in the eye.....we tend to be a pragmatic bunch)
Elucidate us, wise one, how will this marvel unfold in the next 50 - 100 years?
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