“All I want for Christmas is Communism” was recently in the news. This sentiment came from the mouth of a young millennial American woman. She apparently has no understanding of the realities of communism, socialism, progressivism and other totalitarian ideologies. So here are some examples she might want to contemplate.
An example of communism: I was having my heat pump serviced by a young man about 19 or 20. I notice that he had a radio playing classical music, something unusual for today’s youth. I asked him about it, and he told me that he grew up with such music when he and his mother lived in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Now here is where it gets interesting: As a girl, his mother had been shown promise as a ballet dancer. The problem was she wanted to be a nurse. The communist leadership told her that they didn’t need nurses for the State but did need good dancers. Her interests were ignored and she was banned from the nursing profession. When the Soviet Union disintegrated, this young man and his mother fled and came to America. She is now a nurse and he is an HVAC repairman.
An example of socialism: Sweden is considered the ideal socialist state. Generous cradle to grave welfare benefits underwritten by very high taxes and regulations. Recently, however, the welfare state has begun to fray at the edges because of a large influx of refugees, most of whom are from Islamic states. As a result of the associated economic pressures, the Swedish government has declared that the age when Swedes can begin to collect their pensions would have to be raised. In typical socialist fashion, the government leaders stated that this would give Sweden’s citizenry the “opportunity” to work longer. (Apparently, if you are Swedish, you can only work to a certain (?) age so the “opportunity” to work longer is somehow a benefit to you (?). Of course, the alternative answer is that you are being forced to accept the “opportunity” to work longer because of government dictates and irresponsible policies.) The bottom line is that a Swedish citizen has lost his or her personal freedom to the State.
An example of progressivism: To me progressivism is a slower more “velvet glove” approach to the revolutionary “iron fist” approach of socialism. Both are totalitarian and both depend on the elimination of personal freedom and the subjugation of people in the interest of the State and, more recently, the World. We have seen what progressivism intends for the American people. Under President Obama, Americans were smothered by regulations and law, and the interests of the average citizen ignored. Fortunately, President Trump and his “America First” agenda stopped the progressive advance in its tracks. (And that is why the communist, socialist and progressive totalitarians are so angry and violent.)
An example of totalitarianism. During the 2017 presidential campaign, candidate Hillary Clinton, an avowed progressive, made a comment about putting her opponents into a “basket of deplorables”. What the biased press conveniently forgot to ask her was what she would do with such a basket? Well, if 20th century history is a guide, the answer is you eliminate them – and that is exactly what Hitler, Stalin, and Mao did. Upwards of 150 million men, women and children died while these dictators tried to “perfect” their socialist and communist tyrannies.
I don’t know what millennials are being taught in colleges and universities, but the professors seem to be pitching a very benign picture of totalitarian ideologies. They ignore the enslaving of individuals for State purposes. They ignore the societal decline associated with the State’s micromanagement of people’s lives. They ignore the State sponsored genocide as if it were somehow good to eliminate those who disagree. The millennials need to be told the ugly truth, and it can’t be sugar coated.
In conclusion, I think it appropriate to mention a Thomas Sowell quote, “Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.”
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This is why it is imperative to support our president because we face something horrible if he fails, you can disagree but the never trump attitude has to go away now
And we still face it. While Trump has blunted the totalitarian initiative, the Democrat Party is still ruled by socialist and progressives. You can bet they will be back pushing more totalitarian ideas when the opportunity strikes.
WE ALL KNOW that many of the so-called ‘progressives’ are ‘ideological imperialists’ who have, and will continue to dominate groups and people that they don’t like, while raising up apparatchiks and mouthpieces to distract, coverup, ‘disappear’ critics, questions, and others in their way. WE ALSO ALL KNOW that many co-called ‘small government’ ‘defenders of individual liberties’ – AKA Republicans, these days – have for decades raised massive sums of money to consolidate political power by lying about gay people, lying about transgender people, lying about people of color, poor people, immigrants, refugees, and others that they don’t like, shaming them, blaming them, threatening them, ghettoizing them, harming them, abusing them, …. and writing or proposing draconian punitive authoritarian laws to hurt them.
It would be nice to know what lies Republicans have told about your list of people lied about. When you make such a statement, you should at least give an example.
I will play your game for one example, transgenders. The transgender is considered to be suffering from Gender Identity Disorder/Dysphoria, a psychological problem of such significance that such individuals have substantially greater mental issues than other people. This has long been recognized by the psychiatry and psychology community, and there are numerous articles on the subject.
So, when a Republican says such individuals should not be put forward as examples of normalcy for children, you apparently say that Republicans are lying? Essentially, it is you who have made up lies to accommodate your feelings against available facts and logic. Frankly, transgenders need to deal with their mental problems. They do not need people like you who want to pervert their very real need and blame it on someone else.
OK, now it is your turn to pick a category and defend it.
A few examples include:
gays caused this and that hurricane, storm, flood, fire, etc …. because some sort of God is punishing America for harboring gays
trans people at not really human but possessed of some sort of demonic force …. because they want to make themselves over into the image of some satanic image of the body and the parts of the body (to overturn nature, natural law, etc)
immigrants and refugees are all coming to America to get welfare …. which we now because someone on Fox said so
people of color are all, or mostly, violent, …. which we can see from the violence in the cities
etc …. for hundreds of examples if you’d like
Oh, and since you have now decided to make yourself a DOCTOR …
you should know that MEDICAL ETHICS requires doctors to consider the personal preferences of the patient. If a patient wants to consider gender confirmation procedures you can, as a individual doctor, suggest that it is area outside your expertise and make a referral but you cannot TELL the patient what the patient MUST do, and you cannot ABANDON the patient until you have made an appropriate referral or transfer to another doctor. So, you are very welcome to your MEDICAL OPINION bout GID or any other diagnosis in the DSM but you cannot COERCE, DEMAND, or ABANDON your patient. So stop doing all that, Doctor WARMAC9999.
A rant is not an argument. You have accused all republicans of lying. You can’t prove what you say thru facts so you just rant. This is the problem with the left. When the facts are inconvenient or contradictory, then they just make something up. Your last paragraph is a particularly good example of my comment. I have provide medical facts and you don’t like it so you make up something about me being a doctor. You shift to a discussion of medical ethics which applies to all medical professionals.
Do no harm?
Oh, you mean like doctors who HARM by prescribing pain pills, mood altering pills, sleeping pills, etc for people whose primary problem is that they are such crappy people, thereby supporting their immorality, guilt, shame-inducing behaviors, etc?
Or doctors who HARM by cooperating with expensive, unnecessary cosmetic surgeries, thereby supporting their vanities, insecurities, body image dysphoria, etc?
Or doctors who HARM by prescribing viagra, cialis, etc, thereby supporting impotent men in pursuing rape with their ‘fake news’ erections?
By the way, which of those doctors are Republicans and which are Democrats. Your rant has now abandoned your insults to Republicans and now involves insults to all doctors. I point out that the Democrats control the large cities through which illegal drugs of all kinds flow. So while you complaining about pain pills maybe you ought to understand the mechanism by which mood altering drugs flow into the USA across open borders. As far as cosmetic surgery, you would condemn severely and grotesquely injured people to a life of horror. Sure, some people are vain – and some of those who are vain are called Hollywood celebrities, AKA, Democrats. As far as erection drugs, do you have any idea how many men suffer as a result of prostate problems? Is there a market in illegal drugs like these – yep. Who runs those markets?
LARGE markets of meth manufacture, supplying, selling, etc are RURAL. LARGE markets of cannabis growing, supplying, selling. etc are RURAL. LARGE ‘pill mills’ are RURAL and the growth and devastation of pain pills, and successor heroin, and successor fentanyl in RURAL communities are well documented. You point about drugs flowing across borders argues against your point about ‘Democratic-contolled cities’ because MUCH of the border they flow across are rural and VERY RURAL counties which are almost exclusively REPUBLICAN-controlled jurisdictions.
You argue that REPUBLICANS must RESIST ‘normalcy’ for transgender persons. If trans persons are suffering – as you say – and medical services – by psychiatric care, by hormonal therapy, by surgical interventions – are available to relieve suffering what does it mean that Republicans MUST RESIST allowing those suffering-relieving services? Shouldn’t you then also RESIST allowing suffering-relieving services for impotent men? Why do you privilege the suffering of impotent men while abandoning trans people to their suffering without remedy?
I am glad you favor the wall. At least we are on the same terms there. However, drugs flow through sanctuary Southern California just the same way they flow through Southern Texas. Exactly what the trade routes are I don’t know. However, for sales purposes, these drugs end up in the big cities because that is where the customers collect themselves. The drugs are also distributed from the big cities to local small time dealers.
As far as transgenders, a medically recognized psychiatric disorder, i don’t think you help them or the nation by normalizing their psychiatric disorder at the expense of children, many of whom are Democrat as well as Republican. Transgenders do have remedies, it is called psychiatric as well as surgical help. (Unfortunately, spending large amounts of money to surgically alter someone apparently leads to even further psychiatric damage – and that is why John Hopkins ceased doing it.)
I note you somehow have a problem with men getting viagra. Then you must be opposed to women getting birth control pills. Frankly, the “pill” has completely changed the sexual dynamic between men and women – and nearly unconstrained sexual license is the result. While viagra is a temporary convenience, the pill is a 24/7 license for sexual relations. So I guess you condemn the pill even more than viagra.
Birth control ‘pills’ are used for conditions by many women for other than facilitating -as you say – ‘sexual promiscuity’. Women use hormonal birth control for reasons other than pregnancy prevention. For example, some methods of birth control can:
help with heavy or painful periods, help with acne, help with ovarian cysts, or reduce the risk of ovarian cancer.
How do men use viagra, cialis, etc for OTHER than facilitating their sexual promiscuity?
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very good. GLAD to hear! Of course, anyone experiencing sexual vitality as a SIDE EFFECT must resist, per your formulation regarding the illegitimacy of using medicine to tinker with gender or sexuality or sexual behavior.
Well, then I guess women shouldn’t be taking birth control pills if their only reason for doing so is to have sex at the drop of hat. As far as you comment about medicine being used to tinker, it already is in certain parts of the world. In China, for example, an ultrasound that shows “girl” will often lead to abortion. The entirety of genetics is being used to sort out defects prior to birth. If a gene or combination of genes is ever discovered that leads to homosexuality, then the LGBT community is done.
AND now the punch line – MY ACTUAL POINT: YOU represent a great number of Republicans who spend endless amounts of time defending HATE MONGERING, EXORCISMS from SOCIETY, SOCIAL CONTROL BY BIG MEAN GOVERNMENT, and other such nasty policies against people and categories of people you don’t like …
… RATHER than, as I suggest, you just let transgender people be who they are, with equal access and equal opportunity to the rights and benefits and services that YOU get
… and RATHER than, as you should, simply and honestly WELCOME trans people into the Republican Party.
IT IS THIS POINT that I wish to make: WHY are Republicans OBSESSED with trans people IN ORDER TO HURT THEM?
Your problem is you are obsessed with transgenders and really don’t care about the very negative influences they have on children. Transgenders can be helped, but not by making them comfortable with their psychiatric problems – apparently you would have made Charles Manson comfortable with his murderous psychosis if you had your way. Help comes when you recognize a problem not when you ignore it. (And if a Republican doesn’t like men in girls bathrooms it is because it is dangerous.)
There you go again! Republicans OBSCENELY OBSESS over people they don’t like – trans, gay, poor, immigrants and refugees, people of color, etc – deny them dignity, take away their liberty, and treat them like sh*t. That is the message Americans PERCEIVE in the Republican Party. LOSERS.
And here I thought you were for the children. How wrong I was.
Your problem is you are obsessed with transgenders and really don’t care about the very negative influences they have on children. Transgenders can be helped, but not by making them comfortable with their psychiatric problems – apparently you would have made Charles Manson comfortable with his murderous psychosis if you had your way. Help comes when you recognize a problem not when you ignore it. (And if a Republican doesn’t like men in girls bathrooms it is because it is dangerous.)
YOU accuse ALL democrats of being Bosheviks, so …
Actually, I refer to the Democrat Party as the party of socialism. As with the Republican Party, there are people who aren’t socialists but once you ascribe to the Party platform you align yourself with the Bolshevik ideas of cradle to grave welfare, multiculturalism, open borders, and globalism where nations don’t matter. A Democrat today is very much different from the Democrats of JFK, FDR, and Woodrow Wilson. You would not embrace any of those “lions” of the Democrat Party because all of them still embraced the idea of America as America.
Regarding Sweden: “The increase in the retirement age will be carried out in stages, and completed in 2026.
Under the current system, people working in Sweden can legally retire at the age of 61, though for financial reasons most choose to work longer. The average retirement age is 64.5 years, according to official statistics.
With the reformed system, you will have the right to work until the age of 69, compared to 67 under the current system. If you and your employer both agree, you can however work longer.” The horror!!
As usual, you miss the point. It is about the why not the how.
No, the point was Sweden’s social programs (particularly the retirement program) are in and of themselves evil. It doesn’t sound so bad to me. Better than our program that relies on our corporate overlords.
Once again, not the point.
Well Robert described the evil Swedish retirement program and said “The bottom line is that a Swedish citizen has lost his or her personal freedom to the State.”
I assume you can equate “bottom line” to “point”. I simply said it doesn’t sound so bad to me. Maybe the post is once again hyperbolic. Ya think??
The siren song of socialism is “it doesn’t sound so bad to me”. Then reality hits and the choice of what is good or bad disappears. There isn’t a single instance, and that includes the beneficent Sweden, where socialism has yielded a positive result over the long term. In the short term, the tyrant is propped up by the creations and wealth of others. Eventually, the situation gets to the point where children are eating garbage or where the parents are eating the children. I note the Cambodian comments below.
I suggest you watch what happens in Sweden over the next ten years. We will see if their citizenry can find their way back to “humanitarian”glory or fall apart as a result of uncontrolled immigration and the violence it brings. Regardless, the Swedish workforce is being put upon to prop up the bad decisions of their socialist and feminist government politicians and officials
“There isn’t a single instance, and that includes the beneficent Sweden, where socialism has yielded a positive result over the long term.“
Good God, every developed country in the world (except one, or course) has socialized medicine with far more positive results (than us) over the long term. As usual you live in the Rightwing fantasy land.
Specific programs can be beneficial. However, every government program has political implications and the ones associated with medicine are among them. Obamacare, and virtually every socialized medicine program, is an example of a government program that is highly politicized and sucks ever increasing amounts of money from the national budgets. Decisions about the allocation of health dollars under such programs favor the healthy over the sick, the young over the aged, limit the use of medical specialties,and recently in Canada gender reassignment surgery over cancer treatment. The worst part about socialized medicine and welfare is their impact on national budgets where such programs squeeze out other national needs. Last point, these socialist states eventually get to the point where success comes at the expense of individual freedom,creativity, and responsibility.
Sweden let in asylees for years easily. Economic migrants are really what you had there, especially with the liberal systems in place for vetting what is an asylum seeker. It recently had to tighten control over this system because their social services were being overwhelmed. It is happening in France now as Mayors have begged Macron for help with their migrants. I assume you are an idiot progressive who doesn’t see the need for a border. Well half troll… unlimited immigration will put paid to your welfare systems quickly. It is nice to virtue signal with other people’s money… you know it is who we are to take in the world’s poverty. But Europe’s social services can’t survive mass immigration… and neither can the United States’.
It isn’t just social services, it is security services as well. The police is Sweden already admit to being overwhelmed and outgunned by the Muslim migrants.
Sweden may be grappling with immigration (as the whole world is). Really has nothing to do with whether their retirement program is attractive or not. But nice anti-immigrant rant. Props for effort.
Go to Cambodia some time. You will meet the greatest sales people in the world. They simply will not take No for an answer. And in between customers, these starving five year old sellers play with starving stray dogs as the hoard of tourists file by the glass case monuments filled the skulls of the educated former residents of the capital. The sophisticated world travelers fail to grasp the significance staring them in the face.
The skulls and the kids.
This was the disaster of Pol Pot. He, like the rest of his totalitarian friends, was going to create the great socialist, communist or progressive state. It came at the expense of a quarter of the Cambodian citizenry at the time, something over 2 million souls if I recall correctly. Cambodia was left a shambles and hasn’t recovered, and, possibly, will never recover.
Glad you picked the right picture for a totalitarian ideologue
Since you can’t contradict anything said by Dr. Warren, you have to be cute. The problem is that a picture of totalitarian behavior shows bodies laying everywhere and a nation destroyed.
Arguing with nonsense is a waste of time, but somehow I can’t help but to talk with you.
What is really a shame is that you haven’t learned a thing. You simply put ignore even the slightest truths about the evils of totalitarianism. You are the perfect useful idiot for the tyrants.
If you haven’t figured it out yet, I did not vote for trump, not sure exactly how I am helping the tyrant.
If you live long enough you just might understand. So far, you don’t. If you want to risk your personal freedom on the socialists, that is up to you. Me, I realize just how precious and difficult to keep personal freedom is.
I should have followed my own advice and not wasted my time with nonsense.
I kind of wonder why you are at this site since everything is just nonsense to you. Wouldn’t you be better spending your time at some Democrat site where the ideas are just so superior.
The presidential campaign was in 2016 just to correct Dr. Warren – time really has moved at a different pace under Trump. Below is the idiotic statement from the Buzzfeed science editor:
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