Taking too much for granted.
The socialism that young naifs say they favor will come, as socialism always comes, with the same despotic hand of authoritarianism that crushed the people of the Soviet Union, Cuba and Venezuela.
Tagged: democratic socialism
A lesson lost.
Time was Democrats and Republicans in America largely agreed that the Soviet Union and its puppet states were de facto prisons.
Socialism? Heartland folks will have their say.
The heartland folks know that America isn’t perfect. But they also know that America is good.
What Gerry Ford got right.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.
The government they deserve.
It is simultaneously astonishing and horrifying that a person with a resume that will fit comfortably on one side of a cocktail napkin is now in charge of a city of 300,000 employees, a budget of $120 billion and responsibility for the safety and welfare of more than eight million souls.
Leftists and their delusions.
Bright-eyed lefties look at America’s wealth and they say to themselves, “There’s plenty to go around. Let’s spread it.”