09-01-2019, 12:48 PM
(09-01-2019, 10:44 AM)dcvote Wrote: Americans want to live in a happy paradise with high wages, no guns, no blacks, no Muslims, no illegal immigrants, no beggars, no smokers, no straws, and no flag-burning, but how did tyranny work out for the USSR?
If wages are low enough and jobs are scarce enough, then we will have beggars. High wages are the only appropriate way of promoting high competence on the job and high productivity. Good pay is one way to induce people to migrate illegally to where the jobs are. No blacks? This is the 400th anniversary of the establishment of African slaves in America. We aren't undoing that. No Muslims? Freedom of religion. Americans are among the lightest smokers in the world. No plastic or paper straws? We can have metal or carbon-fiber straws that we must wash. Flag-burning? How often do we see that? Of course, I would gladly burn a Nazi or Confederate flag in the presence of the Klan. Besides, forty-eight stars and thirteen stripes marched into Buchenwald, Dachau, and Mauthausen, leaving no doubt of the meaning of such to inmates.
It is a great myth that the Soviet Union was gun-free. If one was on good terms with the Communist party, one could get a gun.
Quote:Do you really want to live in a world where everyone is a mindless sheep, everyone has the same thinking, and everyone wears the same clothes?
Strawman. It isn't happening.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.