09-10-2020, 03:37 PM
(09-10-2020, 02:59 PM)John J. Xenakis Wrote: There's also a very interesting bit of history relevant to today. In the late 1700s, a group of rebels engineered a coup and set up a Marxist Socialist society -- decades before Marx was born. Every attempt at Socialism is always an economic disaster, and this was no exception. They stole from the landowners and soon ran out of other people's money, so they linked up with Chinese pirates who attacked Chinese commercial vessels. They gave the pirates safe harbor in Vietnamese ports, and markets to sell their booty. In short, for 30 years, they constructed a plunder-based political economy that relied largely on Chinese pirates for military and financial support.
That's similar to what Bernie Sanders et al want to do today.
No reason to question the first paragraph above. Sounds right for the time. I would just question Bernie making US ports into safe harbor for pirates, for people who today would be working against international law. That seems more like your inability to understand the motives of people you are ideologically blind too, your eagerness to slander those with different values than your own. Knowing this habit, anyone should be highly hesitant to take your writing seriously.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
