Pamalinsky wrote:
Rant Back! OMG I hate to hate but, I hate them, I hate them, I hate them! Oh, great Stalin's ghost, I friggin HATE them. I am at my wit's end. I have been told that I am in fantasy land when I point out evidence of socialist shenanigans. Real evidence. They don't care. They are willfully blind and wish to stay that way. They are suicidal. They don't see it. That includes me in their suicidal actions. They deny it. I'm wrong and a "fearmonger." Did I mention how I hate them?
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Let's look at 2 systems, both of which have similarities:
Naziism (which is actually National Socialism but I digress)
- Killed 6 Million people
- Sent political dissidents and the Jewish people to concentration camps
- Was led in Germany by an insane leader who had a cult of personality surrounding him
- Made life worse for those living under it
- Had a program implemented called the Hitler Youth for the young to spy on their families for compliance and dissidence
- Had regular showings of force by the military marching in the city
- Was fought against by many of the world's nations
- Was eventually apologized for and swastikas and other Nazi imagery banned nationwide by the new German government
- Is taught about to young Germans today by taking them to actual concentration camps and showing them the horrors of what went on
- Was in power for about 10-15 years
- Promoted a mentality that involved intense hatred of the Jewish people and political dissidents
Socialism/Communism
- Killed 10 Million people
- Sent political dissidents and Muslim people to gulags
- Was led in Russia by many insane leaders who had cults of personality surrounding them
- Made life worse for those living under it
- Had a program implemented called the Young Pioneers for the young to spy on their families for compliance and dissidence
- Had regular showings of force by the military marching on Red Square
- Is taught about to young Russians in a way that is not known to me, but which I suspect to be pro-communist.
However, here's where the similarities end
- Was adopted by many of the world's nations
- Was never apologized for and most of the documents detailing operations left classified
- Was in power for about 70 years
- Promoted a mentality that involved intense hatred of Capitalism and Capitalists and political dissidents
As you can see, they're both very similar. However, communism is the more dastardly of the two, as it killed more people in it's gulags (which in most cases were even worse than the concentration camps), was in effect for a far longer span, and is kept very secret even today. And while most adherents of communism despise Naziism along with the rest of us, they remain oblivious to it's far worse history.
I'd say that communism is like a religion, and that that's why more people are getting on the communist bandwagon. You have the Communist Manifesto holy book written by the god Marx which was used by saints Lenin and Stalin to bring the Kingdom of Communism about in Soviet Russia.
However, beyond this obvious explanation, the fact that is is a religion means that it can take the place of other religions. Most people nowadays are becoming Atheist because it's trendy and not thinking long and hard about it. They get out of religion too quickly and never give themselves time to decompress. Enter communism. It's very prevalent on the internet, there are many websites, discussion boards, and blogs devoted to communist thought. Many communists also venture outside of their own sphere to attack people on videos that espouse right-wing, moderate, or even light left-wing thought. Therefore, the religion of communism proselytizes without proselytization, if you know what I mean. The fact that it's adherents attack on so many fronts means that it gets a lot of free advertising.
Now we know how they get into it, but what about the average new communist convert? They're usually college students, or in their early-mid 20's. This means that they don't have a lot of political experience, unless they're like me and got into it when they were very young by way of their parents. They've also probably gone or are going to college or graduate school, are working a fast food job, and haven't yet got into a job that allows any advancement. The low pay combined with the student loan debt that will be welded onto them after they get out discourages them, I know it would discourage me.
Therefore, they want an out, a bit of escapism. Some choose superheroes and comic books, other choose regular books, movies, TV shows, drugs, booze, you name it. However, they may simply hate working, and then you have the perfect conditions for a communist. Communism's adherents advertise world peace, free stuff, and eternal happiness as their primary goals. Everybody wants world peace, so they already have a leg up on the ignorant. The free stuff is very attractive to the college student as it allows them to falsely lower their expenses. The eternal happiness is also very attractive as the college student is often stressed out with exams and studying and possibly having no social life.
However, the free stuff comes with higher taxes, and the eternal happiness turns into eternal suffering. Those who don't know anything about economics, which are communism's primary customers, never see this. They get caught up in communist fervor and soon are brainwashed into the communistic way. They're never educated about the horrors of communism and what makes America special. Hard work made America great and freedom, liberty, and free enterprise make America special, but since most communists have had cushy lifestyles all their life they never see this, think that the world can function without tradesmen, garbage men, and other dirty, thankless jobs, and proceed to sing the praises of a system that beats down the average joe, gives all the power to the government, and will force the cushy person who loves communism to the fields or the factories.
