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The real experience societies have had with collectivism and redistribution over the past 100 years hasn't just been disappointing. How many tens of millions of real human beings have been mowed down, starved, enslaved in the name of the collective good?
This dreamed up rubbish hasn't worked - NOT because there were not enough people who had enough hope. It hasn't worked and has caused so much devastation because the demands of collectivism are out of whack with human nature. Barrack's ideas won't work if enough of us have enough hope. That is wishful thinking. Hoping is not a realistic foundation for any society, especially when any normal, smart human being could just take a look at the anger and hatred right here on this site, and see that the kind of society Obama wants to organize would require brute force.
LBJ's War on Poverty and his Great Society did not work. Jimmah Cahtah's magnificant plans did not work. Actually, the real consequences of their failed policies made things far worse. We continued to have legions of illiterates dropping out of high schools by the tens of thousands each year.
And, inspite of all that failure, and inspite of all that corruption (most glaringly in Cook County, Illinois where Barrack has his roots), now you somehow believe that this time it will work. What makes you believe or even HOPE that, this time, all of this discredited by real experience rubbish would work? Is Obama so mesmerizing a leader that he would hypmotize the population into suddenly acting like good little cogs in his dreamed up big machine?
That's why I mentioned Moscow. That's why in a moment of candor, Mao acknowledged the final authority which comes from a gun barrel. Only brute force can make people obey. Barrack's pals, Dohrn and Ayers undestand this perfectly, and so would he if he came to feel that his wonderful ends would let us say justify some temporary suspension of traditional process.
When you talk about the great unwashed who do not understand how Barrack O is really looking out for their interests, you are terribly mistaken. Inspite of your degrees, they understand our best interests far better than you.
