Dontcha Wish
May 12th, 2007 at 5:36 pm by CrankyThat you could force a young, full-of-rage liberal to sit down with one who has lived under actual oppression?
Me too. Read this serious article from an author the People’s Cube which both praises Yeltsin and takes to task the media and unthinking leftists at the same time.
A taste:
Today’s anti-Bush rallies in the U.S. demand the very opposite of what the pro-freedom Soviets rallied for. By advocating for the government control of economy, the ideological monopoly of the Left, and massive redistribution of wealth, American leftists espouse the same ideas as the backward Soviet hardliners – same song, different verse.
These self-absorbed “progressives” don’t want to hear about the strife of the Soviet people who had learned the hard way that these ideas only result in massive poverty and loss of freedoms for everyone involved. In effect, the leftist rallies spit in the face of every victim of communist oppression, living or dead. That count is in the hundreds of millions.
As they say, read the whole thing (in two parts).
May 12th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Hey Crankmeister…a terrific read. Tie this into the Michael Moore “controversy”:
“This is nothing short of fascism, though certainly not the first incident under the Bush administration that persecutes people who have loud voices of dissent.”- quote from a pundit/blogger/journalist whom some of us are familiar with.
Atbashian’s take:
“These journalists wouldn’t recognize fascism if it smacked them over the head with a hammer and sickle, which is the Soviet version of swastika.
Anyone who had lived through the attempt by Soviet hardliners to take back the power and restore a Stalinist dictatorship would be astounded, just as I am, with allegations by today’s American “progressives” that George W. Bush is a dictator whose “junta” has usurped our freedoms and reversed decades of progress, turning America into a “fascistic autocracy.” Such people don’t even begin to know what “junta” really means nor what it feels like to live in a dictatorship. These pundits may think of themselves as enlightened “defenders of freedom,” but in reality they only expose their own moral blindness.”
As Linda Richman might say…”discuss”