To hear you guys talk you'd think we're all Russian serfs. Imagine the U.S. with an aristocracy that demanded it's people turn over a large percentage of it's labor to them. People having to survive on what's left, living in shacks with no plumbing or electricity. And if they dared to raise a hand against the system the military would brutally crack down on dissenters. That's the reason communism took hold in Russia and spread everywhere a peasant population subsisted to support elites living off of them like ticks. Ultimately communism failed because the new elite became no better than the old when they realized their policies didn't work but they wanted to retain power and the perks that came with it. So either people revolted again or were given much more freedom to incorporate capitalism to prevent complete loss of power. Meanwhile in our corner of the world socialists would have us believe that the average man on the street is suffering like Russian serfs or Nicaraguan peasants and must revolt. What is wrong with our system isn't our ability to feed, clothe, and house ourselves. It's putting the love of money above all else and characterizing lives as meaningless and worthless the less they have of it. And telling the lie that our lives will be so much better if we revolt against those who have more rather than working towards having more by improving our skills. And judging by how many supported Bernie Sanders the lies have taken root in our younger generations. If they can't have what others have through intellect and hard work then they want to tear it down until no one has more than they. Meanwhile they play their Xbox on their giant screen tv's while glancing at their handheld super computers also known as phones, lamenting they're no better off than Russian serfs.
