The Roman statesman and orator
Cicero once said, “Not to know what happened before you were born is to remain forever
a child.” That’s a perfect comment on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Socialist
darling of the Left and all her fawning, naive acolytes.
How is it possible for the
thundering herd of young people heading for destruction off the socialist cliff
not to know anything of the calamitous history of those countries that suffered
the consequences of that failed ideology in the 20th century and profess
it even today?
Let’s start with
the Soviet Union and its satellites in Eastern Europe: Poland, Romania, Albania,
Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Hungary, all of them failed states
with repressive regimes until freed by the collapse of communism in 1991. Then,
how about our despotic friends in Mao’s China, Ho Chi Ming’s Vietnam, Kim’s North
Korea, and Pol Pot’s Cambodia, all of them with hands bloodied by mass murder
and enslavement.
But we don’t have to go that far. In our own hemisphere we
have the decades-long disaster in Cuba and now the starving populace in
oil-rich Venezuela to give daily testimony to the utter bankruptcy of socialism.
Yet, we have hordes of clueless admirers
of Bernie Sanders heading to the polls in November, dreaming of Utopia: free
healthcare, free college, free food, free housing, and free lollipops. And no
idea whatsoever about how nanny government is going to pay for all of it.
Oh, let me take that back: we’ll get
the money by confiscating the profits of corporations making over a billion
dollars a year, a brilliant emanation from the deluded mind of Elizabeth Warren.
And, if that’s not enough, we can save the rest by shutting down ICE.
If Cicero were witnessing this insanity
today, he would no doubt express his disbelief by switching from his Latin to our
American vernacular and asking our entranced young voters, “What are you? Nuts?”
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