Tag: Only idiots are socialists

VONNEGUT’S DARK VISION ARRIVED 60 YEARS EARLY

“THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.” – Harrison Bergeron – Kurt Vonnegut

Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Short Story Bundle Common Core Aligned

Kurt Vonnegut’s short story – Harrison Bergeron – was written in 1961, and in Vonnegut’s darkly satirical style, portrayed America in 2081 as an disgracefully dystopian nightmare. Little did Vonnegut know what he considered outrageous and 120 years in the future, would be far closer to our current dystopian reality just 60 years later. The story was brought to my attention by my wife a week ago when we were talking about the absurdity of masks, their uselessness in stopping viruses, how they are nothing more than a means to control the population, being used to spread fear, and as a dehumanizing technique.

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“We’re All Socialists Now”

Guest Post by Antonius Aquinas

Despite being probably robbed of the Democratic Party’s nomination by the Clinton political machine, the success of the Bernie Sanders’ 2016 campaign with his advocacy of “democratic socialism” was an ominous sign of things to come and, in some sense, more telling of the political climate than Donald Trump’s improbable victory in November, 2016.  The millions of votes garnered by Sanders in the Democratic primaries has emboldened other socialists to seek political office while socialist ideas are openly spoken of with little fear of political recriminations.

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CAPTION CONTEST

Hat tip Grog

Soon-to-be congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez posted a photo captioned “squad” in Washington, D.C., sitting at a table (symbolically and literally) with fellow congresswomen Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley.

Omar and Tlaib are the first Muslim women elected to Congress. Pressley is the first black woman in Massachusetts to serve in Congress. Ocasio-Cortez is one of the youngest people ever elected to Congress, and her progressive platform gained her national fame.

Tlaib also posted a photo of the four, writing “Going to hit the ground running fighting for #JusticeforAll.”