30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

Thats horrible. Almost as horrible as the fact that many leftists in this country want to bring this monster ideology back.

 

Which brings us back to the question I posed in the opening post:

Why do we continue to see people repeat the mistakes of the past in countries such as Venezuela and propose to repeat them here in the United States?

It's been 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the socialists in this country still haven't learned a damned thing other than to change their tactics and conceal their identity and agenda behind the "progressive" facade. Now, they've become so bold they have dispensed with the only lesson they ever learned.

 

In the US its a toxic combination of naive/ignorant individuals who don't understand what marxism is, and immigration from latin countries where such a "system" is common. You don't see people who lived under communism singing its praises here.

A less PC link is to IQ. Studies have shown that to maintain a functioning democracy, requires an IQ of around 100. Average IQ scores are dropping over the last several decades. California's average IQ is 95-half of the people here have an IQ below 95...

Socialism is an economic/social "system", with its own rigid constraints.

Capitalism is more of a default rather than system. If people are left to their own devices, capitalism will thrive.

 

Germany has largely been a single culture country where, like Scandinavia, such systems might work. However when other cultures are introduced the culture changes, as does the attitudes toward social programs.

 

Thatcher tried evrything to stop the reunion. She hated Germany to the core. To thank her is laughable

 

I think they were talking about Thatcher's role in bringing down the USSR, which obviously contributed to the collapse of its puppet regimes in Europe:

Thatcher and the Soviet Union: The Iron Lady who helped bring down the ‘Evil Empire’
https://www.rt.com/op-ed/thatcher-ussr-cold-war-gorbachev-528/

As you correctly pointed out, reunification was a different matter.

 

Was good too see her have a stroke and die painfully slow over years. She got what she deserved.

 

Just read she slammed with her face in a bowl of porridge when she had her stroke. XD

 

I can understand why Germans wouldn't like her, but obviously we had a different relationship with Thatcher and she is widely liked and admired here in America. Some people in our country believe that she was the godmother of the conservative Reagan Revolution in the United States.

 

That's just another example of how much the German media sucks.

 

Its was british magazine

 

She was an enemy of Germany and so hostile, her own advisors dismissed her regarding that. They told her nothing could Stop Reunion, only Military Action. If she doesnt give Up her stance, that she would lose any credibility.

 

God lift us up were we belong one of these days.

 

I lost friends in the sandbox. People I loved and taught to shoot who knew what to do.

One went to find Bergdahl.

Nobody ever came.

If there is some date or anything you can say to change my pain, please say it now.

Its looking like there isn't.

Not even a pit bull with arthritis.

 

I'm sorry that you lost friends in Afghanistan.
They knew how dangerous their job was.

Were you also there? Then be glad that you're still alive.

 

Well put, my friend.

I would add that a large part of the problem can be credited to the failure to teach and learn not only the history of socialism and its disastrous application during the 20th Century but our own history and our relationship to the evolution of the Individual's long, arduous and painful struggle to assert his/her own power and control over their own lives and governments. The ideas expressed in our Founding documents and the successful revolution to establish them are the culmination of thousands of years of history and human progress and it's dangerous to lose sight of that. As Ronald Reagan once said, "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." If we forget our revolutionary place in history - as we seem to be doing today - not only will our hard earned accomplishments be lost, many of us won't even realize it. They'll just continue to stumble blindly through their lives blissfully unaware of exactly what they have lost.