03 Jan 2026, 9:37 pm
TheLivingDead13 wrote:
Lol yup and I bet everyone thought it would never fly in places like Russia, China, North Korea, and all the other places where communism was tried and failed, horribly...
But somehow they're all so sure it'll somehow work this time if we force this broken ideaology on the Americans.
But somehow they're all so sure it'll somehow work this time if we force this broken ideaology on the Americans.
These countries didn't just "try" communism/socialism. They had violent revolutions.
With rare exceptions, violent revolutions, of any kind, in the name of whatever ideology, almost always lead to a "reign of terror" and decades of tyranny. Well-known non-Communist examples include the French Revolution, and, more recently, the Iranian revolution.
The American Revolution has been said to be one of the rare exceptions. But the American Revolution was, arguably, not really a revolution. It wasn't a mass uprising against the colonial governments. Rather, the colonial governments themselves decided to declare their independence from an overseas power. So the American Revolution didn't tear up the fabric of society in the way that violent revolutions typically do. It was more like a war against a foreign power than like a typical revolution.
Anyhow, a violent revolution in the name of Communism is very different from an established democratic or semi-democratic society adopting incremental reforms in a "socialist"-leaning direction.
And, here in the U.S.A., the only kind of "socialism" we could ever conceivably have would be the latter.
A violent Communist revolution is extremely unlikely here in the U.S.A. If the U.S.A. ever has a violent revolution, the most likely result would be some form of fascism, not Communism, because the vast majority of Americans with guns are right-wingers, not left-wingers.
