Among my parents' friends and coworkers, few did not have a story (if they were candid about it) of a family member or relative imprisoned in the Stalin era for some absurd reason: Someone's aunt was branded a subversive because a neighbor heard her playing a funeral march on the piano the day a notorious "enemy of the people" was executed; someone's father was charged with fomenting "defeatist attitudes" during the war for remarking that Stalin "sounded sad" in his radio address to the people. Democratic socialists seek to distance themselves from the authoritarian tendencies of actually existing socialist regimes, which is why they added the word "democratic" to their moniker; they wish to establish that the seizing of private property and redistribution of resources will be arrived at via democratic means. So you start running off that group and there is no one to take up the slack of the paying the taxes and NYC is right back to 1975 , but even worse.
Author: Reason
Published at: 2025-11-06 23:02:31
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