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FINALLY an Honest Chicago Politician: Democrat Says Socialist Gov’t Should ‘Control Every Aspect of Our Lives’

“Democratic socialism, to me, is about democratic control of every single facet of our life,” he said. “Government is led by the people, not by big corporations, not by multibillionaires, and working people actually have control over who we elect to be our politicians, over how elections work, and over how our government is structured. People have the power.”

Democratic socialism even extends to our relationships and how we treat each other. [It looks] at the world through a socialist-feminist lens, in how we treat people who are black, who are brown, who are femme, who are non-binary, who are gender-nonconforming, and who are working class.

To me, we’ll have achieved democratic socialism not when there is no conflict in the world, but when our societies are not governed based on power, but are governed based on the mutual understanding that everybody deserves a decent and quality life.

Folks, this is what every single arrogant, dangerous, un-American, left-winger thinks. They all think they are better than you, more virtuous than you, smarter than you, and more worthy to control your life than you are.

This is why the Democrat Party is no longer an American party.

It is why they must not be just defeated but destroyed.

"Socialism" itself has very little meaning to younger voters.

Aaah, the old Duck and Cover advise. Takes me back.

As I recall, the era of MAD resulted in a generation of children without direction, thinking there was no point to study, or saving money, or planning a future.

[youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60 [/youtube]

I'm sorry to hear how defeated you are.

Research on the effects of the nuclear threat on children is chilling. At the end of the 1950s, 60 percent of American children reported having nightmares about nuclear war. Few other comprehensive surveys were conducted at this time, though studies multiplied in the early 1980s. In the 1960s, 44 percent of children in one survey predicted a serious nuclear incident. By 1979, 70 percent of interviewees the same age felt sure of an attack. Researchers noted that the latter survey respondents seemed more resigned than their 1960s counterparts. A 1984 survey of 1,100 Toronto schoolchildren found that many reported feeling helpless and powerless in the face of nuclear war. For them, the issue was rarely discussed in the home.

A policy of silence, whether intentional or not, pervaded many Cold War households. When not directly removed from discussions of looming Soviet threats, children were the victims of their parents’ own denial. “The idea of exterminating ourselves is so chilling that we have decided to deny it to ourselves and to our children and pretend it cannot happen,” wrote Carlos Salguero, assistant professor at the Yale University School of Medicine and Child Study Center, in 1983. He called the phenomenon a “special realm of existential absurdity.”

In 1979, after the rise of the government-sponsored atomic age and space race, the accident at Three Mile Island created a newfound nuclear panic. Even so-called responsible applications of nuclear power were considered highly dangerous. Add to that an escalating nuclear arms race and international weapons buildup, and the 1980s birthed a new generation of Cold War kiddies. Even Mr. Rogers released a five episodes in 1983 as part of a “Conflict” series.

Perhaps the strongest cultural reflection of this fear was the television film The Day After, also released in 1983. The first half of the movie introduces the conflict between NATO forces; the second half depicts the consequences of a Soviet bomb dropped on Kansas City, Missouri. Finally, stripped of symbolism and superheroes, here was a fact-based depiction of what humans could expect in the event of a nuclear attack. And director Nicholas Meyer held little back.

Before the movie even aired, critics aimed to censor its horrors and the media warned that the images might be too graphic for children. Some school teachers even wrote home to parents, begging them not to show their kids a vision of World War III. But the country needed release, and families were finally willing to approach their biggest fears, even if it was just a simulation. Two days before the film aired on ABC, Washington Post critic Tom Shales wrote, “Who should watch it? Everyone should watch it. Who will be able to forget it? No one will be able to forget it.”

An estimated 100 million Americans watched the film when it aired, ranking The Day After the highest-rated TV movie to this day.

President Ronald Reagan watched it, too. In his diary, he wrote that the film was “very effective and left me greatly depressed.” In his memoir, he revealed that The Day After partly inspired his signing of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty in 1987, an agreement with Mikhail Gorbachev to eliminate all short- and intermediate-range nuclear missiles.

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What BLM thugs demand is that police officers be prevented from defending themselves so that black people can murder them with impunity.

Stupid illogic the first time you posted it and every time since.