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Originally posted by Strange Famous
The American people must be disarmed.
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It has already been said, but I feel the need to repeat that this is what Hitler said about the German people before he established his totalitarian regime.
The unfortunate fact is that, although Communism is a theoretically ideal solution to the world's problems, the reality of it is that the only way that anything like Communism can work is the "Dictatorship of the Proletariat," which is just another totalitarian state. It happened in Russia, that government was little more than a socialist dictatorship. If forced to choose between a socialist economy with a totalitarian government and a Capitalist state with a Democratic government, there is no way that I would trade freedom and the necessity of hard work for a government that sent secret police to kill dissidents and took most of my income in exchange for subsidized utilities and food. It is pleasant to envision a state in which we all lived in harmony, helping our fellow man and had nothing to fight for, but it realistically can't happen.
The further humanity evolves, the less possible it is to have a true Communist state.
As for the real question, nobody should be harassed solely for political views, but if those views are hateful, he should keep them to himself and not try to force them on us. I can't tell from this article whether or tnot the kid is a racist, so I have to say that teh non-confrontational way in whcih the situation was handled without accusations is probably the best solution based on the information given.