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So, I am in high school, and I am reading Marx and find it fascinating. Low and behold I get selected to serve as a Student Ambassador. Where am I going? Asia, including China. I am so excited to see a communist country first hand, to actually live with a family, work on their farm and travel the country.
Result was a fabulous cultural experience and the realization that if the long term result of communism is extreme poverty, censorship, curfews and tanks in the streets at night then Thank God (whether or not I believe in god or not, cause I get to choose here) I live in a democracy.
The next year I served as an ambassador to the Soviet Union and it was yet another lesson in human nature. Communism is a wonderful idea, but it has little place in the real world. Someone earlier said it would require at huge "cultural revolution" (thank you Mao) for communism to work, and that may be true, but it will be in the very distant future.
Now, why do we hate communism. Because our government told us to - and you know what, they were right.
This post was brought to you by a Democrat and devout capitalist. So to those of you who equate Dem with Com please refrain from doing so in the future.
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