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When your platform is "free lunches for school children" no one has to worry about the devastating consequences of someone doing it to you.
by XorNot 2y ago
When your platform is "free lunches for school children" no one has to worry about the devastating consequences of someone doing it to you.
- pavlov 2y agoMany of these people literally believe that "free lunches for school children" inevitably turns into "those socialists will force me to eat bugs in an Orwellian nightmare". For them, Sweden and North Korea are on the same spectrum of communism and will end up the same.
- bunderbunder 2y agoMeanwhile they somehow don't see wealthy and powerful people using their political connections to enrich themselves by garnering favorable treatment from powerful government officials as an essential part of how things worked in the USSR. The problem with the saying "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it" is that a lot of people haven't forgotten history; they simply never learned it in the first place.
- throw10920 1y agoWhose platform is that, and only that? I've never seen a single political candidate where that was their sole position.