At the end of World War II, Russia and America were basically on the same side fighting Germany. When Germany was finally defeated, the question of what to do with Germany remained. Some idiot committee decided to split Germany into East and West and to split the capital, in the eastern side, into East and West. Famously, August 13, 1961, the East Germans built the Berlin Wall. Even though this was terrible for the German people, it finally gave a fishbowl view into the two opposing ideologies: Capitalism and Socialism. The same typography, population, economic status, military status, governmental status, and birth rate would be split into two. One would be allowed to be capitalistic and the other would be socialistic. Since Germany was basically destroyed after World War II, both sides started from zero. Berlin would be a microcosm of that experiment. Nationally speaking, America supported the west and Russia controlled the east.
The world watched in amazed wonder as thousands of west Berliners (donuts?) gathered at the wall. Bands played, people chanted, and then the pick axes and sledge hammers came out. November 9, 1989, the first panel off the heavily reinforced Berlin Wall fell. Thousands of people streamed across the opening as more and more panels fell and the wall came down. Which direction were the people running? Everyone from East Berlin ran into the west as fast as they could. Not one person ran with eagerness into the east, except to take pictures and document the horror. While the West was colorful and vibrant and musical, the east was drab and grey/green with simple, cookie cutter apartments, narrow street and ancient technology, even for 1989.
So from this 28 year experiment, we can make some conclusions. We can look at the evidence and choose which is a better system: capitalism or socialism. As news people entered the deserted East to document what was there, they found the offices of the Secret Police and discovered files and documents on everyone who lived in the East. That alone helps us choose the capitalism side. The fact that the capitalism side had invention and entrepreneurship and variety and the east was government directed sameness. The fact that everyone in the east ran into the west and refused to go back even to get their meager belongings shows us that centralized government control of all resources, both physical, spiritual and human stifles human nature and causes people to give up.
So, why, with all the evidence of Berlin do the Democrats desire America to become a socialist nation. Everywhere socialism takes root, the spirit of the people die. People become a means to and end for the elite class, the manager class. People work where they are told, eat what they are told, wear what they are told, live where they are told, read what they are told and do what they are told, day after day for their entire lives. Truth becomes lie, war becomes peace and wrong becomes right. In the east, there were no little coffee shops or clothing stores or bakeries, or shoe shops or game rooms or computer stores or art stores or anything that might come from the free entrepreneur spirit. This is why I despise every aspect of the progressive movement. It will destroy America.
The world watched in amazed wonder as thousands of west Berliners (donuts?) gathered at the wall. Bands played, people chanted, and then the pick axes and sledge hammers came out. November 9, 1989, the first panel off the heavily reinforced Berlin Wall fell. Thousands of people streamed across the opening as more and more panels fell and the wall came down. Which direction were the people running? Everyone from East Berlin ran into the west as fast as they could. Not one person ran with eagerness into the east, except to take pictures and document the horror. While the West was colorful and vibrant and musical, the east was drab and grey/green with simple, cookie cutter apartments, narrow street and ancient technology, even for 1989.
So from this 28 year experiment, we can make some conclusions. We can look at the evidence and choose which is a better system: capitalism or socialism. As news people entered the deserted East to document what was there, they found the offices of the Secret Police and discovered files and documents on everyone who lived in the East. That alone helps us choose the capitalism side. The fact that the capitalism side had invention and entrepreneurship and variety and the east was government directed sameness. The fact that everyone in the east ran into the west and refused to go back even to get their meager belongings shows us that centralized government control of all resources, both physical, spiritual and human stifles human nature and causes people to give up.
So, why, with all the evidence of Berlin do the Democrats desire America to become a socialist nation. Everywhere socialism takes root, the spirit of the people die. People become a means to and end for the elite class, the manager class. People work where they are told, eat what they are told, wear what they are told, live where they are told, read what they are told and do what they are told, day after day for their entire lives. Truth becomes lie, war becomes peace and wrong becomes right. In the east, there were no little coffee shops or clothing stores or bakeries, or shoe shops or game rooms or computer stores or art stores or anything that might come from the free entrepreneur spirit. This is why I despise every aspect of the progressive movement. It will destroy America.
Remember the Berlin Wall was not put up to keep people out.
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