30 Years After The Fall Of The Berlin Wall, Socialism Is Staging A Comeback

[mystery-ak]

 30 Years After The Fall Of The Berlin Wall, Socialism Is Staging A Comeback

People who love liberty cannot declare victory on this day of commemoration each year, because the battle hasn’t been won: socialism is staging a comeback in Western democracies

By Helen Raleigh
November 11, 2019

This November 9 marked the 30-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a notorious symbol of the oppression of communism and socialism. Yet people who love liberty cannot yet declare victory on this day of commemoration each year, because the battle hasn’t been won: socialism is staging a comeback in Western democracies, especially in the United States and United Kingdom.

It’s worth looking back at how the Berlin Wall was built. After World War II, Germany was a country divided. The regions occupied by the United Kingdom, United States, and France formed the Federal Republic of Germany, or West Germany, a free-market-oriented democracy. The areas occupied by the Soviet Union formed the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany, a Socialist regime.

This division extended into Berlin, creating West Berlin and East Berlin. Thus, one of the most dramatic and consequential social experiments in human history began: capitalism versus socialism, freedom versus tyranny, a free market economy versus central planning, command, and control.

Germans on both sides of the division spoke the same language and shared the same cultural heritage and ethnicity. Both sides, prior to their separation, had suffered similar destructions of infrastructure and severe damage in the economy.

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https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/11/30-years-after-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall-socialism-is-staging-a-comeback/

[sneakypete]

It will never go away. There will always be people who want something for nothing. Most eventually evolve into  adults and realize if you want something you have to work for it,not stamp your little feets and hold your breath until you turn blue if someone doesn't give it to you.

The ones that don't evolve become socialists/communists.

[Fishrrman]

An excellent article, I read it all.

Towards the end, the author writes:
"Even more troubling, according to the latest report by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation, 70 percent of millennials said they would vote for a socialist leader. Only 57 percent of millennials believe the Declaration of Independence better guarantees freedom and inequality than the Communist Manifesto does."

Think about that for a moment.

So once again, I present for your comments Fishrrman's "American Timeline":
2019: USA -- United States of America
2027: USSA -- United Socialist States of America
2035: USSSA -- United Soviet Socialist States of America
2042:  ?????