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Why do you think communism is on the rise and what do you think about communism?
I think communism sells. It's such a simple idea and message. It obviously doesn't work at all, but it's something that you [music] could so easily say to a young naive college person or young person in general. You can say everything should be free and health care should be free and universal and education should be free, but people don't really understand the ramifications behind that statement.
This is nothing new. People have been trying to sell the idea of socialism and communism for years and years and years. I mean, obviously in pre-Soviet Russia, you had communism. That's where a lot of it started. You had the Mencheviks and the Bolsheviks. And the Mencheviks were kind of like your mainstream run-of-the-mill democrat. And then you had the Bolsheviks. This was way back in like the 1800s, 1900s. And the Bolsheviks came in. They were kind of like the DSA activists of today. And they said, "Well, the Mencheviks and the Democrats aren't being radical enough, and they aren't promising you all the things that we're promising you. We can give you free education and universal healthcare and all these great things." and then they never deliver. So that happened back in the day.
It's just like a recurring ideology. History is a big fat circle and it's happening again because it's such an easy thing to sell, but it's never worked. Didn't work in Russia or the Soviet Union or China or Venezuela. Communism never works, but it's such an easy idea to try to convince people to vote others in with. So I hope that people read because those who know history do not repeat it. So we just have to teach kids why it doesn't work. And click right here to see what happens.