What Socialists Really Want
"...Silicon Valley is showing greater wealth inequality over time.
Individual incomes are dropping, save for the top 10%.
Housing costs are driving out service workers like firemen, retail workers, etc…
Only the wealthy can afford to actually live in the communities they serve.
Normally this would not be news on The Declination.
If a place is expensive and hoity-toity, don’t live there.
Hell, don’t even work there – go somewhere where your work is actually appreciated, not looked down upon as icky or plebeian.
...On Drudge this morning, I found a brief snippet about Jack Ma, richest man in China, being a member of the Communist party.
Does this surprise you?
Communism has never been a ground-up, grassroots movement from the lower classes, despite the popular reputation as such.
Rather, it is an
ideology led by the second-tier wealthy scions who fancy themselves to be intellectuals.
Thomas Sowell had the right of it:
Most people who read ‘The Communist Manifesto’ probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of ‘the workers.’
Marxists merely presume to use the lower classes against their enemies in the middle and upper classes.
Ultimately,
they don’t want to deal with the dirty, teeming masses in their living rooms, or even their zip codes..."
Read on.
"Oulu police have recently been informed of dozens of cases of adult men attempting to lure young girls online.
In the midst of an otherwise romantic night, gals, you might be asked to create a so-called "consent video" so your understandably petrified partner can cover his behind against any future false accusation leveled against him.
The anecdote was a vital reminder in Stalin’s empire: Stray from the party’s official position and it could mean death. 
One of the sorriest sights I have ever seen in a bar occurred on the eve of the Gulf War in the fall of 1990. 
