Thread: Политические дискуссии на разные темы (оф-топик от темы "The crisis in Syria")

Our police state is beyond even Stalin's wildest dreams, our country is overflowing with guns, our homicide rate is skyrocketing, we shovel the homeless out of cities because we are embarrassed at the sight of them, and our prisons, run for profit, now have more people incarcerated than during the peak of the Stalin era.

It's all sad (all of it except for people getting guns, which I think is good, partially because of the homicide rates and things like that); but people ain't zombies! They talk about it, they try coming up with suggestions on how to fix it, etc. That's what you're doing right now! If you were living in the Soviet Union, you would be saying, "it's a lie, we're in paradise!";

Originally Posted by Eric C.

It's all sad (all of it except for people getting guns, which I think is good, partially because of the homicide rates and things like that); but people ain't zombies! They talk about it, they try coming up with suggestions on how to fix it, etc. That's what you're doing right now! If you were living in the Soviet Union, you would be saying, "it's a lie, we're in paradise!";

Oh please. Not everyone in the USSR were zombies by any measure. Just because their opinions were not reflected in state-run news does not mean they didn't have opinions or voice those opinions at times. They knew the government was not telling them the truth. Now how many Americans can say that? Every country has its mob of blind patriots - including and maybe even especially America. And every country has its dissenters, who in my way of thinking are the most truly patriotic of all, because they are not afraid to speak out about the evils which destroy their countries from the inside.