MILTON FRIEDMAN ISN’T IN CHARGE ANYMORE, SAID BIDEN. WELL, THE RESULTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES. MEANWHILE, A FLASHBACK:
Because socialists are dumber than ever, I am re-upping this. pic.twitter.com/YNGXJNT4as
— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) April 13, 2024
Related (From Ed):
In his latest G-File, Jonah Goldberg wrote:
[W]hen Stalin allowed the film version of the Grapes of Wrath—retitled The Road to Wrath—to be seen in the Soviet Union because it was a searing indictment of the failures of capitalism. Soviet citizens saw it and were like, “Holy crap! The peasants all have cars and pickup trucks in America? Man, we’re poor.” Stalin quickly yanked it from theaters.
Because nothing changes in the world of “Progressivism,” even among “Progressives in a hurry,” in 2012, Karol Markowicz wrote:
In 1977, the year I was born and the year my father, his mother, his aunt and many other Jews left the Soviet Union (my mother and I left in 1978), the Soviet propaganda machine began circulating a rumor. It went, roughly: life in America is so terrible that the old people eat cat food.
This was…perplexing.
People didn’t quite get it: they have food specifically made for cats in America? What a country!
A lot of things about America remained beyond their comprehension.
To be fair, to this day, there is much the European mind cannot comprehend about America.