Tuesday, October 16, 2018

How Living Two Years Under Socialism Made Me a CapitalistThe American Spectator

How Living Two Years Under Socialism Made Me a CapitalistThe American Spectator
"...Today, and for the past several decades, Israel’s kibbutz movement and socialism is all but dead. 
See the source imageThat is why socialist Bernie Sanders has led the way incorporating anti-Israel policies into the Democrat party. 
Today’s Israelis despise and reject socialism (outside their academia, mainstream media, and entertainment industry — sound familiar?). 
The leftist Labor Party is in shambles. 
Benjamin Netanyahu’s center-conservative Likud coalition reigns.
...I had been forced to study socialism on an undergraduate level at Columbia’s Ivory Towers. Now I was getting my graduate degree in real life.
I started to see how people live in actuality under socialism. 
They cheat. 
Under socialism, everyone cheats like crazy— Arabs, Jews, Christians. 
Everyone. 
Can you even can call it “cheating” when everyone does it? 
The car salesman would offer to reposition the radio so that it fits in the glove compartment. 
That way, if a cop stops you for a traffic infraction he won’t notice you have a radio, so you can avoid the car-radio tax. 
People would beg families and friends visiting from abroad to please bring a box or two of Rice Krispies and, pretty please to sneak a VCR in their luggage..."
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