hollowpanther5 said:Exactly what he gave us: forced nationalization, political imprisonment camps, injustice, the violent collapse of our union, wasting taxpayer money on bunkers while waiting for a war that never happened, setting us back decades, and banning religious freedom... thanks a lot to that one-legged locksmith.
You’ve gotta admit it.
Just an idea... purely just a thought floating around in my head. No pressure, nothing concrete, just one of those random mental sparks that hits you when you're staring at a blank wall or waiting for a coffee that’s taking way too long. Anyway, here it is. Just tossing it out there. America was actually pretty great... everyone felt like brothers under one flag. Just one big, unified nation.
Just an idea. Communism is actually a pretty great concept on paper—everyone works, everyone gets their fair share. Everything’s supposedly covered. Just... you know. Theory vs. reality. Always.
But look, FDR just didn't get it... he never quite grasped that us North American folks have this intense national identity that runs way deeper than any "brotherhood and unity" slogan they tried to push on us.
Honestly, looking back at everything... Communism just flat-out failed in practice. It wasn't some grand alternative that actually worked. When you really peel back the layers, it didn't turn out any better than Nazism did. It’s all just different versions of the same disaster.
We used to hold our own on the global stage, you know? We had that clout. And we had the Non-aligned Movement backing us up, too. It gave us a certain kind of leverage... or maybe just a sense of importance. Hard to say now. Everything feels different these days.