COTD: Horrified

clipped from pajamasmedia.com My elderly friend who was born in post-Bolshevik Russia in 1929, and escaped with her family through China at age 5, is completely horrified at the speed and destructiveness of the central planning/collectivist/destruction of individualism that we are seeing. I’ve been talking with family about the fallacy that many entertain about Russia, that somehow Russia was just “destined to be a communisted-dominated economic train wreck” rather than realizing that Russia was the victim of power-hungry men who used destructive policies to control people. Russia was not genetically condemned to such destruction any more than we are. And we are are not safe from such destruction any more than Russia was. It is my sense that if we do not succeed in blowing the situation wide open in the time period between now and November 2010, we will have lost the opportunity. At least 75% of those in office now have got to go, from both sides of the aisle.