Ask Lemmygrad

I've been thinking for some time how the global West always fear mongers about socialism, especially communists, and how when the slightly less wealthy liberals in power inevitably have managed to find themselves in danger of autophagy of naked fascism (rather than organza-clad), we turn to communists to bail our collective arse out of the dilemma which we happily march into, then seem shocked 🙀 and loudly wail about it. The trouble with this particular iteration now is that the anti - red propaganda has been so relentlessly and so much more ridiculously pounded, the libs are celebrating that Tea Party politicians of the US are changing their party affiliation to D, and looking for a win. It's horrifying and immensely fascinating that they confidently assert that there's never been a "successful" communist government (also confidently declaring social democracy successful examples of socialism sans communism, and I'm not far distant from that time in my own understanding, myself), while refusing to look at US sabatoge of the examples they point to or ignore places that inconveniently prove them wrong, while also refusing to see there's never in history of any government that was capitalist successfully avoiding an attempt at naked fascism for more than 80 years at a time.

I don't think this bodes well for the world at large, and with current alarming developments in technology and the way it's being used, it makes successful revolution extremely difficult, and global MAD looms larger. I'm not into doomerism either, but kicking this can farther down the road isn't what I'd hoped to see.