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Just As Bad As Nazis, Part Ii

...Then, of course, there is the idea that people are nothing but groups, whether lumped by skin or income there’s nothing further from the truth. A group is but an abstraction, it’s the one where the sovereignty lies. Think individuals can’t effect change? Just ask President forty-five. Or Guttenberg and his printing press, Mr. Gates and his software codes, a single man nailed to a cross, be he a God or man, who knows? One person can change the whole game, even in the ‘collectivist’ lands, the politburo’s evils exposed by that brave heart Solzhenitsyn. Did they all accomplished nothing, slaving for their dreams alone? They gave us a host of changes, while the socialists just give us bones. The Nazis in their cruel madness left ten million souls undone, but Socialists, they take the gold, slaughtering one hundred million. And those are just the ones we know, the real number’s much higher still, all that death, and what has it brought? No paradise, and it never will. At least the Germans, after the war, had the sense to learn from their mistakes, Socialists refuse to move beyond their ideas of murderous hate. They just hide out in schools and claim that they’re only ‘misunderstood,’ tied identity to failed ideas so they can never see they’re no good. To refuse to learn bloody lessons strikes me as insanely perverse, in truth they’re not as bad as Nazis, they’re orders of magnitude worse.

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Date: 11/28/2018 6:28:00 AM
I hope you will take this as a compliment I posted your poem, both parts I and II, with your name accredited on a Cleveland Radio station Facebook page. It's a closed group of 1,500 members or so, but your poem received two thumbs up from a fairly left of center crowd.
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Date: 11/26/2018 8:57:00 PM
So profound, and so well said with historical truths, and wisdom. Such poetry I never heard. Liberal/Socialist Social Justice War gobbledygook ad nauseam I've had my fill. The following resonated with me "They gave us a host of changes, while the socialists just give us bones. The Nazis in their cruel madness left ten million souls undone, but Socialists, they take the gold, slaughtering one hundred million."
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David Welch
Date: 11/26/2018 9:50:00 PM
Glad you liked it. Have some others of similar political bent in my list of poems if you like this kind of stuff. Thanks for reading!

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