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Socialism Destroys

Radioactive fields where golden grain once grew, magnificent churches, razed right down to the pew, Kulak farmers starved out, four million of them dead, free though and expression only lived in your head, lives destroyed by camps, that archipelago, how many lives vanished? We’ll probably never know. Rivers all polluted by bad ideas deployed, Russia learned it first hand: Socialism Destroys. Even now in Cuba, the Carribean’s jewel, people live in chains thanks to Marxist fools. A country once wealthy off a grand sugar trade, now drives around in junkers, all left from past age. People still vanish if they say the wrong words, so desperate to leave they swim an ocean that churns. See that island prison and you cannot avoid the truth of the matter: Socialism Destroys. Glance to North Korea, if brave enough to see a stark, ruined nation stripped of most of its trees, it has a huge hotel in which no one will stay, and most of its people struggle to eat each day. Millions of them in camps, millions more try to flee, you know things are bad when they run to the Chinese! Despite their media throwing up poor decoys, all who look still see it: Socialism Destroys. And poor Venezuela, once rich and on the rise, now it is convulsing and preparing to die, so flush with black oil, now the rigs sit quiet, once fed, now its people face unwanted diet, female doctors whore out themselves to buy some food, refugees are running to find some place that’s good. By economic laws all tyrants are annoyed, they cannot escape it: Socialism Destroys. In our own ‘great’ cities we can see the same trend, a path to poverty, a horrible dead end. Once great Detroit is now a sad, crumbling pit, San Francisco’s roads are covered in human sh-t! Seattle will jail you for drinking form a straw, Chicago’s a war-zones with little rule of law. These once proud cities that people used to enjoy sink into slow decay, Socialism Destroys.

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