Why has communism always failed? How will America be different? (Rush Limbaugh, Canada)

[bchris02]

Communism is a dirty word in America, yet many of the principles being advocated by more and more Americans are communist at core. You can call it progressive, liberal, leftist, whatever but whatever you call it the principles are the same. More and more people are jumping on the bandwagon of supporting the sacrifice of individual rights for the collective good. It's happening slowly but surely in America unlike the swift Bolshiviek revolution in Russia. The question is, if this ideology has failed in every other nation it's been tried in, why should it work in America? How are we different than Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, etc? What will America do differently than those other nations once the far left gets their way to avoid a similar fate?

[Terryj]

One of the reasons that these type of governments fail is due to their economy, as some point they just run out of others money to spend.

[Don Draper]

Communism has never existed and the US couldn't be further from Communist.

[DC at the Ridge]

Originally Posted by Don Draper

Communism has never existed and the US couldn't be further from Communist.

Ding ding ding! We have a winner!

[burdell]

Originally Posted by Terryj

One of the reasons that these type of governments fail is due to their economy, as some point they just run out of others money to spend.

"these type of governments" ?

Perhaps you'll list all the successful governments in the world that do things like build/maintain militaries, infrastructure etc. without spending others' money and just how they do it?

Smoke & mirrors?

Mystical incantations?

Virgin sacrifices?

[Old Gringo]

Originally Posted by bchris02

Communism is a dirty word in America, yet many of the principles being advocated by more and more Americans are communist at core. You can call it progressive, liberal, leftist, whatever but whatever you call it the principles are the same. More and more people are jumping on the bandwagon of supporting the sacrifice of individual rights for the collective good. It's happening slowly but surely in America unlike the swift Bolshiviek revolution in Russia. The question is, if this ideology has failed in every other nation it's been tried in, why should it work in America? How are we different than Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, etc? What will America do differently than those other nations once the far left gets their way to avoid a similar fate?

... relax.

So the right wing lost an election.

It ain't the end of America as we know it.

[Don Draper]

Originally Posted by Terryj

One of the reasons that these type of governments fail is due to their economy, as some point they just run out of others money to spend.

In Communism, the government withers away. There is no government. Read the Communist Manifesto, short read.

[katzpaw]

OP lives in a black and white world where anyone who doesn't agree with Rush Limbaugh is a communist.
Alert: every country in the world is to the left of Republicans and US allies like Canada, UK, Japan, Germany, Australia... aren't communist, or even trending that way.

[bchris02]

So deflect the question into a personal attack... The liberal way.

[Don Draper]

Originally Posted by bchris02

So deflect the question into a personal attack... The liberal way.

No, the Communist way.