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John Riis-Christensen: Socialism is akin to Nazism and won’t ever work

Let’s talk about socialism. First, no matter what you call it, socialism is destructive. Some people think Nazism was rightist. It was not; it was a racial form of socialism. Nazism, socialism, communism, progressives and Democratic socialism are all the same and want the same thing. To turn the rule of law into the rule of man.

Democratic Socialism is Marxist Socialism in a new suit, there is very little difference. It looks at a centrally planned economy controlled by the state. Who will control production by taxation and economic redistribution. Public opinion will come from mainstream media propaganda and the state.

A Russian dissident by the name of Solzhenitsyn said, “Socialism of any type leads to the total destruction of the Human spirit.” Barack Obama is a socialist, he and his group want to turn America into a socialist state. Socialism does not work. Look at every socialist state and you will see failure. Winston Churchill said, “Socialism is the philosophy of failure.” But you cannot tell that to the now-socialist Democrat party. They have bought Obama’s fundamental transformation of America hook line and sinker. Socialism, communism, Nazism, progressivism are sisters under the skin and all want the same things.

John Riis-Christensen, Atwater

This story was originally published March 6, 2018 at 3:22 PM with the headline "John Riis-Christensen: Socialism is akin to Nazism and won’t ever work."

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