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June 30, 2008
Even Gray Lady Admits Downside to Mugabe
Robert Mugabe personifies the future liberals have planned for us. He took the "Breadbasket of Africa" and turned it into a squalid, totalitarian hellhole with his race-based socialist ideology in the name of sticking it to Whitey on behalf of the historically oppressed. But even moonbats who deify his socialist colleague Nelson Mandela have a hard time excusing Mugabe's savage excesses. The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof has been forced to admit the obvious: Africa was much better off before it was supposedly liberated.
Being a moonbat, Kristof can't help but bleat piteously about white racism. He condemns Britain for the "tribalism" of not liking it when white farmers — mostly descendants of Britons — are beaten and killed so that their land can be stolen and then left to lie fallow. But even Kristof was forced to cough this up:
When I grew up in the 1970s, a central truth was that Ian Smith was evil and Mugabe heroic. So it was jolting on my last visit to Zimbabwe, in 2005, to see how many Zimbabweans looked back on oppressive white rule with nostalgia. They offered a refrain: "Back then, at least parents could feed their children."
One day American parents holding their starving babies in their arms may say: Yes, capitalists were racist demons with horns growing out of their heads, just like they teach at school. But there used to be food.
On a tip from Burning Hot.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 30, 2008 8:07 AM
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Eventually, the failure of socialism becomes so obvious even liberals have to acknowledge it. Who knows, maybe someday it will get through to the Obama campaign and the rest of the Social-Democrat Party.
BTW, Add this to the pile of things that make you say "Good Lord. A parent in Sweden has filed a human rights complaint because his kid didn't get invited to another kid's birthday party.
Posted by: V the K at June 30, 2008 8:36 AM
He took the "Breadbasket of Africa" and turned it into a squalid, totalitarian hellhole with his race-based socialist ideology in the name of sticking it to Whitey on behalf of the historically oppressed.
The same thing happened in Detroit. Anybody wanna move there? No? What are you, some kind of white racist?
Posted by: V the K at June 30, 2008 8:39 AM
Eventually, the failure of socialism becomes so obvious even liberals have to acknowledge it. Who knows, maybe someday it will get through to the Obama campaign and the rest of the Social-Democrat Party.
V, the problem is that they won't believe that it was socialism that failed. If only we have the right people in charge, they say, then everything will be just grand. What we recognize that they fail to is that even if they are right (doubtful), you can't guarantee that the "right people" - meaning leftists, natch - are always in charge. I can't find where right now, but I've seen this referred to as the "Fallacy of the Beautiful Machine." The left is so enamored of the machine they are building that they never realize that they shouldn't have built it in the first place.
Posted by: CoderInCrisis at June 30, 2008 10:54 AM
After the 1910 revolution, Mexico adopted a socialist ecconomic system and government.
How many examples of FAILIOR do we need?
Posted by: KHarn at June 30, 2008 4:54 PM
I am convinced, there are reserved places in hell for some people.
Posted by: Dwaine at June 30, 2008 9:13 PM
The liberal's boy will fix everything.
Posted by: Jimbo at June 30, 2008 9:18 PM
Not even a Magic Negro can make socialism work, which is why I'm not a afraid of B.O. Four years of Hussein running the USA like Kwame Kilpatrick runs Detroit, like Ray Nagin runs New Orleans, and Sharon Pratt Dixon runs Baltimore should inoculate America against socialism for a generation.
Posted by: V the K at July 1, 2008 7:40 AM
Rhodesia used to be a wonderful place. But democracy came as usual in Africa. The phrase one man, one vote, one time has a special meaning in Africa. Its going back to the jungle and I don't care. Everyone gets the governbment they deserve.
If America isn't careful it will get the government it deserves. I look at the two candidates and am afraid we are about to get the government we deserve.
Posted by: Thomas Jackson at July 2, 2008 12:56 PM
