"I can't breathe" will become WE can't breathe. Lord have mercy
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That is a powerful letter! The Ayn Rand quote reminds us just how much she understood where we would end, if we continued to move away from Objectivism. Can you imagine had our kids been exposed to Rand's writing in school for the last 20 years, how different things would now be? Today, schools are toxic and worthless, our politicians and media, likewise. Regan also tried to warn us. People are just plain lazy or sheep, they they are throwing away the greatest society ever.

For the rest of the morons, Lotto is a tax on people who are bad at math. I for one am all for it.

Reading that, my immediate thought was who was on those planes.

Malaysia is famous for multiple unexplained plane crashes

Lotto is one of the few ways one can amass great wealth without fighting the government all the way

Good letter. U see all those things today. USA is doomed

Agree to a point. The problem starts with corruption and eventually, given time, leads to socialism, which is designed to economically fail, thus ushering in communism.

Thanks for the reply.

Singapore is a great example of having liberty and the ability to make objective choices is worth more than any resources. Hong Kong did the same thing. Although now it is becoming a shell of its former self. When reward for compliance and selling favors is worth more than constructive productive work that is what people will pursue.
People were willing to be poor in Hong Kong rather than rich in China. The human spirit will move toward freedom when it has the opportunity. As pointed out in the letter; it is easier to mislead people and enslave them than it is to teach them and let them be free.
The will to bondage is strong in the individual. It can be overcome when the alternative is present and can be pursued with greater rewards from production than plunder.

Stalin plucked the feathers himself. He was demonstrating what he wanted his apparatchiks to do. When it came to people he knew he didn't have enough time to do it himself, he had to rely on those he employed.

A great letter and he understands that once a society is doomed there is not much that can be done to change its direction. It is a steam roller and throwing pebbles in its path doesn't distract it from its goal.
Those who continue to try to 'work within the system' because it is thought that the direction of the machine can be changed are wasting their time.
Find ways outside of the system. Gather objectivists and libertarians if you can find them and stay within that circle of friends and business people.
Every country in the world is complacent in the current exercise of totalitarian control. Even those whom we declare to be enemies. If everyone is behaving in the same manner it is evidence that there is an overall governing cabal and plan.
Working within a system that is designed to consume you with its rules and believing that you can change it is a foolish use of time.
President Trump says things that conservatives identify with then fails to deliver on his promises (not because he is opposed by those who would stop him) and gives America the lockdown and claims others (the governors) went too far making his followers cheer him, while he leads them to prison. Obama was the same, he failed to deliver on every promise made to the socialists while moving the country toward totalitarian control.
If you want to be free you must have a paradigm shift. Quit trying to 'adjust' the system that destroys you. It is entrenched and you can do nothing more than annoy it.

Great use of the quote...

Same reason people buy lotto tickets? No maybe not. At least with the lotto someone wins.

In America's case, the kids are brainwashed in our public school and college systems.

First, I admit at this moment I did not read the letter. I skipped to the end and read Ayn Rands words. Just moments prior to that, I quickly scanned the letter. Everything sounds exactly what is going on in America now. So sad and maddening.
I am curious.....Did Stalin pluck the feathers himself? Or did he do as the dummycrats do now......have someone do his dirty work for him.

Yeah, Malaysia is a place I very rarely even think about~~never mind even imagining its culture being slowly poisoned by the same creeping crud here.

Inexorably oozing toward a tightening inescable constriction.

Great letter! And, yes, you could substitute a few words here and there and have this apply 100% to America. Sad but true.

As my friends who came from socialist country Sweden, became US Citizens almost 3 yrs ago. They are more vocal then myself!

Yes! I know Malaysia and Singapore.

Here is a man, a believer in religion, Muslim, yet he speaks directly to me.
Worth noting, he writes about and lives in Malaysia, there is no apparent censorship problem. He makes comparison between Malaysia and Singapore, poor economic performance v. very strong economics over many years. All true. Yet, this level of criticism would be squelched in Singapore.
I wonder if the work of author Yusuf Hashim can be followed, after a good description he may have suggestions.

Thanks nickursis for the link.
I have some differences with views in this thread- the problem described here is not communism or Islam or religion or capitalism or whatever, it is straight corruption. Of course it goes better with identity politics which is fostered by some ideologies more than others.

I simply cannot understand why so many people are shot in the butt with socialism when it has never worked anywhere.

The tentacles of communism have encompassed the world.

Yes, this has the smell of a very long planned conspiracy, that has been slowly executed. The person uses the exact same descriptions we see, and they are on the their side of the world.