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Mimicking Stalin
FEBRUARY 20, 2018
The Democrats learned their lessons well.
A story was told in the U.S.S.R. about how Joseph Stalin used a bird to demonstrate political control to his underlings. It goes like this:
Stalin was meeting with two young comrades and instructing them on the use of power. For this, he had three birds brought into the meeting room. Stalin said, "Both of you take a bird. Now imagine that the bird in your hand is the people. How would you control them?" Pyotr went first. He took the bird and closed his hand so tightly around the bird that he crushed the poor thing to death. "Too crude," said Stalin with a scowl.
Next was Ivan's turn. Trying not to repeat Pyotr's mishap, Ivan was careful to hold his bird loosely, so loosely in fact that the bird wiggled out of his grasp and flew off. Stalin frowned again.
Taking the third bird, Stalin held it and slowly and methodically pull out one feather after another until the bird was completely naked and shivering in his hand. As Pyotr and Ivan looked upon the hapless creature, Stalin said to them, "See, the bird is now grateful for the warmth of my hand. That is the lesson."
Is this not the approach the Democratic Party takes to the middle class? They dare not crush it. If they did, they themselves would starve -- who else in America provides the food, the health services, the utilities, the first responders, the transportation needs, and the defense of the country but the middle class? It isn't Ivy Leaguers. And it sure isn't the Democratic constituency of immigrants that have been flooding in.
Nor do the Democrats try to hold the middle class too loosely least it escapes their grasp. If that were to happen, the Democratic Party, as it is now constructed, would be obsolete overnight. An independent, free-flying citizenry is a nightmare for Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, and the rest of their party with no exception that comes to mind.
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