#Venezuela is a great reminder:
You vote your way into communism, but you have to shoot your way out.
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We need to be much harsher to American Marxists. Scum of the earth. Not sure why we as a society have been so tolerant of them.
Has any vote ever gotten us closer toward freedom?
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Not always the case, look at the soviet union. Collapsed because the soviet leadership lost faith in what they were doing.
You left out the part where they murdered a quarter of the population then utterly bankrupted the country by running an economy based on political favors for 3 generations. But yeah for brevity's sake I guess "lost faith" sums it up.