The Connecticut Courtship of Communism

 What is communism?  Communism is defined as "a theory advocating the elimination of private property".  Communism is a failed political system in which its citizens have no rights,  possessions nor freedoms.  Communism is a failed political system where an elite ruling class own all the possessions of the economy having freedom and money and while dictating to others what they can and or cannot have.  Communism is hated by most of the citizens in formerly Communist countries such as Czech Republic, East Germany, Poland and Hungary to name just a few.  The past two weeks I had an opportunity to travel to several former Communist Eastern European countries and experienced first hand what is actually going on there.  Freedom is alive and well in these countries and there is still a great hatred of all things Communist from their past history.  Americans could learn a great deal by this type of travel and experience.

Freedom is a precious gift that is taken away completely by Communism.  In these former Communist countries I heard many stories of life under Communist rule.  The stories in some cases were horrific and there is great hatred towards the former regimes.  Torture chambers, deaths, the splitting of families, families forced to move losing their land, farms and homes,  personal property seized for "the good of the country", Russian invasions of Czechoslovakia and Hungary while citizens wanted freedom, and other horrors were part of everyday life in these countries.  I learned of a Hungarian family that was forced to buy back their home they built and paid for when their country became "free".  I saw the elegant Communist buildings of the ruling elite while citizens were forced to live in literal slums.  I saw the history of Communism first hand.  I saw the beginnings of economic freedom that are still being developed 30 years later in these same countries even though they have high tax rates.  I see how their high tax rates and excessive social services especially in Hungary may negate its growth in the future at their current levels (27% VAT tax and a 33% social type income tax-flat rate).  But most of all I saw that people treasure their freedom and still look at America as a beacon of hope for economic prosperity, economic freedom and wealth.  This is undeniable there.

Freedom is a precious gift that continues to be eroded in Connecticut.  A sickening group of legislative bills were presented this session that clearly sync with Communist ideas and theories.  I have written about them in the past.  For example the constant global warming, climate change rhetoric of the left now takes a new twist by trying to make the state somehow become "carbon net zero" in a few years.  The freedom to heat and cool your homes as you choose is basically stripped away with this type of law and legislation being force fed by Connecticut Democrats.  The nightmare of new zoning laws that pretty much strip land owners their personal property rights is alive and well with the new zoning regulations being dictated by an non elected zoning "czar" who will dictate what can and can not be built in certain areas of the town you live in.  The illegal stifling of the freedom of speech and the First Amendment is proffered by a group of imperious and Constitutionally-illiterate legislators under the guise of preventing "gaslighting and abuses". Guns as we know well in Connecticut should be taken out of law abiding citizens hands and handled only by criminals and certain police officers (if any are left in the state) through tough "gun control" bills that are loved by Connecticut Democrats in Crime Free Democrat Connecticut.  There are also the perpetual cries of more money thrown at education, poverty, drug abuse, and other assorted social issues that remain perpetually unresolved.  Voting will now become even more meaningless now with literally unlimited voting and "ranked choice" voting that strips away yet another freedom you used to enjoy. To me and many others these bills and an oppressive one party Democrat Party rule led by an unaccountable King-like multi millionaire Governor with no transparency, brings us a new form of Communism to Connecticut.   

But Connecticut's form of Communism (even though you are not supposed to call it that) is pretty much the same type that former Russian Eastern European countries dealt with minus the tortures and deaths that ensued.  But please put a pin there. One can also argue that the deaths by criminal shootings occurring literally on a daily basis in Connecticut are equivalent to the tortures and deaths abroad especially in the inner cities, coupled with a flourishing illegal drug trade transacted on a daily basis.  Yet crime is somehow down in the state and prisons are now empty.  What a bunch of Communist-driven lies.  What a failed government.  Freedom has never been free. And we see even more clearly a new 1776 happening all over again if it is not too late for Connecticut.  I wonder if I am only one who can see this?