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Thursday, 11 October 2012

Hilarious Oversimplification

Posted on 13:13 by hony
Here's a video out by Thomas Peterffy.


Here's a link to the wikipedia article that explains what "socialism" in Hungary was like during Thomas Peterffy's childhood.
An excerpt:
The name [goulash communism] is a semi-humorous metaphor derived from "goulash", a popular Hungarian dish. As goulash is made with an assortment of unlike ingredients, it represents how Hungarian communism was a mixed ideology and no longer strictly adhering to Stalinist interpretations as in the past. Sometimes described as "the happiest barrack in the socialist camp," Hungary in this particular period enjoyed many amenities not available to other socialist states in the Eastern bloc.
I won't pretend like socialism in Hungary was great. But then again, that is my exact point. If you built a multi-billion dollar fortune trading stock options during the greatest economic expansion in human history while enjoying continually decreasing marginal tax rates and financial deregulation, you better have more than just vague portents to back up the claim that America is collapsing into Eastern-bloc, secret police-enforced, grocery-store-queue socialism.

What makes this video especially painful is that at the end he finishes with "and that's why I am voting Republican." I'm sure he doesn't mean the Republicans that opened secret prisons, tortured people in Abu Ghraib, wiretapped American citizens, instituted vast Congressional redistricting to game elections, and held people in detention facilities for a decade without bringing them to trial or even charging them with a crime.
No, not those Republicans of Yesterweek...he probably means the current Republicans...the ones who are trying to get complex voter ID laws in place to prevent specific groups of Americans from voting, who are pushing for Christianity as the de facto official State Religion, who want expanded surveillance of minority groups...you know, those Republicans!
It's those nasty Democrats that have all the Socialist cards in their deck.


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