Why does abstain always feels like a "No, but in a coward way".

Every country in the world except two voted Yes. Final result: No.

Truly democtatic.

I thought this was an onion post.

Is the bar really that low?

Most based posadism. All aliens must be communists.

Yes, but those doctors were FORCED to care for the patients and were ARTIFICIALLY COERCED instead of being naturally motivated by the free market to help people. Nevermind that modern doctors and especially nurses are constantly overworked and understaffed and the only thing that decides whether or not they can help somebody are the whims of private insurance companies.

You said it better than I ever could. A popular people's movement needs to be actually popular with the people. The Shining Path was absolutely atrocious. Completely unjustified violence and retaliations in order to just get in power.

I once read somewhere that soviet icecream was notoriously good.

Americans compalin about the secret police comming to get you under communism.

Meanwhile, in America...

Without knowing anything else, he sounds like a great fellow.

The value of private property, the most sacred of human rights.

"Because I've already got my own issues solved so screw the rest!" It is so easy for people to become complacent with being "middle class" and forget the decades of struggle (past and present) that their fellow workers face. Thet just blindly accept that a certain percentage of the population must always live in desperate poverty and that's just the way it is.