Yesterday Ted Cruz responded to a ‘lefty academic’, who was complaining about the new Monopoly:Socialism game by Hasbro, with a great tweet thread summarizing the failures of socialism:
Why to Leftie academics so fear pointing out the manifest failures of socialism? https://t.co/Z2CRzffUo0
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 22, 2019
Cruz proceeds to describe the different version of Monopoly:Socialism they could make:
We could do the Venezuela edition: start out (in 1950) with the 4th highest GDP per capital in the world: end starving in the street with massive shortages of food & medicine. 2/x
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 22, 2019
We could do the Cuba edition: start (in the 1950s) as the world’s top sugar producer; end up earning $25 per month and risking your life to put your children in rafts seeking freedom. 3/x
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 22, 2019
We could do the Russia/USSR edition: the “old timey” playing pieces are all the tech the common people are allowed. When Yeltzin toured a TX supermarket in 1989, he told his comrades that if their people—who faced breadlines—saw the choices in the US “there would be revolution."
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 22, 2019
We could do the East Germany edition: you build a wall across your living room; put all the food, technology & prosperity on one side; erect machine guns on the wall; and shoot anybody who tries to get to the West. 5/x
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 22, 2019
The University edition is my favorite edition:
Or we could do the University edition: you imagine a magic money tree; you give everything free to anybody who wants it; nobody works, studies, or innovates; and everybody gets an A! 6/x
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) August 22, 2019
That’s so perfect!
It’s just like the Che Guevara shirts that liberals love to wear. They only see what they want to see and ignore the complete reality that has left so many dead for a failed cause.
Kudos to Cruz for at least trying to take their blinders off…