Mimicking Stalin

February 20, 2018 By Peter Skurkiss

A story was told in the USSR about how Joseph Stalin used a bird to demonstrate political control to his underlings. It goes like this:

Stalin was meeting with two young comrades and instructing them on the use of power. For this, he had three birds brought into the meeting room. Stalin said, "Each of you take a bird. Now imagine that the bird in your hand is the people. How would you control them?" Pyotr went first. He took the bird and closed his hand so tightly around the bird that he crushed the poor thing to death. "Too crude," said Stalin with a scowl.  

Next was Ivan's turn. Trying not to repeat Pyotr's mishap, Ivan was careful to hold his bird loosely – so loosely, in fact, that the bird wiggled out of his grasp and flew off. Stalin frowned again.  

Taking the third bird, Stalin held it and slowly and methodically pull out one feather after another until the bird was completely naked and shivering in his hand. As Pyotr and Ivan looked upon the hapless creature, Stalin said to them, "See, the bird is now grateful for the warmth of my hand. That is the lesson."

Is this not the approach the Democratic Party takes to the middle class? The Democrats dare not crush it. If they did, they themselves would starve – who else in America provides the food, the health services, the utilities, the first responders, the transportation needs, and the defense of the country but the middle class? It isn't Ivy Leaguers. And it sure isn't the Democratic constituency of immigrants who have been flooding in. ..........To Read More.....