USEFUL IDIOTS I've tried talking to the left about this to no avail so let's talk about them as I have realized there is a lack of understanding on the right as well. What do the actual socialists really want? Not the useful idiots, the lazy takers, or the would be tyrants, the actual socialists. I will preface my answer with why it's important to understand. Everytime they have gained power strongmen have seized control and a lot of democide happens, there is a monumental misunderstanding of this killing and who gets killed. Yes they kill dissidents who will never stop resisting. Yes they kill war fighters because they are an existential threat. These killings are prudent but not the bulk of the killing, they are almost ceremonial. Of course there are outliers like Stalin being paranoid but what he did wasn't popular with actual socialists but they had already lost control. The bulk of the killing the socialists perpetrate are trimming the fat, the useful idiots who gave them power are a threat to the socialist goal and have to go. At the end of the day the base desire of the socialist is exactly the same as the capitalist the difference is how to get there. They want a peaceful, prosperous, society. I am a productive capitalist who produces wealth, the socialist places value on me and will bend over backward to not kill me. They want and need me to submit and this is where the useful idiots come into the picture. To get me to submit they will have to break everything so badly I have no choice but to accept socialism. The socialist doesn't value liesure, they are actually very austere people, almost stoic. Leisure is wasted productivity. All of the cultish aspects of socialist revolutions are manipulations of the herd not things the actual socialists believe, it's a step not the top of the stairs. They a apt students of manipulating human nature. When they have used the human trash to destroy society and I submit the socialist knows what my first demand w...