Stalin Mao, Pol Pot and the Kims are perfect icons of that ultimate left goal of “EQUALITY”.

100+plus million corpses for FAIRNESS and Level Playing Fields, anyone?!

It’s in the totalitarian DNA.

We have a totalitarian.

If anyone thinks it is “out of the question” in America, you are living in a dream world.

Are there any sane people in charge of North Korea that if given the order to shoot nukes southwards or toward Japan they would stand up to that order? Or would they be so afraid that they would go ahead with it?

What if, nukes aside for a minute, conventional forces were sent just over the border to the south to divert attention from the new failing leader? I mean, afterall, it isn’t like history isn’t filled with crazies that have started wars for such reasons before.

It is one thing to be the “charming” frat boy doing selfies at funeral services; But, Lord, it is in times like these that the world, not just the US, needs a “cowboy” like Reagan or Bush in the Oval Office.

Then what is future for Obama’s staff? Will Holder and Sibelius suddenly be declared enemies of the people, responsible for sabotaging glorious leader’s pet projects and face show trials?

One good thing about Obama, he keeps people involved. BTW has anyone noticed O’s popularity is rebounding. For a minute there it almost seemed like the majority of the public had the learning capacity at least as high as an amoeba. My bad.

Except that Stalin took his time. He took power in 1924, and didn’t have the show trials until the late 1930s, by which time his power had been consolidated. Had he tried to kill off the old Bolsheviks in 1925, he would have probably been deposed- and quite possibly killed. Which is why Stalin didn’t try to kill off the old Bolsheviks right away- he was no dummy.

A further reason for waiting was that by the late 1930s, there was a new generation of apparatchiks who hadn’t been through the Revolution. This was of double advantage for Stalin.

By waiting until the 1930s, there was a new generation of apparatchiks ready to replace the old Bolsheviks. By killing off the old Bolsheviks, he eliminated any witnesses who could counter the Stalinist myth that Stalin was Lenin’s right hand man during the Revolution. Because the new appartchiks hadn’t been through the Revolution, they couldn’t counter the Stalin myth about Stalin being Lenin’s right hand man.

Double win for Stalin.

I wonder if the Chinese are nervous having a nuclear armed Kim next door?