Minnesota governor says socialism is like being a neighbor - if your neighbor is Stalin

During the recent White Duds for Harris virtual fundraising event, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz said socialism gets a bad rap.  He claimed socialism is just about being neighborly.  Walz is correct if your neighbor steals your outdoor grill, raids your refrigerator, routinely has his teenage son park his car in front of your driveway, and operates a meth lab out of his garage.  Oh, and did we mention the Doberman?

“Take Poland, for example,” Walz said.  “Remember how neighborly Germany was to Poland beginning in 1939?  The Nazis were the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, you know.  So what if they killed a few million people, they were great neighbors, just ask the Poles.  Right after Germany was done being a good neighbor to Poland, the Soviet Union came along. Talk about your good neighbor.  Hardly any Poles starved much while the Soviet Union was being so neighborly.  Sure, maybe they couldn’t vote either, but I think we Democrats have shown through our primary process that voting is vastly over-rated.

Walz then mentioned more recent events to give Gen Z something that might resonate better with them.

“Look at Venezuela right now,” he continued.  “The citizens there don’t recognize a good neighbor when they see one.  Could they have a better friend than Maduro?  He provides Venezuelans with some of the finest gruel in the Western hemisphere.  Maybe somebody does starve here and there.  And if someone speaks out against Maduro they risk being arrested or killed.  But, that’s just being neighborly.” 

Walz fondly remembered stories of Castro and the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 and how he would have rooted for Khruschev if he had been born then.  He said the United States did not act very neighborly then.

‘Who doesn’t have a neighbor down the street with a missile or two?” Walz asked.

With White Duds like Walz supporting Kamala Harris, should she win, The Writes of Man(g) suggests being a good neighbor and getting a missile or two for yourself just in case.  You might use one to get your grill back.