A leftward shift': Communist party USA sees chance as progressives surge

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9. Yes, the situation in North Korea is absolutely horrible

Just imagine if we had to go through the same things they did... spectacles of enforced patriotism before public events that if you don't participate in, you can get death threats, you might even get verbally bashed by your own country's leaders.

The world's largest incarceration rate... and a lot of it is for nonviolent crime.

A state-tied media that is in bed with the government and is becoming increasingly consolidated.

North Korea's demographics of the general population are one thing, but the people who run it are completely different... more male, more of one ethnic group, richer. Why does this disparity exist?

Nepotism abounds and a family runs the show with family members being put into certain positions just because of the bloodline they have.

An advanced healthcare system made possible through the tax money of all the citizens and the prices they pay for goods and services... yet there are people who decide that there are some who are not "worthy" of receiving that healthcare.

"Elections" where the person who gets the most votes does not necessarily win the election.

Shoring up paranoia of the 'other', the 'outsider', yet not noticing the violence from their own people, the cruelty of their own government.

And of course the cruel system of "juche", AKA military first. Where money is sank into the military, even boondoggles, at the expense of healthcare, education, infrastructure, etc.

I thank God we are not like North Korea... at all.