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Fox News vampire Charles Krauthammer is a Communist, you can be one too.

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We're slaves to the mindset that there's a capitalist answer to non-capitalist questions, like how do we provide healthcare for everyone in the nation? We're slaves to the idea that nobody will do anything unless there's a ghastly threat or an obscene reward at the end of it. And we're slaves to the idea that, once someone has secured the legal right to control a resource, to wrest that control away from that person is somehow immoral.

In a Moment of Truth, Jeff Dorchen joins opinion ghoul Charles Krauthammer on the road to socialism, rejecting the utopian notion of prosperity through private ownership (nice on paper, will never work) and committing to the practical notion of working way less and providing way more for all humans.

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Jeff Dorchen

Jeff is a visual artist, songwriter/musician, actor, essayist, fiction writer, poet, playwright and screenwriter. He's been a playwright, songwriter, and performer with Chicago's Theater Oobleck since 1988, a writer and actor with Red Baron Films since 2000, and a contributor to This Is Hell! since 1996. He currently lives in Los Angeles.

 

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