Socialism, Tim Walz said recently, is another word for “neighborliness.”
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a top VP contender for Kamala Harris, says socialism is actually just “neighborliness.” pic.twitter.com/xISVQSxIUv
— Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) July 30, 2024
Perhaps. Socialism has a particular connection to neighborliness, historically speaking. One particular feature of socialist societies comes up time and again, which turns neighborliness into outright spying on behalf of the state. Just ask the Russians and the former East Germans, whose industrial-scale snitching for the Stasi made that socialist police state highly effective.
And Tim Walz certainly knows that, because he put that connection into practice during the COVID pandemic. If socialism is just neighborliness in Walz’ Minnesota, “neighborliness” got defined as snitching during the pandemic:
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