People are thrown in prison because they disagree with the state.
Thus, it's only natural that under a Socialist government, a nation would have more people imprisoned than a nation which is not a Socialist nation.
The fact that the US, home of possibly more Socialist fearing people than any nation in the world, has the highest incarceration rate in the world, giving it the highest documented prison population in the world, is merely a product of the manifest destiny which ultimately became American exceptionalism.
Responses to the fear of domestic spying and open elections have been offered over and over again and most who are reading this article don't need to be reminded of the irrationality of the comparisons between the anti Socialist US and the rest of the world. They neither have to be repeated nor reproved here.
However, those "natural people who seem to have more power per person than other "natural people are able to say of Socialism, "Be afraid. Be very afraid. And those smaller people who don't seem to feel the need to be self informed, are, indeed, very afraid of Socialism.
Just as the large natural persons have convinced the smaller persons that marijuana is a gateway drug and will ultimately lead to one stealing money from one's neighbor to get the next heroin fix, those large persons have convinced those very same smaller persons that socialized medicine will for certain lead to those goose stepping parades and balcony reviews.
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