After our conversation, I shook his hand warmly and told him we were happy to have him here. But that one question he asked kept haunting me. "Do you want your child to learn the rules?"[Emphasis added]
It struck me that this is not just the question he had to ask himself when he decided to leave Russia. It is the question we Americans ought to be asking ourselves right now. Do we want to live in a society where the state has such a predominant role that you get live [sic] a decent life if you know the rules? Do we want our children to learn those rules—the rules they will have to follow to show their proper subordination to the power of the government and those who run it?
That is what socialism is about.
Robert Tracinski talked to a doctor who emigrated from Russia about why he left and why he came here. The conversation prompted him to consider where America is going.
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