People who say or write “bougie” have bought into communism.

Consumer tech reporter Victoria Song wrote “In 2030, You Won’t Own Any Gadgets” for Gizmodo.com. She started the piece by citing a Facebook video:

Back in 2016, the World Economic Forum released a Facebook video with eight predictions it had for the world in 2030. “You’ll own nothing. And you’ll be happy,” it says. “Whatever you want, you’ll rent. And it’ll be delivered by drone.”

Deeper into the piece, Song described moving into an apartment.

I moved to a new apartment recently. Thanks to covid-19 pricing, it’s in a bougie building with snazzy amenities. I get emails whenever packages arrive and when someone picks them up, I have a fob that grants me access to various parts of the building, and no less than seven separate apps to control doors, reserve a spot in the pool, pay rent, request maintenance, and access a mini social media network for everyone who lives in this building.

Did you notice Song’s “bougie” reference?

“Bougie” comes from the concept of the “bourgeoisie” class. Karl Marx, author of The Communist Manifesto, saw the bourgeoisie as exploiting the “proletariat” class — the working class — because the bourgeoisie owned capital and property and the proletariat did not.

People who say or write “bougie” have bought into communism.

The “My body. My choice.” lady goes full-bore communist.

Leana Wen, M.D., was the President of Planned Parenthood, the organization that uses “My body. My choice.” to justify abortion. Now, as a “medical analyst” for CNN, she wants the U.S. federal government to control your body by requiring vaccination for COVID-19? Huh!

Communism dehumanizes individuals.

Look at what Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote about political interrogations of orthodox Communists in the time of Joseph Stalin:

If you are an orthodox Communist, then another orthodox Communist will sidle up to you, peering about with hostile suspicion, and he’ll begin to whisper in your ear so that the uninitiated cannot overhear:

“It’s our duty to support Soviet interrogation. It’s a combat situation. We ourselves are to blame. We were too softhearted; and now look at all the rot that has multiplied in the country. There is a vicious secret war going on. Even here we are surrounded by enemies. Just listen to what they are saying! The Party is not obliged to account for what it does to every single one of us [emphasis added] — to explain the whys and wherefores. If they ask us to, that means we should sign.”

The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, pp 128-129

Soviet-style detention of those present at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021

Julie Kelly has written about the detention of those present in the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The U.S. Department of Justice has kept all arrestees — even those charged with no violent crimes — in solitary confinement in a squalid D.C. jail for 23 hours a day for many months. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote how Joseph Stalin treated political prisoners in the same way:

The loneliness of the accused! That was one more factor in the success of unjust interrogation! The entire apparatus threw its full weight on one lonely and inhibited will. From the moment of his arrest and throughout the entire shock period of the interrogation the prisoner was, ideally, to be kept entirely alone. In his cell, in the corridor, on the stairs, in the offices, he was not supposed to encounter others like himself [sic], in order to avoid the risk of his gleaning a bit of sympathy, advice, support from someone’s smile or glance. The Organs did everything to blot out for him his future and distort his present: to lead him to believe that his friends and family had all been arrested and that material proof of his guilt had been found.

The Gulag Archipelago, Volume 1, p 123