Immigrants who left their socialist homeland to come to America have stories to tell. Aaron Tao is one of them.
"[A]s a young, first-generation Chinese-American immigrant, I have a message for my peers and fellow American citizens: socialism is not the answer . . socialism has instead resulted in hell in every place it has been tried.
"I’ve heard plenty of horrific stories from my parents, who grew up in [1950's] Maoist China, with regular food shortages and deprived of other basic needs we take for granted today.
"Censorship and ideological conformity were rigidly enforced in an environment that has been described as an “Auschwitz of the mind.” My mother’s grandfather and uncle were killed during the Cultural Revolution, for the crime of being privileged landlords. Red Guard thugs beat them to death with shovels . . ."
"In 1993, as soon as the opportunity emerged, my mother immigrated to the US, with less than $200 in total assets. My father and I followed a few months later. Like so many others before us, we arrived as strangers in a new land, found freedom and opportunity, gradually assimilated into our adopted country and eventually worked ourselves into the upper middle class."
from Aaron Tao's story
(cont'd tomorrow)
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