"...Last Saturday, my husband and I took our four-year-old daughter and two-year-old son to an Easter egg hunt sponsored by a local school.
To our amazement, the kids had to hand all the eggs they’d found back to the organizer, who redistributed an equal number to everyone.
In other words, this was a Communist Easter egg hunt!
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,” never felt so real.
- The worst part was that my four-year-old was already spontaneously sharing her eggs with her little brother. He was too small to get any of his own. But she loves him.
- And then her selflessness was derailed by coerced sharing. Moreover, she’d been targeting the pink eggs when she was searching. In the centralized redistribution, she only got blue ones. She complained for hours afterward.
While I’m sad for her, I’m also glad her first significant experience with Communism was negative.
If she ever flirts with the ideology when she’s older, I’ll remind her of this day..."
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