Why Do People Become Communists, and Why Do They Stick With It?
Communist and particularly Marxist aren't talking about opportunity to succeed but opportunity of outcome which they themselves could not achieve. Most failed to achieve anything of value to others but at their core, loathed having to prove themselves worthy and therefore were often found wanting; and yes, most hard core communist and marxist could afford to be, by inheritance alone if not by the keeping of others that felt sorry for them.
These are the great unwashed and will always fail in the attainment of their utopia because humans are just not the same and never will be...thank goodness, I say.
I think Ayn Rand was not only accurate in her dissertation but was harsher than my commentary here...She lived it.
These are the great unwashed and will always fail in the attainment of their utopia because humans are just not the same and never will be...thank goodness, I say.
I think Ayn Rand was not only accurate in her dissertation but was harsher than my commentary here...She lived it.
Long live the progressive dream! May it achieve full fruition across the safe spaces of the fruited plains!
A capitalist racist moneybags may have forestalled the slippery slope prepped by O the Great and Powerful but do not give up your hope for change.
The Evil Hag may have been bumped out of her entitled place in line but many other more than equal elites await to serve the will of those needful to be ruled.
Yes, comrades, we the most exceptional of all snowflakes can make anything work in the USA. Just ask Bolshevik Bernie!
Who is John Galt?
Oh wait... most living people with a brain would rather do without that kind of success!
One can also argue the inequalities here have the same sort of elite rulers, but at least they don't throw you into reeducation/concentration camps or stand you before a firing squad of anti-aircraft guns.
Well, not yet anyway.
Man can not live successfully and honorably by brain alone.
But a lot of this was my up bringing and my choice of any and all degrees of personal sovereignty. These days, kids chose not or perhaps that decision doesn't exist for them and they are not as determined like I and many of us here were,
That's the way it is here in Connecticut...got to escape.
WHERE is John Gult???
It also brought a question to my mind. Do politicians really know the facts, the truths, behind the lies and rhetoric they spew to get elected? Or are they just as blind as the masses of voters that actually believe in their lies and nonsensical rhetoric? Which relates to another question, has Nancy Pelosi based her latest raging rhetoric against the new healthcare bill on any facts, has she even read the bill yet? Her followers will believe it anyway.
These issues, lack of real education, including all the media bias, are the things that are really preventing this country from achieving utopia. It’s really a shame that once people figure it out it’s just too late, they are too old and tired, they die before they can expose and influence enough of our youth to the truth. Maybe that is part of why dictatorships work (for the dictator), it’s just so much simpler.
They were the pilgrims, when communism was first tried, that did squat in the gardens, binged on the bootie and allowed those that tended the work to die.
The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause.
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business.
What Socrates couldn't see was that the dynamic economic environment of even a modest sized human community was too complex for effective state control. Succeeding adherents to concepts of communal societies haven't been any brighter.
Mark Levin's Ameritopia nicely describes historical concepts of Utopian societies and how they fail. Each human is as unique as their fingerprints, which is the flaw in Utopian thinking, which always relies on a homogeneous population. For some reason, communist thinkers always miss that point.
I suspect the fundamental appeal of socialism is based on the acceptance of the Primacy of Consciousness rather than the Primacy of Existence as a metaphysical belief.
Sunk Cost Fallacy, Tucker's suggestion, yes, but I suspect it is what we see is a typical aspect of Cognitive Dissonance.
The most difficult beliefs for people to examine are those beliefs which have been:
(1) held for a long time,
(2) adopted before age of reason, and
(3) most often repeated.
Research involving several thousand studies over the last sixty years universally concludes people respond to dissonant beliefs by using one or more of three key strategies.
First, they might ignore the dissonant belief. In essence saying, I don’t want to believe it, therefore it isn’t true. Or explain it away by saying the leaders corrupted “true” socialism. This, as the psychologists would say, is a form of repression.
Second, people experiencing cognitive dissonance might reduce the importance of the conflicting belief. This is evident by phrases such as “I’ll think about it tomorrow,” meaning I have more important things to consider. This, as the psychologists would say, is a form of evasion.
Third, they make the newer conflicting belief consistent with the older belief by twisting the evidence, then claiming the beliefs are not really in conflict. This, as the psychologists would say, is rationalization.
Finally, for most people there are some beliefs are not amendable to change. In fact, it seems the older the person the less likely they are to change beliefs.