Socialist Dream goes down in flames
Yes, anyone with half a brain could predict the outcome. I am glad they tried it, however, just so that other people can point that no one else needs to try it ever again. Not that it will stop the ideologues on the left from trying...
Ronald Reagan
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need”
Karl Marx
And that is just one thing that shows why socialism will never work. This is [historically] deadly when these are physically applied to need and ability.
The result has not been what Marx imagined in his delirious dreams about a society where no human nature exists. He based on his objectives w/o the slightest knowledge of how societies work.
But if you think that socialists/communists (interestingly most articles commemorating his 200 year past do not mention communism. They talk about socialism.) the idea still is in the deepest appreciation of the elite left in the West. Apologists sill say the sacrifice was worth the objective.
But I am asking: what was worth it? What is the result? Even though communism is officially dead, the gradual encroachment of the left and its goal to create chaos in which it is easier to introduce tyranny and dictatorial power is obvious.
One needs to only look at Western Europe how far they have already gone. The US is not far behind. That is the reason for the vicious attacks on Trump and his presidency: he is not one of them.
Bernie Sanders and his competitors on the left are now promising "free" college, "free" medical care, and "guaranteed" jobs (translation: if you can't find a job, government will offer you public projects work). If the last promise meant an end to welfare, that might not be a bad thing, but when questioned about the creation of government slave labor, Bernie promised the guarantee would be only for those who want to work. Welfare queens need not apply, as they'll still get their checks.
Hopefully the sheep is well armed.
His ideas would probably make a lot of people "feel" better, so long as there was a group of producers who would be willing to quietly work and provide the $$ for his schemes.
https://www.offthegridnews.com/religi...
Me dino has caption for that photo of the President of Finland due to it being inspired by the man's stupid-looking expression~
"Duh, how'd I know dat wuz gonna happen?"
Me dino just thought of another~
"Duh, how youse like my Moonbeam impression?"
Take a lesson, Crazy Bernie and George Sorros....not that there is any chance of them ever wising up.
It is a war, and their main weapon is mind wrenching emotion.
https://fee.org/articles/responsibili...
This is a summary of:
https://www.city-journal.org/html/wha...
dated spring 1999 but applies today, or rather the current situation is worse than then.
The welfare state, well intentioned, some good outcomes at the start, after a few years there is an entire class who do not work, worse- they cannot work!
.. poverty is not eliminated, vast sums expended, they live in self-inflicted squalor, overseas visitors enthusiastic about the money spent and care given - until they see the result, then they are shocked.
Nature does not favor self-immolators for survival. It has evolved predators and prey, but having them within the same species is self-defeating. Whether by guillotines or redistribution, mob rule cannot satisfy the yearned-for utopia. So who is manipulating the mobs with envy, hatred, and blind emotion? Who is the carrier of those poisonous memes? Or are they all hapless victims of the same infection?
It is nature that scares the sh*t out of them; they run from it; they can't act in concert with it; they hate it. I remember a bumper sticker from the 1990's: Reality Sucks. There ya go!
It amazes me that people can clearly see the damage socialism does, even on TV, and still they think if they can just package it right they can do it again successfully.
This "progressive one" works, but the story is twisted.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/op...