Posted on 01/12/2019 2:30:00 AM PST by RArtfulogerDodger
What exactly is a socialist? You could spend all day studying encyclopedias and not settle anything. Using various definitions, you could probably prove that anybody is or isn't a socialist.
So let's talk to a socialist. Ignore the verbiage and look inside his head. When someone announces to the world, "I'm a socialist," what is that person thinking?
With this focus, everything becomes simpler. Socialists may not be able to claim experience, learning, smarts, or success. But they make up for all that by a boundless certitude about philosophical and political matters. It's as if they, albeit atheists, are guided by a divine vision.
What is the central assertion contained in that vision? Here, I believe, is what the self-proclaimed socialist is saying to the rest of us:
"You pathetic losers are clearly not qualified to run your own lives. Or if you think you are, you're probably in the grip of dangerous beliefs that need to be discarded. All in all, it would be better if you stayed out of the way and let experts manage your life. That would be I and my cronies."
That's it. "I'm a socialist" means "From now on, I'll be in charge, fortunately. You can take a hike....”
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
With each passing generation of useful idiots socialism/marxism/communism needs to be repackaged and marketed as something new and REVOLUTIONARY. A lot like those sleazy late night infomercials and free lunch seminars pushing the same old get rich quick scams as new ways to acheive instant financial independence. Like buyng real estate with no $$$ down. Making a killing in stocks regardless of market conditions. Investing thousands in the latest snake oil while building a downline or some other unworkable pyramid racket. They’ll tell you other systems failed but THEY have a proven system that works. Those 4 deadly words, THIS TIME IT’S DIFFERENT! And like th hippies before them so many millenials fall for this crap like so many brainwashed little puppies.
Goodness gracious there is a lot of wisdom on this site
This can be summed up in one word: sociopathy.
II Tim. 3:1-5 is a clinical description of a sociopath; read it and then read the clinical description of a sociopath; they are the same.
See my tagline.
A fundamental tenet, never spoken, of socialism and communism is the destruction of the middle class. If the middle class is not destroyed, it will always be a threat to the ruling elite. Fascism on the other hand regulates the middle class to within an inch of its life. You must request permission from the elite.
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