Posted on 01/20/2019 6:29:02 PM PST by huckfillary
AMERICANS WARMING TO SOCIALISM OVER CAPITALISM, POLLS SHOW”, states a poll at FoxNews.com
Well of course they are.
Most Americans are not critical thinkers. They look to the pack or the herd. Either they haven’t been trained how to be critical, independent and objective thinkers, or they’re simply too lazy to learn. Or both.
As a result of no critical thinking, it doesn’t occur to people why America is a far, far better place to live materially — even if you’re in the poorest sector — than anywhere else on earth.
No country on earth has a crisis of immigration to fight over, other than America. Possible runners up include places like the U.K., France and Germany, countries struggling with the invasion of Islamic fundamentalists. But these countries have a lot of private ownership, although less than the United States. And the people flooding to countries with more private ownership are all coming from countries with NO private ownership and NO economic freedom.
Doesn’t that tell you something? Yes, to a critical thinker it’s obvious.
But like I said: Most Americans are not critical thinkers. That’s the basis for all the psychological and emotional disturbances we see. Social and political disturbances are merely the manifestation of personal disturbances in a growing number of individuals.
We are a nation in massive emotional crisis, and the willingness to consider socialism OVER capitalism — which means dictatorship over freedom — is a symptom of that emotional crisis.
It appears that more and more Americans are willing to take for granted that all the wealth and prosperity that America currently has will continue to exist under socialism. Under socialism, these noncritical thinkers assume, it will merely be more evenly and “fairly” distributed.
So under American socialism, we can expect to see a continued rise in the standard of living for all, continued growth economically, continuing improvement from one generation to the next in terms of both opportunity and technology. We can continue to have all that — all the prosperity and excitement of a free economy — and yet pay nothing for it. We could have had it all along. Who knew? Santa Claus always did exist.
Such a breathtaking error — on the level of true delusional psychopathology — can only happen if people mindlessly assume that wealth and prosperity have no cause. That no minds, no efforts, no risk-taking, no rational and accountable planning — all the things that go on in the PRIVATE sector, big and small businesses every single day — have anything to do with it.
The unspoken premise is that wealth, prosperity and innovation will happen if government simply mandates it — and makes it all free. Because that’s what socialism claims, and of course never delivers.
It’s incredibly stupid. But it’s the kind of error that only people living in a country with (1) almost no critical thinking whatsoever and (2) generations of always improving material well-being can be expected to make.
It’s the worst fear of our nation’s founders. They vainly hoped that education would somehow resolve that. Even men as wise as Thomas Jefferson thought a government-guaranteed education system would stave off the kind of ignorance that would lead to the collapse of critical thinking — and the resulting movement toward despotism and authoritarianism — we now see developing in the land of liberty.
But government has never been, and never will be, the source of the solution. Government is incapable of creating anything. The most we can hope for is for government to protect private property and individual rights. The solution for sustaining and enhancing life has to come from people themselves. At the end of the day, people either want and yearn for freedom, or they don’t. If they don’t yearn for it, they will let it go. They will rationalize that “there’s nothing wrong with a little socialism to make life easier” while taking it for granted that all the well-being we know from capitalism will melt away with the emergence of socialism. They don’t have the mindset to consider the contradiction, because it’s too much to think about. It’s better just to go with what feels right, and that’s the end of it.
Socialism and buckling down to tyranny are the easiest things in the world. Demanding and maintaining freedom is the hardest. Only a society filled with rational, independent and self-reliant individuals who are committed to these values — and not resentful of them — will do what it takes to remain free. It’s as simple as that.
In the past, America faced external enemies such as the British royalty, pro-slavery Southern feudalists, the Nazis, and the Communists. Today, the enemy is ourselves — the growing number of us embracing the concept of something for nothing. Unless more of us overcome the intellectual and mental inertia and delusional anxiety paralyzing so many people (particularly on the left), we’re not going to be free in another generation.
Nobody living right now in America (unless they’re immigrants) can begin to grasp what that will feel like.
Result of taking history, civics, government courses out of the curriculum and let the liberals insert their ‘fluff’ courses instead...it’s taken quite a while but the results are in...kids today know nothing of history, geography, or any of the so-called social science courses which were required years ago.
I do NOT agree. It’s the immature generation, not familiar enough with history!
I REALLY can seeAOC running ng a country ... just not ours, I hope!
Really?
The hungry socialists of Venezuela invite the tasty Americans for dinner.
Wait until the freeloading bitches get their Socialism. Capitalism won’t be coming back and your freedom is toast.
It was the original slave states that voted to enshrine slavery into the United States Constitution. They were not external enemies.
Those slave states were: New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Maryland.
Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia were also slave states. We must always cast 4/13ths responsibility in that direction.
I guess the author was not a critical thinker.
I know many educated workers who are leftists. Don’t they know that they have jobs so they are considered oppressors and those who don’t work are oppressed and will kill them under Marxism?
Get them all to read WE THE LIVING. Written as fiction but tells the true story of the communist takeover of Russia. It was terrible for 99.99% of the people...
The Constitution protects us from such totalitarian schemes. If the government tries this then they have broken their treaty with the people and the people should not be expected to be bound to the government laws anymore. That is how a civil war between the gun owners and the transgenders starts.
A sobering read.
This one gets emailed and tweeted.
Thank you, FRiend.
Tatt
Fluff courses aren’t the whole story by a long shot. The story includes allowing children to advance to the next grade without the requisite skills. It means without a founding in the sciences rational critical thinking cannot be taught. Students do not like to have to find FACTS to support a valid discussion or argument for or against anything. It means we will have nobody who values excellence at a task or work as a means to an end and it means free loaders and grifters. I think it really means we are divided as a nation between inductive emotional thinkers and deductive critical thinkers. It means nobody thinks they have to earn to buy to live and nobody has to do vocational courses and work because they will all be on the dole. Disgusting.
Ping.
It is, by why are they so ignorant of history?
Our schools have been taken over to the point it’s impossible to blame our kids.
We are failing them every single day we allow this situation to continue.
The left has been laying this rail for at least 100 years- and here comes the train. These young people have absolutely NO idea what socialism is or what it does to a society, but they will learn the HARD way. It’s going to be a hard lesson.
Lazy and do not want to work, easily accepting
But government has never been, and never will be, the source of the solution. Government is incapable of creating anything. The most we can hope for is for government to protect private property and individual rights. The solution for sustaining and enhancing life has to come from people themselves. At the end of the day, people either want and yearn for freedom, or they don’t. If they don’t yearn for it, they will let it go. They will rationalize that “there’s nothing wrong with a little socialism to make life easier” while taking it for granted that all the well-being we know from capitalism will melt away with the emergence of socialism. They don’t have the mindset to consider the contradiction, because it’s too much to think about. It’s better just to go with what feels right, and that’s the end of it.The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing.
Showing the lack of delayed gratification, socialists chant, "When do we want it? Now!" But if they had taken over, for instance, in the 1960s, Americans would have never been able to enjoy such "human rights" as free Internet, free cell phones, or free disposable diapers. Americans would be living today the way we lived in the USSR around the 1980s. There would be no affordable personal computers, tablets, eBooks, iTunes, Google, YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter.
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