Americans More Accepting of Socialism: A Psychological Take

The Daily Dose of Reason ^ | January 20, 2019 | Dr. Michael J Hurd

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Socialists are mere critics, unable/unwilling to do the work they criticize others’ failure to execute to perfection.

From Theodore Roosevelt's 1910 speech at the Sarbonne:

There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect, than he who either really holds, or feigns to hold, an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty, whether in achievement or in that noble effort which, even if it fails, comes to second achievement. A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life's realities - all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. They mark the men unfit to bear their part painfully in the stern strife of living, who seek, in the affection of contempt for the achievements of others, to hide from others and from themselves in their own weakness. The rôle is easy; there is none easier, save only the role of the man who sneers alike at both criticism and performance.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

[Lou L]

I REALLY can seeAOC running ng a country ... just not ours, I hope!

I can see AOC running a country, too...running a country into the ground.

She would run a country using political exigency -- her idealistic policies would not work; she'd be forced to use greater and greater powers, while restricting more and more freedom from individuals and businesses. Entire industry sectors would come to a halt; any foreign enemy of the United States would wait for a crack (and there would be many), and they would seize the opportunity to attack the United States.

It would not be pretty.