Posted on 07/16/2019 1:49:54 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
When a dozen of conservatisms best minds take on Socialism and expose it for the utopian fraud it is, attention must be paid.
In a brief foreword to a special issue of National Review, Editor-in-Chief Richard Lowry admitted that many conservatives thought socialism in America had been vanquished after the collapse of Soviet Communism 30 years ago. But as T. S. Eliot insisted, There is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause.
The experts examine socialism in its many guises, beginning with Charles Cookes blunt assessment that socialism is not and never can be democratic.
Cooke, the editor of NationalReview.com, writes that voters should not be fooled by the lefts attempt at rebranding.
There is no sense in which socialism can be made compatible with democracy as it is understood in the West. At worst, says Cooke, socialism eats democracy, and is swiftly transmuted into tyranny. At best, socialism stamps out individual agency, places civil society into a straitjacket of uniform size, and turns representative government into a chimera.
Cookes description of socialism as tyrannical was confirmed by Ugo Okere, a socialist candidate for the Chicago City Council, who explained that democratic socialism, to me, is about democratic control of every single facet of our life.
That would mean, presumably, rewriting the first words of the Constitution to something like, We the people of the United States in order to form a more democratically controlled Union
What has Okeres democratic control produced in the socialist paradise of Venezuela?
Ricardo Hausmann, the former chief economist of the Inter-American Development Bank, has written that Venezuelas economic catastrophe dwarfs any in the history of the U.S., Western Europe or the rest of Latin America.
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I think August 1991 was when Saddam invaded Kuwait.
Socialism works. It just needs AOC and her brilliance to implement it.
Gibs Me Dat! GIBS ME DAT!
Socialism
Is this the hope or the change?
You have two cows. The government takes one and give one to your neighbor.
Communism
You have two cows. The government takes them both and promises you milk but you starve.
Fascism
You have two cows. The government takes them and sells you the milk.
Bureaucracy
You have two cows. The government takes them both, shoots one, milks the other, pays you for the milk, and then pours it down the drain.
Capitalism
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.
Bain Capitalism
You have two cows. You sell one, force the other to produce the milk of four cows and then act surprised when it drops dead.
Redistributionism
You have two cows. The government taxes you to the point that you must sell them both in order to support someone else who already got a free cow from the government.
Bump
Glad to see that Lee is still around and writing so well as he has done for the past 60 years. A real American patriot, too often unsung for his great work in the defense of America and freedom in general.
hey Lee! Remember the great luncheons held by the Council Against Communist Agression/McDowell Luncheon Group, then Accuracy in Media and the later Council for the Defense of Freedom (Marx Lewis, Reed Irvine, Bernie Yoh, etc)?
Proud to have been associated with such a wonderful group of patriots, including yourself.
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