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Great article, with one exception. His upcoming book title. Stop calling the USA a democracy! This term is pushed by the very people he rails against. If I missed some sarcasm it wouldn’t surprise me.
Socialism is the death of individual freedom. Socialism is slavery to the state. The government takes away your production trims off the best for the elite rulers, then share it with friends and family, then redistribute it to the lazy and finally put forth the remaining to the needy. They claim they will care for you, but they only provide below poverty level subsistence while living a life of opulence for themselves.
Communism is unnatural, and can only take hold by force and oppression.
..WHY we Fight to stay FREE..!!! ‘COMMUNISM’s Century = 100 Million Dead’..
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-communist-century-1509726265
Kurt is fantastic. It’s going to be impossible to implement socialism in a country of over 325 million people where most people love freedom.
THE QUESTION NOT BEING ASKED IS *WHY* ARE THESE KIDS COMING OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS WANTING SOCIALISM
When young people come to see how their freedoms will be taken away, they might change their view of it.
BTW, I think most youngsters think they "like" socialism because it is the nature of the young to rebel against their parents and, hence, their parents preferred systems of government.
If they became educated as to the very real evils of socialism, they might focus their rebelliousness on simpler things like hairstyles and clothing.
A terrific read! Thanks so much for posting this!
It’s important to realize that while socialists want to hate on billionaires, that it is not rich people who are of themselves a big problem. It is out of control “corporatism”.
This is a problem created by the US government, that the US government can actually address, in several very logical ways.
The problem began in earnest during the time of Abraham Lincoln. Corporations, especially railroads, stopped being in the domain of individual states, and started to become national in scale. However, individual states saw corporations doing as little as passing through them, as “cash cows” for state control and taxation.
What happened next was weird. The SCOTUS didn’t actually decide a case where this conclusion was reached, but their court reporter asked the Chief Justice is the SCOTUS *intended* to grant “civil rights” to corporations. The CJ said “yes”, and this began the idea that is now the basis of corporate law, that corporations indeed have civil rights, so are somewhat protected from the individual states.
This was a truly bad idea. The Civil Rights of man are *exclusively* given by God, or Nature, if you prefer. They are inherent and inviolable. However, other rights, such as corporate rights are *not* given by God or Nature, but are created and changed *exclusively* by men.
So the first thing that government must do is to split the two apart. While individuals within corporations have civil rights, the corporations themselves do not. This does not mean that corporations have no rights, just not civil rights.
Next, further problems developed when corporations became multi-national. This means that in many cases they operate outside of the law entirely. Even worse, they are wealthy enough to buy US politicians, congressmen and senators, who see them, not the people, as their real constituency.
At this point they become “corporatists”, closer to socialists in having no loyalty to America. Only in recent years have many of them been purged from the Republican party.
So the law must be clear: if a corporation operates within the United States, they must abide by US law, and taxation. And likewise, they and other large organizations must be prohibited from involvement in political campaigns.
Last but not least, along with antitrust against monopolies, there needs to be a legal means to recognize that when a corporation becomes “too big to fail”, it is likewise “too big to continue operating”, so must be broken apart.
Once broken apart it cannot share directors or proxies, large shareholders, or otherwise form alliances or market limits with each other.
No system “works” when immorality rules the land. Capitalism under immoral leadership can and will be just as deadly.
Big money eventually buys up all the immoral leaders and the few moral ones are eliminated under cover of corrupt law.
You can have mass worker abuses and disasters, wars for profit, imprisonment and policing for profit, creation of crimes for profit, elimination of competition under corrupt law, etc, etc, etc.
The Founders always said that a nation of immoral men could not live free...