Posted on 02/06/2021 4:33:07 AM PST by MtnClimber
You may think you see a reasonable pathway to a fairer society. The cunning dictator-to-be sees a quicker road to conquest.
Socialism promises a fairer society. Many people, regardless of their political labels, respond to this goal. Even some Christians see socialism and Christianity as converging belief systems. Both sides say we have a moral duty to care for the needy and hungry.
Any advocacy of socialism generates at least some degree of sympathetic agreement. Some suspect that socialism, compared to capitalism, occupies the moral high ground.
The problem that quickly arises is the matter of choice or free will. Will you accept socialism only because a powerful government threatens you? If you are compelled to do something, the spirituality goes out of it.
Even if you become a socialist because you believe it’s the enlightened choice, many dangers loom. Mainly, can you withdraw from a socialist agenda if it starts to be oppressive and indeed murderous? How do you back up? Ask the Venezuelans.
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Supporters of socialism are the dumbest people on the planet.
It’s like being at a party with a community punch bowl and someone takes a drink and drops dead, then someone else takes a drink and drops dead. One after that other, everyone slowly dies. Then, as you’re the only one in the room still standing, you say to yourself, “I need to try that, it looks pretty good!”.
That’s the mentality of socialist supporters in America today. One failure after the other, not one success story, just misery and death and they all say “I need to try that, it looks pretty good!”.
Indeed, it does. However, in actual practice it never delivers. Socialism delivers an equally poor society to all the masses, and it delivers riches beyond belief to the few ruling elites. It achieves that through unbridled corruption among the elites.
Capitalism CREATES wealth. Socialism DESTROYS wealth. Socialism confiscates the wealth that is available when it starts, and then consumes it without replenishment with its corruption and mismanagement. In doing so, destroys all incentive to create any more wealth.
Capitalism creates wealth. Creating wealth is simple. Wealth is created ONLY when the result of labor of workers produces more value than the cost of the labor. When the labor costs more than the result, wealth is destroyed. Wealthy Capitalists don't sit around in their warehouses full of gold, pushing it around into piles, as once depicted in popular comic books. They reinvest their wealth, usually in endeavors that create even more value. That "spreads around" more wealth than even that in the greatest dreams of corrupt Socialists.
The elites know it does not work. They just want control. The peasants are the ones who think it works.
Socialism promises a fairer society every one dies of hunger and poverty.
Ever notice that after 100 years of Marxist Socialist failure the say “It has never been done right, but WE will do it right when WE come to Power!”
Yet no one ever says Nationalist Socialism has ever been done right. Once was enough!
Good point.
Socialism is communism in a coat and tie.
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