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Posted on 06/25/2026 5:33:56 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The left’s long march through the institutions has created a culture that champions socialism under the misguided assumption that it is moral.
n 1976, Margaret Thatcher said during a television interview, “Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money.”
Over the years, that quote has been whittled down to the renowned proverb: The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
This is a powerful argument against socialism. Even better, it has been validated time and time again, most notably when the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics collapsed in 1991. The Soviet Union was an economic basket case, and the whole world witnessed its demise.
But socialism has an even bigger problem: it is immoral.
Even if it did somehow work efficiently and effectively at an economic level, it would still be immoral.
A broad definition of “moral” is “conforming to a standard of behavior that is considered right and good by most people.” Morality is synonymous with truth, honor, honesty, fairness, righteousness, and virtue.
Immorality is the antithesis of morality. It is synonymous with wickedness, callousness, evil, sin, vileness, viciousness, darkness, and ruthlessness.
Socialism, in its depraved but effective way, appeals to people’s worst instincts and impulses. It presents the world as a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers. It pits groups of people against each other based on arbitrary measures. For the narrow-minded, it makes sense.
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Not only is socialism an economic failure, but inevitably it becomes despotic. Consider what happens when the socialist collective comes to take a business or family farm for “ the good of all” and the owner says no. History tells us that the all powerful state will simply take private property and its owners will be jailed or simply executed.
That’s how braindead and ignorant they are.
They SHOULD. Socialists are truly unholy abominations who follow in the footsteps of a mass murderer.
“ Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ”
An American was chatting (using Google translate ) with a fan from Uzbekistan here for the World Cup. The American mentioned the USSR. The Uzbek fan said that they always say “Russia” because saying “Soviet union” makes it sound like the United States of America or a country that was made up of parts that wanted to be part of a whole. He said that the people of Uzbekistan were prisoners during the Soviet era, not voluntary members of a union.
bttt
Yep. The workers in the soviet union used to say “We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us”.
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