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Socialism Is the ‘Leeching’ of Our Time
American Greatness ^ | Nov 9, 2018 | Spencer P Morrison

Posted on 11/10/2018 10:45:56 AM PST by Thalean

Published in 1818, Horace Smith’s “Ozymandias” imagines a London long-since abandoned—the English civilization is gone. Collapsed. The city is a new Rome. A half-forgotten memory like Babylon. Troy.

"…We wonder—and some Hunter may express Wonder like ours, when thro’ the wilderness Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chase, He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess What powerful but unrecorded race Once dwelt in that annihilated place."

Perhaps this is London’s destiny—perhaps it’s ours too. After all, many of America’s greatest cities are decaying before our very eyes.

Consider Detroit. Its population plummeted by 63 percent since 1950, in no small part because it is plagued by America’s highest violent crime rate. More than 78,000 buildings are empty and many of its greatest monuments—reminders of its gilded past—lie abandoned. Within our lifetimes this all-American city, once teeming with life and commerce, ossified into an archeological ruin. Soon Detroit will be a memory, not a place.

Detroit is not unique—large swathes of America are rotting away beneath our feet. Look at California: 50 years ago the Golden State was home to America’s largest and most affluent middle class. It was a beacon on a hill, the apotheosis of the American dream. Now it is dystopia. One-in-five Californians live below the poverty line. It is “home” to one quarter of America’s homeless population. California’s income inequality is worse than Mexico’s.

What happened?

(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government
KEYWORDS: democrats; economics; liberalism; neighborliness; socialism
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To: Celerity

It’s the other Ozymandias, much less well-known than Shelley’s.


21 posted on 11/10/2018 4:17:44 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Thalean

Socialism is just slow-motion communism.


22 posted on 11/10/2018 6:45:34 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Robert DeLong
I apologize. I completely missed your question.

So what was his response back?

I only work with seven guys in my department, and all of them have the same mind as me. Gun owning, America loving patriots all.
The response was smiles all around.
23 posted on 11/17/2018 6:42:58 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
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To: RandallFlagg

Okay that was the point of my question, to determine if the young guy was a stupid leftist or not. Gives me hope to know that he isn’t. 8>)


24 posted on 11/17/2018 7:53:42 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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