Posted on 03/09/2019 3:56:41 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
But-but-but it is because the WRONG PEOPLE end up running the socialist system, doncha know. If they just get in the RIGHT people, this time it will work for sure.
Oddly, even with the “right people”, socialism ends up being a command-and-control economy. Complete with “re-education camps”, rationing and chronic shortages in even the basic needs.
Eventually socialism runs out of other people’s money.
Socialism is something you vote your way into and shoot your way out.
NH never really answered his own question. It is basically flawed human nature. Humans are stupid, stubborn, and fail to learn from history. Read Chronicles. a history lesson for everyone. Despite what God did for the Israelites, they kept forgetting and rebelled time after time.
I don’t know why we debate it at all as it’s unconstitutional. We are guaranteed a Republican form of Government.
The problems of socialism and communism, have frequently been blamed on people just not doing things properly.
Having seen so many historic examples of the faults of socialism and communism, from Lenin and Stalin to chairman Mao and Pol Pot and Castro, we are supposed to believe, that these good communists just didn’t implement the theories of Marx and Engels properly.
And we are also supposed to believe that people such as Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez will do it right this time.
I always say “apply this proposal to the filter of your life”
Excellent point.
It’s true. There’s nothing to discuss.
Shortages and dictatorship?
The liberals point to Scandinavia, but those countries aren’t socialist. They are wealthy due to capitalism.
This battle will indeed be worth escalating. And it will be escalated should the socialists cheat their way into power.
I would hope and trust that we’ve still got the revolutionary spirit. No way should we let people with an unfailing history of failure have control of my life, my family, and our future.
I promise every reader that those that create wealth and jobs already have plans to go away if socialism becomes our way of life. Like Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, there will be a strike of the producers and then it’s over for a couple of generations.
>I don’t know why we debate it at all as it’s unconstitutional. We are guaranteed a Republican form of Government.
“A Republic. If you can keep it.” - B. Franklin
Cause we didn’t hang all the socialists after the last debate?
Socialism is nothing more than the Wicked Witch’s Candy Cottage in the Hansel and Gretel story.
Eat the candy at your own peril.
The success of capitalism feeds the socialist impulse. People see all the wealth created and start thinking it's infinite. They wonder why they don't have more of it and start dreaming of all the uses government can put it to.
The money isn't infinite. It runs out soon enough. But socialists aren't thinking that far ahead.
The appeal of socialism is free stuff without effort. It’s already demonstrably failing in our big cities. The message is “come here and get lots of free stuff.” The only requirement is to be homeless, which is easy for those who wish to put forth no effort. Think about it; the only requirement is to have virtually nothing. That’s the incentive. We reward those who have nothing because they don’t want to be productive. There’s a formula for prosperity.
Let me fix that:
Or maybe socialism is a fundamentally flawed idea that always leads to misery by short-sighted, incompetent, ignorant, and the obvious inability of incomplete centralized-planned design because no person or potential committe can foresee demand for every required product or every sudden disaster that may arise in production of every product to guarantee to meet the needs of the population in every situation and location in the future.
The sheer arrogance that makes socialists assume they can plan and adequately meet the disparate needs of millions of people, much less their desires and demands, guarantees their societies and economies will fail because they have no concept of the problem they think they are tackling and why every attempt at socialism has been an abysmal bloody failure in short order.
Is there anywhere in the world socialism or communism has worked? I’m scratching my head.
We aren’t guaranteed shit. “Unconstitutional” is whatever five justices on the Supreme Court say it is.
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