Posted on 03/22/2019 4:52:12 PM PDT by Thalean
"…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."
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. 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 lifetime this all-American city, once teaming 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: fifty 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?
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Why Socialism ALWAYS FAILS
That’s easy. Eventually the government thugs run out of everyone else’s money.
It concentrates power in the government which invariably corrupts those who wield it.
Successfully imposed socialism really is paradise, as seen in Venezuela.
1. Their money’s no good.
2. The administration expects perpetual praise.
3. It leads to nothing better.
Socialism requires a collective, which can only be accomplished with an all-powerful government. Socialists always ignore an important principal: power corrupts.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”- Winston Churchill
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