Posted on 07/10/2019 5:44:39 AM PDT by NOBO2012
Amen (see my tagline)
Oh, not this time! This time it’ll work for sure! You see, in a society like the one we have at present, there’s much more to plunder.
Yet Republican globalist policies on trade, manufacturing and immigration feed right into the socialists plans.....
See MY tag line.
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Its amusing to ponder how Stalin would have dealt with Bernie Sanders, AOC, De Blasio, Anderson Cooper, Maddow, Warren and the rest.
Something that is true of every other con game and swindle.
Heh. Stalin killed most of the early 1910-1928 Leninist and Trotskyist. Uncle Joe couldn’t stand better Marxists and useful idiots. If commies did take USA over, all of the above would be liquidated.
Those who want Socialism in this country should be required to live in a Socialist country for a year.
Overpromise and underdeliver - every time.
What looks like an easy and “fair” solution to inequities in this world, proves to be anything but. Human nature is pretty much based on sheer avarice, which serves well in times of scarce resources, but leads to bloated overgrowth in times of plenty, when inequities abound. This is when the cries of “Unfair!” and “Greedy pig!” come up, for the few who have accrued wealth beyond any rational measure. The great masses, though they may be relatively comfortable in their access to the goods and services of the world, grow restless with jealousy and envy, and grumble “why does THAT person get all the breaks?”, never once considering that many blessings have already fallen to himself, only that he may be “just like” the guy on the top of the heap.
When the jealousy and envy have smoldered long enough, they burst into white-hot fury and anger, determined to pull down the guy on the top of the heap, regardless of the damage to one’s own cause. And in doing so, only destruction, chaos and grief come in the wake of this personal tantrum, multiplied by many thousands or millions of others who joined the mob and murdered the goose that was laying all the golden eggs.
Some 95% of all personal woe is self-induced.
Great, concise explanation!
The house or apartment you once owned has turned into a cardboard box under the overpass and your car has devolved into a rusty shopping cart with three wheels.
Pretty much matches what socialism does to a nation.
https://acton.org/research/lord-acton-quote-archive
Liberty has not only enemies which it conquers, but perfidious friends, who rob the fruits of its victories: Absolute democracy, socialism.
And my favorite
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
Jacques Barzun’s book “500 Years of Western Civilization” - first 100 pages - must read.
It’s a cycle: revolution, followed by ‘uh oh, now what’, followed by self-interest driven collapse, followed by revolution.
It was ever thus.
Great for those conducting the orchestra though
You can vote your way into socialism, but you’ll have to shoot your way out it.
You can Vote your way into Socialism, but you have to Shoot your way out of it.
Two minutes late... Darn.
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