Posted on 03/18/2019 4:46:33 AM PDT by simpson96
Can we dispel, once and for all, the idea that socialists, “democratic” or otherwise, actually believe in the socialism they peddle?
“Socialists” love money, guns, walls, fossil fuels, Amazon, meat, private jets and cars, luxury apartments, and paying low taxes just like everyone else.
What sets “socialists” apart is a certain desire for control.
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) owns multiple houses, has a seven-figure net worth, and collects a salary of $14,500 a month. Do you really think a guy like that truly believes the “free stuff” balderdash he’s regurgitated for decades? He admires Fidel Castro because he wants to be like him, and he’s enamored with bread lines because Sanders knows that government dependency is a helluva drug. I’m reminded of this every day when I look at the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics rationing ticket from my wife’s childhood in Poland. Newsflash: neither Lenin nor Stalin believed in socialism, either. They believed in power.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) wasted no time getting a fancy pad in a tony Washington, D.C. neighborhood. Rumor has it the building’s energy sources are electricity and oil. Aaahhh, first-world living in Washington, D.C., where average monthly rents are higher only in 10 other cities across the globe. Higher taxes? Ha! Ocasio-Cortez’s mother just moved from New York to my home state of Florida to reduce her property tax bill. Hope she didn’t bring her daughter’s politics with her.
As for President Obama, you aren’t still duped by his “fundamental transformation” schtick, are you? Barack and Michelle may not have a wall around their $8.1 million mansion, but I assure you there are many scary-looking bodyguards armed with scary-looking guns. And you better believe their guns are loaded and carried in “gun-free zones”—which are perhaps the stupidest thing in the long and illustrious history
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Bernie’s also a thief. A friend of a radio talk show host complained to his paper carrier that he wasn’t getting his Sunday Washington Post. A stakeout revealed that Bernie Sanders was pilfering his neighbor’s paper. Once revealed on the radio, the activity stopped.
Excellent article.
“...reminded of this every day when I look at the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics rationing ticket from my wife’s childhood in Poland...”
People who lived through it, and now live here, should be locked and loaded, and determined that “Never Again” actually MEANS “Never Again”.
Great article. Thanks for posting!
The power brokers know that socialism is just a marketing tool. Those that believe in it are the useful idiots.
Socialism is for the peasants not the elite.
Ask every neo-socialist whether they’ve given up fossil fuels and give the gov’t more than their tax form requires.
Nothing stops them from going with solar-powered EVs, buying direct from farmers, and wearing cotton/wool exclusively - cutting their FF use by ~90%.
Nothing stops them from filing a “gift to government” to hand over up to 100% of their income.
Guaranteed “no” on both.
Hypocrites.
Nail on the head award !!!!!
In my book, there are two kinds of people who advocate for socialism.
(1)Those who are actually ignorant of history and the REAL impact of the socialist ideology, and
(2)Those who understand the REAL consequences of socialism and bear a desire for power, control and wealth. These people are evil to the bone and deserve to be hauled out and hung because they are murderers!!
Only half true.
They believe in socialism, but only for you - not for themselves.
Yes, control freaks have many different ways to manifest their obsession - socialism is one of them. There can still be control freak capitalists who manifest in other ways.
When I was a kid I had a buddy who had a paper route.
His route included a high-end luxury condo building.
I remember he used to have terrible problems with the wealthy residents in there stealing each others’ newspapers.
This did not happen at the more modest homes along his route.
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