Posted on 04/24/2023 5:45:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In the end, perhaps the best definition of socialism is simply “The endless war against merit.”
Sometimes when you are in the midst of a revolution, you do not even know it.
I doubt all the Germans who voted in National Socialism quite foresaw what quickly was to come. Those who overthrew the Bourbons or the Romanoffs had no real idea that they had sown the wind and were soon to reap the Jacobin and Bolshevik whirlwind.
Socialism With a Whimper
So it is with our “woke”—a euphemism for the socialist revolution we are in and do not fully appreciate or even understand.
Socialism is variously defined. The Merriam-Webster dictionary emphasizes the role of the state in near-communist terms: “Any of various egalitarian economic and political theories or movements advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods.”
The Cambridge Dictionary more accurately notes that socialism is “the set of beliefs that states that all people are equal and should share equally in a country’s money, or the political systems based on these beliefs.”
The latter definition perhaps best sums up much of the operative ideology of the new Democratic Party, the Biden Administration, and its subordinates, both elected and administrative.
But perhaps socialism in America 2023 is even better described as something like “the doctrine of enforced ‘equity’ by government redistribution of money and power from one ‘oppressive’ group to another ‘oppressed,’ with the caveat that the elite redistributors have the right to supersede the law based on their own self-professed superior morality, and the assurance that they will never be subject to the baleful consequences of their own unnatural ideology.”
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Joe never shared any of that “10% for the Big Guy” with me.
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No we are not all socialists now. I am a libertarian ,less government is best. This guy likes give you a click bait title then a long wandering article.
Considering the nonstop debt increases, additional spending programs passed yearly and the reluctance for any reforms, yes, we are under socialism already.
Second, the federal government’s top priority is to ensure its own security, safety and continuity....not that of the people it was created to serve.
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Socialism is the theory that property itself is unjust because it was acquired by theft, exploitation, and war spoils. Socialists claim that the vanquished and dispossessed are guileless martyrs, when in fact just a few generations before, they had acquired their property by theft, exploitation, and war spoils.
And textbooks annotated by Pookie's Toons. LOL
We’ve been Socialists since the Great Society of the 1960s. Its a process that started 100 years ago with the New Deal. Gimme gimme gimme and have someone else pay for it.
“Three months before his last visit to this country, Nikita Khrushchev said, ‘We can't expect the American people to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find they have Communism.’”
“No we are not all socialists now. I am a libertarian ,less government is best.”
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The government grows bigger and more powerful every single day. The reality is that in this country Fedzilla controls, regulates, taxes, oversees, monitors or otherwise influences nearly every aspect of our lives. Both parties have bought into this massive expansion of socialism.
The bigger the government gets, the smaller the people become. That’s where we are today.
America will never be a communist country. Socialism and communism are the natural enemies of American Constitutional Law, American culture and the American free market economy. Any person endorsing in any way socialism or communism within U.S. territories is participating in an act of insurrection and will through due process have their property seized, their citizenship revoked and subjected to permanent exile.
7/27/2020 just tweeted @realdonaldtrump
I wonder why nothing happened...
You might learn something from “this guy” if you went into his collections. The man is no fool. He’s both well thought and spoken.
The tax code is socialist. About one percent of households pay 50 percent of federal income taxes—and are damned as greedy for it. That asymmetry is true of most state income tax schedules as well. The antithesis of Reagan’s “Starve the Beast”—limiting revenues to force cuts in superfluous spending—is now “Gorge the beast”: spend so much indiscriminately, run up such astronomical multitrillion budget deficits, and inflate debt to GDP to over 130 percent, that redistributionist higher and higher taxes become perpetually necessary.
Another excellent article from Prof Hanson for your Monday morning.
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American Greatness: Victor Davis Hanson on American Greatness
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We’ve been Socialists since the Great Society of the 1960s.
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Its hard to even think of anything the government doesn’t have control over and/or influence in profound ways. Just saying.
Victor Davis Hanson is the best writer in our country today. It’s not just his writing but the intellect that shows through in every subject he undertakes. A plain spoken man of the truth! Unfortunately, he’s the only one we have.
“Social Security” Need I say more. Who doles the payments out? Who determines how much you get? All you need to do is work 10 years
The antithesis of Reagan’s “Starve the Beast”
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Too bad the Republican Party never went along with Reagan’s advice. They talk a lot about cutting back but in reality just go along with the spending and relentless growth of government.
Not willingly.
statist central planning + narrow statist political incentives and decisions + statist bureaucratic management + state ownership & state control + statist monopoly = shortages + economic chaos + destruction + inefficiencies + waste + malinvestment + capital decumulation = disaster & catastrophe & misery
In a sane world, the unconstitutional DoE would be 10th Amendment-Ed away.
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