What happens to socialism if the gov’t goes broke?
I wonder if Bush’s parting gift isn’t to help break the gov’t so that Socialism COULDN’T take hold...
The gov't prints more money. Think Zimbabwe ...
“What happens to socialism if the govt goes broke?”
It won’t; that’s what our incomes are for. Tax, Baby, Tax!
Fascism.
Part of the current effort by the collective in printing money, bailing out industry, driving down the economy is to make “the people” as weary of the economy as they have made the people “weary of war.” Weariness destroys your interest and your will to fight. After that, they move in with totalitarianism.
The same people that voted for ‘them’ in 06 and 08 will be begging for fascism within two years, but, of course, they will be rebranding it ‘New Socialism’ or ‘Compassionate Socialism.’
I’ve been telling FReepers since the election that we need to do our part to keep the economy slow so that he won’t have the funds to be able to implement the most egregious stuff.
>>>What happens to socialism if the govt goes broke?<<<
The perfect circumstances for the socialists to achieve power and control.
The left has a history of using a crisis to achieve power. Look at the rise of socialist movements in Russia, Germany, China, Cambodia - all of them had war, economic collapse, or social dislocation (sometimes all three) before the socialists took control.
The best defense against the socialists is a robust economy and a culture with traits that make socialism unpalatable. Sadly, we ain’t there any more. But don’t wish for economic collapse. That’s the kind of vaccuum that the left would love to take advantage of.