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“Socialists feels that men, women and children should all be public property.”

The Khmer Rouge certainly put that into action; I see your point.

Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but I think of a thousand other things when I hear “socialist” before I get to those topics.

Call them socialists, progressives or Marxists. They are all no damn good and a cancer on mankind. These pieces of crap gave us eugenics, abortion, ruthanasia, mass-murder and death camps. This stupid kid is going to be a problem until Satan calls him home.

The fundamental flaw with socialism is that it devalues the individual. Every human being is unique, and every human being has the right to grow and distinguish themselves individually. If one wants to go live in the woods, off the grid, and write poetry or books that reflect their unique perspective on life, it is their right to do it. Their unique voice has the capacity to enrich the rest of us, because it is different and might add something to our own individuality. The only caveat is that in our individual pursuits we don't hurt other individuals.

Socialism, while touting ‘equality’, is actually extremely hierarchical - much, much more so than free capitalist societies ever are. Every socialist society that you look at has a small number of people, icons, that are worshipped. Few others have the ability to distinguish themselves. Ultimately, this diminishes people.

In a free capitalist society such as traditional America, we don't look at people in government, or in the MSM, or in any aspect of our society, and think of them as our betters. We see a landscape of opportunities, and most of us feel that where we wind up and what we do for a living has more to do with personal choice, where we put our efforts, and some circumstantial contributions, than it does with our personal stature as individuals. A plumber from Akron might be dramatically more thoughtful and creative than a university professor in Boston, or a Senator or a President, and societally we generally all know this. At least until recently we didn't have ‘Dear Leaders’.

Socialism accentuates the importance of ‘the few’, and suppresses the individuality of the rest of society. ‘Activists’ love it, because it gives them a hierarchical structure that allows them to be more important than the homogenous masses they seek to ‘lead’. Just look at this 19 yr. old’s comment that ‘elected office allows you to reach more people’. At 19 he's not concerned with learning from others, or becoming enriched by exposure to other ‘individuals’. He just wants, from his self-indulgent elected position on a school board, to use his new position in the hierarchy to push his views on the ‘masses’.