[TADSLOS]

Cautionary Tale Ping.

[goldstategop]

I’m sure many of the early Communist leaders were idealists who wanted a better and more just world.

It just didn’t work out that way because you can’t make every one equal and every one happy.

Human nature doesn’t like to be regimented. Eventually, you’re going to have to take away people’s freedom to make them fit an arbitrary social mold.

Communism always fails even in circumstances where people once supported it - like in the former Yugoslavia.

[DuncanWaring]

How many people have to die before the world, including many Americans, realizes that socialism never works, always fails, and kills people?

If 100,000,000+++ in the 20th Century didn't do it, nothing will.

From Rudyard Kipling, a century ago:

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."

[sparklite2]

Look at the unspeakable tragedies that continue to unfold in Venezuela right now. People are scrambling just to get food to eat.

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Yeah, it sucks. But they voted these bastards into office. And to describe this as an unspeakable tragedy is laughable. It also denigrates real tragedy.

[DuncanWaring]

It’s been said “The one thing we learn from history is that we never learn anything from history”.

[Billthedrill]

It is telling that socialists are always more concerned with distribution of wealth than with its generation. That is inherently parasitical, and when the surplus runs out, so does the distribution, just as it has in Venezuela. Cleverly rationed, the socialist can milk that surplus long enough so that nobody notices the steady drain in his or her lifetime. Socialism is not, to use a particularly obnoxious neologism, "sustainable".

In fact, it's theft, and its modern stalking horse "social justice" is theft as well. There certainly are mechanisms through which a surplus may be voluntarily contributed to the collective - charity is far older than Marxism, and it's good for the soul that the Marxist denies we have. But the flip side of "to each according to his need" is "from each according to his ability", not according to his willingness to share. The socialist state will provide that motivation at the point of a bayonet. The more productive will always be the slave of the lesser, and the ultimate master will be the one who produces nothing at all. Why anyone would ever think that system would work in spite of a century of contraindicative evidence is quite beyond me.

[Brian Griffin]

Venezuela has an oil revenue problem due to lower oil prices. It also has a oil production problem because too much oil revenue was spent on government handouts and not enough on oil production and refinery equipment.

[zzwhale]

47% of amerikans .... as mittens said

93 million workers out of work

the socialsit globalist new world order have plans for us......
inclueing total loss of personal freedom...

hillary is part of the plan

WAKE THE FUP

[Jacquerie]

The Democratic vs. Republican Constitutions.

[tet68]

Socialism means never having to say,
“Please get in the boxcar”.