Posted on 07/17/2017 9:06:29 AM PDT by rktman
Campus Reform published a video yesterday showing college students in Washington, D.C. responding to two simple questions. The first question was: Do you think socialism is good or bad? As you’ll see, there was enthusiastic agreement from the students that socialism was a good idea, one which is about “helping people” and spreading the wealth. Some of the students even seem defensive, noting that socialism, inexplicably, has a bad reputation.
The second question was also simple: What is socialism? All of the students who were confident socialism was a good idea seem unable to really explain what it is or how it works to produce all of the good outcomes it supposedly produces. One student refers to “getting rid of that wealth gap” but that’s an effect, not a policy or a definition.
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Ignorance is Strength
Socialism is cynicism about society compounded with naiveté about government.SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.These kids believe but they do not understand.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing.The man whom we believe is necessarily, in the things concerning which we believe him, our leader and director, and we look up to him with a certain degree of esteem and respect. But as from admiring other people we come to wish to be admired ourselves; so from being led and directed by other people we learn to wish to become ourselves leaders and directors . . .
The desire of being believed, the desire of persuading, of leading and directing other people, seems to be one of the strongest of all our natural desires. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
And Nixon gave us the 18 year old vote? Should be 35 unless you are in the military or a vet.
Like, whatever.
The choice is between FREE enterprise and socialism.
How much of their freedom are they willing to give up to achieve socialism’s goals?
My first experience with unions was as a young teenager - when two union goons threatened to break my bones if I didn’t do exactly what they told me to do. I have hated unions with a passion ever since.
My first experience with socialism was also as a young teenager - when four young urban thugs with a knife and a baseball bat demanded that I hand over everything that I had earned to them, even though they had earned nothing and produced nothing. I would have been happy to see them get the death penalty either on the spot or in court, and I have hated socialists and criminals ever since.
I have read Marx’s “Capital” and his “Communist Manifesto”, and I understand socialism well enough to recognize it as armed robbery. I can discuss and debate the theory in detail with its supporters, but I don’t bother. Those who approve of socialism know that they are thieves. They just like the idea of getting more than their share of an ever-shrinking socialist pie.
Von Mises predicted that a mixed economy is unstable and would eventually evolve either to capitalism or socialism
Thanks
I read years ago in an old in an old encyclopedia (My grandma’s Funk and Wagnall’s???) that Fascism is a form of socialism where government doesn’t control private property and enterprises by ownership but by regulation.
I think the force comes later.
Bammy got pretty far. Who knows how far PIAPS would have gotten. I don’t think she would have any problem using force if we didn’t own so many evil guns. Even Hitler had enough sense to registered and confiscated guns before he started murdering his citizens.
I asked an intern from a local college. The reply was that socialism is being immersed in social media.
The article is right. they don’t know what it is.
Well smack me in the forehead. That was such an obvious answer to that troubling question. Guess I’m not into socialism then since I don’t do any of that electronic socializing. Hell, I barely do email.
Home viewing bookmark.
Shhhhh. Is that your boss looking over your shoulder? ;-)
LOL! Naahh, just surfing in a public area. Less noise at home.
Okay then. Wouldn’t want to get you in trouble. ;-)
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