Posted on 07/29/2018 9:59:38 PM PDT by upchuck
The darling of the Democratic Party and the liberal media is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez... In their breathless, frenzied rush to anoint Ocasio-Cortez as the coming of the Savior of the Nation, liberals have wholeheartedly embraced her call for “Democratic Socialism.”
... what is this “democratic socialism?”...
What Democrats think it is sounds good: income equality, a fair living wage for everyone, plentiful employment opportunities, quality healthcare coverage for all, affordable college education for all who want it, easy access to affordable, quality housing, and a tax system where the so-called rich pay their “fair share.”
Implicit in the discussion of their prized new order is that everything about the American economy, way of life and culture that is to their liking would remain securely in place, unaffected by the transition to democratic socialism. That, of course, is preposterous. The aspects of daily American life that people like and take for granted -- plentiful food available at well-stocked supermarkets... -- are all made possible by the capitalist/profit-oriented structure of our economic system. If the private business profit incentive is removed, as is the case in a socialist economy, the underlying competitive impetus for providing those goods and services disappears. It’s a zero-sum game: the more “socialism” that is introduced into the economy, the less efficient that economy becomes, because lessened private competition results in fewer choices and a diminishing incentive to increase efficiency or reduce costs.
Proponents of democratic socialism never actually explain where the money needed to pay for all the largess will actually come from. There is a limit to how much simply taxing the rich will produce. Taxes on services and sales transactions would need to be raised to a stifling degree, with a commensurate negative effect on economic activity.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Socialist governments are a trap. Once it seeps in there’s no getting rid of it before they get rid of you.
“[T]he first step in the revolution by the working class is to raise the proletariat to the level of ruling class to win the battle of democracy.”Socialism is indeed “democratic” and that is its biggest problem. The USA is a republic.
— Communist Manifesto, chapter 2
“What will be the course of this revolution? Above all, it will establish a democratic constitution, and through this, the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat. […] Democracy would be wholly valueless to the proletariat if it were not immediately used as a means for putting through measures directed against private property and ensuring the livelihood of the proletariat.”
— The Principles of Communism
“[I]t is very clear that in fundamental theory, socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same. They both rest at bottom upon the absolute right of the community to determine its own destiny and that of its members. Men as communities are supreme over men as individuals.”
— Woodrow Wilson, “Socialism and Democracy”
“The aspects of daily American life that people like and take for granted — plentiful food available at well-stocked supermarkets... — are all made possible by the capitalist/profit-oriented structure of our economic system. If the private business profit incentive is removed, as is the case in a socialist economy, the underlying competitive impetus for providing those goods and services disappears.”
Back in the days of the old Soviet Union, someone made a comment that “if Marilyn Monroe walked the streets of Moscow completely nude save a new pair of shoes, the Muscovites would look at her feet.”
That is quite an oxymoron isn’t it?
Hitler made a few speech's that is very similar to that statement.
That explains it for me.
It’s socialist thought through and through.
They should have waited until the majority of the boomers were dead.
I don’t know a Boomer or an Xer that doesn’t recoil at the S word.
20 years too soon, you big socialist dummies.
Liberals lie and nation’s die.
Ain’t nothing dying here man.
We good. They did it too soon, and with the wrong person in charge.
Just antagonize them....make them spew more of their garbage.
When one of them talks on the news....they lose 20 people.
Walkaway.
;)
Funny how they never get around to defining who would qualify as the "rich" nor what a "fair share" tax would be! How much do you want to bet that every single one of them would balk if they happened to one day win the Powerball lottery and they suddenly became a member of the upper class? A great many of these socialist Democrats already ARE millionaires. So what is stopping them from giving away most of their wealth now if they really were so convinced it would solve all our problems?
It doesn’t matter in the slippery slightest where there is such a thing as Democratic Socialism or not. Call it Democratic socialism, and do so hundreds if not thousands of times between now and the election and simply just keep saying it. Don’t overthink it. Just repeat it. Over and over.
Tell that to the Mensheviks
Implicit in the discussion of their prized new order is that everything about the American economy, way of life and culture that is to their liking would remain securely in place,
Great article and I’m sure the writer spent a lot of time on it. But, that sentence right there sums it up about as perfect as it could be summed up.
They want all their fantasies to come true, while still maintaining the lifestyles they live. They want free housing, medical, etc, move them all into Section 8 and put them on Medicaid. Have them identify themselves as wanting ‘socialism’ and start taxing their income at 70-80%. They won’t be able to feed themselves, let alone visit their favorite, neighborhood craft beer spot, buy their Vespa’s or sip the newest bourbon made in some hipsters basement down the street. No more mocha chai decaf fair trade honduran lattes w/ a caramel drizzle on top.
No. 100% above the minimum wage. Put it towards arresting the debt.
Democracy is Two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat...
Democratic Socialism is Two wolves forcing the sheep to baste itself in order to solve the collective hunger problem of the people.
You’re right. How else would they pay for all the free stuff they want. They’re going to get everything else from the gubment, anyway.
I stand corrected.
Just after the completion and signing of the Constitution, in reply to a woman's inquiry as to the type of government the Founders had created, Benjamin Franklin said, "A Republic, if you can keep it."
A Republic is representative government ruled by law (the United States Constitution). A Democracy is government ruled by the majority (mob rule). A Republic recognizes the unalienable rights of individuals while Democracies are only concerned with group wants or needs for the good of the public, or in other words social justice.
Lawmaking is a slow, deliberate process in our Constitutional Republic requiring approval from the three branches of government, the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches for checks and balance. Lawmaking in Democracy occurs rapidly requiring approval from the majority by polls and/or voter referendums, which in turn is mob rule 50% plus 1 vote takes away anything from the minority. Here is one example; if 51% of the people don’t pay taxes they can vote a tax increase on the 49% that do, which is mob rule.
Democracies always self-destruct when the non-productive majority realizes that it can vote itself handouts from the productive minority by electing the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury. To maintain their power, these candidates must adopt an ever-increasing tax and spend policy to satisfy the ever-increasing desires of the majority. As taxes increase, incentive to produce decreases, causing many of the once productive to drop out and join the non-productive. When there are no longer enough producers to fund the legitimate functions of government and the socialist programs, the democracy will collapse, always to be followed by a Dictatorship.
Even though nearly every politician, teacher, journalist and citizen believes that our Founders created a democracy, it is absolutely not true. The Founders knew full well the differences between a Republic and a Democracy and they repeatedly said that they had founded a republic in numerous quotes, and documents.
Article IV Section 4, of the Constitution "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion", the word Democracy is not mentioned in the Constitution at all. Madison warned us of the dangers of democracies with this quote, along with more warnings from others.
"Hence it is that democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general have been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths... A republic, by which I mean a government in which a scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect and promises the cure for which we are seeking." James Madison, Federalist Papers No. 10 (1787).
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" Ben Franklin
"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." Thomas Jefferson
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." John Adams
"But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it." Henry David Thoreau
Our military training manuals use to contain the correct definitions of Democracy and Republic. The following comes from Training Manual No. 2000-25 published by the War Department, November 30, 1928.
Below is what the Manual No. 2000-25 says in Section IX Lesson 9.
DEMOCRACY:
A government of the masses.
Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct" expression.
Results in mobocracy.
Attitude toward property is communistic--negating property rights.
Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether is be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
Results in demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
REPUBLIC:
Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.
Attitude toward property is respect for laws and individual rights, and a sensible economic procedure.
Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.
A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass.
Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy.
Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress.
Is the "standard form" of government throughout the world.
The manuals containing these definitions were ordered destroyed without explanation about the same time that President Franklin D. Roosevelt made private ownership of our lawful money (US Minted Gold Coins) illegal. Shortly after the people turned in their $20 gold coins, the price was increased from $20 per ounce to $35 per ounce. Almost overnight F.D.R., the most popular president this century (elected 4 times) looted almost half of this nation's wealth, while convincing the people that it was for their own good. His right hand man, Harry Lloyd Hopkins, the New Deal architect, who suggested many of F.D.R.'s policies said.
"We shall Tax and Tax, Spend and Spend, Elect and Elect, because the people are too damn dumb to know the difference". Harry Hopkins
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