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[House Atreides]

I want a BETTER Obamaphone ... AND a government contract paying big bucks for minimal effort!

[Starboard]

Before long the Left will be demanding a “secure” retirement for all so the free ride can continue and truly become the “golden years”.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Communism, not for the working classes?

Let's have a quick look at Karl Marx' grave.

[SMARTY]

It used to be called ‘hyper democracy’... I think that was Oswald Spengler

[dead]

Actual snippet of conversation between two homeless guys I heard on 21st in NYC a year ago:

"You gotta my number?"
"Yeah, I got it here..."
"Oh, no. That's my Obamaphone number, let me give you my real number."

[FiddlePig]

We are seeing it... promise EVERYTHING! Once in power why give anything? Who’s gonna make ya?

In truth… Socialism is the ultimate Ponzi scam! Those at the top of the pyramid make HUGE promises to gain power… then they live LARGE on the wealth and labor they confiscate (by force or threat thereof) from those who produce it. Then they “redistribute” most all of it to themselves. We “peasants” at the bottom of the pyramid, live on little more than a rationed subsistence existence... on the small leftovers “trickled down” to us. Then our “dear leaders” demand we thank them for the crumbs they allow us to keep. Also… nearly ALL aspects of we (the “peasants”) lives are then regulated, rationed, permitted, licensed and controlled. “Free stuff” is increasingly sparse and freedom becomes the most rationed commodity of all... such is the “fine print” and the “Serpent promise” of Socialism.

Been said: “When toilet paper becomes an expensive, rare and rationed item, we have reached Socialist utopia”. No thanks Bernie!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“Luxury Communism is the logical conclusion of an intellectual lefty class that had spent its existence trying to assemble abstract theories of labor without ever putting them into practice by laboring.”

“Communists. Is there anything they don’t know?” ~ Homer J. Simpson

[Billthedrill]

One of Greenfield's best, and thanks very much for posting. He certainly isn't the first one to notice that very few advocates of socialism are actually working class - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon noted it at a time when Marxism was in its infancy. Orwell's long description of working class conditions in The Road To Wigan Pier ended with an equally lengthy exposition on why he was not himself in that class and how that class is held in contempt by other socialists like him. That was the part the socialists refused to publish.

One of the central political controversies on the Left at the moment is how it is even possible that the working class vote defected to Trump from its "natural" home supporting limousine liberals and champagne socialists whose actual contacts with the unwashed produce such antic moments as John Kerry's "Kin I git me a huntin' license heah?" or Hillary's "I ain't no ways tahrd." These are, believe it or not, their attempts at authenticity from which normal people recoil with horror and laughter. They don't get it, except to promote the popular conclusion that failure to consider this ridiculous pretense to be genuine is a mark of the audience's stupidity. And they say so. And the people around them repeat it.

These are "socialists" in thousand-dollar suits whose game is to take five nickels from A and redistribute four to B and C, and only if they like them. One winds up with a lot of nickels that way, as well as an insufferable self-righteousness stemming from a contrived outrage that A had five nickels in the first place - A doesn't now, but the socialist does. This, we are told, is "progress".

It was always a scam. Socialism cannot work without redistribution and redistribution cannot work without central authority doing it. Marx's state will never wither away, as he promised, it will only get bigger and more totalitarian. Orwell saw that. Milovan Djilas told us why and ended up doing nine years in prison for doing so. Authority, the State, the New Class, these do not like to be outed and will respond with violence, as in fact they are doing in America this very moment in that movement's nascence, and Venezuela is what happens in its senescence.

[GOPJ]

Socialism has always been ‘corrupt elites FOR corrupt elites’... the verbal sweet talk to workers was just crap to sell it to foolish little people.

Guess they've had to ‘upgrade ’ the lies to push this evil out to larger numbers of gullible fools.