> There is no great “first shot” of socialism. <
But there certainly appears to be a great first shot. And that’s why socialism is so seductive. It’s something we conservatives need to recognize, and warn folks about.
Awhile back I was reading an article about Venezuelan chicken farmers. They could raise a chicken for - say - two bolivars. Then they sold it for around three bolivars.
But then the socialists took over. They decreed that no chicken could be sold for more than one bolivar. And that was the great “first shot”. Cheap chickens for everybody!
But of course that couldn’t last. No farmer could raise chickens at a loss. So now no chickens for anybody. Except for the socialist elite.
It’s true that for some reason human beings enjoy the schadenfreude of seeing those above them knocked down a peg, that’s what socialism does.