People need a little background here.
This has been what they have been teaching people at the University level for years. I first heard this 8 years ago from my Daughter. She stated that “It’s a myth that people can work hard and help themselves, studies show that people are essentially born into a class”
This was during the time of Obama. Social Studies majors, teachers, Catholic Schools, were already preaching this new theory that had become public less than a year before. The used this example to push Socialism (You know it better as Communism lite). The basic premise is that Capitalism doesn’t work.
Problem is, Capitalism does work. The highs and lows of economy, that Keynesian economics tried to eliminate, are just natural sinusoidal changes seen in any biological system or predator-prey relationship.
Socialists believe that ‘pulling yourself up’ just doesn’t happen. Yet, we stand in a nation that has “pulled itself up” from Wilderness. We stand among people that have built the greatest nation on earth, adhering to this principle. When confronted with this reality something odd happens.
They get angry and call you a liar. They call you a racist. They tell you that you are stupid and they mock you. They are certain that you are wrong......but can’t figure out how to pay back their responsibilities.....their student loans.
People don’t like to hear the truth. Like children, people scream that the world isn’t fair......and they are correct. Their is much randomness in the Universe, and working hard isn’t a guarantee of success and being a Socialist isn’t a guarantee of failure for an individual. I say this one thing that I call self evident: While ‘Bootstrapping’ isn’t a guarantee of success, it puts you in a position to succeed, and I know few people that are unable to take care of themselves who adhere to this principle. Socialism destroys nations, prosperity, and ALWAYS fails with time.
AOC is just repeating what she was taught by “Scholars”. I am just saying what life has taught me.
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I guess someone forgot to tell Booker T. Washington about this immutable “fact”