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Posted on 07/02/2026 11:07:19 AM PDT by Rummyfan
For those impervious to the siren call of socialism, its activities in the world seem like the truth according to Hegel, “a bacchanalian whirl in which no member is not drunk.” The sitting New York Democrats that Mamdani’s new squad just defeated are pretty far left. But they are the soul of moderation compared to the newcomers.
Darializa Avila Chevalier, who will be the Democratic candidate for New York’s 13th district, wants to abolish prisons, abolish ICE, abolish borders and defund the police. She thinks “all deportations are wrong” and has called the United States an “effing disgrace.” “I forgot to get napkins,” she wrote online, “so I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me.”
Claire Valdez (NY-7) and Brad Lander (NY-10) are cut from the same cloth. Grant citizenship and voting rights to illegal aliens? Yep. Seize the property of “bad landlords”? You betcha. Eliminate private health insurance and make taxpayers pony up for all transgender procedures? But of course. Abolish ICE, forgive the $2 trillion of student-loan debt, pack the Supreme Court? Can you doubt it?
A standard option in all current models of socialism is a ferocious anti-Israel sentiment fed, although you are not supposed to notice this, through a noxious current of apparent anti-Semitism. “Israel doesn’t exist,” Chevalier tells her followers, while all three support Hamas and think that Israel’s actions to defend itself in Gaza count as “genocide.”
What will be the upshot or outcome of these political perturbations? The disclaimer found on many financial statements offers a useful reminder: past results are no guarantee of future performance. A persistent gremlin affecting our prognostications is the temptation to extrapolate simply from current trends to future realities. It is easy to discount the presence of countervailing forces.
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Right but it took Soviet Union 69 years to collapse.
I read Milton Friedman in High School then Ayn Rand while in the Navy. I’m about as immune to having my brain scrambled by Socialist propaganda as one can get .
Why can’t we just have them buy some land and try again?
This time it will be different!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llano_del_Rio
Take all of the American Socialists and start back at Llano_del_Rio!!!
That many socialists in one place, what could possibly go wrong?
Problem with socialism is not the mismanagement, starvation, and misery.
That could be corrected by the next election.
It is that it refuses to admit it, and violently clings onto power forever!
Because the people in charge are idiots same as in Capitalism.
But, with Capitalism the people in charge don’t micromanage. In Socialism they do. And, they do such a bad job, they have to be more and more authoritarian to maintain their positions.
Whether socialism will fail is not the question.
Whether it takes the rest of us with it is the question.
Cuz it was difficult to leave
Modern socialism doesn’t fail.
It’s like a parasite that knows not to kill its host.
It lives in a sort of equilibrium, keeping the host just alive enough to pay for their idiotic philosophy and theories.
That equilibrium appears to be near 50:50 today: https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/exp@FPP/USA/FRA/JPN/GBR/SWE/ESP/ITA/ZAF/IND
What it creates is economic malaise.
It never collapses and the lights never go off. They just go really dim and stay that way, forever.
At least in Capitalism, if you make dumb decisions, you get punished, or at least that’s how it should work.
Socialism inevitably leads to despotism. Consider when an owner of a farm or business says no to the socialist government trying to take it from him. Of course government will just take his property, but they have to at least jail him to keep him from giving others the idea to oppose confiscation of their property. In Stalin’s time these recalcitrant owners were simply shot.
It will never die. It is the government of choice for the current demon who has been given control of the world for a time.
It failed immediately. It just didn’t collapse right away.
ALL OUT-—COMPLETELY OUT OF THE USA WORKS FOR ME.
***I read Milton Friedman in High School***
I read the Gulag Archipelago in high school, the year it first was published. It similarly inoculated me against the socialist disease.
Hope our society will be able to resist the brainwashing caused by the long march through institutions/pat
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money” - Margaret Thatcher
I was thinking of posting something similar but you said it perfectly.
No. It will kill millions. But, most failed ‘cause the US was bankrolling the opposition. That can no longer happen.
The problem is it always fails. And takes millions of lives with it and destroys entire nations.
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