Posted on 05/30/2016 3:46:50 PM PDT by jazusamo
Socialism sounds great. It has always sounded great. And it will probably always continue to sound great. It is only when you go beyond rhetoric, and start looking at hard facts, that socialism turns out to be a big disappointment, if not a disaster.
While throngs of young people are cheering loudly for avowed socialist Bernie Sanders, socialism has turned oil-rich Venezuela into a place where there are shortages of everything from toilet paper to beer, where electricity keeps shutting down, and where there are long lines of people hoping to get food, people complaining that they cannot feed their families.
With national income going down, and prices going up under triple-digit inflation in Venezuela, these complaints are by no means frivolous. But it is doubtful if the young people cheering for Bernie Sanders have even heard of such things, whether in Venezuela or in other countries around the world that have turned their economies over to politicians and bureaucrats to run.
The anti-capitalist policies in Venezuela have worked so well that the number of companies in Venezuela is now a fraction of what it once was. That should certainly reduce capitalist "exploitation," shouldn't it?
But people who attribute income inequality to capitalists exploiting workers, as Karl Marx claimed, never seem to get around to testing that belief against facts such as the fact that none of the Marxist regimes around the world has ever had as high a standard of living for working people as there is in many capitalist countries.
Facts are seldom allowed to contaminate the beautiful vision of the left. What matters to the true believers are the ringing slogans, endlessly repeated.
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Mussolini and his mistress.
Saddam Hussein, guilty of crimes against humanity.
Mao Zedong killed way too many people (78 million) and smoked way too many cigarettes. His last photo.
Most deserved for all in my view.
That explains it. I was hoping it wasn’t the boyfriend’s political convictions.
If you asked socialists what they would do to sustain
themselves in a socialist economy absolutely none of
them would say they would work in a factory or on a
farm just like the rest of the comrades. They would all
be teachers, planners, or philosophers.
Seems to me in socialist utopia those who can
maneuver themselves into being in charge of the
distribution of (dwindling) resources would be
among the most financially fit.
>>>Theyre feeling the Bern in Bernezuela<<<
Make America Bernezuela for the very first, and very last time.
Sanders 2016, because somebody else owes you a living.
I’m a child of the 60’s, Tax the Rich till they’re Rich no more...
I wonder what the unemployment rate is in Venezuela. Probably 0%.
But the “publik skools” as Dr. Sowell states, does not teach our children to be critical thinkers, so to idiots, socialism always “sounds” good. Idiots can’t analyze anything in depth, nor have the attention span to get past that nice word, “free”.
Socialism only promotes slavery of the virtuous and promotes Vice-—the opposite of what a true “Justice” System needs to do.
We now have flipped 2000 years of Ethics for Rule of Man (Vice System of slavery) back to the Socialist/pagan, feudal/serf model of enslaving and punishing the productive for making a few elites extremely wealthy who have totalitarian control over the Minds (skools) of all the children, so this cycle of slavery can last for generations because of the drugged, dumb children being programmed by screens and prison systems (skools)..
Besides, Marxists change the meaning of words to fool the masses-—Up is Down-— so it is harder to understand just what they are saying (like Slavery is Freedom).
Controlling Words (PC) is the Cultural Marxist method to get a Brave New World where children will be so confused and irrational they will actually belief that boys can be girls.
Yes, indeed.
It does do that.
Some Bernie and Hillary stickers/signs down on the MS Gulf Coast, but I've seen far more Trump stuff.
IMHO, the ONLY reason we are NOT a Socialist Country already is surely not for lack of TRYING on the part of the Socialists living here!
It is because America is so filthy-rotten stinking RICH that it’s taking longer than usual to run out of, ‘Other People’s Money’ and no matter what you read, the ‘wealth’ isn’t as concentrated at the top as, say Venezuela.
It must be REALLY frustrating for the Socialist Democrats in America these days. Destruction isn’t happening fast enough and they’re not getting richer fast enough.
And Good!
Thank you, God, for our Founding Fathers and for our FREEDOM!
Bump
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