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I Really Don’t Feel Like Submitting To Socialist Tyranny. Do You?
Townhall.com ^ | September 6, 2018 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 09/06/2018 7:09:27 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 09/06/2018 7:09:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Bttt


2 posted on 09/06/2018 7:18:46 AM PDT by Kudsman (I'm normnal.)
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Great article, with one exception. His upcoming book title. Stop calling the USA a democracy! This term is pushed by the very people he rails against. If I missed some sarcasm it wouldn’t surprise me.


3 posted on 09/06/2018 7:18:58 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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Socialism is the death of individual freedom. Socialism is slavery to the state. The government takes away your production trims off the best for the elite rulers, then share it with friends and family, then redistribute it to the lazy and finally put forth the remaining to the needy. They claim they will care for you, but they only provide below poverty level subsistence while living a life of opulence for themselves.


4 posted on 09/06/2018 7:21:35 AM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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Communism is unnatural, and can only take hold by force and oppression.


5 posted on 09/06/2018 7:21:55 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Cynicism is the only refuge in a world that is determined to eliminate itself.)
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..WHY we Fight to stay FREE..!!! ‘COMMUNISM’s Century = 100 Million Dead’..
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-communist-century-1509726265


6 posted on 09/06/2018 7:22:46 AM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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7 posted on 09/06/2018 7:23:19 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ( NIKE KNEELING SNEAKERS! They come in rainbow/BLM colors with 1 Knee Pad included!)
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Kurt is fantastic. It’s going to be impossible to implement socialism in a country of over 325 million people where most people love freedom.


8 posted on 09/06/2018 7:29:12 AM PDT by EdnaMode
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“Great article, with one exception. His upcoming book title. Stop calling the USA a democracy!”

It’s a representative republic.


9 posted on 09/06/2018 7:29:27 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.- George Orwell)
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THE QUESTION NOT BEING ASKED IS *WHY* ARE THESE KIDS COMING OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS WANTING SOCIALISM


10 posted on 09/06/2018 7:31:03 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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Those of us on the Right had better start running public service ads which edumacate the public about what "socialism" actually is and why it doesn't work.

When young people come to see how their freedoms will be taken away, they might change their view of it.

BTW, I think most youngsters think they "like" socialism because it is the nature of the young to rebel against their parents and, hence, their parents preferred systems of government.

If they became educated as to the very real evils of socialism, they might focus their rebelliousness on simpler things like hairstyles and clothing.

11 posted on 09/06/2018 7:32:48 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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*WHY* ARE THESE KIDS COMING OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS WANTING SOCIALISM

Because after 18 years of intense nonstop communist indoctrination in the prison camps of the NEA their minds are mush.

12 posted on 09/06/2018 7:36:19 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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Capitalism = building, growing, producing, liberating.

Communism = taking, using up, killing, controlling/imprisoning.

13 posted on 09/06/2018 7:38:42 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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Awesome! Thanks for posting that, Grampa Dave.


14 posted on 09/06/2018 7:40:01 AM PDT by laplata (Leftists/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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“THE QUESTION NOT BEING ASKED IS *WHY* ARE THESE KIDS COMING OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS WANTING SOCIALISM”

Nailed it!

15 posted on 09/06/2018 7:47:19 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. -Luke 11:21)
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A terrific read! Thanks so much for posting this!


16 posted on 09/06/2018 8:01:05 AM PDT by MarMema (John James for US Senate. Dump Debbie!! Let's Fly Michigan.)
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It’s important to realize that while socialists want to hate on billionaires, that it is not rich people who are of themselves a big problem. It is out of control “corporatism”.

This is a problem created by the US government, that the US government can actually address, in several very logical ways.

The problem began in earnest during the time of Abraham Lincoln. Corporations, especially railroads, stopped being in the domain of individual states, and started to become national in scale. However, individual states saw corporations doing as little as passing through them, as “cash cows” for state control and taxation.

What happened next was weird. The SCOTUS didn’t actually decide a case where this conclusion was reached, but their court reporter asked the Chief Justice is the SCOTUS *intended* to grant “civil rights” to corporations. The CJ said “yes”, and this began the idea that is now the basis of corporate law, that corporations indeed have civil rights, so are somewhat protected from the individual states.

This was a truly bad idea. The Civil Rights of man are *exclusively* given by God, or Nature, if you prefer. They are inherent and inviolable. However, other rights, such as corporate rights are *not* given by God or Nature, but are created and changed *exclusively* by men.

So the first thing that government must do is to split the two apart. While individuals within corporations have civil rights, the corporations themselves do not. This does not mean that corporations have no rights, just not civil rights.

Next, further problems developed when corporations became multi-national. This means that in many cases they operate outside of the law entirely. Even worse, they are wealthy enough to buy US politicians, congressmen and senators, who see them, not the people, as their real constituency.

At this point they become “corporatists”, closer to socialists in having no loyalty to America. Only in recent years have many of them been purged from the Republican party.

So the law must be clear: if a corporation operates within the United States, they must abide by US law, and taxation. And likewise, they and other large organizations must be prohibited from involvement in political campaigns.

Last but not least, along with antitrust against monopolies, there needs to be a legal means to recognize that when a corporation becomes “too big to fail”, it is likewise “too big to continue operating”, so must be broken apart.

Once broken apart it cannot share directors or proxies, large shareholders, or otherwise form alliances or market limits with each other.


17 posted on 09/06/2018 8:12:36 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Liberals have become moralistic, dogmatic, sententious, self-righteous, pinch-faced prudes.)
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No system “works” when immorality rules the land. Capitalism under immoral leadership can and will be just as deadly.

Big money eventually buys up all the immoral leaders and the few moral ones are eliminated under cover of corrupt law.

You can have mass worker abuses and disasters, wars for profit, imprisonment and policing for profit, creation of crimes for profit, elimination of competition under corrupt law, etc, etc, etc.

The Founders always said that a nation of immoral men could not live free...


18 posted on 09/06/2018 8:24:47 AM PDT by varyouga
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THE QUESTION NOT BEING ASKED IS *WHY* ARE THESE KIDS COMING OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS WANTING SOCIALISM

>Psalms 9:17, The wicked shall be turned into hell; and all the nations that forget God.

There was a time when the western world lived under a totalitarian pagan system, the imperial Roman Empire. Enter Christianity and the Bible in the time of Constantine, the result - the Roman Catholic Empire. Over a thousand years later, enter Protestantism and the Bible, the result - America the greatest example of Christian freedom. Freed from both pagan and ecclesiastical totalitarian tyranny.

Today in America, most have forgotten God (per the passage from Psalms cited above), THIS is the real answer to the question, “why are these kids wanting socialism.” Most of their parents have forgotten God...and our great Christian heritage of freedom, which comes from the Bible.


19 posted on 09/06/2018 8:52:09 AM PDT by sasportas
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20 posted on 09/06/2018 8:58:52 AM PDT by lizma2
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