How Socialism Works
Socialism always starts out with dissatisfaction of the
status quo, and idealistic promises for the future. Everyone, including those not willing to work
according to the Green New Deal, is entitled to “free stuff”, particularly
those that are deemed to have been culturally denied in the past. This includes free health care, free
education and a myriad of other free social services.
How are these all to be paid for? Why, by increased taxation, of course, coupled
with a redistribution of wealth from the capitalist “fat cats”. In other words, socialism proposes to penalize
the wealthy innovators to provide “free stuff” to everybody else, including
those who are truly idlers in society.
Obviously this does not come naturally, so
other means are necessary. First, it is
absolutely essential to take the guns away and disarm everyone. Then, laws against emigration and movement by
wealthy people and companies need to be enacted. Next, stronger government and erosion/cancellation
of individual and civil rights must lead the body politic toward totalitarianism
and away from any remnants of democracy.
These drastic measures are necessary because taxation can only go so
far. Confiscation requires a strong,
dictatorial government. Both socialism
& communism require a commitment to the use of force. You cannot
decide what to do with the other guy’s money unless you are committed to use force to
take that money from him. All socialist programs are mandatory. This
is the reality of socialism — a pseudo-religion grounded in pseudo-science and
enforced by political tyranny.
So it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see why socialism
never works in the long term, and always leads to the Maduros, Stalins, Maos,
Castros and other dictatorial butchers, and to the deaths of over 120 million
of their own people in the 20th century.
And yet socialism is no longer a parlor game for academics
but a political alternative taken seriously by millennials and other thinkers, who
don’t recognize that much of what they enjoy in life is a result of capitalism
and would disappear if socialism were to be implemented. We can maybe excuse AOC’s naiveté because of
youth and inexperience. How do we excuse
people like Bernie, Markey, Krugman and others, who should know better?
Ray Gruszecki
February 8, 2019
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