They don't know what socialism is...
American Thinker,
by
Silvio Canto Jr.
Original Article
Posted By: M2,
11/9/2019 5:48:53 AM
How do you explain that so many Americans want socialism? I can't. It makes no sense if you understood the truth about socialism, as Victor Davis Hanson wrote:
Multiple forms of socialism, from hard Stalinism to European redistribution, continue to fail.
Russia and China are still struggling with the legacy of genocidal communism.
Eastern Europe still suffers after decades of Soviet-imposed socialist chaos.
Cuba, Nicaragua, North Korea and Venezuela are unfree, poor and failed states.
Baathism -- a synonym for pan-Arabic socialism -- ruined the postwar Middle East.
The soft-socialist European Union countries are stagnant and mostly dependent
Reply 1 - Posted by:
jinx 11/9/2019 7:07:39 AM (No. 230601)
Alinski taught Community Organizers, ( Obama) to build a mass power base for revolution in order to destroy the existing society and its economic system. Obama was hired by the Alinski team to organize the residents of South Side Chicago. He made it all the way to the WH and hired Communists to be Czars in charge of Health Care, etc. He put Hillary who was a student and lover of Alinski in the State Department. Her motto is to take from the haves and give to the have nots. WIth the MSM behind them, they changed the culture of America. He put a Communist in the Dept.of Education and they dumbed down the curriculum and the idea of Communism being bad. Pres. Trump is trying his best to reverse all of that with no help from Democrats, Republican RINO's, or the MSM. It is an uphill battle we have to win.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MickTurn 11/9/2019 8:36:42 AM (No. 230663)
SoCiAlisM
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Zarin 11/9/2019 8:54:03 AM (No. 230684)
Too short of an article! Thomas Sowell was a Marxist even after he had studied under Milton Freedman et al. He has told the story of his taking the bus, in 1948, up 5th Ave. and onto Riverside Dr. and seeing all the wealth, then coming to the NYC tenements. His question was why are so many people poor & some so wealthy? Marxism answered those questions and really no other 'system' addressed them. Of course Marxism's answers were wrong. Government control of the means of production or even the welfare system or enacting various regulations (like the minimum wage) is most often cruelly counter-productive, inefficient and out right the opposite of what is needed to 'solve' a problem. What turned Dr. Sowell was his honesty & his summer working at the Department of Labor where he realized government bureaucrats are much more interested in keeping their own jobs than finding the truth of a situation.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
fayebeck 11/9/2019 9:10:26 AM (No. 230697)
Most people are for socialism if they're the only ones receiving the "benefits".
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
udanja99 11/9/2019 9:39:32 AM (No. 230722)
Beg to differ on one point, #1. Illary’s motto is and has always been - take from everyone and keep it all for herself.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
MDConservative 11/9/2019 10:13:29 AM (No. 230755)
First off, rugged individualism and self-reliance died off long ago. Americans became more socialistic when the Federal government turned on the taps of redistribution via tax laws and incentives, support payments, welfare and social security, not to mention loans, grants, bailouts and quantitative easing. What we have today is just extensions of those. There is literally no one who doesn't somehow get ahead with the government's invisible hand providing some benefit paid from the public coffers or the Big Credit Card. Like "security", Americans are willing to trade liberty for "free stuff". It is the UNIPARTY's stock in trade.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JimJr 11/9/2019 10:20:58 AM (No. 230762)
Socialism is Slavery
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 11/9/2019 11:06:04 AM (No. 230802)
A fairly intelligent woman I used to know (lawyer with a degree from Stanford) claimed to favor socialism. When I asked her to define it, she said, "You know, social, like caring for other people and stuff." She was serious, and I think lots of low info Americans think the same, that socialism just means a government that "cares" for people and helps everyone.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 11/9/2019 11:15:29 AM (No. 230811)
Mandatory month in Venezuela after graduating from college!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 11/9/2019 4:32:50 PM (No. 230979)
The people at the top know what Socialism means, a path to tyrannical POWER.
The rest that think Socialism is OK are useful idiots.
It always amazes me that people that support free markets and Capitalism don't know how to explain WHY capitalism is so successful. It's central tenant is to allow individuals freedom to rise to success. On the surface, that sounds pretty selfish, THE PERSON is successful. The "trick" is, Capitalism harnesses self interest to also yield great benefit to society. It is not possible for one person to be successful in a vacuum. They need customers; customers who feel their products or services offer them a benefit or a superior benefit to another producer of similar products. That builds into the system a constant striving for improvement. Customers benefit from better, better functioning, and cheaper products. Capitalists REQUIRE customers, whether or not their success seeking was targeted on that to begin with.
Capitalists also need production facilities and people to work. They pay to have facilities built or rent from others. They probably have some vehicles they need to buy or lease. They need shipping to move their products to their customers. They pay local, state, and federal taxes which helps to build and maintain infrastructure that the Capitalist also needs.
They also need local services like fuel oil, landscaping and snow plowing, food service, janitorial, maintenance, phone, electricity, water, sewer, vehicle service, etc.
NONE of these things may have been thought of as a GOAL of a person wanting to be successful, yet ALL or MOST of it will be REQUIRED for the success to be achieved. Critics may say that capitalists don't care about society, that their goals are selfish. But the beauty of it is, it doesn't matter.
The reality also is that most Capitalists have recognized this and make deliberate choices to do good along the way to their success. Consider that Bill Gates is worth about $100 billion, accrued over 45 years of Microsoft success. But Microsoft earns $125 billion A YEAR. The revenues generated from companies working on Gates' company's platform is probably in the trillions. Microsoft also employes 144,000 people. Yeah, Gates is filthy rich but his wealth is a small fraction of the wealth generated due to the company he founded. Further, Gates, like many wealthy people, is funding a LOT of charitable work. It is doubtful Gates envisioned the full scope of the impact of his success when he started out. But it happened all the same, as for with most successful Capitalists. You might criticize their success centric goals but the benefits to society are enormous and built into the system, whether the Capitalist intends it or not.
Compare that to Socialism that NEVER WORKS and destroys creativity and the growth of human potential.
WHY can't we tell this wonderful story more effectively?
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/9/2019 4:48:56 PM (No. 230983)
It's the same reason that kids used to wear Che Guevera T-Shirts. Rebellion and the destruction of the status quo have a twisted sense of romantic adventure to it - even if the solution with which you want to replace the status quo is defective and unworkable. If you sit in a classroom for years and hear that America Bad, Socialists Good, you might be able to justify it in your little mushy brain because your "smart" professor believes in it.
Batista was not good for Cuba but the replacement Castros were worse. The Koreans were so cowed and abused by the Japanese that a crazy dictator looked good to them. We all know the sad stories of Russia and Venezuela, insane people do not make good leaders. Anywhere. Look at the current crop of sixteen democrats. Each and every one has "CRAZY" written on their foreheads. It's funny now but if one gets elected, history will definitely repeat itself.
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