Ed Konecnik,Contributor ,The American Dossier --2020-02-24--Source: The American Dossier
The ash heap of history is replete with the remains of failed socialist utopias. The great historical irony is that unlike the Russian people who fought the Bolsheviks and lost 15 million lives, Americans this November will have an opportunity to v**e themselves into socialism.
If Americans had solid foundations in our history, they would be more critical of the emerging democratic socialist platform, which is a rewrite of the programs initiated in Venezuela. Ending income ine******y is literally impossible because some people will always make more money than others. There are rich and poor people in both capitalist and socialist countries. There has never been an instance of migrants and caravans fleeing a capitalist country seeking refuge in a socialist country.
There are more than a few Democratic p**********l candidates proudly declaring themselves "democratic socialists", an oxymoronic label. They invoke a sense of altruism couched in terms like "fairness", "e******y" and "fair share". They desire to use the power of government to create a level of conformity and reduce everyone to the same level. Under socialism, a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the state to regulate, tax and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. Authoritarianism, a philosophy of collectivism, is based on this sort of long-term planning. Some call it c*******m. Some call it f*****m. Some call it "democratic socialism".
Author John Steinbeck said: “Socialism never took root in America because the poor do not see themselves as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires”. The appellation "millionaire" and "billionaire" are pejorative terms in the democratic lexicon. Being rich or being poor in America is not a fixed state. It is a function of mobility in a system where all are moving in one direction or another. Redistribution does not lift those at a lower level to a higher economic level. Instead it takes from those who have achieved, discouraging their ideas, abilities and ambitions assuring a lower form of e******y for all through the elimination of the motivation to achieve.
The morality of socialism is easily summed up in a few words: envy and sacrifice based on a coerced sense of altruism. No one is ever free under socialism.
SOURCE—KONECNIK, ED--Contributor ,The American Dossier--
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Ed Konecnik,Contributor ,The American Dossier --2020-02-24--Source: The American Dossier
The ash heap of history is replete with the remains of failed socialist utopias. The great historical irony is that unlike the Russian people who fought the Bolsheviks and lost 15 million lives, Americans this November will have an opportunity to v**e themselves into socialism.
If Americans had solid foundations in our history, they would be more critical of the emerging democratic socialist platform, which is a rewrite of the programs initiated in Venezuela. Ending income ine******y is literally impossible because some people will always make more money than others. There are rich and poor people in both capitalist and socialist countries. There has never been an instance of migrants and caravans fleeing a capitalist country seeking refuge in a socialist country.
There are more than a few Democratic p**********l candidates proudly declaring themselves "democratic socialists", an oxymoronic label. They invoke a sense of altruism couched in terms like "fairness", "e******y" and "fair share". They desire to use the power of government to create a level of conformity and reduce everyone to the same level. Under socialism, a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the state to regulate, tax and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. Authoritarianism, a philosophy of collectivism, is based on this sort of long-term planning. Some call it c*******m. Some call it f*****m. Some call it "democratic socialism".
Author John Steinbeck said: “Socialism never took root in America because the poor do not see themselves as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires”. The appellation "millionaire" and "billionaire" are pejorative terms in the democratic lexicon. Being rich or being poor in America is not a fixed state. It is a function of mobility in a system where all are moving in one direction or another. Redistribution does not lift those at a lower level to a higher economic level. Instead it takes from those who have achieved, discouraging their ideas, abilities and ambitions assuring a lower form of e******y for all through the elimination of the motivation to achieve.
The morality of socialism is easily summed up in a few words: envy and sacrifice based on a coerced sense of altruism. No one is ever free under socialism.
SOURCE—KONECNIK, ED--Contributor ,The American Dossier--
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