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When having to confront the indelibly indoctrinated....e.g., you.....
....I feel like a mosquito in a nudist camp: one hardly knows where to begin.
Let's get right to the heart of the issue: Marxism vs capitalism.
1."Marxism rested on the assumption that the condition of the working classes would grow ever worse under capitalism, that there would be but two classes: one small and rich, the other vast and increasingly impoverished, and revolution would be the anodyne that would result in the “common good.” But by the early 20th century, it was clear that this assumption was completely wrong! Under capitalism, the standard of living of all was improving: prices falling, incomes rising, health and sanitation improving, lengthening of life spans, diets becoming more varied, the new jobs created in industry paid more than most could make in agriculture, housing improved, and middle class industrialists and business owners displaced nobility and gentry as heroes."
From a speech by Rev. Robert A. Sirico, President, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty.
a. Property rights precede liberty. Perhaps some know that before it became “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” in our Declaration of Independence, John Locke wrote that man has a right to “life, liberty, and property.” Property Rights Have Personal Parallels
2. The 'shameful six' political agendas,
Communism, Liberalism, Socialism, Fascism, Nazism and Progressivism,
all see government as all powerful and all-knowing.
"It’s an approach that puts politics before economics. Because it is an attempt to politicize peoples’ lives.”
Nazis: Still Socialists, by Jonah Goldberg, National Review
3. Under wannabe-dictator, Franklin Roosevelt, the relationship government and private ownership changed.
a. January 3, 1936, Roosevelt bragged that he had "new instruments of public power" to battle challenges " ...more menacing than merely a return to the past—bad as that would be. Our resplendent economic autocracy does not want to return to that individualism of which they prate, even though the advantages under that system went to the ruthless and the strong. They realize that in thirty-four months we have built up new instruments of public power. In the hands of a people's Government this power is wholesome and proper. "
Franklin D. Roosevelt: Annual Message to Congress
b. On April 12, 1937, the United States ceased to be a republic of limited constitutional government. The Supreme Court upheld the Wagner Labor Relations Act. No longer would the enumerated powers of the Constitution apply....now we would be a European model welfare state, in which the national legislature has power to regulate industry, agriculture, and virtually all the activities of the citizens. The coda came when the court upheld the Social Security Act on May 24, 1937, and, then, the compulsory marketing quotas of the new AAA, on April 17, 1936. Manly, "The Twenty Year Revolution,' p. 68-69
4. Totalitarian government usurps private ownership through regulation.
"Costs and Burden of Federal Regulations Reach $1.9 Trillion"
Costs and Burden of Federal Regulations Reach $1.9 Trillion
a. Bureaucrats get rich via regulation, as business must bribe.....lobby....to relieve the burden of onerous regulation....hence, ObamaCare.
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