Liberal dream state

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The Left's Idea of a Happy Future - American Thinker



Liberals are fond of predicting the future, and their predictions, which are always dire, then become the pretext for more government. Otherwise, they say, we'll all starve, a class war will break out, or the Earth will come to an end.

Liberals are wrong about the future because their theories are based on ideology, not on the facts. Unlike conservatives, whose ideas are grounded on prudence and a clear view of human nature, liberals really have no conception of what drives human beings: their thinking is built on a handful of fixed ideas that can be traced to a number of shallow-minded philosophers including Rousseau, Malthus, Marx, Dewey, and Gore. What all of these thinkers have in common is the misconception that a centralized, planned economy can transform society into a utopia.

In every case, they've been wrong. The Earth's population did not starve (Malthus); capitalism was not replaced with a socialist utopia (Marx); the earth has not been consumed by storm, drought, and rising seas (Gore).

Collectivist ideology has produced poverty, starvation, enslavement, and mass murder. The Soviet Union sent at least 18 million to the gulags, and few returned from the worst of these camps. Stalin practiced a crude form of authoritarian rule based on Marxist ideology. He believed that, given supreme power, the State (in the person of Stalin himself) could transform a backward and inefficient economy into a world leader. The key to this process was a ruthless and inhuman exercise of power.
 
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The trouble with the neo-Marxists of today, is that they don't understand that Karl Marx was a product of his own era and thus a new industrial age, with no worker protections. In that era, they didn't have unions, didn't have worker protections and didn't even have child labor restrictions. Today, there is no real justification for Communism. Their only true goal is a one-party political environment whereby everybody MUST be in lock-step with the party, or else. It's corruption at its most vile.
 
The trouble with the neo-Marxists of today, is that they don't understand that Karl Marx was a product of his own era and thus a new industrial age, with no worker protections. In that era, they didn't have unions, didn't have worker protections and didn't even have child labor restrictions. Today, there is no real justification for Communism. Their only true goal is a one-party political environment whereby everybody MUST be in lock-step with the party, or else. It's corruption at its most vile.
Everyone except the elites, they dont have to be in lock-step as shown when the Prog Elites go against their laws put on the slaves...But who will be the last elite standing?
 
Watched Demolition Man the other night, (yes, I was bored), and thought at the time, that was the society Liberals are working for.

Me too, also bored. Mesh that story with a bit of "Idiocracy" and you'll have the result favored by the modern "American" Left.
 
The Left's Idea of a Happy Future - American Thinker



Liberals are fond of predicting the future, and their predictions, which are always dire, then become the pretext for more government. Otherwise, they say, we'll all starve, a class war will break out, or the Earth will come to an end.

Liberals are wrong about the future because their theories are based on ideology, not on the facts. Unlike conservatives, whose ideas are grounded on prudence and a clear view of human nature, liberals really have no conception of what drives human beings: their thinking is built on a handful of fixed ideas that can be traced to a number of shallow-minded philosophers including Rousseau, Malthus, Marx, Dewey, and Gore. What all of these thinkers have in common is the misconception that a centralized, planned economy can transform society into a utopia.

In every case, they've been wrong. The Earth's population did not starve (Malthus); capitalism was not replaced with a socialist utopia (Marx); the earth has not been consumed by storm, drought, and rising seas (Gore).

Collectivist ideology has produced poverty, starvation, enslavement, and mass murder. The Soviet Union sent at least 18 million to the gulags, and few returned from the worst of these camps. Stalin practiced a crude form of authoritarian rule based on Marxist ideology. He believed that, given supreme power, the State (in the person of Stalin himself) could transform a backward and inefficient economy into a world leader. The key to this process was a ruthless and inhuman exercise of power.
Rightwing strawman fallacy.
 

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