The Sage of Main Street
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Leave the Left to Wallow in Its Own Pond ScumBut you have demagogues like Bernie Sanders refer to both Western Europe and North Korea as "socialist". Does he understand that the two have stark differences or is he really that ignorant? Either way, you are looking at those in power in the US today who are either liars or, at best, incompetent law makers who don't know what they are doing. Either way, it is frightening because they are on the verge of changing your country as they lie to its citizens while doing it.While all of us are taken with the happily ever after scenarios that make some fairy tales so popular we know that reality is not that way. No…reality is instead cruel, pragmatic and totally unaffected by preference. This is why socialism never works. The mainstream schools of thought that promote it are always depending upon the shame factor to help people ignore the harsh realities of proven existence. Whether you look to history or you simply look to your own neighborhood success in life depends on more than just a good feeling or the idea that everyone can succeed regardless of their abilities. It just isn’t true. There’s a reason why the top one percent is the top one percent….like it or not the numbers themselves bear witness to life’s realities. Anyone who doubts this has only to look at how effectively socialism creates a top one percent or even a top .1 percent more quickly and more profoundly than capitalism ever did or ever will.
Indeed the yearning for this mindless egalitarianism produces philosophy that borders on the ludicrous and élan moral that borders on extremism and the ultimate forms of societal intolerance. In effect you have humans taking to the street to protest reality…..the word retarded comes to mind but unfortunately it just doesn’t do the job. So each generation must have its Stalin or its Mao before it learns the lesson again and again and again. We cycle through each catastrophic morphing of the deadly philosophy before we bust back down to the inescapable reality that life is not necessarily fair, that not everyone can achieve levels of dominance like the top one percent does and that all of the reasons we offer to explain that sad collection of facts usually fall short of the simple truth that the pattern is inescapable and will never stop repeating.
JO
The problem is very few countries have done Socialism (rather than socialism).
But China, Vietnam, Laos are all pushing ahead and have a sort of Socialism.
Eject the Pinko States and form Great America. Deport all Democrats and their voters to the UN states. It's the only way to avoid sliding and slithering into Third World status.