Socialism. Really?!!!
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” – Sir Winston Churchill
By Rich Loudenback
Having failed repeatedly at competing with ‘real American’ Constitutional conservatives, bleeding heart liberals have insanely attached themselves to the dream of Socialism believing that miracles can happen, I suppose.
Their tool kit is Saul Alinsky’s ‘Rules for Radicals.’ The basis of their daydreams are usually rooted in their compulsion to control others in their quest for power. It appears nothing is too farfetched or actually bizarre for their creations. The real talent these charlatans possess lies in often developing incredibly righteous sounding names that feature similar righteous sounding and memorable antonyms for endless programs such as Common Core, TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program), Planned Parenthood, ACA (Affordable Care Act), Agenda 21/Agenda 2030, ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform), No Child Left Behind, AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) and the list seems to go into infinity… all to help us.
Then there are all those far-left leaning organizations out there with great sounding names that are steadily trying to dissolve us down to 3rd world nation status, which most of seem to be funded by or partly by George Soros and others of his ilk. With names like Open Society Foundations, Advancement Project, All of Us or None, Alliance for Justice, America Coming Together, America Votes, America’s Voice, American Bar Association, Commission on Immigration Policy, American Bridge 21st Century, American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, American Family Voices, American Federation of Teachers, American Friends Service Committee, American Immigration Council, American Immigration Law Foundation, American Independent News Network, American Institute for Social Justice, Center for Public Integrity, Media Matters for America, MoveOn, Millennium Promise, Priorities USA Action, Tides Center and Foundation, Wikimedia Endowment, and this is only about half way through just the A’s with a few other important ones added from this very long ultra-liberal list of efforts to clandestinely take America in a non-traditional direction toward socialism and a World Government.
Ridding America of these Soros’ damaging tentacles could be a momentous project to challange someone like Elon Musk to take on.
The insanity of all this liberal socialism is that we taxpayers have to pay for it all until there are no more of us working enough to supply the tax money it requires because the onslaught of so many costly programs with their subsequent costs of expanded government, it’s inefficiencies and wastes on the back of expanded taxes would make us the highest taxed nation on earth killing our golden goose commerce and its commensurate jobs. Foolishness is part of insanity and the inability to balance a balance sheet is a disastrous bottom line.
NOTABLE QUOTES AGAINST SOCIALISM
Here is a curated collection of notable, widely cited quotations critical of socialism, drawn from economists, statesmen, philosophers, and writers.
Friedrich Hayek
“The more the state ‘plans,’ the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.”
— The Road to Serfdom (1944)
Ronald Reagan
“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don’t need it, and Hell where they already have it.”
Margaret Thatcher
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
Milton Friedman
“A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both.”
Ludwig von Mises
“Socialism is the abolition of rational economy.”
George Orwell
“The real objective of socialism is not happiness but the welding of people into a docile herd.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“A government that attempts to provide for everything ends up taking everything.”
Václav Havel
“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.”
Jean‑François Revel
“The collapse of socialism has been so complete that even socialists no longer defend it—only deny it ever existed.”
C.S. Lewis
“I’m much more afraid of the greedy bureaucrat than of the greedy capitalist.”
Benjamin Franklin
“When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.”
Henry Hazlitt
“The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design
Well-known, widely cited quotations by Thomas Sowell that critique socialism:
- “Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
- “What is called ‘social justice’ is not justice at all, but a system that sacrifices the innocent for the sake of political rhetoric.”
- “The great advantage of socialism is that it allows you to blame capitalism for the failure of socialism.”
- “Socialism is not about the people. It is about the intellectuals’ desire to run other people’s lives.”
- “The fatal conceit behind socialism is the belief that a small group of people can know enough to run an entire economy.”
- “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong. Know-it-alls in the school system do not lose one dime or one hour’s sleep if their bright ideas turn out to be all wrong, or even disastrous, for the child.
- “The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.”
Quote from Jonah Goldberg in his book ‘The Tyranny of Cliches:’
“The Whiggish assumption in contemporary politics that today must be better than yesterday, this year more advanced than last year, this century wiser than the one that preceded it is held most dogmatically by so-called progressives. For them history is a vehicle with no reverse gear, and the engine that powers it is nothing more or less than the State. This is the hardened metaphysical, dogmatic cliché that makes it possible for journalists to glibly describe any expansion of the government into our lives as a ‘step forward’ or an ‘advancement’ and any retrenchment of government as a step ‘backward.’ A Republican proposal of market-based reform always amounts to ‘turning back the clock.’”
Liberalism is socialism and socialism demands big government. Liberals have traditionally been about balancing social mores, establishing equality and even guarantees for individuals and commerce through government programs. The more programs the more power they expropriate.
SOCIALISM HAS NEVER SUCCEEDED AS A GOVERNMENT!
The true mark of the insanity of liberals is that liberal/socialist provocateurs keep making the same mistakes in the face of all their existing failures. If what they are doing is not about power and world domination then they have exhibited – the true mark of insanity by continuing to do the same kind of stupid stuff repeatedly:
Government hand-outs are dis-incentivizing people to work • subsidies and bailouts unbalancing the free market • 30-hour work weeks forcing people to get 2nd jobs falsely props up job reports • overburdening regulations, high taxes and poor fair-trade laws are forcing layoffs as well as closing businesses • and the sheer weight of constant bad news and outright lies trumpeted by the sorry ultra-liberal media supporting the liberal agenda. All this and much more is overwhelmingly taking its toll on citizens’ faith in the people we have elected in both parties who are part and parcel to it all.
Of the many definitions that can be found for liberalism, reality today recognizes the far left of the democratic party as the liberals’ ‘liberal elite Crème de la crème’ in American politics. Their agenda is socialism for everyone right out of the world of Saul Alinsky and they are very much aligned with the deceitful and surreptitious Council on Foreign Relations that is joined at the hip with the United Nations.
All these folks would have you believe our Constitutional system’s ‘rule of law’ is old and clearly doesn’t work anymore. Well, it has been responsible for making America the greatest and unquestioned most successful nation on earth.
The ‘liberal, progressive, socialists, communist’ (pick one) started becoming effective with their insanity laced propaganda promoted by the clandestine, sorry big media in transforming us somewhat away from what brought us. They’ve been accomplishing all they have by using naive and foolish politicians (and that’s being polite) as well as the many on the take from the overabundance of special interest LOBBYI$T$ and PAC’s. Never mind that their oaths to our Constitution were lies.
Both parties have been part of not following our Constitutional laws. There are certainly way too many neo-conservatives and RINO’s (Republicans In Name Only). Republicans are supposed to be about limited government, free markets, personal responsibility, individual liberty, traditional American values and a strong national defense. Right. So much for oaths and party platforms. Case in point: their vote on the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) which they were actually giddy about when they proudly presented it to Obama.
America’s citizens have facilitated what we are getting by our inattentiveness and careless attitudes regarding the violations of our trust on the part of most elected officials. The liberal mantra, alive and well, is insane socialism. We need to stop tolerating it. Are we getting the government we deserve?
Obama was just the ‘Great Facilitator.’ We must stand up and fight these fools or geniuses of iniquitous character by studying issues, informing others, studying voting records in the U.S. Congress by going to thenewamerican.com/freedom-index/ and at the Statehouse here in Idaho by going to IdahoFreedomIndex.com and then culling our political poison in the voting booth with enthusiasm.
We must inform others, and especially make the effort to awaken young people about the ‘real world’ and the imminent crisis we are charging toward in our reckoning with utter accountability. Note: Check out the article from National Review called Liberal Bullshit.
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