Rather than recent events being a triumph of the Leftist
agenda to transfer the assets of successful people to those less successful and
of Governments attempts to gain unrestricted control of the nation’s economy,
we are actually seeing the final downfall of Socialism in the world.
Much like other totalitarian regimes before it, the takeover
of the Federal aspect of the United States by the Liberal Left is failing just
ahead of what many are pointing to as its greatest triumph: Total responsibility
for what is produced and not produced in the nation.
Of course this all hasn’t happened overnight. Economic
historians can point to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal and broad powers
of administration for not defeating the depression but prolonging it by almost
a decade. Imagine what would have only lasted 3 or 4 years was stretched by bad
policy to 13 years. Then WWII came along and we HAD to dedicate resources to
making stuff again. But that demand came without the means of actually paying
for it so the debts began to pile up.
Later President Lyndon Banes Johnson provided us with The
Great Society, a war on poverty in America! But as always happens, his war on
poverty only cause poverty to increase. The rewards for not being successful started
to gain on the rewards of actually being successful. Coupling this with the
Civil Rights movement of the 1960s really was a wealth of positive information
for the Socialist Left of this nation: They discovered that they could make the
slaves love their slavery.
These “Movements” have nothing to do with actually taking
care of people or caring for their economic situation or even “Fairness” since
statistically their situation overall doesn’t improve. It only means that the beneficiaries
of the Welfare State don’t have to work as hard or educate themselves to stay
where they are. And it’s all about making people happy to be where they are
even if it’s comfortably poor. These people actually think they’re getting away
with something. The joke is on them.
But at any rate, bad policy takes decades to manifest itself
in the shaping of the collectivist mind, the attitude that the common good outweighs
the rights and successes of the individual. What’s yours is also mine. It’s
that air of entitlement that the left needs so much to drive its mobs of newly
uneducated.
This is why it was imperative to take over the National
School System and to buy its way into public media, to control the message and
to control the mind.
So now they have 51% of the vote. But here is the fatal flaw
in their newest plan: It Doesn’t Work!
It can’t work. Every new set of Leftists throughout the
recent history of Karl Marx think that this NEXT TIME will work, that every
time before there was something done wrong and that THIS TIME they will make it
work. They will take from the successful and buy their influence with the
majority of less successful or just plain unsuccessful. Of course government
has helped those less fortunate from actually being successful in so many ways
by controlling access to capital, providing the standard, sub-standard
education and by taxing money out of your pocket so that you can’t do anything
with it yourself. BUT they’ll lend your money back to you if you want to go to
college. Just as long as it’s the government hand you go running to for your sustenance,
it’s good.
But subsequently the Left is always doomed to failure unless
they can force you to stay and take it. This is why the Soviet Union had to
build wall around the entire country and put people with guns in towers. But
even doing that, people never stopped trying and dying to reach the other side
of that wall. Why? Because they’d rather die than live the way they were
living. And this is the end-game of all
totalitarian Marxist regimes.: Shortages, Hardship and Financial Ruin.
When have you ever heard of a CAPITALIST PURGE? Never? That’s
because freedom doesn’t need a purge. Joseph Stalin is “credited” with killing
up to 50 MILLION Russian people during his bloody reign. Mao Tse-tung? He leads
the way with up to 70 MILLION Chinese people. Then there was Pol Pot who only
managed to kill 2 Million Vietnamese in his quest for a Communist farming
society.
And who did these purges target? Smart People! If you had
any brains or education you were TOAST! They didn’t want a guy/gal like you
around telling people things. You were out in a bad way.
Knowing this, how can anybody speak in admiration of these
killers? Yet Mao and Stalin are actually revered by the left. The Chinese
totalitarian regime, though decidedly more Capitalist than Communist is still a
totalitarian regime. No one has a vote and no one gets to decide how they are
to be governed. They are told what to do and what to make. The government
decides what it wants and it takes it. Just ask the people of Tibet. Way to go
China!
But ultimately the Socialist Systems always crumble because
they lack imagination and the freedom to pursue an idea. An idea like a personal
computer or a new way of drawing oil from a place previously thought impossible.
A Socialist System cannot think like this. It draws resources but cannot
replace what it has taken nor increase its production since many times it will
make what people don’t want. It ignores the Strongest Force in the World: The
Market. And without that swirling force of ideas, risk, failures and triumphs,
Socialism cannot stand.
So as of right now, The Federal Government has spent 17
times the country’s Gross National Product and has nothing to show for it. It
has artificially held up its public workforce with tax money that has yet to be
earned. But even the United States cannot defy gravity. Now Obama’s government
owns the economy. Who can they blame?
It’s a shame that freedom loving peoples all over the world
have to endure such misguided ideology and hardship but such is freedom that it
has to be savored and revered to survive. It’s when people trade their freedom
for the promise of a Pot o’ Gold is where the figure of man so imperfect still stumbles
from time to time. People will find alternatives. They'll join the underground economy and step away from the taxed goods. They'll vote with their feet and the successful will move to the red states. The country will stratify and there will be successful states and very, very unsuccessful states. The Federal overlords will eventually capitulate to the forces of the Market since the Government will be totally broke and the dependent class without it's mother's milk.
The wheels are already in motion.
