Yeah, we all know the type of people who run to embrace an ideology where the "angels" who work for the government take money from the "demons" who work in private enterprise. Progressives, in all their envy, jealousy, covetousness and lack of ambition, will try to band together to use votes to steal from one group to give to another. I believe the US will eventually succumb to this, because we lack critical thinkers and the restraints of Christian morality, where the rich who can "get away with" stealing, and the poor who will simply steal because they have to votes to legalize it, and no one remembers that God sees, and He will pass judgment.
I would also add that socialism is anathema to human nature. There is the explanation of the Hedonic Treadmill - where we set our expectations to the new normal when we achieve more to desire more. This tendency is our blessing and curse... it is the source of wars and greed that punches down or harms others less capable or less privileged (and that leads to them supporting socialism), but it is also the engine of invention, exploration, enterprise, progress and growth.
Because the driving principle of "from those that can/do, to those that cannot/don't" requires authoritarian control to prevent more capable people from achieving more, socialism conflicts with human behavior. It then requires more authoritarianism in a constant cat-and-mouse game to prevent the more resourceful people from figuring out how to work around the system to achieve more. The trajectory always leads to greater punishment up to an including death to maintain "fairness".
Conversely, democratic capitalism, not so much the corrupt global corporatist version we have today, is a system designed to exploit and serve human nature. It is the reason that communist China can demonstrate the lie that communism is a working system... because the democratic capitalism of the US resulted in so much economic growth that China could loot from it. Without the US, China would still be a 3rd world country... and all the so called socialist European countries would have a much smaller social programs because instead of the US funding their defense with the Global Order, they would have had to spend much more of their GDP on their own protection.
The Invisible Hand of capitalism is basically this exploitation of human nature... something that no collectivist ideology can deliver.
I also thought about adding something on how it always ends up squelching freedom because it doesn't work and the government officials in charge have to embrace censorship to minimize dissent, but the combo I used felt pretty good overall.
Yes, I think it is easy to just track the "progression" where more extreme enforcement is constantly required because people always seek the loopholes and opportunities to pursue their own self-interest.
Frankly, the fatal flaw with all collectivists ideologies is human free will. You can see it in the current feminist-driven attempts where they are confounded with this problem of males checking out. The Democrats spend $20 million on a study because their attempts to control men did not work. That damn free will thing!
Now, if these men can be threatened with punishment for failing to do the things these feminist collectivists demand of them... that is the standard trajectory for collectivism... greater punishment for demonstrating free will.
Thanks for giving me my "post-and-share" task for today, John. Your exceptional summary of the insidious government style that is socialism will be accepted by many people with nodding heads at each of your statements, but these facts need to be transmitted nationwide. We encourage others to post and share.
Imagine being so foolish and so economically and historically illiterate that you not not understand that 178 years of attempting to implement Karl Marx’ naive, childish ideas has resulted, every single time, in poverty, food shortages, economic collapse, and increased coercive government control.
And then imagine being so stupid as to vote for such a fool. As a native born New Yorker, it’s sad to watch the City’s slow collapse, but to paraphrase Mencken, if the people of the City vote for this moron, they deserve to get it good and hard.
Yeah, we all know the type of people who run to embrace an ideology where the "angels" who work for the government take money from the "demons" who work in private enterprise. Progressives, in all their envy, jealousy, covetousness and lack of ambition, will try to band together to use votes to steal from one group to give to another. I believe the US will eventually succumb to this, because we lack critical thinkers and the restraints of Christian morality, where the rich who can "get away with" stealing, and the poor who will simply steal because they have to votes to legalize it, and no one remembers that God sees, and He will pass judgment.
This is well done John.
I would also add that socialism is anathema to human nature. There is the explanation of the Hedonic Treadmill - where we set our expectations to the new normal when we achieve more to desire more. This tendency is our blessing and curse... it is the source of wars and greed that punches down or harms others less capable or less privileged (and that leads to them supporting socialism), but it is also the engine of invention, exploration, enterprise, progress and growth.
Because the driving principle of "from those that can/do, to those that cannot/don't" requires authoritarian control to prevent more capable people from achieving more, socialism conflicts with human behavior. It then requires more authoritarianism in a constant cat-and-mouse game to prevent the more resourceful people from figuring out how to work around the system to achieve more. The trajectory always leads to greater punishment up to an including death to maintain "fairness".
Conversely, democratic capitalism, not so much the corrupt global corporatist version we have today, is a system designed to exploit and serve human nature. It is the reason that communist China can demonstrate the lie that communism is a working system... because the democratic capitalism of the US resulted in so much economic growth that China could loot from it. Without the US, China would still be a 3rd world country... and all the so called socialist European countries would have a much smaller social programs because instead of the US funding their defense with the Global Order, they would have had to spend much more of their GDP on their own protection.
The Invisible Hand of capitalism is basically this exploitation of human nature... something that no collectivist ideology can deliver.
I also thought about adding something on how it always ends up squelching freedom because it doesn't work and the government officials in charge have to embrace censorship to minimize dissent, but the combo I used felt pretty good overall.
Yes, I think it is easy to just track the "progression" where more extreme enforcement is constantly required because people always seek the loopholes and opportunities to pursue their own self-interest.
Frankly, the fatal flaw with all collectivists ideologies is human free will. You can see it in the current feminist-driven attempts where they are confounded with this problem of males checking out. The Democrats spend $20 million on a study because their attempts to control men did not work. That damn free will thing!
Now, if these men can be threatened with punishment for failing to do the things these feminist collectivists demand of them... that is the standard trajectory for collectivism... greater punishment for demonstrating free will.
Thanks for giving me my "post-and-share" task for today, John. Your exceptional summary of the insidious government style that is socialism will be accepted by many people with nodding heads at each of your statements, but these facts need to be transmitted nationwide. We encourage others to post and share.
Imagine being so foolish and so economically and historically illiterate that you not not understand that 178 years of attempting to implement Karl Marx’ naive, childish ideas has resulted, every single time, in poverty, food shortages, economic collapse, and increased coercive government control.
And then imagine being so stupid as to vote for such a fool. As a native born New Yorker, it’s sad to watch the City’s slow collapse, but to paraphrase Mencken, if the people of the City vote for this moron, they deserve to get it good and hard.