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What Is This Love Affair with Socialism?
by Tryphosa Fri Jun 21 2019, 16:45
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What Is This Love Affair with Socialism?
What Is This Love Affair with Socialism?
By Dr. Jerry Newcombe
“Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it,” said Santayana. Many young people today claim to prefer socialism, and in some cases, even communism (which is socialism’s more violent form) – over capitalism.
Recently a candidate for city council in Denver declared that capitalism has failed and that socialism is the future. Candi Cdebaca said that we are in the “last phase” of capitalism as if it is dying. In contrast, she said, “I believe in community ownership of land, labor, resources, and distribution of those resources.” And she is willing to implement this agenda “by any means necessary.” Last week, she won the election.
A new poll says that out-of-the-closet socialist Bernie Sanders would beat capitalist Donald Trump for the U. S. presidency if the election were held today. By 9 points.
The problem with socialism and communism is that it must be forced in order to put it into practice. The communists built the Berlin Wall to keep the residents of East Germany from being able to flee “the worker’s paradise” into the West. Trump wants to build a border wall – not to keep people in, but to keep undocumented people out. The fact that so many want to come here is, in part, mute testimony to the success of capitalism.
Dr. Paul Kengor of Grove City College is a best-selling author of many books related to communism. One of his most recent books is called The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism: The Killingest Idea Ever (Regnery, 2017).
In that book, he mentions a joking T-shirt given to him by one of his former students. The T-shirt read, “Communism has only killed 100 million people. Why not give it another shot?”
Kengor points out that we are told repeatedly that the problem with socialism/communism, which repeatedly fails to “deliver the goods,” is only because the right people have not tried it.
Writes Kengor, “Again and again, we’re told that communist philosophy was never the problem. No, it was nasty leaders like Joe Stalin who have given communism a bad name. Stalin, you see, was an aberration. As were, presumably, Lenin, Trotsky, Latsis, Dzerzhinsky [founder of the KGB], Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev, Voroshilov, Malenkov, Mikoyan, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, Chebrikov, Ulbricht, Ceausescu, Tito, Hoxha, Dimitrov, Zhivkov, Mao, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Mengistu Mariam, Kim Il-Sun, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, Fidel, Raul, and Che….” And, of course, this would also include Hugo Chavez and General Maduro, who have presided over Venezuela’s destruction, as it went from the best economy of Latin America to the worst—precisely because of socialism.
Kengor concludes: “You would think at least one commie, somewhere along the line, would have gotten it right. Why such ugly results if the theory is so pretty? Can’t these geniuses read?”
Capitalism does not produce an equal distribution of wealth. No system does. If you say that socialism/communism does, then you are covering over the fact that in the socialistic schemes, it is always the administration that does well, not the people.
Even Bernie Sanders prospers under capitalism, selling his book that railed against capitalism. He must have cried all the way to the bank.
For all its inequities, capitalism, free enterprise, a market-based system (whatever one might call it), delivers the goods for the most amount of people. In the words of Kengor, “The free market makes consumers sovereign.” Kengor quotes Ludwig von Mises in his 1922 book, Socialism, “The consumers patronize those shops in which they can buy what they want at the cheapest price…Their buying and their abstention from buying decides who should own and run the plants and the farms.”
Under communism, an inefficient, bloated bureaucracy makes such decisions, and the consumers have no choice – and are often forced into breadlines for inferior bread.
For all of its warts, capitalism produces much greater prosperity for the most amount of people.
What does communism produce? Ultimately, a lot of dead bodies. That was the answer from former communist Eugene Fox-Genovese, who, along with his wife Elizabeth, had been the editor of Marxist Perspectives.
When the Soviet Union finally imploded in the early 1990s, Eugene told interviewer Frederica Mathewes-Green in National Review (2/24/1997): “When it all collapsed, the question was, After seventy years, what do we have to show for it? Especially when it became clear that, even on a basic level, the system didn’t deliver the goods, the one thing it was supposed to do. So what we had to show for it was tens of millions of corpses.”
One might ask, “Why would God allow all the suffering that the socialists and communists have imposed on this world – not to mention the total loss of religious freedom in such places?” I would answer: “So that we don’t go down that road again.”
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What Is This Love Affair with Socialism?
What Is This Love Affair with Socialism?
By Dr. Jerry Newcombe
“Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it,” said Santayana. Many young people today claim to prefer socialism, and in some cases, even communism (which is socialism’s more violent form) – over capitalism.
Recently a candidate for city council in Denver declared that capitalism has failed and that socialism is the future. Candi Cdebaca said that we are in the “last phase” of capitalism as if it is dying. In contrast, she said, “I believe in community ownership of land, labor, resources, and distribution of those resources.” And she is willing to implement this agenda “by any means necessary.” Last week, she won the election.
A new poll says that out-of-the-closet socialist Bernie Sanders would beat capitalist Donald Trump for the U. S. presidency if the election were held today. By 9 points.
The problem with socialism and communism is that it must be forced in order to put it into practice. The communists built the Berlin Wall to keep the residents of East Germany from being able to flee “the worker’s paradise” into the West. Trump wants to build a border wall – not to keep people in, but to keep undocumented people out. The fact that so many want to come here is, in part, mute testimony to the success of capitalism.
Dr. Paul Kengor of Grove City College is a best-selling author of many books related to communism. One of his most recent books is called The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism: The Killingest Idea Ever (Regnery, 2017).
In that book, he mentions a joking T-shirt given to him by one of his former students. The T-shirt read, “Communism has only killed 100 million people. Why not give it another shot?”
Kengor points out that we are told repeatedly that the problem with socialism/communism, which repeatedly fails to “deliver the goods,” is only because the right people have not tried it.
Writes Kengor, “Again and again, we’re told that communist philosophy was never the problem. No, it was nasty leaders like Joe Stalin who have given communism a bad name. Stalin, you see, was an aberration. As were, presumably, Lenin, Trotsky, Latsis, Dzerzhinsky [founder of the KGB], Beria, Bulganin, Khrushchev, Voroshilov, Malenkov, Mikoyan, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, Chebrikov, Ulbricht, Ceausescu, Tito, Hoxha, Dimitrov, Zhivkov, Mao, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh, Mengistu Mariam, Kim Il-Sun, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, Fidel, Raul, and Che….” And, of course, this would also include Hugo Chavez and General Maduro, who have presided over Venezuela’s destruction, as it went from the best economy of Latin America to the worst—precisely because of socialism.
Kengor concludes: “You would think at least one commie, somewhere along the line, would have gotten it right. Why such ugly results if the theory is so pretty? Can’t these geniuses read?”
Capitalism does not produce an equal distribution of wealth. No system does. If you say that socialism/communism does, then you are covering over the fact that in the socialistic schemes, it is always the administration that does well, not the people.
Even Bernie Sanders prospers under capitalism, selling his book that railed against capitalism. He must have cried all the way to the bank.
For all its inequities, capitalism, free enterprise, a market-based system (whatever one might call it), delivers the goods for the most amount of people. In the words of Kengor, “The free market makes consumers sovereign.” Kengor quotes Ludwig von Mises in his 1922 book, Socialism, “The consumers patronize those shops in which they can buy what they want at the cheapest price…Their buying and their abstention from buying decides who should own and run the plants and the farms.”
Under communism, an inefficient, bloated bureaucracy makes such decisions, and the consumers have no choice – and are often forced into breadlines for inferior bread.
For all of its warts, capitalism produces much greater prosperity for the most amount of people.
What does communism produce? Ultimately, a lot of dead bodies. That was the answer from former communist Eugene Fox-Genovese, who, along with his wife Elizabeth, had been the editor of Marxist Perspectives.
When the Soviet Union finally imploded in the early 1990s, Eugene told interviewer Frederica Mathewes-Green in National Review (2/24/1997): “When it all collapsed, the question was, After seventy years, what do we have to show for it? Especially when it became clear that, even on a basic level, the system didn’t deliver the goods, the one thing it was supposed to do. So what we had to show for it was tens of millions of corpses.”
One might ask, “Why would God allow all the suffering that the socialists and communists have imposed on this world – not to mention the total loss of religious freedom in such places?” I would answer: “So that we don’t go down that road again.”
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Show THIS to Your Democratic/Socialist Friends…
by Tryphosa Fri Jun 21 2019, 16:51
From Rapture Ready
https://www.raptureready.com/2019/06/20/show-democratic-socialist-friends-geri-ungurean/
Show THIS to Your Democratic/Socialist Friends…
By Geri Ungurean
Show THIS to Your Democratic/Socialist Friends and Family!
A lot of the young people love Bernie Sanders. They say he reminds them of Larry David – the creator of Seinfeld. I say to these young people, God gave you a brain to discern smart from stupid. Your choice of Bernie Sanders as a future president of the U.S. is STUPID. Hopefully, someone who cares about you will print out this article for you to read.
I’m sorry if my words hurt anyone’s feelings. But emotion and feelings do not help a person to think clearly. Studying history and observing governments and economies will help a person to decide which type of government is beneficial and which kind utterly destroys economies.
Kumbaya
I can picture a rally for Bernie Sanders ending with a crowd of adoring fans, arms locked together singing Kumbaya as they sway side to side. Undoubtedly, they would leave out “My Lord” because most of Bernie’s fans are atheists.
If you are a student of history, you remember Venezuela as the most prosperous country in Latin America. And if you keep up with “real” news as opposed to fake news, you will remember what Hugo Chavez did to Venezuela and how his successor, Nicolas Maduro, has taken the ruins to a whole new level in that country.
People are eating out of garbage cans.
Here is an excerpt from a great article on investmentwatchblog.com:
“Well for once I agree with this evil socialist dictator. America’s inner cities- run 100% by Democrats- are rotting cesspools of misery. They are third-world hellholes. Just look at New York, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco- to name a few. All run by Democrats for half a century or more. They aren’t quite Venezuela- yet. But they are very bad and headed toward Venezuela.”
From investmentwatchblog.com
I Agree with This Evil Socialist Dictator
Hugo Chavez was one of the most evil socialist dictators ever. He took the richest country in Latin America – Venezuela – and turned it into a disaster of misery and poverty in only five years. How bad? The people had no food or toilet paper. And critics of Chavez were tortured and murdered. Isn’t socialism wonderful?
But worse. Just like Fidel Castro, Chavez got filthy rich based on the misery of his own people. His family made billions.
Then this evil dictator died of cancer. He turned the country over to his hand-picked successor – Nicolas Maduro. Maduro ran the country the exact same way. Things got much worse. The people eat from garbage dumps and are forced to drink sewage water. In an oil-rich country, there is no gas for cars.
I am the ultimate passionate evangelist for capitalism. I preach the horrors of socialism and the greatness of capitalism 24/7 on my national TV and radio shows. I despise socialism. I believe Chavez and Maduro are pure evil.
That’s why it’s so strange to hear that – for once – I agree with something an evil socialist dictator said. Days ago, Venezuela’s evil dictator Maduro told NBC’s Jorge Ramos in an interview that America has no right to criticize. He cited the poverty, misery and homelessness of American cities like New York. He said, “New Yorkers have to eat garbage too.”
Well, for once I agree with this evil socialist dictator. America’s inner cities- run 100% by Democrats- are rotting cesspools of misery. They are third world hellholes. Just look at New York, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco- to name a few. All run by Democrats for half a century or more. They aren’t quite Venezuela- yet. But they are very bad and headed toward Venezuela.
What Maduro missed was that the reason those cities resemble Venezuela is because the policies in place are socialist- just like Venezuela. Just slightly milder. And the leaders of those cities are socialist, posing as “Democrats.” In Chicago they just elected a bunch of councilmembers who proudly call themselves “socialist.” New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio is certainly a card-carrying socialist. (emphasis added)
And all of these inner-city Democrats are corrupt just like Maduro. They all appoint cronies and family members to major government positions, or award them multi-million-dollar government contracts. DeBlasio’s wife can’t show where $850 million of federal taxpayer money went. That’s Maduro-level corruption and theft.
Thank goodness many Americans are waking up. That could be why in the latest poll of Iowa’s Democrat voters, DeBlasio got 0 votes. Not 0%. Nine Democrats got 0% in the poll. But DeBlasio actually didn’t get one vote.
My first point is…
This is the state of today’s Democrat Party. Democrats are openly socialist and, if elected, they will turn us into corrupt, starving and bankrupt Venezuela.
My second point is…
Be very careful. Nevada is headed in the exact same direction under 100% Democrat leadership. They will ruin this state in five short years- just like Chavez ruined Venezuela.
Wait for my Sunday column. I just got back from New York. I’m a witness to what a cesspool of misery, poverty and homelessness New York City has become. source
So, what is the takeaway from this article? It’s really not rocket science:
Socialism = Rich rulers and hungry and homeless people
Capitalism= Booming economy, people working and eating in their kitchens
Also, I should add that Socialism almost always morphs into Communism. And Communist governments do not allow people to worship God. They want the people to see the “State” as God.
I would not do well in a Communist country. I would probably be in jail even more than I am on Facebook!
https://www.raptureready.com/2019/06/20/show-democratic-socialist-friends-geri-ungurean/
Show THIS to Your Democratic/Socialist Friends…
By Geri Ungurean
Show THIS to Your Democratic/Socialist Friends and Family!
A lot of the young people love Bernie Sanders. They say he reminds them of Larry David – the creator of Seinfeld. I say to these young people, God gave you a brain to discern smart from stupid. Your choice of Bernie Sanders as a future president of the U.S. is STUPID. Hopefully, someone who cares about you will print out this article for you to read.
I’m sorry if my words hurt anyone’s feelings. But emotion and feelings do not help a person to think clearly. Studying history and observing governments and economies will help a person to decide which type of government is beneficial and which kind utterly destroys economies.
Kumbaya
I can picture a rally for Bernie Sanders ending with a crowd of adoring fans, arms locked together singing Kumbaya as they sway side to side. Undoubtedly, they would leave out “My Lord” because most of Bernie’s fans are atheists.
If you are a student of history, you remember Venezuela as the most prosperous country in Latin America. And if you keep up with “real” news as opposed to fake news, you will remember what Hugo Chavez did to Venezuela and how his successor, Nicolas Maduro, has taken the ruins to a whole new level in that country.
People are eating out of garbage cans.
Here is an excerpt from a great article on investmentwatchblog.com:
“Well for once I agree with this evil socialist dictator. America’s inner cities- run 100% by Democrats- are rotting cesspools of misery. They are third-world hellholes. Just look at New York, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco- to name a few. All run by Democrats for half a century or more. They aren’t quite Venezuela- yet. But they are very bad and headed toward Venezuela.”
From investmentwatchblog.com
I Agree with This Evil Socialist Dictator
Hugo Chavez was one of the most evil socialist dictators ever. He took the richest country in Latin America – Venezuela – and turned it into a disaster of misery and poverty in only five years. How bad? The people had no food or toilet paper. And critics of Chavez were tortured and murdered. Isn’t socialism wonderful?
But worse. Just like Fidel Castro, Chavez got filthy rich based on the misery of his own people. His family made billions.
Then this evil dictator died of cancer. He turned the country over to his hand-picked successor – Nicolas Maduro. Maduro ran the country the exact same way. Things got much worse. The people eat from garbage dumps and are forced to drink sewage water. In an oil-rich country, there is no gas for cars.
I am the ultimate passionate evangelist for capitalism. I preach the horrors of socialism and the greatness of capitalism 24/7 on my national TV and radio shows. I despise socialism. I believe Chavez and Maduro are pure evil.
That’s why it’s so strange to hear that – for once – I agree with something an evil socialist dictator said. Days ago, Venezuela’s evil dictator Maduro told NBC’s Jorge Ramos in an interview that America has no right to criticize. He cited the poverty, misery and homelessness of American cities like New York. He said, “New Yorkers have to eat garbage too.”
Well, for once I agree with this evil socialist dictator. America’s inner cities- run 100% by Democrats- are rotting cesspools of misery. They are third world hellholes. Just look at New York, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Los Angeles and San Francisco- to name a few. All run by Democrats for half a century or more. They aren’t quite Venezuela- yet. But they are very bad and headed toward Venezuela.
What Maduro missed was that the reason those cities resemble Venezuela is because the policies in place are socialist- just like Venezuela. Just slightly milder. And the leaders of those cities are socialist, posing as “Democrats.” In Chicago they just elected a bunch of councilmembers who proudly call themselves “socialist.” New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio is certainly a card-carrying socialist. (emphasis added)
And all of these inner-city Democrats are corrupt just like Maduro. They all appoint cronies and family members to major government positions, or award them multi-million-dollar government contracts. DeBlasio’s wife can’t show where $850 million of federal taxpayer money went. That’s Maduro-level corruption and theft.
Thank goodness many Americans are waking up. That could be why in the latest poll of Iowa’s Democrat voters, DeBlasio got 0 votes. Not 0%. Nine Democrats got 0% in the poll. But DeBlasio actually didn’t get one vote.
My first point is…
This is the state of today’s Democrat Party. Democrats are openly socialist and, if elected, they will turn us into corrupt, starving and bankrupt Venezuela.
My second point is…
Be very careful. Nevada is headed in the exact same direction under 100% Democrat leadership. They will ruin this state in five short years- just like Chavez ruined Venezuela.
Wait for my Sunday column. I just got back from New York. I’m a witness to what a cesspool of misery, poverty and homelessness New York City has become. source
So, what is the takeaway from this article? It’s really not rocket science:
Socialism = Rich rulers and hungry and homeless people
Capitalism= Booming economy, people working and eating in their kitchens
Also, I should add that Socialism almost always morphs into Communism. And Communist governments do not allow people to worship God. They want the people to see the “State” as God.
I would not do well in a Communist country. I would probably be in jail even more than I am on Facebook!
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Re: Socialism
by Jarhead Sat Jun 22 2019, 06:18
Gotta' remember ~ the Berlin wall fell nearly 40 years ago.
These youngsters were in diapers and have absolutely no memory of the misery communism caused.
It always sounds good on paper ~ but it's far from 'equal' and there's never enuff money.
These youngsters were in diapers and have absolutely no memory of the misery communism caused.
It always sounds good on paper ~ but it's far from 'equal' and there's never enuff money.
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