H. G. Wells and Joseph Stalin
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“There is no such thing as a free
lunch, someone has to pay for it.”
The American
socialist politicians are promising their voting constituents through such
figures as Barney Sanders, the politician from Vermont whose economic fortunes
have improved drastically since he ran for president, and the socialist Cortez
from the Bronx who, although she has a degree from a prestigious and very
expensive school, does not know anything about Economics or geopolitics, by her
own admission, and shows her lack of knowledge every time she opens her mouth.
But her
ignorance does not stop her equally ignorant followers to support her generous
promise of free rewards: health care, higher
education, child care, and housing. Who can resist the promise of Santa Clause?
Higher
education is hardly worth the paper the diplomas are printed on when the majors
are social justice, women’s studies, racial justice, and other community
organizing subjects that the young American communists are “studying” in
droves.
Cortez has
no idea how she’s going to pay for everything free she promised but Sen.
Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts proposes to nationalize private industry. She
can’t let private property stand in the way of establishing a socialist nation
where the means of production are owned by the state. https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/elizabeth-warren-plan-nationalize-everything-woos-hard-left/
In addition
to the “Trump Derangement Syndrome” which afflicts millions of Democrat voters,
statism has become the platform of the Democrat Party, which is now a very socialist
version of its former self.
Ayn Rand
defined statism as “collectivism, the belief that a man’s life and work belong to
the state, to society, to the group, the gang, the race, the nation, and the
state may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it
deems to be its own tribal, collective good.” http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/statism.html
Fabian
socialists like H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw would be very proud of our
American youth today. Like their European counterparts, they want to reach the
goals of socialism through political process and legislative bodies in order to
avoid revolution or armed struggle.
Guns, after
all, in the hands of ordinary citizens are dangerous, they must be disarmed. In
their opinion, only the wise government should have arms. We can see how well
that is working in Europe where citizens have nothing to defend themselves with
against the Muslim invaders.
Europeans
are not allowed free speech. If they try to speak against those who do them harm
each day, they wind up in kangaroo courts and then given jail terms for hate
speech.
Young
American voters love the idea of a Fabian socialist welfare state in the vein
of the European states that have such generous welfare and high taxes. Small
European nations boast about higher college education rates. In addition to
free tuition, they give monthly stipends to their studious populace that can
take as long as six years to finish their bachelor’s degrees.
Who would
not want to get paid to “study” for six years at the expense of taxpayers who
foot the bill and willingly pay as much as 56% of their income so that their
dwindling progeny can get a leisurely college degree?
Their Fabian
socialism college graduates are now living in the formerly homogenous but now multiculturalist
societal dream that is turning into a nightmare of their own making, caused by
the tolerant admittance into their midst of endless economic refugees from
Africa and the Middle East, refugees who refuse to integrate and are creating
violent chaos across Europe.
What a great
model to emulate here in the United States! After all, the Democrats and some Republicans
alike have deemed that we are not diverse and tolerant enough; we must be
forced with the help of the tin pot dictators at the U.N. into population
social engineering submission.
So what is
free under socialism in general that is worth having? In the true socialism
society I grew up in, education was free until you decided to move to another
country and then you had to pay back all the education you received. The state
explained that someone else, i.e. the evil capitalists, was going to benefit
from the stellar education you received.
Colleges had
a limited amount of seats at each university and the competition was fierce. Only
a very small percentage of the high school graduates made it to college. And
there were no private colleges allowed. The rest had to study in a trade school
or find a job working for the state in a menial proletarian job.
Just because
you had the best of grades and higher education was free, it did not
necessarily mean that you got in. The children of Communist Party members in
good standing were admitted first, no question asked and no exams were
necessary. The remaining seats were given to the candidates with the highest
scores on various college entrance exams.
Some parents
chose to bribe the committee members and their children had secondary dibs.
Eventually, the best, the brightest, and most studious competed and were ranked
for the remaining seats.
Child care
and kindergarten were free too, but the seats were limited, much less than the
number of children and there was a pecking order which placed the children of
the proletariat last.
Health care
was also free but it was hardly worth the poor services provided. The wait was
long, the surgeons marginally qualified, and the drugs needed to care for the
sick were missing from pharmacies due to the ignorant central planning by the
Communist Party.
Housing was
not free, the proletariat had to pay what the statists decided and it was Spartan
and very small in large concrete block apartments without elevators. The
exception was nine-story or higher buildings in which elevators were found but
broken most of the time. The upside was that people were forced to walk and
climb a lot and had good cardio workout and nobody was fat.
Aside from the
“freebees” I mentioned, nothing else was free and there was no free speech
allowed. You could choose to speak freely but then you were quickly disappeared,
never to be seen again.
European
Fabian socialists don’t exactly live in the lap of luxury either. Apartment
residents are often multi-generational, sharing the same space with mom, dad,
siblings, grandma, and grandpa. And apartment renting rights are passed on from
generation to generation in a will. Owning a home or a condo is quite expensive
and the waiting lists for government housing are quite long.
This is the
paradise pure socialism and Fabian socialism bring. Perhaps Cortez, the Latina
from the Bronx, should spend some time in Venezuela to experience on her own
spoiled capitalist skin what socialism brings to a formerly wealthy country.
Your work over the years has provided us, and those like us, with the first hand knowledge to support our statements about the Communist Scourge that was encouraged by the Germans to overcome the entrance of the United States into WW I. As Churchill declared it was an Iron Curtin that descended over Europe and the World; and yet today's ill informed electorate cannot grasp what we have been telling them. Your insights are valuable and they have bolstered my academic knowledge and common sense approach to those that would listen.
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