When the radical socialists in Congress and in the streets of America started giving more and more rhetorical and chanting time to Democratic Socialism, half of America were enchanted, and half of America laughed. Such a construct aimed at re-defining socialism the American way was not to be taken seriously but it was. Young Millennials, egged on by seasoned members of the Communist Party USA, were going to build a better America, a Democrat Socialist America, free of capitalism.
Their
explanation was that all the former Communist Party tyrants who obliterated
over 100 million of their own people and enslaved the rest for most of the
twentieth century were bumbling idiots. These American socialist wannabes who
did not understand economics, politics, or knew geography at all, were going to
do it better and thus succeed.
Now the
Democrat Socialist whippersnappers have the chance to build their American-style
socialist “paradise” with the newly “elected” duo Biden/Harris. Eighty million
Americans genuinely believed that an octogenarian with severe health issues and
a 47-year lackluster career in Washington would be the best president for the
United States. As Newsweek magazine wrote on its cover on February 16, 2009, “We
are all socialists now.”
If you ask
most of the resident supporters of socialism, what is democratic socialism, you
will get just as many confused looks, lame attempts at definitions, and the
lack of understanding of what they support. They want a “socially owned economy,”
a “workers’ self-management within a market socialist economy,” and a “decentralized
planned socialist economy.” But they have no idea what it means.
Millennials
do not understand how a capitalist economy functions, what is the role of
capital and profit in the development of a free market economy. They are also
highly ignorant of what drove into the ground the mis-managed centralized economies
of all the socialist countries of the twentieth century. They could research the
economy of Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, and China today but that is too much
to ask of such brainwashed generations.
Even though
the Communist Party through the Bolshevik activists promised worker
self-management and a socially-owned economy, the proletariat was not allowed
to manage themselves and received nothing except a meager pay, hard times,
starvation, misery, long food lines, shortages of everything, endless
rationing, labor exploitation by communist unions called syndicates, and gulags
funded by the Communist Party that lorded over them with an iron fist via its
Central Committee, the security police, and its highly centralized five-year planning
of their devastating economies.
Had these
American radical Marxist activists known a smidgen of history, they would have
realized that the democratic socialism repackaged lies presented to them in the
21st century are repeats of those told a century ago by Bolsheviks
dispatched around the globe by a well-funded cadre of communists on the payroll
of bankers from the U.K. and America.
American
students are now scholarly weak, ignorant, and thoroughly indoctrinated. They do
not understand that security and prosperity cannot be legislated. You cannot
make people equal by force of law, nor can you change their biology. You cannot
steal from some and give to others in the name of social and economic justice.
You cannot
legislate equal opportunity and equal outcomes. You cannot legislate inequality
out of existence. Humans have been unequal since the beginning of time. Wealth
and income disparity exist in the socialist economies centralized by the
Communist Party and tech oligarchs.
Putting mom
and pop stores and restaurants out of business creates more exploitation by
large corporations that will function as oligarchies ruled by a centralized political
committee of Democrat technocrats and billionaires.
Destroying
the middle class is the dream of the Communist Party USA. The middle class is
what made America successful and allowed a myriad of opportunities for all Americans
to better themselves economically.
Millennials should
listen to and learn from those who escaped from the prison of the workers’
socialist “paradise.” We lived under “Democratic Socialism.” It was neither democratic
nor did it care about the poor masses. On the contrary, the rulers stole all
the wealth and property and put everyone in prison who was considered “bourgeois.”
And you were part of the imagined “bourgeoisie” if you owned a home or some
land.
Under
socialism ruled by the Communist Party, everyone was equally poor, miserable,
and exploited with paltry wages, and no opportunity for education and progress.
The poor people, that is the proletariat, had no opportunity for the constitutionally
guaranteed self-governance; if they tried to demand anything they were
promised, they were summarily dispatched to a gulag from which they never
returned or worse yet, shot in front of their families to teach them a lesson
they will never forget.
Democrat
Socialists focus on redistribution of wealth by confiscating from those who
worked to build wealth and giving it to those they see as having been exploited
for the choices they made in life. D. Hamilton wrote that a “social democratic
or democratic socialist America” must protect minorities from “predatory
private employers” who focus on profit and “exploit people and the planet.”
To redress
this exploitation, he proposes a federal job guarantee, a child trust, and reparations
in a race-specific program. It is a welfare, wealth-redistribution scheme
which, in his view would address the racial and economic injustice in this
country.
To support his
federal job guarantee (full employment) idea, Hamilton uses India’s National
Rural Employment Guarantee Act as an example of promotion of full employment
and alleviation of poverty.
Looking at
India’s exodus of labor to America’s high-tech jobs and our hiring of Indians
(outsourcing) to do jobs that Americans used to do, highly skilled and educated
Americans who are now unemployed because of it, it is easy to see that a job
guarantee does not alleviate poverty.
Under the
socialism I grew up in, everybody had a job, but it was not worth much economically
and it only paid survival wages, way less than minimum wage in America. My
people were what Roosevelt called “necessitous men” who were not “free men.”
Again, security and prosperity cannot be forced and legislated by politicians,
bureaucrats, and philosophers.
Rep.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that “what socialism means is to guarantee a
basic level of dignity. There is no other force, there is no other party, there
is no other real ideology . . . that is asserting the minimum elements
necessary to lead a dignified American life.”
Asking those
who fled the socialist paradise she advocates, at great cost to them and their
families, the stories are quite similar. Living under socialism was starvation, no
human dignity, a huge loss of personal freedoms, abject poverty, hunger, lack
of necessities, lack of proper medical care, lack of medicines, severe oppression,
loss of individuality for the good of the collective, justice for the Communist
Party rulers only, and loss of private property and land.
Millennials should
listen to those who escaped the socialist “paradise” Ocasio-Cortez promotes
from her congressional platform. Millennials
should ignore the political rhetoric coming from highly unenlightened
politicians with an agenda.
No matter what, how and where....no logical person can reverse the brainwashing of THREE GENERATIONS of American-born, American-educated, American-fed and American-matured...USEFUL IDIOTS!
ReplyDeleteAmen to that, Aurel.
DeleteSo sad, but so true.
ReplyDeleteThise who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it....
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, it seems there are way many more of them than there are of us....