More on democratic socialism
Bob Livingston
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The morality of socialism is easily summed up in a few words: envy and sacrifice based on a phony and coerced sense of altruism.
The socialist not only envies and wants a portion of the wealth of others; he desires to see the wealth of others lowered to the level of his own. The socialist wants to use a sense of altruism — couched in terms like ”fairness,” “equality” and “fair share” — to coerce those that have into willingly giving a portion of their wealth to others. That failing, the socialist desires that the power and organized violence of the state be used to create a level of conformity and reduce everyone to the same level — even if it is the level of poverty and privation.
As C. Bradley Thompson, assistant professor of political science at Ashland University wrote in 1993, Socialism’s teaching on self-sacrifice was nicely summarized by two of its greatest defenders, Hermann Goering and Benito Mussolini. The highest principle of Nazism (National Socialism), said Goering, is: “Common good comes before private good.” Fascism, said Mussolini, is “a life in which the individual, through the sacrifice of his own private interests… realizes that completely spiritual existence in which his value as a man lies.”
Under socialism, a ruling class of intellectuals, bureaucrats and social planners decide what people want or what is good for society and then use the coercive power of the state to regulate, tax and redistribute the wealth of those who work for a living. The masses of people accept and even embrace this because they have been propagandized by the state-controlled media and the public (non)education system into believing that government is designed, tasked with and desires to look out for the best interests of the people and ensure that there are only “haves” and no “have nots.” Government men, the people are assured, have the best interests of the people — rather than their own power and self-interests — in mind in everything they do.
But in reality, governments, bureaucrats and politicians look upon the public as a herd that should be deceived and led for the benefit of government and the elite. By and large it works because the vast majority of Americans go along with the system — a system which is just a form of legalized theft and government-sanctioned slavery and plunder.
Again from Professor Thompson: Under socialism there are built-in incentives to shirk responsibility. There is no reason to work harder than anyone else because the rewards are shared and therefore minimal to the hard-working individual; rather, the incentive is to work less than others because the immediate loss is shared and therefore minimal to the slacker. Socialism rewards sloth and penalizes hard work.
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The rest here:
https://personalliberty.com/more-on-...tic-socialism/
This is why I shudder every time someone claims we are ruining democracy, their democracy. Or proudly claims we are a democracy.......
Liberals accept no consequences, do not care about consequences. They never look beyond their nose.
When I ask, "What is it going to cost?" all I get is hatred back or absolutely no response at all. They are incapable of thinking ahead.
Democracy? ......................meh
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