Socialism Will Always be a Failure

By Rich Kozlovich

On July 26, 2020 Jeffrey Stueber posted on American Thinker, the article, How Leftism Replaces Success with Failure starting out saying:  

I am in love with successful people. They inspire me to be better than I am now, to reach my full potential just as they have. I don’t seek to tear them down to bolster myself; rather, I seek to learn from them to raise myself to their standards. Of course, some, more than others, are lucky, talented, or more skillful at achievement just as some are lacking in those areas. We judge a proper economic system on whether that system enables more people to have bigger slices of the economic pie, not on the difficulty it poses for the few, and we do not tear it down because everyone cannot succeed within it. Up to this date, the majority of people have, in this country, preferred capitalism.

He goes on to observe how leftism, in its various forms of Marxism and secular humanism, prefer socialism.  These atheistic groups ushered in a secular religious philosophy to replace Judaic/Christian principles and ethics, and while sounding good on paper, it simply doesn't work in the real world.  They tout social justice, government controlled utopia, government imposed equality, government imposed diversity and government guarnateed universal success.  In short, a secular utopia where no one has to work, no one is poor, and no one is responsible for their actions.

But history has show all they ever deliver is dystopia.  That's history and that history is incontestable.  But if it sounds so good on paper why does it fail?  

Because socialism is antithetical to foundational human psyche.  If you subsidize those who don't work, you get more people who won't work.  If you penalize success, you get less success. If you trivialize criminal behavior, you get more crime.   But once you've destroyed those who've been blamed for all of mankind's woes, and they're no longer around, what do they do then?

Since there's no one else to blame, in order to maintain power and control, tyranny must be imposed.  They have an unholy desire to control every aspect of our lives to the detriment of humanity but to their benefit.  Just as in Venezuela and so many other failed socialist states, dystopia follows.

He goes on to observe:

Intoxicated environmental movements are like a cancer that keeps coming back. They have been reborn in the Green New Deal which, I suspected, was another case of a socialist con job to snatch control over our lives. My thoughts were confirmed when Fox News -- the watchdog of liberal buffoonery -- was on the case.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff recently admitted that the Green New Deal was not conceived as an effort to deal with climate change, but instead a “how-do-you-change-the-entire economy thing” -- a remark likely to fuel Republican claims that the deal is nothing more than a thinly veiled socialist takeover of the U.S. economy.

“The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all,” Saikat Chakrabarti said in May, according to The Washington Post.

So what are their motives?  The underlying moral foundation of socialism is greed, envy, hate and violence, "disguised as Marxist liberation."  They use clever sounding phrases like, “We have socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor”, to gull the young, the uninformed, misinformed and the disreputable, but sound bites aren't facts, or reality.

They rail against the idea of capitalism because it concentrates so much power in the hands of so few,  but so what asks the author.  Let's face it, American capitalism gives everyone the chance to be one of those powerful persons.  In years gone by the local newspaper would publish the top 25 richest people in America, and guess what.  The wealth of top 12 or 13 were always self made.  The bottom 12 or 13 were old money and as the years went by they would drop off the list because inherited money is diluted money.   Oprah Winfrey was in the top 10.

Margret Thatcher was right when she said socialism fails because "eventually you run out of other people's money", and when that happens the culture that foisted socialism on society will collapse, because there's nothing left.  Except for the socialist leaders who live well on the misery of their citizens.

I would like for all those Hollywood loons who swore how they would leave the country if Trump was elected (and said it as if anyone cared) to tell my why they didn't move to Venezuela, a country so many of them praised while heaping contempt on America.  Does the phrase "leftist hypocrites" seem appropriate?

 “Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out”.  David Horowitz