The left seems to be doing a good job convincing young folks they will love socialism. With the future of our Republic in their hands I think it will be a toss up if they opt for that.
we pretty much are right now in practical terms.
Venezuela wasn’t ever going to be a socialist country either. We need to quit importing people who lean that way. We need to run off all the socialists in academia, gov’t and media.
A Newsweak cover declared that ‘we’re all socialists now’ once Hussein got elected. I wonder what they had on their minds.
“Here, in the United States, we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country. America was founded on liberty and independence — not government coercion, domination, and control. We are born free, and we will stay free.” — President Donald Trump, State of the Union Address February 5, 2019
Amen to that!
One could argue we are there already.
Anyone want to discuss Cartelfornia? There is no other voice but the “party” voice and it’s going so far left, streets full of excrement and taxed to the gills as it is.
You hear that, Bernie and AOC?
It’s a continuum and we’re on it.
Conservatism is anti-domination;
liberalism is anti-interference.
Neither philosophy has weathered big government takeover
of the nation. We’re caught in the gravity of socialism,
pulled along by our inability to stop entitlements once they’re started.
It’s a truism that self-government works until the
citizens realize they can vote money out of their
neighbor’s pocket.
After a while, the Tree of Liberty must be watered
and a rest accomplished. Until then, remember...
something that can’t go on forever, won’t.
Any system of socialism is only a transitory event, ending up in one of two outcomes. Either the country slides into a state of decivilization, where there is little technological progress instituted in what remains of the industrial base (unless, of course, they can continue to steal the technological advances from somebody else, as Communist China is doing), or it becomes a military dictatorship, with endless conflict or threat of conflict at its borders, or sometimes within the country itself, as is happening in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or the now failed state of Venezuela.
There is no other way socialism can revive itself and regenerate, as all initiative has been stifled, and it can only consume its accumulated stores of goods and capital until noting remains, so the regime is forced to steal from elsewhere.
Socialism builds nothing, it can only cannibalize what was already there.
We can hope and do our part, but we cannot be sure.
There are too many deluded people around, and evil ones who are able to manipulate them.
Maybe we won’t become more socialist than we already are. That seems unlikely given the demographic trends.
OK. I love Donald Trump, and what the United States was founded as, but really let’s get our heads out of the sand will ya.
The United States has been progressive for at least 100 years, and has significant socialist policies since the last 50 years.
It’s NOT a republic. That died with the passage of the 12th and 17 amendments.
The Civil War centralized government in Washington DC, and destroyed the 10th amendment.
The 4th amendment died with the 16th amendment was passed, and was codified into our present reality under Obama when the Utah data collection center was constructed for all our “private and personal papers and records” to be owned by the US government.
On a social level, the Federal Reserve brought the value of the USD down to a fraction of a penny. When it was still worth 25 cents, the break up of the traditional family occurred. As all the savings were depleted and both parents had to work. What followed were a nation of people with no parental guidance. It pretty much devastated the societal structure of the lower classes of American society.
Americans are living the socialist dream RIGHT NOW. It’s just that we want to recognize it as something else, than what it actually and truly is.
The deep state are socialist.
Universities and colleges are socialists.
Hollywood and American culture are all socialist.
Companies now employ “diversity officers” which are nothing more than PC Commissars.
The conservative elements remaining in the USA are few and far between and are marked for extermination by the vast majority of Marxists in control. It will happen. Quietly if possible, but there is a loud clamor for real public usurpation by any means possible.
They should all be sent to Venezuela for 1 year, extraordinary rendition.
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Democrats want Socialism, they believe it will seat them in power for generations.
Never say never.
America is soft Socialist teetering on full on Socialism.