[joma89]

Logic is lost on leftists. The only thing they understand is force and power.

JoMa

[Libloather]

Now imagine instead being allotted food stamps from the government, indicating how much your family can eat.

Michael Moore hardest hit...

[Fai Mao]

I’ve used the British NHS and the HK clone of that system.

It’s like a county hospital in a lot of ways with about the same wait time.

[FES0844]

We need more of our legal immigrants to speak out and educate these socialists.

[allendale]

One of Trump’s unsung accomplishments is the level of support he is developing in immigrant communities especially among Hispanics. They are coming to realize that it is the inherent freedom , liberty and the productive free enterprise capitalism that creates real wealth and prosperity that led them to flee their impoverished, socialist homelands. There they had no real opportunity and were actively suppressed. As Trump’s policies give these immigrants more access to what is America, they support him more. They even support the building of a wall since they realize a nation without borders soon ceases to be a nation. Suspect that Trump will do much better among Hispanics in 2020.

[HighSierra5]

Just ask one of these craven commies on camera what would you do to the people who don’t want to conform to their draconian laws. The answer would chill most people to their core. This all leads to gulags and poverty/starvation with the elite still flying in planes and riding in limos.

[bray]

On Carlson last night the professor who wrote her New Deal lied about the pay whether you work or not. Why work if you are getting paid anyway?

[Missouri gal]

The motive for socialism is that those in control use the government power to steal from everybody and make themselves unimaginably rich and powerful. It requires a naïve,fearful, subdued population. Hence gun control, hoaxes like “climate change,” government control of health care, and the pushing of unlimited drug abuse.

[Freedom4US]

Leftists want people to be miserable. That’s what makes them happy.

[BitWielder1]

If you keep robbing Peter to pay Paul, eventually they will both ask: "What's the point of working?"
That's the downfall of socialism, initiative is punished, mediocrity is rewarded, the politicization of every issue and the endless brutal enforcement of a system that can not work by itself.
The leaders still live in opulence though, there is an oligarchy, so communism ends up being feudal, just like the tsarist system the Bolsheviks tried to replace.

See my tagline.

[bert]

Income inequality is the result of the fundamental existence of inequality.

The reasons for fundamental inequality are too many to be counted.

One reason is laziness

[Wildbill22]

The most important thing IMHO is not the better standard of living in the west.

It is precisely that one side, the conservatives, don’t want to force everyone to do ANYTHING, with the exception of respecting other people’s constitutional rights.

-Not so on the left.

Socialism will treat you like a child. Tell you what to do for a living. Where to live. What you are worth. What you can say.
- And what you can think-

[Wildbill22]

To continue, freedom and security are diametrically opposed in a zero sum equation.

The more of one, the less of the other.

The real question is; how free do you want to be?

[I want the USA back]

Equal means the same amount. So everyone is to get the same amount of money, drive the same car, eat the same slop in a communist land. Except the ruling elite which lives high off the hog as it scorns the public whose money they take.

[mjp]

After all, unending income equality is what drove us to leave our native lands in the first place.

Egalitarianism abolishes causality in the earning of income, resulting in people doing to little, and it abolishes causality in the spending of income, causing people to be unconcerned about cost, resulting in people spending too much. The evasion of causality is one of the signs and symptoms of irrationality.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Socialism is cynicism directed towards society and , correspondingly, naiveté towards government.

Or to put it another way, socialism conducts a war by government against society.

LBJ’s “War on Poverty” was actually a war against society. His “Great Society” program was actually a great government, minimal society program.

If only LBJ’s voters had paid attention to Thomas Paine:

SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness;

the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices.

The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions.

The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one . . .
For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest — Common Sense (1776)

[sauropod]

This is a brilliant article. I enjoyed it.

‘Pod.

[ravenwolf]

The only rich people in a socialist sociaty are the ones in charge and they are evil.

The rich in a free sociaty feeds that
sociaty.

[GOPJ]

As a child, I lived in Guangzhou, the third largest city in China. Everyone in my city was equal in having no running hot water, no modern toilet facilities, no refrigerator, no washer, no dryer, and no color television.

LOL - the 'joys' of socialism...

[aquila48]

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