Charlie Daniels: Indications Are Strong America Is Headed Toward Socialism – Scrapheap of History

CNSNews ^ | June 27, 2019 | Charlie Daniels

[jazusamo]

Charlie Daniels

I can’t bring myself to believe that there aren’t enough Americans alive who still remember the reality and abject failure of socialism and the wide path of human deprivation and suffering, shattered societies and failing dictatorships all socialist governments eventually morph into.

I know I do. I remember the Iron Curtain, the Berlin Wall, the people who were shot and killed for nothing more than trying to escape the horrors a totalitarian regime always wreaks on its people, the long lines of people in the Soviet Union just trying to procure the basic food and necessities for daily life.

I remember crossing Checkpoint Charlie shortly after the wall started coming down and crossing from a vibrant, bustling, fashionable West Germany into the colorless, dismal streets of East Germany, where the people wore worn out threadbare clothes and were suspicious of anyone who approached them, a fearful, haunted look in their eyes.

Oh, there’s plenty of information about the disastrous history of socialism. In fact, you need look no further than Venezuela, a country that should be thriving, and was until Hugo Chavez brought his idiotic communist ideas and heavy-handed rule – and now Venezuela is on the verge of starvation.

But be that as it may, even with all the voluminous sources of information on the evils of socialism, the current generation – thanks to an inadequate and left-leaning educational system – does not know about the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and all the other scars socialism has left on history. No, this generation sits and listens, wide-eyed, to the promises of a new American Shangri-La, where everything is free and all of life’s gnarly problems can be laid at the footstep of an all-powerful nanny state government who would see to their every need from cradle to grave.

I don’t believe that America will accept or elect a socialist candidate in this election cycle, but if something isn’t done about the education of the coming generations, there will be a successful socialist candidate sometime in America’s future.

Oh, it will be some even-tempered, unflappable young man or woman who does not resort to name-calling and political histrionics, but simply stays on message proclaiming the universal fairness of a system that makes sure everybody is treated equally.

It will be a person who has been schooled and prepared for the task of selling the masses on the nobility of collectivism, a smooth, even-tempered individual who will have all the answers at their fingertips, a rebuff for every objection, an explanation for every instance of failure, the mechanics and mistakes that had turned every other socialist experiment into a disaster.

And this likable, sophisticated, urbane new face will become the darling of the media and dominate the airwaves, the hero of the Hollywood airheads, magazine covers and TV specials – the wunderkind, the hope of America, adored by leftist governments around the world.

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”

Sounds noble, don’t it? The words of Karl Marx in 1875, the supposed cornerstone of communism, the idealistic phrase that brings it all together, perfect fodder for the present-day canon of “progressive” governance, which vies for a level playing field for all, free college, medical care for all, open borders and the rich at last paying their “fair share.”

But behind all the high-flying phraseology and the inflated promises lies a world that actually differs little in philosophy from the plantation days, when a hand full of the elite who wield the power live in splendor with different health care plans, different benefit and retirement packages, different pay scales and different privileges than the lumped-together, one size fits all, numbered but unnamed masses who live under their thumb.

God forbid that that day should come, but the indications are strong that we are headed in that direction – a socialist America.

We could end up another deceived nation on the scrap heap of history.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops, our police and the peace of Jerusalem

God Bless America

— Charlie Daniels

[jazusamo]

God bless Charlie Daniels, he's dead on the mark.

[laplata]

If the USA goes Socialist, the whole world will regret it.

[PGR88]

America started on the road to socialism when it created the Federal Reserve.

Removing the final limitation of a link to gold in 1971, meant central-planners could print all the money and create all the debt they wanted. Massive debt from government has allowed government to grow unchecked.

So now we have a massive apparatus of bureaucracy, control and regulation, which is just waiting for someone even further left of Obama, like Sanders, to step up to the controls.

[brownsfan]

"If When the USA goes Socialist, the whole world will regret it."

Fixed it.

[laplata]

I was trying to be optimistic but the reality is wide open for all to see.

[Innovative]

But we CAN stop it.

Be sure to get out and VOTE to reelect president Trump and vote for the R candidate to get R majority in both houses of congress.

[laplata]

After Trump, look out!

[Scrambler Bob]

“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”

= = =

The devil knows scripture -

2 Cor 8:14
But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:

In context -

v. 10-16

And herein I give my advice: for this is expedient for you, who have begun before, not only to do, but also to be forward a year ago.

11 Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, so there may be a performance also out of that which ye have.

12 For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

13 For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

14 But by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want: that there may be equality:

15 As it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.

16 But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.

[central_va]

The entire USA will not go socialist. There will be a secession and a large part will remain free.

[jazusamo]

Bump!

[brownsfan]

“After Trump, look out!”

I totally agree. But if we can get one more term for Trump, I’ll be well into my “golden years” and perhaps I can survive the chaos.

If the Dems ever get both chambers and the presidency, we are done, finished, kaput.

[Carriage Hill]

We’re on that evil road; probably not for 8-10yrs, but it will happen.

[laplata]

I’m almost 69 and agree with you. But I am afraid for my grandchildren.

These American Socialists/Communists will not be kind to people of their choosing.

[Truth29]

If the GOP doesn’t unify and start fighting like the Socialist rats, and if they don’t back President Trump with all they have got, the US could go socialist in 2020. Also, the millions of illegal aliens pouring over the borders are going to vote unless the plans for enormous fraud are not stopped. We must win in 2020 at the ballot box or the road back will be tough indeed.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

For all our strengths and monumental accomplishments, we are a very immature culture and country.

[foreverfree]

Bump

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Every institution that provides a foundation for a free and self-governing people has been largely rotted out by the left. Forces against essential freedoms are boldly throwing their weight around. Government at all levels has immense power and the will to do whatever it damn well pleases. Sources of information are questionable at best. Too many people are comfortable in their ignorance. Everything is in place for what he describes. It’s a small step there.

[jazusamo]

I fully agree.

[brownsfan]

“These American Socialists/Communists will not be kind to people of their choosing.”

That’s a fact. They are hate filled and spiteful.

Americans will learn the truth in the saying: “You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to fight your way out.”

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Cant secede anymore.
Texas v. White, (1869), U.S. Supreme Court case in which it was held that the United States is “an indestructible union” from which no state can secede.

On the other hand, I wonder if the US can expel certain states from the Union, or build a wall around them like the body does an infected pustule.