ONE class. We can’t squeeze out ONE class. We put men on the moon but have no capacity to construct ONE class for all High School seniors and college freshmen. ONE class.
We will talk about anything else. Lesbian dance, Tik-Tok, middle relief pitching for the KC Royals, but we won’t talk about ONE class on how socialism does not, has not, and will not work anywhere.
Because socialism CANNOT work in practice, only in theory. Those who have ever had to make their way in the real world unassisted know this. Trying to make it work is akin to attempting to level mountains by raising the valleys up to the level of the peaks without bringing in any material from anywhere else. Anyone can see how to blast the peaks down to fill the valleys but that would merely vastly accelerate the process of erosion due to rainfall resulting in a plain at a lower level than the average height of the original terrain. For some reason there are always those who cannot grasp that due to the nature of socialism it can never end in anything but poverty. They spit out the word capitalism as if it were made of filth while not realizing that they have no idea of what it is or how it works.
If I had the opportunity to teach these people I would begin by giving an assignment to each to imagine himself the only human left alive on Earth and write an essay explaining what “natural human rights” he would have as the only remaining human and what duties he would have and then, as a follow up assignment, to imagine that he discovers a city full of people and explain exactly why he would suddenly claim to have new rights that he did not have as the only human and explain whether he has additional duties or is relieved of any or all duties by the discovery.