Taking too much for granted.
Taking too much for granted.
According to a Gallup Survey published in September, 57 percent of young adults age 18 to 34 have a favorable view of socialism – a disheartening number.
It’s driven by economic illiteracy – a fancy way of saying ignorance.
As irritating as it is, ignorance on the part of the young, including just-out-of-college young voters, can be forgiven. They haven’t lived long enough to know what we elders know and, in far too many cases, they’ve been ill served by an education system that has been hijacked by the Left.
But we must somehow get them – and, to a distressing degree, the idiot teachers and professors who fill our kids’ heads full of mush and from whom ignorance is far less forgivable – to understand that the abundance of this country is not the default state of mankind.
Naked, destitute and vulnerable to the forces of nature is the default state of mankind.
Over time humans, little by little, improved their lot somewhat. But only somewhat. For millennia humans in every corner of the world lived lives of inescapable poverty under a dark cloud of tyranny and strong-man rule.
Viewed in the context of the grand sweep of history, the individual liberty and widely shared prosperity that we enjoy in the United States is very recent and very much the exception. The abundance that the young take for granted exists because the men that we call the Founding Fathers literally put their necks on the line and revolted against a strong man named King George III of England.
They went on to midwife a republic that took the entire concept of government as it had been practiced for nearly the entirety of recorded history and stood it on its head.
In the late 18th century, when this nation was born, authoritarian rule was the norm all over the world.
So, too, was poverty.
The individual freedom that was baked into our founding documents changed everything. America’s founding promise was never a life free from hardship, uncertainty or failure. It was something new and far more consequential: sovereignty over one’s own life.
The Founding Fathers guaranteed neither comfort nor prosperity. But they guaranteed the liberty to pursue both. They promised no one a successful life. They promised everyone the freedom to build one.
That freedom unleashed creativity and enterprise that built the most successful society the world has ever known. Never has prosperity been as widely shared as it is today in this country.
Young voters and ignorant voters (a distressing percentage of whom don’t have the excuse of being young) would trade liberty and the abundance that liberty unleashed – in return for a guarantee of freedom from hardship. A guarantee that will always prove hollow.
The socialism that these young naifs say they favor will come, as socialism always comes, with the same despotic hand of authoritarianism that crushed the people of the Soviet Union, Cuba and Venezuela.
But these kids don’t know that. So, somebody has to explain it to them – before they learn the hard way.
And now Brazil has fallen to the lunatic, Islamic-Communist tyranny that is at War with Western Civilization, particularly the Americas (the last stand). This is because their Trojan Horse tactics that had infiltrated that society by way of their inevitable deception and criminal activity, has succeeded in stamping out the last light of Freedom in Brazil that will NOT be allowed to threaten those demons that are now in charge. Their Color Revolution Formula continues to be repeated successfully and is now underway for the Islamic-Communist cultists to finish their war to conquer our country, This is likely to be accomplished as the final target since we continue to tolerate them out of laziness, fear, collaboration, greed, ignorance, and lack of courage to fight to win the War to save our Civilization.
Absolutely, do not marry this girl!
Socialism is the ultimate ugly, deceptive girl, the kind who is delivered out of higher education’s makeover beauty shop. At first, she seems attractive when seen in poor light by dimmed minds, but she soon becomes shrill and demanding, exposing her true nature.
It gets worse once you marry her. She says you can no longer go out with your pals, and orders you to turn over your paycheck, and worse yet, she has a big brutal brother Brutus.
Ugly girl lacks the power to get you to do everything she wants.
But once Commie brother Brutus comes to his sister’s rescue, your goose is cooked.
You find yourself with no freedom, no money, and praying for a divorce.
Readers would do well to heed this modern-day Aesop’s fable.
Socialism always fails, and when it fails it morphs into communism.
The only equality socialism/communism delivers is universal poverty.
By contrast, free market capitalism yields unlimited opportunity for anyone who bothers to acquire a good education combined with a solid work ethic. Once you have those things under your belt, you will not need government to make your dreams come true.
Having travelled many countries in the world, I can easily describe socialistic countries: They are lands without hope.
Part of the reason young people believe that Socialism works because it’s working for them now. Someone else pays for everything for them. They think all those student loans will just disappear. Someone else pays for their health care, puts a roof over their heads, clothes on their back, and food in their stomachs. Someone else pays for their phone bills, wifi, cars, gas, and auto insurance. They believe this should continue for the rest of their lives, whether they get a job that pays well enough to provide them with the lifestyle they have become accustomed to or not.
AMEN Brother, AMEN! This was exactly what I was going to say. Everyone has a cell phone & a plan, shoes, clothes,
food, and opportunity! What a bunch of spoiled ungrateful brats!