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Is socialism really so bad?
Is socialism really so bad? That was a question from my hairdresser, when I told her after last election that Obama would change the USA and we would slowly become a socialist republic.
And I said “YES“, because I know – I grew up in a socialist country, the former Czechoslovakia. After the government nationalizes everything, there is no private business left. You work for the government, your children go to government schools, you shop in government stores (you hardly find there what you need – shortages of everything all the time). You can only visit a doctor allocated to you, and the government controls where you travel (you’re not allowed to leave the country without a special permit). And you listen only to radio stations owned by the government and see only TV programs approved by the government.
Some people here just don’t get it and think that this cannot happen here. The first communist president in former Czechoslovakia, where I grew up, was elected in a free election. He promised to “spread the wealth by taking it from the rich and giving it to the poor”. Soon after that, everybody was poor; only the politician were rich (they had access to specials stores where they could get everything they wanted).
Also rich were the people who run the government stores. The customers had to bribe them to get, say, a bike for kids for Christmas, because there were not enough of them manufactured or imported.
Absolute muddjuice
September 14th, 2012
Exactly. I’ve been saying this for some time now. People used to understand that socialism was evil.
Now, your average, run of the mill citizen asks, “Is socialism really that bad?”
YES!!!!!!! A million times YES!
Every war we’ve ever fought has been against some form of socialism……
Stirrin the B.S.
September 14th, 2012
This testimony needs to be delivered to every adolescent in junior and/or high school, and then again to every person under the age of 21.
It’s about time that conservatives start taking on the progressives in the same battlefield: our children and young adults.
Stranded in Sonoma
September 14th, 2012
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
– Thomas Sowell
Unneutral
September 14th, 2012
Socialism tears down every person to the lowest denominator. Except, of course, those in charge.
eternal cracker p
September 14th, 2012
Surviving = socialism; Camping = freedom.
scribble
September 14th, 2012
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. – Winston Churchill
Tony R
September 14th, 2012
Socialism is all that. Oh yeah, and some 80 million dead in the 20th century.
Corona
September 14th, 2012
Socialism is the removal of God. And Jerusalem. Sound familiar?
smmtheory
September 15th, 2012
I was in a job interview a little less than a year ago, and the interviewer actually said that Americans were afraid of Socialism because they had it confused with Communism and that Socialism as practiced in Europe was where it’s at. Needless to say, I think my looking at him like he was sprouting an extra yellow and green striped head probably killed my chances of getting that job.
Frosteetoes
September 15th, 2012
She sounds like this Polish woman who owns a successful German Restaurant near me. She hates when people criticize the USA especially when Americans do it. She goes off on them too. She’ll tell you that no other country in the world could a widowed woman with a child open a successful business starting out with nothing when she came here. These are the people who should be on the lecture circuits at the schools. They lived it and they know better.
Jorel Lives!
September 15th, 2012
Yes, I too hear about the wonders of socialism and how well it works for many European countries; except, I don’t understand why the EU members are constantly at each other throat’s over policy and monetary matters as they sit in their vast circular council forever ignoring Nigel Farage’s warnings while at the same time they desperately cling to the pretense that unity is their strength. They try but fail to hide their beleaguered expressions as they weigh the harsh realities old Nigel so eloquently and persistently preaches: the sad truth about the inevitable collapse of their association and the entire European economy.
Jack Daniels
September 15th, 2012
“Some people here just don’t get it and think that this cannot happen here. The first communist president in former Czechoslovakia, where I grew up, was elected in a free election.”
Isn’t this the comment I just recently made on the post ’2nd Terminal’?
Have I not been saying this for the past two years?
I wonder how many people actually go from embracing a socialist view to a conservative view. It seems like the numbers are always the same. Stagnant, no matter what information is out there. Many simply want to be ignorant.
dba_vagabond_trader
September 15th, 2012
Also, socialism encourages neighbors to spy on each other. All “rights” are issued by the government.
Unfortunately our kids are not being taught civics and G-d has been replaced by the state.