Month: February 2019

It has many names: Marxism, Socialism, Communism, Progressivism.  But it boils down to Totalitarianism.

Once the color of this religion was Red.  Now it is Green on the outside.

The Pilgrims came to the new world to worship God in their own way and to build a “city on a hill”  and all of the people would work together to sustain their fellow men and women. They established a pure Communist community. Everyone would Share the land the food, clothing…Work?

It failed spectacularly.

But human nature soon prevailed. As many of the pilgrims learned, on such a system if one chose not to work, they would still eat because someone else would work to bring in what was needed.

More and more of the pilgrims chose the path of sitting around or faking illness until the nonworkers outnumbered the workers. Women resented the idea of cooking for someone because his wife chose to be a nonworker and, according to Governor Bradford’s memoirs, considered it a form of slavery. It became so bad that at one point each person was rationed to 3 to 4 pieces of corn per day. You read that right – PIECES (or kernels) of corn. They were starving

Bradford scrapped the system. Gave every family a plot of land, reminded them of Genesis 3:19 , and that the product of their labor was theirs to do as they saw fit. After the next harvest the colony was awash in abundance. 

The flaw that doomed the Communist experiment is apparent. Do you know what it is? *

Then in the middle of the 19th century came Marx and Engels . They formulated a theory that claimed all of human history  {and future} could boiled down to economics and class. While totally ignoring human nature.

Lenin and later Stalin  knew something that Marx didn’t.  That Socialism would never be successful unless human nature was crushed.

Which brings us to today.  Education, media, and the culture have been under leftest domination since the 1960’S.  Millennials don’t have a clue how bad Socialism can be even when the latest example of Socialism’s failure, the human disaster that is Venezuela is unfolding right before their eyes.

*When the pilgrims experiment with Communism proved to be an abject failure they quickly abandoned it.  Unlike Russia, Mongolia, China, Cuba, and Venezuela the pilgrims didn’t have a secret police and an atheist ideology to ensure that “those who do not work, will not eat”.

And Finally.

If you can find someone who will talk honestly about single-payer, you will usually find the pro side talking about how it’s “fairer” or “cheaper” than market-based systems (I’d contest the second, but we don’t really have any market-based systems to compare with) but will usually admit that the outcomes are better in our system (as I said, you have to find someone on the pro side willing to be honest, which is rarer than a hen’s tooth). That’s bullshit. What it’s all about is, like most lefty garbage, is manufactured virtue. “Oh, look at how COMPASSIONATE I am, I want healthcare to be FREE”. In fact, isn’t that kind of a hallmark of all left-wing, totalitarian systems? Using force and theft “for the greater good”, the unstated premise being that individuals won’t do it on their own. Thus the entire wold view of left wing systems is inherently contradictory: Their totalitarian approach is necessary because people are inherently bad (Hmmm, smells a lot like “original sin” to me), yet their systems won’t work unless you also believe in the perfectibility of man (which will be accomplished through force). No wonder these people are crazy.

And it will be the same when it comes to environmental regulations like the Green New Deal . Saving the planet will be MANDATORY.  You will be made to care.  Or else.