Voltaire summed it up. He said: “In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.” Even Norman Mailer got it right when he said: “The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.” Ayn Rand said this: “Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.” And finally a quote from on of the outstanding thinkers of his time and one of the Founders of what came to be known as the United States of America, Thomas Jefferson. He said: “To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, ‘the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it.’”
As I said above, America has only just begun her ignoble journey to the dust heap of history. Socialism will eat the heart out of the country and, by “country” I don’t mean only the collection of people, places, and things we define as “a country.” I also mean us, you, and me. Just look around you. Let it sink in. Store it away in your memory bank somewhere, for soon that is all the America you and I have known will be. It will be just a memory… a DISTANT memory.
Observations from a conservative in a blue state. With a little help from my friends!
Here’s one:
The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until on day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.
Norman Thomas
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Unlike President Obama, while in Normandy I DID visit the American Cemetery overlooking Omaha beach. I was vacationing and getting a taste of what it would be like to live in a Socialist country. It was beautiful, and in Normandy people still appreciate Americans–but it was a tough visit, too; all those freedoms and conveniences and can-do things we take for granted were missing and it was glaringly obvious that France wasn’t leading the world anywhere. We tried to imagine lowering our standard of living to this—and giving up these basic freedoms–and we just couldn’t imagine it. And standing there of all places, we couldn’t imagine we would have to; too much had been given for OUR way of life for that to happen. And to see this, deliberately and gleefully handed away…just makes me heartsick. I will, at the very least, become a non-producer (no quicker way to kill a decent man’s soul than to put him in that position). Record the America you’ve grown up with and known your whole life, at least to pass down the fact that it used to be something magnificent.
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