Are you feeling the Bern ???

[Tallman]

I too would like to believe that but I'm not feeling very optimistic about it.
I am reminded of the saying "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it".

This a theory that is taught, and as a theory it is impossible to implement.
Okay, here is the the truth about Communism or Socialism. In fact if the system is run by Honest and Trustworthy people It works out very well. No one is homeless, hungry, or in need of anything at all. Everybody shares in the bounty, EQUALLY. There would be no ultra rich class of people. That is if the greedy types could be happy with that.
But when you need honest and trustworthy people to administer the system corruption destroys it all.
Diogenes, the last I heard has run out of lamp fuel and is still looking.

 

[G GOLLY WAlly]

It should be obvious to anyone, most government ran programs or anything government ran for that matter usually gets ran into the ground. O yeah I want big government taking care of me. NOT!

 

[HomerBB]

It is a delusion to believe that either communism or socialism can be a good thing even if honest people implemented it.
Both of them depend on the dissolution of capitalism. Only capitalism produces the means by which a society can finance any form of government even if it is trading 4 chickens for a pig. There has never been a free lunch.
The worst cost in a socialist or communist system is the suppression of the human spirit as it is expressed by the individual's ability to seek and secure his or her own goals. "The laborer is [still] worthy of his wage".
To the extent we allow government to give us anything we must surrender something else. All the experiments in the socialistic and communistic systems have demanded the surrender individualism, innovation, and security, and ultimately have had to depend on capitalism to supply the basics they promised would be available to everyone in abundance.
Do not be suckered in by promises, ie delusions, of paradise. There is a serious cost for anything in a socialist system beyond the obvious economic destruction it demands.
Believe me, not everyone will be wearing the high collared uniforms sitting on the assembly lines of government owned factories. Someone will walk around enforcing "equality" in production, and someone above him will be overseeing at every level. . . And no one will have more at the basic levels than those above them say is "their fair share".
It is a stupidly naive concept that insists on repression, subjugation, and enforced poverty at the lowest levels. These systems have never raised the collective standard of living, nor can they. The only way that is done is in a system where the individual spirit is encouraged, where wealth can be created and distributed throughout the businesses created by those who worked hard enough to realize their goals. Only capitalism has ever created wealth, security, and hope.
I am not wealthy, at at this point in life likely never will be, but I can afford the things that matter most. The day socialist policy is instituted in this nation will be the day I will begin to lose my grip on what I have worked for my entire life since I picked up my first payday at 12 yrs old. And it will be the beginning of the end of the dreams my children and grandchildren will never be allowed to pursue.

 

[Slowmover]

There’s no such thing as equality.
Not at birth, not even at death.

 

[Tallman]

It is a delusion to believe that either communism or socialism can be a good thing even if honest people implemented it.
Both of them depend on the dissolution of capitalism. Only capitalism produces the means by which a society can finance any form of government even if it is trading 4 chickens for a pig. There has never been a free lunch.
The worst cost in a socialist or communist system is the suppression of the human spirit as it is expressed by the individual's ability to seek and secure his or her own goals. "The laborer is [still] worthy of his wage".
To the extent we allow government to give us anything we must surrender something else. All the experiments in the socialistic and communistic systems have demanded the surrender individualism, innovation, and security, and ultimately have had to depend on capitalism to supply the basics they promised would be available to everyone in abundance.
Do not be suckered in by promises, ie delusions, of paradise. There is a serious cost for anything in a socialist system beyond the obvious economic destruction it demands.
Believe me, not everyone will be wearing the high collared uniforms sitting on the assembly lines of government owned factories. Someone will walk around enforcing "equality" in production, and someone above him will be overseeing at every level. . . And no one will have more at the basic levels than those above them say is "their fair share".
It is a stupidly naive concept that insists on repression, subjugation, and enforced poverty at the lowest levels. These systems have never raised the collective standard of living, nor can they. The only way that is done is in a system where the individual spirit is encouraged, where wealth can be created and distributed throughout the businesses created by those who worked hard enough to realize their goals. Only capitalism has ever created wealth, security, and hope.
I am not wealthy, at at this point in life likely never will be, but I can afford the things that matter most. The day socialist policy is instituted in this nation will be the day I will begin to lose my grip on what I have worked for my entire life since I picked up my first payday at 12 yrs old. And it will be the beginning of the end of the dreams my children and grandchildren will never be allowed to pursue.

As I said it a theory and as such could never be implemented.

 

[Tallman]

There’s no such thing as equality.
Not at birth, not even at death.

Truth be told, Only when Jesus rules the Earth will there be equality.

 

[Slowmover]

Truth be told, Only when Jesus rules the Earth will there be equality.

Being equal before the law means all men face the same penalties.

But earthly law is now perverted to harm the only group in America interested in having rules by which to abide with one another. All others claim exemption (victim status points).

The very meaning of “law” is perverted, as is “equality”.

Mans most powerful tool has always been language. Not for nothing that was the first attack, high school & college.

 

[Robb]

" . . . If it was not for the elders correcting the mistakes of the young, you would have no state." -Cicero

 

[Rwb]

This covers the whole shebang of nutcases

 

[357magnum]

Thanks for that Rwb ! I thought it was just me thinking he was in the early stages of dementia !

 

[Rwb]

Thanks for that Rwb ! I thought it was just me thinking he was in the early stages of dementia !

yes kinda filled me in also

 

[Redbeard U812]

Breaking: Bernie Sanders Suspends Presidential Campaign

https://www.westernjournal.com/brea...campaign=breaking&utm_content=western-journal

 

[Jim1428]

Breaking: Bernie Sanders Suspends Presidential Campaign

https://www.westernjournal.com/brea...campaign=breaking&utm_content=western-journal

Bernie gets shut out again, you would have thought he learned his lesson the first time.
What are the odds he will try it a third time, that is if he is still alive, oh wait, dead people
vote why would that stop ol' Bern.
Anybody remember this? I wonder if his supporters will follow through with this or
fade quietly into the night? I suspect the latter.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/brea...-in-streets-cops-to-be-beaten-if-bernie-loses

 

[Redbeard U812]

I believe this recent and current untimely event we are experiencing has alot to do with it. People have now seen a true repercussion of socialism / communism. Realizing, the aforementioned form of government does not have the ability to deal with catastrophic events.

 

[Jim1428]

Bernie once again steps down for the good of the Democrat Party

https://www.americanthinker.com/blo..._down_for_the_good_of_the_democrat_party.html