Socialism = Santa Claus

It’s against the law to buy votes.  A pol cannot reach into his pocket and give a voter $100 to vote for him. That makes sense or George Soros, Bezos and Zuckerberg would be lined up to be president. From now until forever.

So pol cannot use his own money or campaign funds to buy votes.  It’s illegal. What is totally legal is for a pol to promise to use your money to buy votes.  He can promise to use your money for free college, free food, free rent, free income, free phones etc. etc.  It’s perfectly legal for a pol to buy votes in that fashion.

That’s a problem.  Some smart guy once said:  

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.” 
― Alexis de Tocqueville

I think “the day” is upon us.  Socialism is on the rise on the left.  Bernie Sanders by all rights should have won the Dope nomination in 2016.  Now the face of the Dope party is a clueless NY socialist – Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (AOC).  She’s a “free everything” candidate who will tax the rich and corporations to pay for all the free stuff.    

  

Great!  I’m not rich or a corporation so I will get the free stuff without suffering any of the financial burden, right?  Yup. For awhile.

So, if this is such a great idea, why hasn’t it worked anywhere else? 

Well another great thinker - Margret Thatcher - noted, “Socialism sounds great until you run out of other people’s money.” Venezuela, Cuba, the old Soviet Union all ran out of other people’s money.

That’s when the hell that is socialism manifests itself.  But by that time it’s too late.  The socialist have gained control of all of the levers of government.  Elections are rigged.  The military and police are bought off so that they have an interest in maintaining control of the masses.

Socialism is a hard sell in America.  So AOC and the Bernie brigade call it “democratic socialism”.  Democratic socialism is the bastard child of democratic authoritarianism and democratic communism. It’s total BS.

But it’s an alluring prospect, particularly for a generation raised on “participation trophies”.  That’s the, “Hey I showed up.  Where’s my award?” generation. 

There was a story the other day about youngsters “checking out”.  They’d rather travel than work.  Tell me that’s not fertile ground for socialism.

It’s strange, because I have always thought that it required money to travel.  Where’s that money coming from?  Mom?  Dad?  Where’s it going to come from under socialism when Mom and dad are broke?  The government?  Believe me, if the people of Venezuela could afford to travel they’d travel out of the socialist ell hole. 

Last, remember this.  Socialism is communism’s little brother.  A socialist is just a communist without a gun.  If/when we go down this road and it fails as it always does the only way for the government to maintain their power will be through the force of arms.  That is why “common sense” gun control is so important to the left. It’s much easier for the government to maintain control through force of arms if the government are the only ones with arms.