Steve McCann offers an excellent primer on the nature of the future toward which the United States of America is racing…apparently with no prospect of halting or even slowing.
Mr. McCann’s column would be very useful instruction for all those young people cheering on Bernie Sanders. Rather than the freedom from want and the wonderful equality they think Bernie, and really the entire Democratic Party, promise, this piece spells out just what they will, instead, “enjoy”. Excerpts below.
No More Room for Compromise with the Socialist Agenda of the Democrats
In the United States of 2016 the occupant of the White House is someone steeped in and aggressively implementing statist ideology. And one of the two major political parties has as its only candidates for the presidency a dedicated lifelong socialist in Bernie Sanders and a newly declared socialist in Hillary Clinton. In recent polls nearly 59% of Democrats say they would vote for a socialist candidate as well as nearly 50% of independents and even more frightening nearly 70% of those between the ages of 18 and 29 in the country claim they would vote for a socialist.
This phenomenon is due to two primary factors. First, the ignorance of what socialism is and its overwhelming failure everywhere it has been tried. This is due to the Left’s control of the entertainment/education establishment over the past 40 years, which has eventuated in indoctrination not education. Second, the unwillingness of the opposition to vigorously defend capitalism and the founding tenets of this country. Instead, the guiding principle became, as it took less effort, continual compromise with those whose single-minded objective was to establish a socialist nirvana and seize political power. . . .
“The easiest course to assume this power was to promise, in return for the support of the people, that the state through a new ruling class would provide the citizenry cradle to grave economic security. Thus a Faustian bargain encompassing the desire by the majority for ease of survival and others for the need to rule would be entered into. The populace, having committed itself to this compact, would expect neverending freedom from adversity.
“However, within this arrangement is the seed of its own destruction. For socialism to succeed, it must have an economic underpinning that can provide the foundation for massive social spending. The Soviet Union, as early as the 1920’s and 30’s, proved that complete state control of the means of production was a colossal failure as it could not produce sufficient wealth to support the population, so their version of socialism (Communism) had to be enforced at the point of a gun or by starvation.”
Read the entire column here.
DLH
