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PostSubject: Countering Socialist Fantasies   Countering Socialist Fantasies Icon_minitimeWed Mar 04, 2020 3:04 am

The Left is currently animated by five collectivist truths. First, the government can never spend enough on education. Second, there is no limit to the amount that can be spent on any individual’s health. Third, there is no greater duty than the protection of Mother Earth. Fourth, it is always about the children (that’s why they are left with the bill.) And finally, anything that is bad, if not caused by racism, sexism or homophobia, is the result of Global Climate Change. To serve these truths, the Left believes that we need the heavy hand of progressive government to step in, take control and make transformative changes. Current Democrat presidential hopefuls are, to varying degrees, running on these changes.

I’ve been trying to find an approachable, simple argument that can demonstrate, in a clear, straightforward way, the fallacy of these liberal-progressive fantasies. The historical, anti-socialist, anti-totalitarian arguments, the depredations of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Pol Pot, Ortega, Chavez, Maduro, Jung-On, etc., are dismissed by the Left as irrelevant. The fact that the totalitarian governments of both NAZI Germany and fascist Italy were primarily based on socialist policy is considered peripheral. The fact that hundreds of millions of people worldwide were imprisoned, starved or executed by Marxist regimes in the last century is deemed unimportant. Yet these tragedies, all the result of despotic leftism, do not seem to rock the buoy-bell as a warning against adopting socialism.

There seems to be the fervent belief among current Democrats that Marxist political and economic influence cannot bring misery or decline to America; that we are somehow immune to its effects. We can have Democratic-Socialism, which is Socialism-lite. Adherents point to Scandinavia and in particular, Sweden, for evidence that Socialism-lite can be successful. This not really an apt comparison. Sweden is a small, highly homogenous country, not a vast, diverse republic of 50 sovereign states and 16 territories. It is roughly the size of California, much of it uninhabitable, with a population of 10 million, comparable to that of North Carolina. After flirting with collectivism in the late 20th century, Sweden has more recently instituted free market-based reforms making it one of the most market friendly countries in Western Europe. Its current GDP growth rate and corporate income tax rates are comparable to those in the US. Sweden is not America, but it is moving toward the American pro-market ideas of liberty and individual responsibility and away from socialist collectivism.

The lesson here is that Sweden attempted the Socialism-lite policy shift in the late 20th century. The experiment failed and Sweden reversed its course. The result has been a return to growth and prosperity. Pro-market, anti-collectivist reforms have proven again and again to be positive and transforming, among post-Soviet satellite countries, in Thatcher’s Great Britain, in Reagan’s America, in India, etc. But though this is compelling support for free-market economics, it is not compelling enough to sway those who currently embrace a Marxist shift in US politics.

So how does one dissuade supporters of the current neo-socialist movement, those persuaded to believe that free healthcare, free childcare, and free college, are realistic and achievable policy goals, and further, that the New Green Deal makes sense and that its goals are even remotely achievable? We are lectured that achievement of these things can, no must, be immediately prioritized for the collective good regardless of sacrifice.

Perhaps there is no convincing them, bribed as they are with other people’s money, but we must still tell the truth. Nothing is free. And the benefits of the New Green Deal, like the planet threatening effects of so-called Global Climate Change, are elusive and highly uncertain. The real truth is that liberty, individual freedom, and limited republican self-government, threatened by this proposed lurch toward authoritarian socialism, are and have always been our best hope for realistically resolving any compelling problems we face. To undermine liberty and freedom is to make us more vulnerable, not the alternative.

Our experiment in limited governance, liberty, and individual responsibility has helped us create the richest, most benevolent and most powerful country ever to exist on this earth. History has proven that collectivism always fails, even in small doses. To successfully address the big issues – poverty, environmental degradation, threats from abroad – we need to continue to be successful. And to be successful, we need to be free.

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