One of the most
enduring mysteries is how Socialism continues to maintain a viable political
position in the modern world. I say that because history has clearly shown us
that all of the variants of Socialism, that have been practiced throughout
human history, has been an unmitigated disaster for every class of Human on
this Planet, save one. And the one class of people who exclusively benefits
from the practice of Socialism is the establishment Ruling Class.
You know, the establishment
ruling class that could even take down the dictator Caesar back in the days of
Roman power. So, the question is, how does the establishment ruling class benefit
from the establishment of socialism in any of its many forms and variants? The
short answer is, POWER.
The reason the establishment ruling class finds
Socialism so attractive is because it is the preferred political vehicle to
obtain and practice unlimited POWER with the consent and approval of the
people. And when Socialism is put into practice, it becomes a Tyranny, vested
not in a single person, but with consent of the people by virtue of the
establishment ruling class incorporating Statism as the necessary operational
paradigm to force compliance by the people.
There is little value in
discussing why freedom loving Humans find obtaining POWER and using POWER more
additive than gold had over Midas. Obtaining and exercising POWER is a means to
many ends, most to the disadvantage of others. It is a sad statement to make,
but history has also shown that the most educated often use their superior
knowledge to obtain and exercise POWER over others. Perhaps we should never elect
those with the most education and knowledge to positions of power. Oh well,
that is another subject for another day. Enough said.
So, you would think today's educated and free
citizens would never embrace Socialism’s top down “Command and Control”
government over Capitalism’s bottom up “Freedom and Liberty” laissez-faire
Government. Au contraire mon frère!
Most of todays inexperienced, and privileged youth
are embracing Socialism today because of the ubiquitous indoctrination by our
institutions of learning, even onto the primary and secondary education. It
appears that those who manage and operate our educational system has been
indoctrinating our youth that Socialism is the enlightened way for Human social
conduct. They do this while teaching Capitalism is an evil and corrupt system
that enslaves freedom loving people to work and toil for “The Man” in order for
the rich to maintain their privileged and wealthy lives at the expense of the
people.
Other people who are responding positively to
Socialism's siren call, are the well-meaning, but naive people, who have
obtained a burgeoning altruistic streak enabled by a comfortable life brought
about by the enduring success of Capitalism, free markets and the American way.
They naively believe that their hard-earned comfortable life should be further paid
for by sharing their good fortune with those who have less. And even more
importantly, to support their altruistic feelings, they also insist that other
people must be forced by government to share their earned wealth and freedom with
all those who have less, regardless of circumstance.
And then we have those who embrace Socialism
because it's promise that they will enjoy all of society’s blessings by forcing
those who have earned their way to happiness to forcibly share their earned
wealth, property, individual freedom to all, regardless of circumstance. That
is, they who have not earned free society’s blessings will now be able to equally
share society’s blessings regardless of station, circumstance or earned right. These
supporters of Socialism are the most strident of all because they are victims of
the ancient practice of Flim Flam. That’s correct. Flim Flam is the operational
paradigm used by the establishment ruling class to ensnare dishonest and
gullible people into socialism.
How so, you may ask. Flim Flam is the nonsensical
use of words to promote one’s objective, and more importantly, it is a form of
trickery to mislead people into believing that they will gain something of
value without earning it. Or in advertising parlance, “We cheat the other guy
and pass the savings on to you.”
In socialism parlance, it is the Flim Flammer
promise, that by embracing Socialism, the people will all finally usher in and experience
the illusive social UTOPIA. You know, the UTOPIA where all are equal in all of
human endeavors and equally blessed by society. That’s correct, like the UTOPIA
that was brought about by the New Harmony and other UTOPIA experiments that
always fail.
And most importantly, the
Flim Flam promise that all will gain free society’s blessings by not having to earn
them but because they have a POLITICAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to all of free
society’s blessings. Unfortunately, the establishment ruling class never
explains to the people that socialism will mean that individual freedom and
liberty will be required to be sacrificed in order for the promised Socialism UTOPIA
to become viable.
It is truly sad that Flim Flam only works
because there are always dishonest people willing to believe in the promise by
those practicing Flim Flam (Socialist and Opportunists) that you can get
something for nothing. In other words, Socialists promise that you do not have
to earn your way to prosperity, all you have to do is support your Socialist
Government to force people who have earned their prosperity to share that
prosperity with you. The old turn of the century saying, “You can’t cheat an
honest man,” applies here. This is also, in essence, the same message of dishonest
advertising that says "We cheat the other guy, and pass the savings on to
you."
If you think
I'm off base here, well then, just listen to and marvel at the support Bernie
Sanders and the burgeoning class of Democratic Socialists that are now embracing
Socialism as preferred government for
the people.
