The Dems are parading that little gal out of NY that is a Socialist, they could have picked someone else because she is dumber than a mud fence but she is young and my bet is they are laying the foundation with her generation.
Socialism is an easy sell because it's based upon the key words of "Easy, Good, and FREE", whatever you want is gonna be easy, free and good, 3 words that don't travel together very often. Of course there is the age old retort to those that hawk its free aspect...'how are you going to pay for it?' To that they say its easy, Apple is worth a Trillion, let's tax them and take half of that, Zuckerman is worth $120Billion, he doesn't need all that so we take the rich more and we can get $60 Billion from him. To the socialist the answer is simple and easy, just tax more not a problem. Then the little NY Socialists said yesterday that if we have universal healthcare we will save money on funerals because less people will die and they will pay for the medical! Like I said she is stupid, so stupid she could not pour piss out of boot with the directions written on the heel
Having said that what we know that socialism can be found around the globe and in spite of massive failures it keeps raising its ugly head and now its done it in the US, which I NEVER thought was possible. It's coming and going to land squarely in your laps (note I said YOUR laps). My bet is socialism will begin making its appearance in the next Dem to sit in the Oval office and from there my guess is 2 more Dem elections concurrently and it will be reality. In time I would about 20 years from now.
My logic here is Silicon Valley which is about as far left as you can get. In my 25 years in the IT world I say little left wing thinking, but those of us there are now mostly gone, I retired when I sold my company in 2001 and have never looked back. Zuckerman woth about $120B is far left and certainly has no issue with Socialism as he is one of the biggest proponents of UBI, Universal Basic Income where you are paid not to work. Zman is not smart enough know we have UBI now and have had it for long time, its called Welfare and we see how that has worked out for us.
Compare the Top 5 % of yesterday with the Top 5% of today: Yesterday's 5%ers came from the oil fields and manufacturing factories, lumber, land and these hard me knew hard work and high risk. Today its electrons and clean hands, AC heated offices, low risk extremely high rewards.
In all Socialist modern Socialist govt we find the same thing a union of the extreme wealthy capitalists linked to the top level of the govt. Our nearest example is Mexico, where about 10% of the population control 90% of the wealth of the country. You have poor Mexicans and wealthy and few in between. Socialism does not like middle class and under Obama our middle class was decimated. He knew well what he was doing!
All this brings up an interesting question: Can the left take over and implement a Socialist form of govt and accomplish it WITHOUT massive gun control. I don't know of any Socialist movement that was accomplished without a lot of people dying in the process.
That said I and my guns won't be around so what happens then.
Now days children are shielded from the evils or taught that they should look for the good in evil.
The devil's greatest trick was convincing the world he didn't exist.
Thankfully I am seeing signs that many Americans are waking up to it, I just hope it will be enough when it's time. I maintain my hope, for the alternative is civil war.This is the "long game" that is being ignored by the general population as political correctness. It will also be the most successful corruption of our society !!!!!
This is not an article about socialism or Marx.The most referenced economist in colleges today is Karl Marx...
Yeah it's only 25.7% socialismnot quite socialist states
You bring up a legit point, its rare that it occurs without taking the guns from citizens hands. But the US is different, our Constitution recognizes that we have a GOD given right to keep and bear arms.All this brings up an interesting question: Can the left take over and implement a Socialist form of govt and accomplish it WITHOUT massive gun control. I don't know of any Socialist movement that was accomplished without a lot of people dying in the process.
That said I and my guns won't be around so what happens then.
It will, equally poor.They think it is something that will magically make them "equal" to everyone else.
I was told a while back that I was a fool because I wrote that socialism doesn't work. He said it's different if elected rather than at the end of a rifle. Well, here is their agenda from a web site.The Dems are parading that little gal out of NY that is a Socialist, they could have picked someone else because she is dumber than a mud fence but she is young and my bet is they are laying the foundation with her generation.
Socialism is an easy sell because it's based upon the key words of "Easy, Good, and FREE", whatever you want is gonna be easy, free and good, 3 words that don't travel together very often. Of course there is the age old retort to those that hawk its free aspect...'how are you going to pay for it?' To that they say its easy, Apple is worth a Trillion, let's tax them and take half of that, Zuckerman is worth $120Billion, he doesn't need all that so we take the rich more and we can get $60 Billion from him. To the socialist the answer is simple and easy, just tax more not a problem. Then the little NY Socialists said yesterday that if we have universal healthcare we will save money on funerals because less people will die and they will pay for the medical! Like I said she is stupid, so stupid she could not pour piss out of boot with the directions written on the heel
Having said that what we know that socialism can be found around the globe and in spite of massive failures it keeps raising its ugly head and now its done it in the US, which I NEVER thought was possible. It's coming and going to land squarely in your laps (note I said YOUR laps). My bet is socialism will begin making its appearance in the next Dem to sit in the Oval office and from there my guess is 2 more Dem elections concurrently and it will be reality. In time I would about 20 years from now.
My logic here is Silicon Valley which is about as far left as you can get. In my 25 years in the IT world I say little left wing thinking, but those of us there are now mostly gone, I retired when I sold my company in 2001 and have never looked back. Zuckerman woth about $120B is far left and certainly has no issue with Socialism as he is one of the biggest proponents of UBI, Universal Basic Income where you are paid not to work. Zman is not smart enough know we have UBI now and have had it for long time, its called Welfare and we see how that has worked out for us.
Compare the Top 5 % of yesterday with the Top 5% of today: Yesterday's 5%ers came from the oil fields and manufacturing factories, lumber, land and these hard me knew hard work and high risk. Today its electrons and clean hands, AC heated offices, low risk extremely high rewards.
In all Socialist modern Socialist govt we find the same thing a union of the extreme wealthy capitalists linked to the top level of the govt. Our nearest example is Mexico, where about 10% of the population control 90% of the wealth of the country. You have poor Mexicans and wealthy and few in between. Socialism does not like middle class and under Obama our middle class was decimated. He knew well what he was doing!
All this brings up an interesting question: Can the left take over and implement a Socialist form of govt and accomplish it WITHOUT massive gun control. I don't know of any Socialist movement that was accomplished without a lot of people dying in the process.
That said I and my guns won't be around so what happens then.
November should be interesting. The key like the last election is to vote. Let's hope those who favor socialism do not come out in droves. The media continues to hammer away at DT and citizens. Social media continues to silence opposing thought. State and local politicians continue to erode rights. Contrary to popular belief, violence is the answer. Look how well the left has used it. Again, my hope is not here and I have no kids. The time to worry about the next generation was about 2 generations ago.Latest Gallup poll:
57% of all Dims favor socialism over capitalism.
76% would vote for a Socialist!!!
First off I have very little regard for polls, the percentage only comes from those who care to be a part of it, so it may not be an actual percentage of all Americans, as evident from the 2016 election. Second, if socialism does become the popular politics you can be sure they will come for the guns.You bring up a legit point, its rare that it occurs without taking the guns from citizens hands. But the US is different, our Constitution recognizes that we have a GOD given right to keep and bear arms.
That said 2 things come into play:
1) The approval of the Trump nominee to SCOTUS, the Dems are not supporting and I think the sole reason is that is he pro gun. 4 of the current sitting Justices are NOT pro gun and in fact see the 2nd in a whole different light. Justice Anthony Scalia IMO was murdered due to his pro gun, hunting stance!
2) Frog in a pot of cold water sitting on the stove: Frog thinks the water feels good till it don't. In other words you implement slowly and the easy parts first all the while saying it does not feel so bad does it and its only going to get better.
BREAKING: Fox News 8:22 am 23 Aug: Most recent poll shows that 36% of all Americans favor moving away from Capitalism to Socialism
There is your reality. Fact is unless you actually own a business or work for a small privately owned business the effect on you will be even slower to materialize, if you work for any govt there will be no effect at all in the short term.
How many of us sat back and thought Political Correctness and it's proponents were just being stupid and a nuisance. We let them make there speech about us being incorrect and we need to do/act this way and thought they were dumb. We talked about them being silly and stupid. All the while our young were being indoctrinated into the idealism of Marxism. They were fed propaganda everyday and we paid no attention. The radicals we grew up with became professors and the rhetoric continued. We allowed the 'make English the language of America' movement slip away from us and then allowed civics and history to be removed and replaced with Liberal studies in our schools. The children were being indoctrinated and we didn't pay attention. We bought the narrative that they all had to have a college education. We didn't pay attention to how much it cost and what was being taught. They now had our kids where they wanted them, away from their parents and gullible to the propaganda. Now we end up with the youth of America buying into social Marxism. Goes right along with the everyone gets a participation trophy.This is the "long game" that is being ignored by the general population as political correctness. It will also be the most successful corruption of our society !!!!!