American thinker. A compendium of scawlings by low life gutter trash On Oct 31, 10:02 am, Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: *Travis* > Date: Thu, Oct 30, 2008 > Subject: The Repugnance of Socialism > > Too bad this type of common sense is not more common. > > B > > http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/the_repugnance_of_socialism.html > > October 30, 2008 The Repugnance of Socialism*By* *Kyle-Anne > Shiver*<http://www.americanthinker.com/kyleanne_shiver/> > > "The worst difficulties from which we suffer do not come from without. They > come from within...They come from a peculiar type of brainy people, always > found in our country, who if they add something to our culture, take much > from its strength. Our difficulties come from the mood of unwarrantable > self-abasement into which we have been cast by a powerful section of our own > intellectuals." > - Winston Churchill, on Leftists > > Earlier this year I read a column in which the writer rejoiced because the > word, "socialism," is no longer a scary bogeyman to Americans. When I > Googled the writer and learned he was only 31 and graduated from Columbia, > it wasn't hard to figure out how he got it all wrong. > > Since he had clearly been taught our "revised" history -- the one that > glosses over the 100,000,000-grave killing fields of the communists and > makes high drama out of the "sufferings" of the Hollywood blacklisted and > the McCarthy hearings -- he didn't have a clue about what actually > happened. This pitiful, Ivy-League indoctrinated writer had reached the > false conclusion that Americans used to be scared down to their woolies of > the big bad commies, but weren't anymore. > > *Isn't it hard to believe that reasonably intelligent parents actually pay > big bucks for those fancy degrees in poppycock?* > > Americans weren't *scared* of socialism, silly. They found it *viscerally > repugnant.* > > *One must never mistake repugnance for fear. The first is based upon > reason, the latter upon emotion.* > > And the reasons for loathing socialism are as clear as the nose on anyone's > face. > > No fully-grown human being with a single ounce of self-respect *ever* *wants > * to be taken care of by others. No person with dignity will tolerate being > told what to do, what to think, how to work or how to be an "acceptable" > person. No free man or woman will tolerate the loss of liberty in exchange > for material comfort. > > Many generations of Americans vehemently rejected these notions over and > over again, not out of fear, but out of the kind of visceral loathing that > makes a normal person wretch, gag and grab for his religion and his guns. > > *The Lure of the Nanny State* > > "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its > victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber > barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty > may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those > who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so > with the approval of their own conscience." > - C. S. Lewis > > A great many Americans -- perhaps even a majority -- seem poised to hand > over vast amounts of their hard-earned money and their hard-won liberties to > the promised "collective > redemption"<http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/02/obamas_politics_of_collective....>being > offered by Barack Obama and his socialist band of "progressives" in > Congress. With the votes of nanny-state supporters from all classes among > us, their utopian dreams will be put to the test on our own ground and the > reach of our federal government will be expanded drastically according to > their plans. > > But how does this really play out? > > *Always and everywhere it is tried.* > > *The Socialist's Lure* > > One of the simplest realities of life is that the person who pays the bill > is the one who makes the decisions. When that person is you, you decide. > When the payer is a state collective, the collective decides. And you > obey. > > *This ain't rocket science. The freedom to decide is the reason all > children finally leave the security of the nest and jump to the ground. > It's innate. This will to be free. To decide for oneself.* > > Consider only these 3 areas of Obama's collective plan for the redemption of > American society: > > - Obama wants to use a lot of taxpayer money to offer education to > children from birth through college. Free to mommies and daddies. On the > taxpayer dollar, rather than on the parents'. > > The socialist lure: Give the state your children and the state will relieve > you of the burden of educating them and teaching them values and knowledge. > Parents, you're off the hook. > > The result: The state then makes all the decisions about what your children > will be taught, how they will be brought up, what knowledge is important and > what is not. > > - Obama wants to bring the federal government's involvement into > healthcare to an unprecedented level. > > The socialist lure: Give the state your money and the power to enforce > healthcare for all, and the collective state will relieve you of your > responsibility to provide this service for yourselves and your children. > > The result: The state makes healthcare decisions. Healthcare is then > rationed according to need, as decided by the state. > > - Obama wants to enshrine positive rights to all citizens that include a > guaranteed "living wage" to all regardless of individual work. > > The socialist lure: No citizen will be without the means to live a fairly > equitable life regardless of individual delinquency or extra effort. > > The result: The poor and unfortunate become wards of the state and vastly > increase in number. Work incentives plummet. > > - Obama wants our politics to be nice, not mean or divisive. He wants > unity. He wants us all to get along. > > The socialist lure: Peace. Harmony. Goodwill to all. No good guys and > bad guys. All will be nice and we will sing Kumbayah in perfect harmony all > over the world. > > The result: Anyone who dissents, who finds error, who sees things > differently will be silenced. This is the only way collectives ever enforce > their ideas of "unity." > > Progress? In the memorable words of C. S. Lewis: > > "We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means > doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the > man who turns back soonest is the most progressive." > > *Freedom and individual responsibility are inseparable.* > > The choice we are facing in this election is simple. We have freedom only > when we accept personal responsibility for ourselves and our children. If > we want to divest ourselves from the responsibility to provide for > ourselves, then we also forfeit our freedom to make our own decisions. > > Great leaders have appeared from time to time to warn free people of the > innate deceptiveness of the socialists' lures. Ronald Reagan saw the evil > as clear as day. Reagan's "ten scariest words in the English language": > > "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you." > > Winston Churchill expounded further on leftist ideology: > > "Let them quit these gospels of envy, hate and malice. Let them eliminate > them from their politics and programmes. Let them abandon the utter > fallacy, the grotesque, erroneous fatal blunder of believing that by > limiting the enterprise of man, by riveting the shackles of a false > equality...they will increase the well-being of the world." > > John McCain is a leader in the same mold as Reagan and Churchill when it > comes to seeing the innate evil within the Marist lure and its deceptive > threat to real peace and any prosperity worth having. But of these three -- > Reagan, Churchill and McCain -- McCain is the only one who has seen > firsthand, from the inside, how it is that collective regimes may appear > fair and just and unified. > > McCain learned the hard way that socialist fairness is a carefully > choreographed illusion, that socialist justice is a capricious commodity > doled out on a whim by dictators with hard-core boots and clubs. > > Unity? Unity is obtained through coercive means and by taking children very > early into indoctrination as model, happy future workers for the collective > "good." > > So, Obama got his ideas by palling around with radical communist > revolutionaries of the 60s. Obama chose these radicals as mentors and > friends. Obama's own parents were from the same mold as well. Happy > socialists all. > > John McCain spent a good deal of his adult life with radical socialists > too. Five and a half years to be precise. Only McCain got his education on > the merits of communism from inside one of their "utopian" cells under > force. > > Perhaps never before have Americans had such an easy choice for our next > President. Here's hoping we've raised more freedom-loving patriots than > fools. > > Or Obama's victory celebration may turn out to be the biggest April's Fools > Day we could have ever imagined. > > *Kyle-Anne Shiver is an independent journalist and a frequent contributor to > American Thinker. 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