A well financed and vocal minority continue to riot and babble the oft failed siren song of socialism. The new deal, square deal or fair deal of economic equality is a joke, but appeals to millions of naïve or economically ignorant people. Liberal/progressive/socialist politicians and their media manipulators publicize and cheer the cause well beyond it's relevance or value.
Many warring demonstrators wear masks and use physical violence, shouting, and burning to convey their belief and intimidate opposing views. In the case of the college aged participants, many are still financed by parents or government loans and probably don't want to be recognized. These children are convinced people and businesses should surrender or allow confiscation of their wealth and property for redistribution by a " benevolent " government. The old people in the crowd of demonstrators are old hippies frustrated by their lives and perhaps brain damaged by a lifetime of drug use.
The idea of socialism was invented by Karl Marx and Frederich Engels in the mid nineteenth century. It was based upon the community models of Plato's "Republic" and Sir Thomas More's "Utopia". The theory requires communal or government ownership and control of production and distribution of goods. Except for a few early Christian groups and hippie communes, socialism has never succeeded on any large scale. Even the political hammer of Communism applied in the early twentieth century couldn't satisfy the wants and needs of a large nation. When government gets in the business of controlling the economy we find Russians wanting for toilet paper and Venezuelans starving while North Koreans suffer in a slave state. Cubans drive 60 and 70 year old jalopies around the filthy harbor of Havana and slow down to avoid crowds of beggars because socialism and communism are failed concepts. A few socialist practices have been adopted in the US, but thankfully the free market and capitalism and a free market will reign supreme in the production and distribution of goods and services.
Somehow, latter day political demagogues in Europe and America repackage the fantasy of socialism and preach it to a willing audience of dreamer students, idealists and uneducated people every few decades. Bernie Sanders joined by AOC, her gang and other uber progressives are the latest American political hacks to preach the empty dream of socialism. Some college students and many American haters have used this cause to incite civil disobedience and continually whine over the 2016 election results.
If they gave a damn about education, Soros and other billionaires in conjunction with college administrators would fund programs to expose young students to a real educational opportunity. I think those who believe socialism is the salvation of mankind should stop "talking the talk" and "walk the walk" by spending a few months in North Korea, Cuba or Venezuela.
In 2013 I visited Cuba and found the people cordial, however living in Havana is an experience of crumbling buildings, poor infrastructure, long gas lines, dim streetlights, empty grocer and rationing shops and far too many street beggars. Additionally, a filthy harbor and lines of very old American cars points to another failed version of socialism. Castro and his soviet allies damned this once beautiful Caribbean nation and their good people to decades of poverty and hopelessness.
The Soro's sponsored anarchists along with BLM and ANTIFA mobs seek big changes by violence, fires, bombing, intimidation and looting, but they will fail.
Many warring demonstrators wear masks and use physical violence, shouting, and burning to convey their belief and intimidate opposing views. In the case of the college aged participants, many are still financed by parents or government loans and probably don't want to be recognized. These children are convinced people and businesses should surrender or allow confiscation of their wealth and property for redistribution by a " benevolent " government. The old people in the crowd of demonstrators are old hippies frustrated by their lives and perhaps brain damaged by a lifetime of drug use.
The idea of socialism was invented by Karl Marx and Frederich Engels in the mid nineteenth century. It was based upon the community models of Plato's "Republic" and Sir Thomas More's "Utopia". The theory requires communal or government ownership and control of production and distribution of goods. Except for a few early Christian groups and hippie communes, socialism has never succeeded on any large scale. Even the political hammer of Communism applied in the early twentieth century couldn't satisfy the wants and needs of a large nation. When government gets in the business of controlling the economy we find Russians wanting for toilet paper and Venezuelans starving while North Koreans suffer in a slave state. Cubans drive 60 and 70 year old jalopies around the filthy harbor of Havana and slow down to avoid crowds of beggars because socialism and communism are failed concepts. A few socialist practices have been adopted in the US, but thankfully the free market and capitalism and a free market will reign supreme in the production and distribution of goods and services.
Somehow, latter day political demagogues in Europe and America repackage the fantasy of socialism and preach it to a willing audience of dreamer students, idealists and uneducated people every few decades. Bernie Sanders joined by AOC, her gang and other uber progressives are the latest American political hacks to preach the empty dream of socialism. Some college students and many American haters have used this cause to incite civil disobedience and continually whine over the 2016 election results.
If they gave a damn about education, Soros and other billionaires in conjunction with college administrators would fund programs to expose young students to a real educational opportunity. I think those who believe socialism is the salvation of mankind should stop "talking the talk" and "walk the walk" by spending a few months in North Korea, Cuba or Venezuela.
In 2013 I visited Cuba and found the people cordial, however living in Havana is an experience of crumbling buildings, poor infrastructure, long gas lines, dim streetlights, empty grocer and rationing shops and far too many street beggars. Additionally, a filthy harbor and lines of very old American cars points to another failed version of socialism. Castro and his soviet allies damned this once beautiful Caribbean nation and their good people to decades of poverty and hopelessness.
The Soro's sponsored anarchists along with BLM and ANTIFA mobs seek big changes by violence, fires, bombing, intimidation and looting, but they will fail.
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