Comments on: When is a socialist not a socialist?

By: Roy Nathanson

Roy Nathanson — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 03:47:55 +0000

Tom Grey said,

“Socialism is always tribalist. Putting humans into groups.
The opposite of the socialist is the individualist.”

Very well said.

It is worse than the established fact that, as an economic system, Socialism does not work.

The worst part of it is that, in the guise if egalitarianism, it places the elites of the society in positions of unchecked power, and runs roughshod over the rights of the citizens… all in the name of “the people”.

By: Aggie

Aggie — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 02:29:37 +0000

Bernie is a self-labeled “Socialist” – but one should always remember that a Socialist is just a Communist that hasn’t managed to finagle a majority vote – yet.

To paraphrase the old saying, you can vote yourself into Socialism, but you’ll end up shooting your way out of Communism.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Sun, 16 Feb 2020 01:52:23 +0000

GK Galloway on February 15, 2020 at 7:48 am said:
It’s simple… A Socialist is a Communist without a gun.
* * *
..until they win an election that includes a police force (and there are a lot of guns among our Agencies that you wouldn’t think needed them).

On government as employer: the way public unions and bureaucrats collude to fleece the voters is part of the same mindset as socialism.

By: Tom Grey

Tom Grey — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 22:49:13 +0000

pro-pro- Trump Don Surber notes the knitting story of a few months ago:
https://donsurber.blogspot.com/2020/02/knitters-get-last-laugh.html#more

Funny how good stories can get recycled months later, and remind folk that they were quite good.

And how so many socialists are …
mean.
Mean-spirited, looking for reasons to dislike the Other.
And, like all prejudiced folk, finding “reasons”.
Fake News is especially strong with those who are prejudiced.

Dems prior prejudice against Blacks has been replaced with a prejudice against Reps.
Dems are still crazy prejudiced folk.

By: Cap'n Rusty

Cap'n Rusty — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 18:52:10 +0000

Dnaxy:
If the Founders could have known how large government at all levels would become, they would have restricted the franchise to those who were not government employees. As it was, they restricted the franchise to freeholders, i.e., only those who had skin in the game could vote.

The recent takeover of Virginia’s state government by Democrats, via the voters in northern Virginia (the wealthy Washington DC suburbs) and Mike Bloomberg’s anti-gun money, has brought on the ensuing onslaught of “progressive” legislation, and stands as a dire warning of what can happen.

By: Estoy Listo

Estoy Listo — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 18:32:06 +0000

Diner to waiter: Do you serve crabs here?
Waiter: Madam, we serve everyone.

It took me a while to get it, alas.

By: Dnaxy

Dnaxy — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 17:28:05 +0000

If you are an employer you can always figure out ways to get your employees to vote for you: offer more pay; offer a great health plan; offer child care or more vacation; offer to put your division in charge of another division; offer to not move to Cleveland, offer early retirement and better pension….

Socialistic governments are always big employers.

Socialistic governments can always affect the voting so that democracy is abrogated.

There is no such thing as democratic socialism.
QED

By: Tom Grey

Tom Grey — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:27:09 +0000

It’s sad that so few Americans know that Hitler was a socialist, too.
A National Socialist.
Wanting his Germanic tribe to have superiority over the Jewish and other tribes.

Socialism is always tribalist. Putting humans into groups.
The opposite of the socialist is the individualist.

I support individualism, while recognizing the duties all persons have to others, to “society” — by not committing crimes.

By: sdferr

sdferr — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:12:30 +0000

And ha ha, now it seems they’ve got themselves a Pope, to boot.

By: sdferr

sdferr — Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:11:07 +0000

If set out to make a “long march” then rather than “of all places” Notre Dame is precisely of the sort the commies would aim to infiltrate, no? So it can’t be a surprise — again, if given foreknowledge of the plan.