On the contrary, we see calls for socialist policies emitted by left-leaning politicians and pundits across the country and in Europe.
A few years ago, Newsweek, a former news magazine, ran a cover declaring "We're all socialists now." One of my favorite examples of this silliness was Jermey Corbyn's claim in 2013 that Hugo Chavez's Venezuela showed us that there was a "Better way" of doing things: "It's called socialism." Today, we see that a couple of decades of socialism has transformed Venezuela from one of the richest countries in South America to a society on the verge of collapse.
Margaret Thatcher famously observed that the problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money.
Taken all together they would push the country far down the road towards penury, the inevitable result of socialism.
Calls for socialism recur like plagues of locusts every several years, most virulently, it seems, not when the economy is suffering but when it is booming.
So perhaps it is not surprising that children of all ages have emerged to whine and rant and demand that socialism be "Given a chance." I like to think that the people writ large are too sensible to fall for this charade.
The fact that calls for socialism are once again crowding the airwaves reminds us that folly is a noxious hardy perennial that prudent gardeners need to be eternally vigilant to spot and extirpate.
https://spectator.us/2018/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-the-kind-of-socialist-only-capitalism-could-produce/
A few years ago, Newsweek, a former news magazine, ran a cover declaring "We're all socialists now." One of my favorite examples of this silliness was Jermey Corbyn's claim in 2013 that Hugo Chavez's Venezuela showed us that there was a "Better way" of doing things: "It's called socialism." Today, we see that a couple of decades of socialism has transformed Venezuela from one of the richest countries in South America to a society on the verge of collapse.
Margaret Thatcher famously observed that the problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money.
Taken all together they would push the country far down the road towards penury, the inevitable result of socialism.
Calls for socialism recur like plagues of locusts every several years, most virulently, it seems, not when the economy is suffering but when it is booming.
So perhaps it is not surprising that children of all ages have emerged to whine and rant and demand that socialism be "Given a chance." I like to think that the people writ large are too sensible to fall for this charade.
The fact that calls for socialism are once again crowding the airwaves reminds us that folly is a noxious hardy perennial that prudent gardeners need to be eternally vigilant to spot and extirpate.
https://spectator.us/2018/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-the-kind-of-socialist-only-capitalism-could-produce/
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