Socialism is the leading man-made cause of death and misery in human existence.
Socialism is perhaps the only ideology that Americans are asked to judge solely based on its piddling "Successes." Don't you dare mention Albania or Algeria or Angola or Burma or Congo or Cuba or Ethiopia or Laos or Somalia or Vietnam or Yemen or, well, any other of the dozens of other inconvenient places socialism has been tried.
Of course, socialism exists on a spectrum, and even if we accept that the Nordic social-program experiments are the most benign iteration of collectivism, they are certainly not the only version.
It goes something like this: If you're a fan of "Roads, schools, libraries and such," although you may not even be aware of it, you are also a supporter of socialism.
Socialists like to blame every inequity, the actions of every greedy criminal, every downturn and every social ill on the injustice of capitalism.
In China, where communism sadly still deprives more than a billion people of their basic rights, hundreds of millions benefit from a system that is slowly shedding socialism.
In the United States, only 5 percent of people are even aware that poverty has fallen in the world, according to the Gapminder Foundation, which is almost certainly in part due to the left's obsession with "Inequality" and normalization of "Socialism." Nearly half of American millennials would rather live in a socialist society than in a capitalist one, according to a YouGov poll.
http://reason.com/archives/2018/07/27/sorry-if-youre-offended-but-socialism-le
Socialism is perhaps the only ideology that Americans are asked to judge solely based on its piddling "Successes." Don't you dare mention Albania or Algeria or Angola or Burma or Congo or Cuba or Ethiopia or Laos or Somalia or Vietnam or Yemen or, well, any other of the dozens of other inconvenient places socialism has been tried.
Of course, socialism exists on a spectrum, and even if we accept that the Nordic social-program experiments are the most benign iteration of collectivism, they are certainly not the only version.
It goes something like this: If you're a fan of "Roads, schools, libraries and such," although you may not even be aware of it, you are also a supporter of socialism.
Socialists like to blame every inequity, the actions of every greedy criminal, every downturn and every social ill on the injustice of capitalism.
In China, where communism sadly still deprives more than a billion people of their basic rights, hundreds of millions benefit from a system that is slowly shedding socialism.
In the United States, only 5 percent of people are even aware that poverty has fallen in the world, according to the Gapminder Foundation, which is almost certainly in part due to the left's obsession with "Inequality" and normalization of "Socialism." Nearly half of American millennials would rather live in a socialist society than in a capitalist one, according to a YouGov poll.
http://reason.com/archives/2018/07/27/sorry-if-youre-offended-but-socialism-le
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