Negative Space: socialism
- Bernie Sander’s Ponzi scheme
- John Hinderaker muses about the “enduring popularity of fraud” in politics.
- Big government demands a nanny state
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Big government ensures that voters will demand a nanny state. They can’t afford not to police their neighbors when they pay for the poor choices their neighbors make.
- The Case for Democracy
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When did America forget that it’s America?
- COVID Lessons: Don’t trust socialists
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Our response made the virus worse. We trusted self-styled experts, failed models, socialists, and the media over what we could see with our own eyes.
- Does Hurricane Harvey support socialism in Texas?
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Should Texas forego federal assistance because Texans dislike socialism?
- Eugenics and Other Evils
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What’s old is new again: unwilling to learn the lessons of the past, those who wish to rule are returning to socialism and cronyism as the only two solutions for all the problems government creates. That is, more government to fix bad government.
- Liberal Fascism
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The story of how the National Socialist German Workers Party and the fascist government takeover of businesses became defined as a conservative movement by socialists and leftists who believe the government should control businesses.
- A Matter of Opinion
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“Lord, grant me socialism… but not yet.”
- New York Times claims even moderate Democrats socialist
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According to accusations by the New York Times, Democrats have moved so far to the left that even moderate Democrats are socialists today.
- The Pledge of Allegiance, Francis Bellamy, and national socialism
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Does it matter that the Pledge of Allegiance was written by a socialist?
- Public Citizen lies to its own supporters about single-payer health care?
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The biggest danger for supporters of single-payer is that the ACA is very, very close to single-payer, and they can’t face that it is causing a catastrophic rise in costs and a corresponding reduction in quality.
- Reagan’s Lincolnian Revolution
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Reagan provided an alternative to the assumption held by both parties that bureaucracy was superior to individual freedom.
- Sanders complains: world has too much food
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Due to global warming, rampant capitalism, the world has too much food and too many people. Overweight outnumber underweight for first time since God talked to Moses. Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders calls for institution of Soviet food lines.
- Science fiction’s anti-socialist socialists
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Why do socialist authors so often disparage socialism? From The Time Machine to Animal Farm, the best socialist dystopias are written by committed socialists.
- Why is the media saying Sanders lost the debate?
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Bernie Sanders spoke an important and inconvenient truth about socialism when he came to Hillary Clinton’s defense at the debates.
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- Harrison Bergeron & Activity
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“In a world where every person is equal, those that exhibit above-average intelligence are kept in check via loud earpieces to distract them from thinking too much.”
- It was inevitable that socialized medicine gave up on the elderly with COVID-19
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“…while Spain and Italy are going public about refusing treatment to the elderly, the reality is that the elderly always get less care under socialized medicine. That’s the system, rather than a bug in the system… Unlike free-market medicine which mostly chugs along with care available to everyone, socialized medicine always functions in the equivalent of an emergency environment.”
- Science Fiction Disasters That Never Happened: the Robots Will Make Us Obsolete
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“This one is tricky, because so many people still believe it. Kind of. Sort of. Or at least they piously believe it when people with socialist inclinations are in power and it’s a good way to explain why there are no jobs, as opposed to you know their craptastic policies causing it.”
- Leftists become incandescent when reminded of the socialist roots of Nazism
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“On 16 June 1941, as Hitler readied his forces for Operation Barbarossa, Josef Goebbels looked forward to the new order that the Nazis would impose on a conquered Russia. There would be no come-back, he wrote, for capitalists nor priests nor Tsars. Rather, in the place of debased, Jewish Bolshevism, the Wehrmacht would deliver ‘der echte Sozialismus’: real socialism.”
