Lies of Socialism Number 8,267

Socialism is built on lies.  The very foundations of socialism, the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles, are fantasy that starts with positing a human nature that never was and will never be.  In today's post I want to write about two lies that you may hear from time to time.  The first lie you may hear about is the canard that "this country was built by slaves."  The second lie is that "Our Constitution is a living Constitution."

The first lie is usually asserted authoritatively with out any evidence, because there isn't any.  It should be obviously false on its face, such that I don't know why socialists can not see it.  Let us keep in mind that from time immemorial slavery has been an accepted part of all societies.  Indeed, in Muslim societies, it still is.  England was the first country to end the shipping of slaves.  In the United States, there were a number of attempts to outlaw slavery, but these were routinely turned back by Southern plantation owners who believed they needed slaves to compete on the open market for their agricultural products.

Before the Civil War, the great majority of slaves were confined to Southern plantations.  However, the great majority of Americans in both the South and the North lived and worked on small family farms.  Along the Eastern Seaboard, were located mills and small craftsmen, as well as ship builders.  Family farms did not need slaves, and most craftsmen operated with the master, perhaps a journeyman and an apprentice or two.  None of these were slaves.

In any case, blacks today are only 12% of the population.  In 1870, five years after the emancipation of all slaves, the black population was 4.88 million out of a total population of 38.56 million, or 8.9%.  What, are we to believe that the rest of America sat on its hands, drinking mint juleps perhaps, attending charity events, and generally being somehow "elite?"  Somehow I don't think so.  The majority did the majority of work in this country whether it was making steel, building tractors and farm implements, blowing glass bottles, or blacksmithing.  And the majority was never a slave.

Now, in saying that this country was built by all of us, working very hard, is not to say that blacks did not make valuable contributions to the American culture.  Perhaps it would be enough to say that blacks contributed to this country in proportion to their population.  So many people contributed, and continue to contribute to the building of this country, and if we remain a free market meritocracy, we have a bright future.

The second lie, that ours is a living constitution, is yet again false on its face, but may be harder to prove.  But Selwyn Duke, in yesterday's American Thinker makes an admirable case in The Taming of the Bench: MAGA Means Ending Judicial Presedent. Duke's point is that instead of slavishly following stare decisis, each decision should go back to the Constitution as it exists at the time of the decision. This means, of course, taking into account the various amendments. But, even so, the interpretation should be based not on "emanations and penumbras" what other country's constitutions may say, but on what the one we have says.  There is always ample evidence of what the intent of various provisions of the Constitution mean.  Politicians are always loquacious, and their debates are recorded for anyone to peruse.

Please go read Selwyn Duke's piece.