Socialism Always Fails...Always

 Late yesterday, at the American Thinker D. Parker had a great post entitled The running gag, the leftists lie: 'Socialism has never been tried before'. As Parker notes in his post, socialism has actually been tried many times over hundreds of years, and has...failed...every...time. He notes, socialism started in this country with some of our forebears. For example, the Mayflower colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts nearly starved to death under collectivism. They had made all land common property and expected the people to all give their utmost to ensure the common good. After all, this was a Christian colony.  Trouble was that each person expected someone else to do the hard and dirty work. It is the tragedy of the commons so lamented among environmentalists, where when everybody owns it, nobody worries about conserving it.

Parker describes a sampling of socialist experiments that have taken place in the United States over the last 200 years. None of these were the totalitarian variety. All were entirely voluntary. They did not survive. And little wonder. Like the pilgrims' experiment, when people realize they will get the same as everyone else no matter how hard they work, no matter whether they have good ideas for improving things, they slack off. It is human nature. People will work for their family, for themselves, and a few will work for altruistic reasons. But generally, nobody works for nothing. Indeed, this is called slavery.

So much for the running gag that is the leftist lie: Socialism has never been tried before. It’s been tried everywhere, including the birthplace of AOC, and it’s never worked in 200 years. That’s a consistent record of failure that the left needs to be ashamed of, once you consider the mass murder and misery that always accompany these socialistic schemes.

If you are not familiar with the socialist experiments Parker mentions, it is an interesting exploration. If you happen to be leaning towards socialism, it is worth your while to study them and ask yourself if the current crop of socialists has proposed anything different? If not, how will the current politician succeed where the ones in the past failed?

As far as "capitalism" goes, it is just the way business has always been done. It is trading something you have for something you want more. Merchants would load a ship with, say, grain, wine and olive oil, and hope to trade these for copper, iron, and perhaps spices or luxury goods. In the process, the merchant hoped to make a small profit to provide for his family and be able to purchase his next shipload of goods. The problem with our current "capitalism" is that it has become crony capitalism which is actually corporate socialism. If politicians can note that a business is "too big to fail," with a straight face, they should seriously think about breaking that business up.  Oh, and as we are learning from the collapse of the EV market, you can't sell something nobody wants without government mandates.

Please read the whole post.