A Simple Bit of Advice

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I agree. Socialism is just awful, absolutely terrible.

"But, but... it hasn't been tried yet", and "That wasn't real socialism!"

Socialism is the work of Satan.

But I love bureaucracy, red tape and useless laws that hamper prosperity and happiness.

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Advice for those who actually believe that socialism can still work, or has "never been tried yet".
I live in the state of Victoria, a socialist hellhole run by a virtual dictator called Daniel Andrews (he's the premier of the state).
During the so-called lockdowns his regime was vindictive and punitive, and the ordinary citizenry was basically under house arrest for more than a year. Melbourne, the capital, became THE most "locked-down" city in the entire world, and it is still an awful place to live.
Businesses have fled the state or gone bankrupt, the bureaucracy has expanded like a balloon, and government secrecy is at an all-time high. "Woke" agendas have been promoted, and parents who try to dissuade their own children from indulging in gender fluidity fantasies can actually be sent to prison. Abortions are on demand and up to and including the TWELFTH month! Taxes have skyrocketed in order to pay for the horrendous debt the state is in (it's effectively bankrupt).
Prior to the epidemic, he tried to sell out the state to the Chinese government, by embracing the "belt-and-road" initiative that has seen many small nations effectively become controlled by the CCP.

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therighttothink50 · 56-60, M Best Comment

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." -C.S. Lewis-

“The Communists’ chief purpose is to destroy every form of independence—independent work, independent action, independent property, independent thought, an independent mind, or an independent man. Conformity, alikeness, servility, submission and obedience are necessary to establish a Communist slave-state.” -Ayn Rand-

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." -Margaret Thatcher-

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the party is always right.” -George Orwell-

“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution” -Aldous Huxley-

“Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave. They don't understand that we also dream.” -Ronald Reagan-

"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.” -Ronald Reagan-

Cassie2083

@therighttothink50 Yes, exactly! Spot on!

SW-User

@therighttothink50 A typical list of bogey words, identifying bogey systems and formulas. Then we can disassociate ourselves from them and thus feel "justified", even "free". Job done.

It is never that easy.

SW-User

@therighttothink50 David Bentley Hart wrote an essay on Ayn Rand. I think Cassie expressed a liking for him.

Excerpt from"The Trouble with Ayn Rand"

I like the Sermon on the Mount. She regarded its prescriptions as among the vilest ever uttered. I suspect that charity really is the only way to avoid wasting one’s life in a desert of sterile egoism. She regarded Christian morality as a poison that had polluted the will of Western man with its ethos of parasitism and orgiastic self-oblation. And, simply said, I cannot find much common ground with someone who believed that the principal source of human woe over the last twenty centuries has been a tragic shortage of selfishness.