Is Socialism Inevitable?
Wednesday, December 23, 2009 at 5:32PM Interesting perspective I gleaned from another blog:
Socialism may be unstoppable because its success depends simply on the exploitation of human nature, and the weakness of human nature is far more powerful and ubiquitous than its strengths. Partaking of it, for either a voter or politician, is the path of least resistance with the most immediate reward. This dynamic portends that socialism will be the chosen road that every democracy eventually chooses.
Of course, this same frailties of human nature will eventually fail any socialist state, as all socialist democracies go quickly bankrupt because of it. Unfortunately, that bankruptcy does not throw off the yoke of socialism - it simply invites an additional yoke of authoritarianism.
No democracy has ever been able to fend off socialism. It is a black hole that engulfs not just wealth, but the freedom to escape that end. This one-way journey toward the event horizon is made inevitable by the irresistible gravity of the weaknesses of human nature.
Reader Comments (4)
Can't argue with the premise. As long as you have snake oil salesmen (Democrats) and a gullible public, we have this outcome hanging over our heads. Unfortunately, we'll never get rid of either.
100% correct. I have always thought this is where we would end up. There are simply too many morons procreating like wildfire for it to be any other way.
It definitely makes you think, huh?
Our federal government pays unmarried people with no means of support to have children and penalizes taxpayers for becoming and staying married. Liberals fight the notion that this is related to worsening of social ills such as the illegitimacy rate or the performance of the urban public school system. Liberal elites......book smart but no common sense? Or brilliant and laying the ground work to lead us into socialism? Either way they suck.