"Look at Europe...Can't you see past the guff and recognize the essence? One country is dedicated to the proposition that man has no rights, that the collective is all. The individual held as evil, the mass - as God. No motive and no virtue permitted-except that of service to the proletariat. That's one version (communism). Here's another. A country dedicated to the proposition that man has no rights, that the State is all. The individual held as evil, the race-as God. No motive and no virtue permitted - except that of service to the race (fascism). Am I raving or is this the cold reality of two continents already? Watch the pincer movement. If you're sick of one version, we push you into the other. We get you coming and going. We've closed the doors. We've fixed the coin. Heads-collectivism, and tails-collectivism. Fight the doctrine which slaughters the individual with a doctrine which slaughters the individual. Give up your should to a council-or give it up to a leader. But give it up, give it up, give it up. My technique....Offer poison as food and poison as antidote. ("The Soul of a Collectivist" in For The New Intellectual by Ayn Rand).
Also listen to Lord Monckton on PJTV demolish Al Gore's "global warming' scam. What does this have to do with the above quote from Ayn Rand. Control. Control of us the little people. Between the demolished Global Warming scam and Obama's turning of America to the left we must be vigilant and brave as we struggle as a nation to retain our heritage of liberty and small government. Tyranny has to be fought from all the sides that it is being imposed on us.
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Friday, March 05, 2010
Saturday, September 05, 2009
A Cry Against America's Descent Into Socialist Slavery
It is always worth repeating what Socialism always leads to: poverty for all except for the ruling class - the anointed ones that know better than anyone how everyone should live. The need to make the case for Capitalism is now more urgent since Obama and his minions and our worthless "cave-in"congress are bringing us to the brink of a proven failure: the anti-freedom system of government that is Socialism. Below is a former Soviet Union citizen, now living in America crying out to us to not allow this descent into socialist slavery. I call it slavery because we will all be working for the government NOT for ourselves. Americans are CAPITALISTS - We are nurtured at the feet of our forefathers who fought to the death against tyranny and oppression. But socialism is much worse than what George Washington fought against - because socialism is a cancer that eats at individualism, the pursuit of happiness, and ends up destroying your liberty completely.
In the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, I was taught to believe individual pursuits are selfish and sacrificing for the collective good is noble.
In kindergarten we sang songs about Lenin, the leader of the Socialist Revolution. In school we learned about the beautiful socialist system, where everybody is equal and everything is fair…
... God-based religion was suppressed and replaced with cultlike adoration for political figures.
The government-assigned salary of the proletariat (blue-collar worker) was 30%-50% higher then any professional. Without incentive to improve their life, professionals drank themselves to oblivion. They — engineers, lawyers, doctors, teachers — earned a government-determined salary that barely covered the necessities, mainly food.
Raising children was a hardship. It took four to six adults (parents and grandparents) to support a child. The usual size of the postwar family was one or two children. Every woman had the right to have an abortion and most of them did, often without anesthesia.
…In the USSR, economic equality was achieved by redistributing wealth, ensuring that everyone remained poor, with the exception of those doing the redistributing. Only the ruling class of communist leaders had access to special stores, medicine and accommodations that could compare to those in the West.
The rest of the citizenry had to deal with permanent shortages of food and other necessities, and had access to free but inferior, unsanitary and low-tech medical care. The egalitarian utopia of equality, achieved by the sacrifice of individual self-interest for the collective good, led to corruption, black markets, anger and envy. READ AT IBD
In the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, I was taught to believe individual pursuits are selfish and sacrificing for the collective good is noble.
In kindergarten we sang songs about Lenin, the leader of the Socialist Revolution. In school we learned about the beautiful socialist system, where everybody is equal and everything is fair…
... God-based religion was suppressed and replaced with cultlike adoration for political figures.
The government-assigned salary of the proletariat (blue-collar worker) was 30%-50% higher then any professional. Without incentive to improve their life, professionals drank themselves to oblivion. They — engineers, lawyers, doctors, teachers — earned a government-determined salary that barely covered the necessities, mainly food.
Raising children was a hardship. It took four to six adults (parents and grandparents) to support a child. The usual size of the postwar family was one or two children. Every woman had the right to have an abortion and most of them did, often without anesthesia.
…In the USSR, economic equality was achieved by redistributing wealth, ensuring that everyone remained poor, with the exception of those doing the redistributing. Only the ruling class of communist leaders had access to special stores, medicine and accommodations that could compare to those in the West.
The rest of the citizenry had to deal with permanent shortages of food and other necessities, and had access to free but inferior, unsanitary and low-tech medical care. The egalitarian utopia of equality, achieved by the sacrifice of individual self-interest for the collective good, led to corruption, black markets, anger and envy. READ AT IBD
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