I get the sense that Senator Bernie Sanders, the failed
Presidential candidate may be one of the most honest men in America; he makes
no attempt to hide the fact the he is a socialist and his goal to convert the
United States into a socialist nation. The problem is folks like Barack Obama
and Hillary Clinton who have the exact same goal in mind without one iota of
the honesty.
The problem for the people in the United States is that
Sanders, Obama, and Clinton are delusional or clueless enough to believe that
socialism can work and is the answer to all of our problems. Thomas J.
DiLorenzo, a professor of economics at Loyola University, Maryland is here to
set them straight in with his new book, The
Problem With Socialism. DiLorenzo points out, not only the time, after time,
after time, the dismal failings of socialist states but details chapter and
verse how and why socialism fails.
DiLorenzo points out the frightening statistics from
polls like, the yougov.com poll that found that 43% of Americans between ages
eighteen and twenty-nine, have a “favorable” opinion of socialism and a 2016
Pew Research poll that 69% of those polled under the age of thirty, expressed a
“willingness to vote for a socialist Presidential candidate.” Those numbers
should be chilling, especially for anyone who is even remotely familiar with
the tyrannical socialist regimes of China, the Soviet Union and North Korea and
the millions of dead they left behind.
What DiLorenzo really spells out is the drip by drip
approach that Obama, Clinton, Sanders and their ilk have taken to slowly and
steadily shift public opinion to being accepting of socialism. It is a classic
example of the story of dropping a frog into a pot of boiling water; it is in
the frogs natural instinct to jump out. If you take the same frog and place him
in a pot of cool water and slowly turn up the heat, the frog will remain
comfortable right up to the minute the water begins to boil; which will be much
too late.
That is the stage that we find ourselves in and
DiLorenzo gives us a clear and concise path to pull ourselves out of the
boiling pot of socialism.
So how did we get here? The American people have been
sold a bill of goods by Obama/Clinton; the bill that includes government
control of health care, so-called “fairness” and “equality”, and of the imbalance
of capitalism. They have used subtle tools to sell this tale; rich capitalists only
succeed because you fail and because they didn’t build the roads and
infrastructure to their factory, the government and the people did. And it goes
on and on.
One of the multitude of problems with socialism is
there is absolutely no motivation to work hard and become successful; the
equality that Obama and Clinton hold dear is that we are all equally failures.
Why work hard when the government Daddy will provide? The biggest problem with
socialism and socialists as British prime minister Margaret Thatcher famously
pointed out, “they always run out of other people’s money.” When government
Daddy can no longer provide, you starve! There is no free health care, free
college education, free food, etc, etc. Somebody has to foot the bill!
While DiLorenzo is a college professor, The Problem With Socialism, is not a
stodgy, boring, text book; it is a concise, easy to understand tome, which is
perfect for student who came out of the “free” public education system. I
highly recommend that parents pick up copies to share with their millennial offspring
along with a clear message of the pending disaster that is a Hillary Clinton
presidency.
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