Whether we’re looking at the technical definition of socialism (government ownership, central planning, and price controls) or the casual definition of socialism (punitive tax rates, welfare state, intervention), the ideology has a track record of failure.
That’s the bad news.
The good news is that it is easy to mock socialism.
And that’s the focus of today’s column.
We’re going to start with a cartoon strip that exposes the silly notion that government can give us “free” goodies.
Next we have Crazy Bernie telling us that “democratic socialism” is much better than Marx’s original version (he’s actually correct, but this image is still funny).
Our third item compares socialism in theory and socialism in reality.
We’ll close with my favorite item, though it applies to millennials as well as teenagers. Heck it applies to almost everyone who thinks there is some magic source of money for endless government-provided goodies.
Some of you may ask why I didn’t write “everyone” rather than “almost everyone”?
I included a qualifier because I think many leftists are guilty of well-meaning naivete. Basically they think like Chris Hayes of MSNBC, who infamously tweeted that we can afford bigger government because, “We’re a very rich country. We’ll figure it out.”
But some folks on the left actually do understand Thatcher was right, but they still push endless redistribution because they care more about short-run political power rather than the long-run interests of the nation.
[…] As I wrote last November, the one good thing about socialism is the endless opportunities it creates for satire. […]
[…] As I wrote last November, the one good thing about socialism is the endless opportunities it creates for satire. […]
[…] As I wrote last November, the one good thing about socialism is the endless opportunities it creates for satire. […]
[…] As I wrote last November, the one good thing about socialism is the endless opportunities it creates for satire. […]
[…] As I wrote last November, the one good thing about socialism is the endless opportunities it creates for satire. […]
[…] As I wrote last November, the one good thing about socialism is the endless opportunities it creates for satire. […]
[…] As I wrote last November, the one good thing about socialism is the endless opportunities it creates for satire. […]
[…] As I wrote last November, the one good thing about socialism is the endless opportunities it creates for satire. […]
[…] As I wrote last November, the one good thing about socialism is the endless opportunities it creates for satire. […]
[…] As I wrote last November, the one good thing about socialism is the endless opportunities it creates for satire. […]
[…] As I wrote last November, the one good thing about socialism is the endless opportunities it creates for satire. […]
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Dan,
I appreciate your posts but if you allow me some feedback: right now there is only one topic: THE CORONA DICTATORSHIP that is being forced on us. Why don’t you write about that? Take a cue from AIER. All the rest are side issues at the moment.
All the best, Karel
Karel Beckman
Amsterdam
+31-6-3619.3347
jroyola,
So, you think Adam Smith was against capitalism? Not hardly. Nice selective quoting. Smith also says that attemps to stop business conniving will be worse than the conniving itself. Anyway, the answer to business conniving is to ensure competition exists. That means more free-market capitalism, not less. The answer to rich people trying to co-opt the power of government is to keep government from having much power. That too means more free-market capitalism, not less.
“When I catch that leprechaun….”
Also pictured, person that believes in socialism.
Some believers that unfettered liberty to compete in a capitalist system will lead to riches for all should ponder the following advice by Adam Smith. “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. “
One could also add: “and a well-financed campaign to convince Congress to create a tax subsidy for the rich”.
Adam Smith, Book I, Chapter XI
Then there’s those that believe in Santa Claus economics…
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Flip side of socialists are tycoons and monopolists who rely on government to provide tax subsidies and exclude new competitors. Don’t forget them in your humor pieces. Politicians provide tax subsidies to real estate tycoons that create big distorions and inequities. That’s why health workers pay more in federal income tax than $750 paid by Trump.
“But some folks on the left actually do understand Thatcher was right, but they still push endless redistribution because they care more about short-run political power rather than the long-run interests of the nation.”
It’s not just caring about power more than the nation, it’s about HATING THE NATION AND WANTING TO ANNIHILATE IT OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH AND PURGE IT FROM THE HISTORICAL RECORD!!!
I can say this with absolute certainty that it is true about our socialist enemies because of the fact of the existence of and support for the “Cloward-Piven Strategy.” There is no other way to explain a plan to deliberately and systematically overload the public assistance agencies of society in order to destroy the public fisc and manipulate people in to ignorantly and stupidly demanding complete all-encompassing totalitarian communism to fix it.