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George Rebane

Some thoughts on Super Tuesday 2020.  Socialism is a form of organizing society and the economy, a form unknown to our younger generations.  They have been taught in our schools all about the mythical glories of socialism, and no history of what actually happens when countries have adopted it.  Today they are saturated by reports of Europe’s socialism as examples of the ‘benefits’ which await America on its adoption here.  These propagandized stories are generated and delivered by our media that are somewhere between incompetent and corruptly partisan.

With today’s stifling political correctness and ongoing deconstruction of our public speech, critical thinking by the young is almost impossible and definitely rare.  It is a field day for corrupt politicians like Senators Sanders and Warren.  This gives the young no choice about their messages, but to simply believe their content, and judge them only by the cosmetics of their delivery.

All of this explains why our millennials and genXrs are so willing and eager to vote away their national inheritance.  The one-world socialist elites know well Thomas Jefferson’s admonition – ‘A nation ignorant and free, that never was and never shall be.’

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[6mar20 update] Super Tuesday’s Latinos for Sanders.  We know that Bernie Sanders is an idiot and a demogauge – he has proved it daily for at least the last five years.  But what about the young Latinos whose parents escaped here from dictatorial banana republics in which Sanders’ socialism was on full display, and whose history and leaders Sanders still celebrates today?  What does that say for their socio-political awareness when they have such revealing and enlightening family histories?  Actually, it says the same thing about them as about the more indigenous Americans who make up Bernie’s Bros.  It’s the same 25-30% of unread bad news bears (more in California) who can’t or won’t, and who support every national movement that promises them a workers’ paradise where everything is free.  They will be with us forever, here and elsewhere.  And every so often they are successful in bringing communism to the fore, and dispense wholesale misery to their people for a couple of generations before the next revolution.  All of them now believe it’s finally America’s chance to dumpster dive for a dictatorship of the proletariat.  (more here)

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15 responses to “The Socialistic Socialization of Socialism (updated 6mar20)”

  1. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    There’s nothing that keeps people from giving socialism a try. You don’t even need a commune like the one Bernie Sanders was kicked off of for being too lazy. It could be done for all levels of socialism up to full-blown communism.
    Simply put together a contractual agreement that allows a group to share all expenses, income, assets, risk. Maybe a non-profit corporation. It might be nice to live in a physical community, but it’s not needed. Put together a group health plan. A private school. Borrowing libraries of books, tools, vehicles, land. Gotta be more efficient, just how many pairs of pliers does a group need? The commingled assets could be invested in any way that the group or it’s leaders liked.
    This would probably be easier to set up than a successful company.
    No problem, right? It sure as heck would be educational for everyone.
    The thing is, socialism really isn’t socialism. It’s just a tag word for an effort where a tribe (cultural, ethnic, etc.) transfers wealth from another group to themselves using government fiat. Invent a new government if needed.

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  2. George Rebane Avatar

    scenes 1015am – Good points; and not only that, but attempting to inject a bit of socialism in a nation’s governance is like attempting to get a little bit pregnant. If you change your mind after getting a taste, the return path is usually fanatically emotional and bloody. We are on that path already, and contemplating any pull back is already unthinkable.

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Short link
    What Bernie Fans Should Know About the Ideology of Socialism
    https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/what-bernie-fans-should-know-about-ideology-socialism

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  4. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Scenes @ 10:15 in the AM
    “There’s nothing that keeps people from giving socialism a try.”
    I got stuck on a meme of a Thomas Sowell quote the other day that went something like this: ‘The bad thing about socialism is it never worked. The good thing about socialism is it sounds so good.’
    I won’t bother to find the quote, but it maybe it is in here.
    https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/2056.Thomas_Sowell
    The appeal of socialism is like giving the kids a hundred dollar bill and turning them loose in a candy store. Everything looks sooo good…especially when you still believe in the tooth fairy. The tooth fairy was my mom.

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  5. Walt Avatar

    Well,, The “RED STAR” on Kommiefornia’s flag should make the Bernbots happy. They might call it a good start.

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  6. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Here is a tasty one from Thomas Sowell:
    ‘Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.’

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  7. George Rebane Avatar

    Sanders California win was expected and predicted by all the needles and crap and tents and … on sidewalks of the state’s cities, it’s tax and regulation policies, its poorly performing schools, its … . An electorate that has installed and for years maintained a political machine as incompetent as ours, has no problem voting for a candidate who promises to double down on the road to a new bottom.

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  8. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    If Sanders takes Texas, that shows you how blue T he Great State of Beto has turned. I blame the Northeasters and New Yorkers for flocking to Austin and turning The Lone Star into another Alamo. Battleground State now. Oh yeah, I blame Texas A&M and especially UT-Austin for the Bernie-Beto mania, too. And some Californians, I reckon.
    Heck, when I was there decades ago, they called Austin ‘The Berzerky of Texas.’ I worked once on Texas Hwy PSA spots, one about a crash test dummie that comes to life and runs amok, lol.
    Anyway, a good short one was “If you want to stay alive, drive 55” with the background track of Johnnie Cash’s ghost riders in the wind….but with new lyrics and Johnnie singing about a dark and stormy night and ”If you want to stay alive, drive 55.”
    The only thing I learned was don’t mess with Texas. How Blue will she go??

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  9. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    May still be on topic:
    Quote, unquote
    CALIFORNIA HAS BEEN CALLED FOR SANDERS: Politico has that check mark next to his name. Only about six percent of the vote has been counted, so this must be a projection.
    It appears that the early voting carried Sanders to his victory in California. According to FiveThirtyEight, polling indicates that Sanders crushed Biden 41 percent to 18 percent among early deciders, but Biden actually won late deciders 40 percent to 29 percent.
    I wouldn’t be surprised if Bloomberg ran ahead of Biden with early deciders.
    Thus, while Sanders’s win in California takes some of the edge off of a disappointing night, the fact (if it’s true) that even in California Biden won handsomely among those who decided late suggests that Sanders is in trouble.
    SIGNING OFF: The delegate breakdowns in California and Texas are going to be very interesting and rather important. However, I don’t think we’ll know what they are any time soon — certainly not in California. Therefore, I’m going to call it a night.
    And what a night it was for Joe Biden.

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  10. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Sanders California win was expected and predicted by all the needles and crap and tents and … on sidewalks of the state’s cities, it’s tax and regulation policies, its poorly performing schools, its … .”
    Oh well. That’s because it’s not real socialism.
    Like a long-forgotten arrival to these shores said:
    “The experience that was had in this commone course and condition, tried sundrie years, and that amongst godly and sober men, may well evince the vanitie of that conceite of Platos and other ancients, applauded by some of later times; that the taking away of propertie, and bringing in communitie into a comone wealth, would make them happy and florishing; as if they were wiser then God.
    For this comunitie (so farr as it was) was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much imployment that would have been to their benefite and comforte. ”
    Perhaps there’s a statue of Bradford somewhere that the Blue Mob could tear down.

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  11. George Rebane Avatar

    scenes 828am – Thank you Mr scenes for pulling up that earliest American assessment of the tragedies of socialism – the Pilgrims’ experiment with that brand of collectivism was tragic and cost lives. Since then, others replicating the experience have fared no better. Today, our leftwingers, lamestream, and union schools have done everything to suppress that part of socialism’s history.

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  12. Walt Avatar

    When things don’t seem to go their way,, the likes of Chucky start threatening.
    https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2020/03/04/schumer-to-kavanaugh-and-gorsuch-you-will-pay-the-price-wont-know-what-hit-you-if-you-make-awful-decisions/
    And just what is Chucky going to do to SCOTUS?

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