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Socialism is intrinsically unsustainable

14 February 2026

George Rebane

If sustainability of a government program is defined as its ongoing budgets not increasing their share of the country’s GDP for non-diminishing levels of service, then which of our government’s entitlement programs are sustainable? Which of the EU governments’ programs are sustainable?

I presented the above prompt to SuperGrok AI. And after its extensive analysis of both American and European government programs representing the implementation of socialism in its various degrees, the answer came back in a comprehensive dissertation concluding that no such sustainable programs can be found on either continent.

That socialism is an intrinsically unsustainable form of collectivist governance has been a seminal message in these pages for almost twenty years. The evidence, of course, is overwhelming. The corollary to the proposition is that socialism is a ratcheting gateway to autocracy cum tyranny, since its maintenance needs ever more comprehensive and invasive government controls to implement. Students of history also know that tyranny is a very stable form of governance for a country since new tyrannies simply replace old faltering tyrannies.

It always takes a special form of national ignorance for a sovereign nation-state to give up liberal governance based on individual liberties, personal security, and ownership of property (the Bastiat triangle of rights). We have witnessed three major occurrences of this during the 20th century that swept several hundred million to their untimely ends. And today we are living in the death spiral of western culture based on such rights.

As amply noted here, we in the United States have one political party that has rededicated itself to the destruction of a liberal America. In its multitude of leftwing public policies it has implemented the re-education of two plus generations of constituents now who have no clue as to what socialism is, yet are more than willing to give it a try for our collective future. As an example, they are successfully convincing their millions of minions that those who seek to reduce government funding and its regulatory umbrella – i.e. reduce the size of government – are the real fascistic autocrats to be opposed at all costs. Insane. Given this state of affairs across the land, where does the boundary between such ignorance and evil blur?

Posted in Agenda 21, Critical Thinking & Numeracy, Great Divide, Our Country, Our World, The Liberal Mind, We the iSheeple

6 responses to “Socialism is intrinsically unsustainable”

scenes

15 February 2026

“socialism is a ratcheting gateway to autocracy”

Well, naturally. That’s all that it ever is.

Ambitious people naturally gravitate towards what is essentially the biggest corporate monopoly of all, and it’s heckuva lot easier to become important in government than to start your own successful business. The intermediate version is simply living in an area where resource extraction is dead, light manufacturing is dead, and all that’s left is county government and useless non-profits.

To be fair, the care and feeding of the elderly always provides small business profit opportunities, but that’ll all be fed into the loving maw of the government soon enough.

There’s a reason there was such a huge wealth disparity in the Soviet Union.

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Resurrected Hillbilly

16 February 2026

George and Scenes let loose with their false dichotomies.

yada yada yada, pure extreme socialism isn’t the answer and I think everyone knows it… because of the great dumbing down of Maga… a lot of their true believers will believe that this is what the opposition wants.
Alternately, pure capitalism with kids chained to the mill machines isn’t the answer either…

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scenes

16 February 2026

“extreme socialism “

No extreme necessary. The point I’m making is that there’s essentially no difference between government and large companies. Corporations are primarily run for the benefit of their executives and, well, government is primarily run for the benefit of it’s executives.

Teachers’ unions are run to enrich their management, secondarily the teachers, with children or the general public a distant third. Non-profits are typically another wonderful case of this, with notable local examples.

At least Amazon has better customer service than county government.

It’s simply baked into the cake of humanity.

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Rebane

16 February 2026

RH 16feb26 – It looks like you again did not understand this post. Your simplistic views of the application and occurrence of socialism, capitalism, etc are charming for a 5th grader, but here you miss most of the points made in these pages. Nevertheless, you are a good representative of your political cohort.

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ScottO

17 February 2026

“Alternately, pure capitalism with kids chained to the mill machines isn’t the answer either…”

Actually – young children laboring under horrible conditions of poverty was the norm for thousands of years everywhere on the planet. It continues today in many countries such as China governed by the CCP. There is nothing inherent to free-market capitalism that involves forced child labor.

We realize that RH doesn’t want to face the “warmth” (ruin) that Democrats have visited on states that they control, so absurd, non-existent examples are proffered as a whata- bout in an attempt to deflect. Pathetic.

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scenes

17 February 2026

re: scotto@ some time above

There probably should be a moratorium on words like ‘capitalism’ when people like Ms. Hillbilly carry on. It really doesn’t mean much and is largely just the subject of tomes by urban ‘intellectuals’ with little else to do. Political ‘science’ is a melange of definitions applied after the fact.

Were the Romans capitalists? Probably, as there was not a bunch of tax farming and few rules. A Zulu kraal? Probably not. Lotsa rules. Socialism is simply a new-fangled form of feudalism as the organizational constraints and power structure clicks in.

I think what you have to hope for is a combination of self-sufficiency and self-employment combined with folkways that are pro-freedom. Maybe all you are left with is small tribal groups and some remnants of Anglo-American Western culture. Naturally, this last is under attack since we are inundated with people who all want some of the Little Red Hen’s bread.

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