What's So Bad About Socialism?

By itself, nothing. Socialism is an idea that all members of a society are equal in worth to the society. This means that all members should share equally in the burdens as well as the wealth that a society has to offer. "From each according to their ability, to each according to their need". A pretty fine idea for an ideal society...unfortunately, people are not quite ideal.

People have different needs as well as a different perspective of what their abilities are. This is where the imposition of communism comes into play. Since people each have their own idea of what they want to do and what they need in their lives; there must be some arbitrating body to run the show. A government tells you what you can do, where you can do it, and how long to do it in the interests of the state. A government tells you what you need, when you need it, and how long you can have it in the interests of the state. Individual desire is not relevant and, in fact, must be crushed as a threat to the viability of a socialist state.

The really bad thing is that the government is composed of people who feel they can do more so they naturally expect more. The end result is a very small ruling class and a population of servants. This happens time and time again anywhere where socialism is tried out on a country.

Obama had it right when he was talking about the American system of government. Our constitution is a list of negative liberties. It talks about what the government is not allowed to do to the people. That is the great experiment that made this county the most advanced in the history of the world. WE dictate to our government it's abilities and needs rather than the other way around.

This country has problems but the advantage of democracy is that our society evolves. Socialism is a dead end. Every country that has embraced it had crumbled. When you hear the bourgeois Obamabots praising the idea of a socialist America and wearing red stars on t-shirts bought with their parent's credit card....laugh it off as coming from uneducated rebels without a clue groupies.

But don't let them take away what has been paid for with a very dear price. Literally billions of people have had to endure the hardships of a government that considers it's citizens state property.