When you take your kids to the beach you explain to them about undertow and rip tides. You tell them that the real danger is that you don’t know you have been caught in the undertow until you are being swept out to sea. You tell them to stay close enough that you can rescue them and then you watch them like a hawk.
Our country is being swept out to sea in the undertow of socialism. And we are not aware enough of the pull. We are letting it happen and by the time we wake up and see what has happened we will be out at sea, drifting in a socialist mess, hoping to be rescued. Except we are the rescuers, the biggest economy, the freest country, the Greatest Experiment.
There are those who would say we are just lucky we lasted over 200 years, and there are those that would add that of course we can’t go on being a world class country. But we need to. We must.
Socialism in America is not new. From our founding fathers forward there have been those who ascribe to the idea that wealth should not be held by the top 1%. There are those now who in the name of “equality” want wealth to be distributed equally to all citizens. The new recipients of wealth don’t want to have to work for it; they feel entitled to the “excess” of those who have created the wealth. In fact, there is a lethargy about making one’s way. It takes energy, it takes gumption, it takes time away from their video games.
But here is the deal. Anyone can get rich here. This country is truly the land of opportunity. Have an idea, turn it into a business. You can do that here. Where else but in America can you blog about cute clothes and become a millionaire.
As a young man Karl Marx saw socialism as a Utopian ideal. He prioritized social relationships over individualism. And he believed in those early years that people would synthesize into these utopian communities. But utopias cannot stay utopias because sooner or later someone will come to believe he or she is the only one who knows how to do it right. That did not work. People like to be able to make their own decisions for their lives. So as an older man Marx changed his view to the idea that these utopian schemes would have to be forced on people. That is not utopia. That is every dystopian movie you have seen.
In 1991 Pope John Paul II condemned socialism saying “it considers the individual person simply as an element, a molecule within the social organism, so that the good of the individual is completely subordinated to the functioning of the socioeconomic mechanism.” There is no individual dignity when one is just one molecule of millions in the organism.
Presently on our planet we have two very good examples of the utter failure of socialism and the catastrophic effects it has on countries. Cuba and Venezuela. Destroyed countries. But when you hold these examples up to our current socialists in Congress they say things like, “well they did it wrong, we will do it right.” Don’t believe them; there is no right way to take away one’s individualism.
So become alarmed. Feel the under tow. Put your feet on the bottom and stand up, don’t let that wave sweep us out to sea.
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