EXACTLY What Socialism Does Summed Up With One Awesome Sign

Via V. Saxena:

Socialism destroys people, destroys countries and destroys the dignity and rights of the individual — and those millennials who fail to grasp this desperately need a history lesson ASAP.

This brings us to Utah man Brad Torgersen, who penned a powerful diatribe this Sunday, explaining why socialism never works.

“Socialism requires an authority capable of bending the knees of the people to the will of the state,” he explained on Facebook. “There is no form of national socialism which has ever existed without very powerful governmental authority, and a police force capable of backing up that authority.”

Indeed. Socialism places the collective “good” over the well-being of the individual, meaning that for it to work, there must be a mechanism in place so that the government can “make people with ‘too much’ give up things so that people with ‘too little’ receive those same things.”

Moreover, socialism robs men and women of “the fruits of their creativity, intelligence and labor” — thus taking away the incentive for people to work hard and achieve greatness. For you see, in a socialist society, greatness cannot be achieved, because everybody is the same.

“Societies which bankrupt the incentives to work, always collapse,” Torgersen added. “Fewer and fewer people carry more and more of the burden, until the whole thing crumbles. It happened in Soviet Russia. It *is* happening in Greece and Venezuela.”

Torgersen then cited many, many, many examples of where socialism and social engineering led to “an overwhelming documented record of human woe”:

The Holomodor

The Killing Fields Of Cambodia

China’s Cultural Revolution

Stalin’s Purges

The Great Leap Forward

North Korean Famine

Etc., Etc., Etc.

“The snuffing out of well over a hundred *million* human lives, during the 20th century alone,” Torgersen continued. “Men. Women. Children. Starved. Beaten. Jailed. Tortured. Mutilated. Mass graves. Erased from history — because they were deemed to be ‘in the way’ of progress.”

Yet so many young and naive millennials cling to socialism with such glee, as if what happened in the past meant nothing. Meanwhile, our government continues to add more and more elements of socialism to what was originally intended to be a Laissez-faire society.

Is there any hope left for our country? I’ll let Torgersen provide his answer:

Sooner or later, that gradually warming water is going to be brought to a boil — and cook us. There is nothing magical about the United States that will prevent all the horrors of the 20th century, from happening here too.

The state that “takes care of” you in the ways you desire, can also “take care of you” in a very permanent, very undesirable fashion as well.

I wish more of my countrymen understood this. Alas … socialism is the irresistible flame to which the well-meaning, ever-hopeful moths are eternally drawn.

I try to see a positive future. But it’s mighty tough these days.

His full post can be viewed below:

Mr. Torgersen is a very wise man, and millennials would do well to heed his warning about what awaits them if they continue to chase down the genocidal path of socialism!

H/T Chicks On The Right

Recently Posted