Why IS socialism such a bad thing? I’ve had a few conversations in the last few weeks and the people to whom I was talking expressed similar ideas, that socialism was progress, that allowing government to control certain aspects of our lives and money was a good thing. They thought Obama’s plan for government run healthcare was a plus, they liked his speeches on “progress” and “change” and “hope.” They believed war, all war, is bad. One could only realize by listening to them that had they lived around 1776, we’d still be British citizens.
Socialism, and its brother Communism, are bad things. Free people know this, and the post over on American Thinker says it extremely well. Click the link below to read the article in full.
The Repugnance of Socialism
“No fully-grown human being with a single ounce of self-respect ever wants to be taken care of by others. No person with dignity will tolerate being told what to do, what to think, how to work or how to be an "acceptable" person. No free man or woman will tolerate the loss of liberty in exchange for material comfort.
Many generations of Americans vehemently rejected these notions over and over again, not out of fear, but out of the kind of visceral loathing that makes a normal person wretch, gag and grab for his religion and his guns.”
