Forward! Really Means Backward

This keeps reminding. As the left goes into overdrive espousing and defending ideas and policy recommendations that are nothing more than socialist at its roots, people who actually lived in such societies are warning us against thinking in such a manner.

In a reactionary attempt to ward off the coming "libertarian Mad Maxian world" all they seem to cling on to are dated left-wing theories no longer remotely functional and long since abandoned.

I always marvel at people, who after an impassioned plea for bigger government for the good of all,  next turn and say they do it for "individual liberty." In their minds, public education, health and even the push for more control in the economy is liberating. Liberated from the free-market.

It makes no sense but this is the position. Or as one liberal friend told me once he took the plunge with me follow his logic to its logical path "I simply don't trust the people to make the right decision. We need to force them to."

Nothing encapsulates better the modern liberal mind than that.

From The American Thinker a former Soviet citizen makes his case for our collective ignorance in embracing "socialist" principles:

"I now live in Northern California, in the heart of the Bay Area, thousands of miles away from my homeland.

And yet the poison of Soviet propaganda seeps through college dorms just as it did in Soviet classrooms."

Stop a random youth on the street and you'll find out what he thinks about capitalism (bad!) and communism/socialism (good!). Their favorite news programs are the "Daily Show" and the "Colbert Report," where comedians reinforce their brainwashing via short, catchy clips.

Walk through Berkeley and you will see wall graffiti of the same hammer and sickle that adorned the big red flags of the Soviet era."

This doesn't extend to just youths. People of all ages, even acquaintances that I otherwise respect and admire, are like this. They support the "progressive" leader Barack Obama, worship the nanny state, and believe in equality of outcome rather than equality of opportunity.

"....They badmouth capitalism and complain that only one percent of the American population has the "American dream." They buy into the class warfare rhetoric hook, line, and sinker. They want artificially raised minimum wage, government handouts, and believe that Obamacare is the greatest thing since the invention of pockets.

Again, a few of my American liberal friends - Canadians generally think this way as a whole - have told me "face it. We can and will never be in the 1%." So...the solution, given this self-defeatist mindset is to be nihilistic and destroy - or steal from it through wealth distribution schemes? In order to believe this, one has to believe wealth is ill-gotten by those much wealthier than us. Nowhere in their logic is there room for the possibility of achieving such success because, well, it's all rigged. No. Better to close up shop and eradicate.

It's an outrageous and unfortunate, petty and envious way to think.

We've all met the same type of person. The one who rails at the obscene choices that corrodes our moral souls as we give into consumerism for its own sake.

It may sound like an intelligent comment but it's vacuous. And really, at this stage, no amount of statistics pointing to our ever increasing affluence, lowering crime rates, better access to health care and general well-being will ever satisfy the left. 

They rely on stripping our moral agency. Once gone, they believe, the playing field will be "level" and "fair."

What you will get, however, is the Soviet Union.