One good way to understand why Socialism is evil is fairly easily summed up in one word: Recourse.
Socialism removes recourse, while it steadily degrades everyone’s quality of life,.
In its extreme manifestations, of course, it slaughters people wholesale.
Socialism is evil — REALLY evil. It ALWAYS kills and impoverishes people. It’s nothing new; in fact it’s the very same hoary, old thing that has been killing and impoverishing people since there have been people. Now, though, it has a fancy new name, and a vast raft of pseudo-intellectual codswallop to try to make the old rotting meat palatable to the people.
First of all, take heart! It’s all over but the shouting!
That doesn’t change the fact that there’ll be a whole lot of shouting!
Next, if you want to stop future outbreaks of things like this coronavirus catastrophe, then simply overthrow the fascist government in China and install a free-market democracy that will allow the Chinese people to prosper so that they’re not forced to eat all manner of wild creatures bought in disgusting, filthy, open air slaughterhouses called, “wet markets.”
Liberate China! (it’ll save millions, maybe billions, of lives)
Sometimes we get welcome outside confirmation that we’re publishing the right things, and that we’re not being too hard on the scoundrels, idiots, and power-mad corruptocrats of the American Left and the Democrat Party leadership. 🙂
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A leftist does the math,” and comes to the conclusion that Michael Bloomberg could “easily afford to give everyone $1 million dollars and literally never notice.” She tweets that out.
An MSNBC “news” show with Brian Williams — prominent “news” man who was fired for, well, lying — and his colleague Mara Gay, discussed the tweet — on national television! — and treated the million dollar number as if it were a real fact. The real number, however, if distributed among all 327 million Americans would be… $1.53.
The million dollar number is off by a factor of… more than 650,000.
Socialism is the neutron bomb of political ideologies: it slaughters people, while leaving buildings and structures intact.
The agencies serve the people and were created by the people’s elected representatives. They are the people’s instruments, not their masters. Their preferences and conveniences are not to be understood as the controlling concerns.
Continue reading Powerful, Influential People Read This Blog (5/27/19) — Let Laws Expire
It’s worth noting that in saving others’ lives, and in sometimes losing their own, these people just might have saved your life too — by being a big reason for why a potential gunman decides not to go on a rampage in the first place.
Will Smollett go to jail for his disgusting racist crime? Or will Chicago law enforcement again bend over backward to try not to look racist or homophobic? The Left have already done what they can to say, “Well, it wasn’t right, what he did, but you can certainly understand it!” Nope. I can’t. If you can understand perpetrating a fraud that you know will cause harm to millions of innocent people, in order to get more money, then you have a serious problem. Smollett’s crime proved pretty conclusively that the basic premise on which he committed it is false. In a truly oppressive country, you don’t need to fabricate oppression. It’s a feature of the system.
There’s a marked increase in hostility on the Right, directed to the Right. However, if the Left were ever to engage in any kind of in-depth introspection, leftism would fall apart like the intellectual house-of-cards it is. It would become nothing more than a vast collection of tiny, spluttering splinter groups feuding and scrapping over tiny niche issues, well below the radar of a media corps too power-hungry to focus on such penny-ante flapdoodle.
Now, mind you, I don’t often disagree with the Great Kevin Williamson, because that moniker — the Great — is well deserved. Williamson is one of the finest, most intelligent, deepest observers of the local and world scenes.
Capitalism is mostly about allowing systems and structures to develop and grow organically. In other words: free people using free choices to show other free people how much they value, or don’t, their products and services.
In Venezuela, one of the natural resource-richest countries… in the world, the people have no food or toilet paper. So, to make things better for them, their government guns them down in the streets. Why? Well, the people are quite naturally wondering why, with all the natural resources their country has… they have no toilet paper or food. When they express those concerns in public the government solves their petty complaints by adding a few grams of lead to their diet. Continue reading The Catastrophic Failure that is Socialism
Our problem on the Right is that we want desperately to think leftists are simply good, but misguided, people. Nope. They’re actually bad people. They mean to do you and me harm, both in order to take power AND to reshape America into their vision of what’s good and right: a country in which they hold the reins of power. The struggle, as far as the Left is concerned, is to the death. We need to be aware of that, and we need to recognize the implications of that. On the Left, at least at the leadership levels, they don’t care if we, and others, die. In fact, that wouldn’t bother them in the least. Leftist leaders are simply bad people. Continue reading Lessons From the Left — or: Leftists are Child Molesters
The only really — really — new thing of the last 10,000 years is the miracle of liberal democratic capitalism. Continue reading In Just a Few Brief Words…
“Rathi actually had the nerve to tout his support for free speech in the exact same piece where he seems to suggest that it’s a good thing to limit speech when it comes to people like Yiannopoulos and Coulter — and he somehow thought that this kind of logically inconsistent drivel was actually cohesive enough to publish. ”
Continue reading The New Fascists Will Come Waving the Banner of Anti-Fascism
FINALLY!!! NPR Worries About Fascistic Tendencies in the American Government! Wow! ‘Bout Flargin’ Time!!! Oh, that’s right — a Republican … Continue reading NPR Watch (3/7/17) — The FASCISTS Are Coming!!!
Here’s a good, pretty deep dissertation as to Why Society Is As It Is Today. If you’re bewildered by just … Continue reading Wanna Know Why?
Bottom Line: Of course this load of refreshing common sense comes from the right — Jonah Goldberg, of National Review. In … Continue reading Finally! Some Sanity About “Transgender”
Too funny! I wrote this — Predictions (Part IV) — earlier this morning. In that column, I wrote: Why is … Continue reading Great Minds Think Alike
Here’s the headline: The Clinton Revelations That Must Not Disappear The elaboration on that is in this piece, by the great … Continue reading An Important Read
Below is a quote from the great Jonah Goldberg. It wraps up in a single, nice, neat package, the American … Continue reading Wish I’d Said That!
In this essay, the great Andrew Stuttaford reviews a piece of “art” commissioned to go in front of the European … Continue reading There’s Art, and Then There’s Hogwash
First some background: As you all know, I’ve been duking it out recently with the Race Grievance Industry. I’ve made … Continue reading Impossible to Overstate How Scary THIS Is!
…this? American leftists are woefully ignorant of the nature, character, disposition, thoughts, feelings and inclinations of their opponents, the American … Continue reading Remember When I Said…
Kevin Williamson publishes the definitive article. I’ll bet you never knew all this about Harry Reid. Here’s a telling passage … Continue reading Harry Reid is Retiring from the Senate – An Abused Country Breathes a Sigh of Relief
The great Jonah Goldberg elaborates — magnificently, of course — here, on what we said here and here, and in some … Continue reading Powerful, Influential People Read This Blog (Part 27)
This Is Why We Have Elections | National Review Online. Just another outstanding column from Kevin Williamson. Ho hum. I … Continue reading This Is Why We Have Elections | National Review Online
Jay Nordlinger saying what I’ve been saying: Bitterfest 2012 David French saying what I’ve been saying: Conservatives’ Terrifying Message — xPraetorius Continue reading What To Do; How To Do It (From the Archives but more relevant than ever)
Jonah Goldberg calls Obama a troll! He’s right, of course. In a typically brilliant and insightful column, Goldberg says that … Continue reading I Only Call Him a Doofus
We covered this extensively here and here. Here’re the latest of the daily, deadly headlines in Drudge — 10/30/14 edition: … Continue reading The Fix is In (Part III)
Hillary Clinton: Dukakis in a Pantsuit? | National Review Online. Lest you think that Hillary is anything more than an … Continue reading Hillary Clinton: Dukakis in a Pantsuit? | National Review Online
You know how an hour or two after a rainstorm you can find puddles out in the driveway or in … Continue reading Eric Holder’s Legacy
We’ve been making the case for some time now that feminism has no real idea what it’s trying to say. On … Continue reading Powerful, Influential People Read This Blog! (Part 22)
— The Real Racism in America is on the Left — Recently Supreme Court Justice, and general low-functioning crank, Ruth Bader … Continue reading Powerful, Influential People Read This Blog! (Part 21)
The great and indispensable Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online has been sampling our output. You can tell. His post … Continue reading Powerful, Influential People Read This Blog (Part 20)
*** Pertaining to a debate on feminism I was having on another blog *** My debate was here — it’s … Continue reading Williamson Fills in Some Details
Hmmmm… what is this?!? Is it the long-awaited end to the dreary, pathetic, whackadoodle oozing, slimy, cesspool of “thought” that is feminism? … Continue reading An Outbreak of Intelligent Reason From Women!
Here it is: “I spent last week in Washington, D.C,” said Goldwater. “It’s great to be back in America.” Do you … Continue reading One of Barry Goldwater’s BEST quips.
When Ronald Reagan was President, there was no shortage of comedians poking fun at his supposed “laziness,” his alleged lack of … Continue reading This Sums It Up
The Media and the Mob | National Review Online. Want to know what’s going on in Ferguson? As usual, Thomas … Continue reading The Media and the Mob | National Review Online
Suckers | National Review Online. A trenchant, to-the-point blog post by the great Kevin Williamson in National Review. Leaves you … Continue reading Suckers | National Review Online
Reading Jonah Goldberg is a constant exercise in saying to oneself, “Wish I’d said that!” Goldberg sends out a roughly weekly … Continue reading Wish I’D Said That! (8-16-14)
How Many Children Will Die in Gaza? | National Review Online. Another essay by the great and indispensable Kevin Williamson. … Continue reading How Many Children Will Die in Gaza? | National Review Online
A Touching Tale | National Review Online. Wow! Rated “D” for “Double Entendre!” Kevin Williamson reads a report and discovers … Continue reading A Touching Tale | National Review Online
Criminal States | National Review Online. More Kevin Williamson. This piece seems to indicate that Mr. Williamson reads a lot … Continue reading Criminal States | National Review Online
Downscale | National Review Online. As mentioned in these pages before: Any day in which Kevin Williamson publishes an essay … Continue reading Downscale | National Review Online
Kevin Williamson does it in the best way possible: with logic and grammar and good punctuation that all add up … Continue reading Halbig Properly Understood
I’ve been saying this very thing for a very long time: There is no over-population on the planet. Here’s the … Continue reading Powerful, Influential People Read This Blog (Part 18)
Radical-leftist Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts gave a speech a few days back. She was trying desperately to suck up … Continue reading Big Chief Forked-Tongue Elizabeth Warren’s Unintentional Confession (Part III)
But I didn’t. The great Jonah Goldberg did. Here. Here’s the quote in question, that I wish I’d said: Conservatives … Continue reading Wish I’D Said That!
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