Democratic Socialism - What Democrat Progressive Party Is

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       M. Richard Maxson

       Socialism is and always has been an economic failure. International Socialism didn’t work in the Soviet Union. National Socialism didn’t work in Germany. Democratic Socialism, while avoiding the horrors of its communist and Nazi cousins, has driven the United States into the situation we are in now. Socialism fails because it attempts to replacemarket determined prices with various forms of central planning based on government-dictated prices, because the government knows what is best for you and their elitist pockets. This may come as a shock to some as they believe the mis-guided notion that there are no rich under Socialism. Quite the contrary, the masses are equally impoverished by but a small elite escape this fate. The government elites have very comfortable lives. They enjoy undeserved and unearned wealth while ordinary people live wretched lives of deprivation. There’s a famous Winston Churchill quote that basically says that the ostensible problem with capitalism is that people aren’t equally rich, whereas the supposed attractiveness of socialism is that people get to be equally poor.

       Another mis-conception about Socialism were the NAZI party. The acronym translates to National Socialist German Workers Party. It has been mis-labeled, by the powers that be, to mean of the far right when nothing could be further from the truth. let us just listen to history:

• "We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions." -- Adolf Hitler

• "What distinguished Nazism from other brands of socialism and communism was not so much that it included more aspects from the political right (though there were some). What distinguished Nazism was that it forthrightly included a worldview we now associate almost completely with the political left: identity politics. This was what distinguished Nazism from doctrinaire Communism. How can the marriage of one leftist vision to another can somehow produce right-wing progeny." -- Jonah Goldberg

      The subjects of the Left continually harp that Democratic values, that are intertwined with Socialism, will be the true form of equality for all. What they forget is that we are all human beings with certain tendencies to our species that are inherent. In other words -Reality.

• “In practice, socialism didn’t work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.”

                                                                                             -- David Horowitz

• The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

                                                                                              -- Winston Churchill

• "I believe that all forms of socialism have been proven over time to result in a loss of both economic and civil liberties, with increasing poverty." 

                                                                                        -- John Mackey

• Socialism provides safety in numbers. And that’s OK, if you don’t mind trading your name—your identity and individualism — for a number.”                                                                                                                                                     -- Jarod Kintz
• “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” 

                                                                                              -- Frédéric Bastiat

      Sound familiar? The quote from  Frédéric Bastiat was written almost two hundred years ago around the time of the "middle class revolution, in France as the country threw off the reins of the monarchy and struggled for an identity.

     Today's champions of Democratic Socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. 

• They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. 

• They call themselves Democrats, but they yearn for Fascist dictatorship.

• "Socialists cry 'Power to the people', and raise the clenched fist as they say it.

       All patriots of this once great country should all

understand the truth, the reality of what Democratic Socialism is:

• We all know what they really mean--power over people, power to the State."                                                         -- Margaret Thatcher

• "The goal of Socialism is Communism."         

                                 -- Vladimir   Lenin