Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the thing about socialism, is that you can vote yourself into it… but you have to fight your way out. History has a very strong opinion about this. Once socialists gain control of the levers of power, they control the levers in the voting machines as well. As Marx is said to have said… It matters not who the voters want, it matters what the people who count the vote, want. Which is openly saying that once socialists gain power they must subvert democracy to their own ends. Being the guru of all socialists his word must be taken seriously. Another thing history informs us of, is that a people who vote themselves into socialism fare better than those forced into it. Because when force is used, tyranny is the immediate result, but when voted in, it takes a decade or so for real oppression to kick in.
Their ideas are so good they must be mandatory, as the saying goes. Socialists are the ultimate in hubris. They believe themselves so wise, enlightened and sublimely intuitive, they have the ability to know, without question, that their ideas are for the best of Mankind. They are so certain they are correct, that violence is acceptable to force, others to comply. The platform of every socialist party across the planet highlights this ugly truth. They openly call for redistribution by force, regulating entire industries out of existence, (coal, and fracking for example), state control of the youth, one size fits all healthcare, regulating every aspect of our lives, (for our own good of course), and disarming citizens. All by people who can’t tie their own shoes.
There is a psychological point of the Big 5 personality traits, Introversion, Openness to new ideas, Conscientiousness, Orderliness, and Neuroticism, progressives tend to be high in openness to new ideas and low in conscientiousness. Conservatives tend to be low on openness to new ideas and high in conscientiousness… the people who get things done. We all know people who are not conscientious, their bills are unpaid, their houses are a mess, they are always late, they borrow stuff and either don’t return it else it is broken if they do, they take two parking places, their shoes are untied, etc… none of which makes someone a bad person, they are in fact the innovators… it does however, point to the fact they probably shouldn’t be ordering everyone else around at gunpoint.
History’s strong opinion is that socialism leads to communism, which leads to oppression. The chain of events is inevitable once it has got underway. The 1917 Revolution was led by “moderate” socialists, but Lenin perverted the vote to name the factions, to get the name “majority” in Russian… Bolshevik. While the moderate socialists, who were the actual majority, were slandered as the minority… Menshevik. The communists have the stomach to make the hard decisions, like in the factional fighting between the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. The Bolsheviks would kidnap a Menshevik at night. They would take him, or her, to the woods, cut a small slit in the victim’s side and pull out a bit of intestine, and nail it to a tree. Then whip the Menshevik so he, or she, would tie themselves to the tree.
Oh, socialists chant in monotone about their commitment to democracy, with platitudes like democratic socialism, which upon close examination differs little from National Socialism, except the nationalist part. You see, once socialism has started, it must devolve to communism, because once the distribution of goods is by political favor, people must use violence to gain political favor. Therefore, the most violent will win. Voting under such circumstances is a table without a top. The most violent faction gets the most power, not the suffrage of the people. So, for a nation to extricate itself from socialism, some faction that seeks freedom must fight their way out… dragging the rest of society with them. Those virtuous revolutionaries are rare though, 1776 was such a time, but there hasn’t been one since.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
