Kyle Becker December 10, 2012 12:59 pm

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Socialism as an ideology and a system of government is a failure. This is not a controversial statement to people who experience socialism or who study history with an honest desire to know the truth. But left-wing ideologues neither care about history nor the facts; truth is “reactionary” and works against the inevitable socialist utopian future.

Socialism comes in more than one flavor: from international socialism and national socialism to short-lived anarchic socialist utopias — they are all directly opposed to the American ideals of private property, individual rights, and limited government.

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Middle-Age Religious Socialism. Although Marxist socialism is directly opposed to religion (as well as the family), there were socialist religious sects directly opposed to private property (a central tenet of Marxism), were anti-materialistic, and promoted all things in common. Examples include the Cathars, Taborites, and Anabaptists.

“Progressive” America? As welfare spending explodes to unsustainable levels, the U.S. is poised to adopt the European welfare state model that is proving to be untenable. America was already among the most heavily indebted states in the world before it adopted costly state-run healthcare.

It is currently estimated that for every 1.25 private sector worker or “producer,” there is one government bureaucrat or welfare recipient. Because of the welfare state, it is now more beneficial for a single mom to earn $29,000 and to be on welfare, than it is for her to earn $69,000 and to be taxed.

It is human nature to seek the path of least resistance; and because of this, socialism lowers the citizenry to the least common denominator, rather than lifting people up to be the best they can be. Because of class warfare, as Margaret Thatcher put it, people “would rather the poor were poorer, so long as the rich were less rich.”

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