Episode 3: Political Correctness and the Numbers
Socialism, as a form of government, has never succeeded in elevating the general populace’s well being. There is a difference between a free-market economy with large social programs (Sweden, Norway, Denmark, etc.) and a socialist country which requires governmental coercion used against its citizenry to succeed. Though once largely governed by socialism, the Scandinavian countries are now freer markets than those of the United Sates. (5)
The term “political correctness” which we use jokingly today, has as its origins failure to comply with the politics, speech, and behaviors of the State. Non-compliance is deemed “politically incorrect” behavior. The gulags awaited for those who did not comply. If ever someone got released and still not comply, then elimination by an “un-natural death” occurred. The term came in to use around 1917 during the Russian Revolution. (Aside: the Communist Party was a name change from the Socialist Party in order to separate for other causes which used the word “socialist.”) (6)
Socialism as practiced has the following, and the numbers vary depending on the source cited. This is but a partial list:
Socialist leader Stalin (USSR) had between 3.5 – 8 million and 60 million “un-natural” deaths. Best estimates now have the number at around 20 million “un-natural” deaths.
Socialist leader Mao Zedong (China) in the four years of the “great leap forward” had about 45 million deaths. For comparison, all of World War II world-wide deaths totaled 55 million. (7)
Socialist leader Hitler (Germany) had around 14 million “un-natural” deaths including six million Jewish people. (8)
Socialist professor Bill Ayers (USA) stated that he estimated that 50 million Americans would need to be “reeducated” and up to 25 million Americans might have to be eliminated. This was in the 1980’s as I recall and the numbers have likely increased based on the population increase. (9) (10)
Venezuela once had a thriving economy and as a result of socialism is impoverished. Look at the 1950s – 1960s Venezuela and compare it to today. (11)
China’s socialist economy created famine and deaths and was not in part corrected until some free market principles were adopted. (Aside: until China’s turn around free market farming used its excess to provide food to the Chinese.) (12) (13)
India came into a recovery from socialist policies with free markets (14)
Greece is but one example of socialist government policies (15) (16)
In addition to impoverishing all but the select few, socialist governments seek individual / world domination with the threat of force. American school children used to practice “duck and cover” drills where the children would hear the siren, exit their chairs, and get under their desks. These were civil defense drills practiced in response to a nuclear attack threat from socialist countries. (Aside: they really had no value except to make us feel good.) Understanding the evil that socialist regimes presented to the world, there was at the time the following expression: “Better dead than Red.”
Within the last year precinct leaders for a socialist candidate for president stated that if their candidate did not get the nomination that Milwaukee would burn. Some of the same leaders, when questioned about what would happen to those Americans who did not go along with the revolution stated something to the effect of “well that’s what gulags are for.” When further questioned about those who would not comply, the response was that they would be eliminated. In addition to those words, these same people seek to eliminate the ownership of personal property. Remember that domestic terrorist, Bill Ayers stated that 50 million Americans would have to be reeducated and up to 25 million Americans killed.
Under socialism the “haves” and “have nots” still exist and are much more pronounced. The “haves” are the power brokers and if “have nots” get out of line they are eliminated.
Socialists seek to disarm the citizenry under the guise of saving lives by gun violence. In looking at the numbers above an argument could be made that disarming the citizens simply permits the government to enact extermination of citizens, with guns or by other means, without the citizens’ having any means of resistance.
Inequality and oppression can and will exist in every form of government. The question is to what level? The United States fought a Civil War over slavery. Some may argue “states rights” and not slavery. The Confederate Constitution has an article that retained slavery. This discussion is better left for another time. The issue is that free people of African descent were deprived of their rights with Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. Democrats (primarily) enacted laws that removed the right to keep and bear arms, restricted travel, etc. One needs to wonder how many of the atrocities committed toward Americans of African descent would have been avoided had they been armed. Even the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was denied a permit to carry a firearm. (Aside: “The Green Book” published by Victor Green, was a travel book for Americans of African descent providing and index of safe places to eat, stay, obtain gasoline etc.)
Another inequality arose from the Woodrow Wilson regime. The policies toward blacks in America from Wilson’s policies (Black Codes / Jim Crow Laws) were used as a foundation for Germany’s Final Solution. It was out of this set of policies that the modern day Planned Parenthood came about. It has as its root the elimination of Americans of African descent.
The recession in the United States during 1920s was but a blip in the economy simply because the national government kept hands off and let the market correct in a free fashion. Ever hear of the “Roaring Twenties?” The “Great Depression” came about as a result of the national government’s interventions. FDR’s socialist policies made the depression worse and it wasn’t until WW II that things changed.
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