If it weren't for the marvelous engine of capitalism, socialism could not exist. The grand experiment in Karl Marx's crackpot theories ended in 1991, though others crawl on in places like North Korea and Cuba. Like a parasite, socialism sucks the blood of the productive, capitalist system until there is nothing left to suck. In the process, millions of people suffer and die.
In the Soviet Union, with their vaunted collective farms, there were still individual plots for some of the collective-farm workers, the kolkhozniks. The communists levied "taxes in kind" on these plots; in other words, they confiscated the produce of the plots. The private plots produced a vastly disproportional amount of the country's production of a variety of staples. It took at least twenty kolkhozniks, working on the collective farm, to produce what four farmers in the United States produced. Productivity in other areas of the Soviet economy was not much better.
Now we embark on this already trodden path here in the United States, and we can't get there fast enough. A freakish mad scientist has put out bait for the parasites, and they have come scurrying by the millions. With their limited brains, they don't think about tomorrow or next month or next year. They don't think about children, about responsibility. They can think only of their next free meal and their next free benefit. This is their idea of "free-dom."
Whether these drones won an election or not, we have the right and responsibility to oppose them. The alternative is to become like the miserable serfs of the Soviet Union.
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