A History of Failure

A history of failure does not create a future of success.

As I have stated several times on this young blog, Liberal ideas rooted in the socialist/communist ideology will fail because they are paper-based, not reality based.

Yet we keep hearing the same old tired ideas brought up again and again as "new" solutions. Some "problems" will never go away.

There are always people who want the freedom to live their lives exactly the way they want to live their lives. Not the way a bureaucrat hundreds of miles away wants them to live their lives.

And no government based on socialism's central-command-and-control ideology has ever solved local problems better than the locals do.

Every socialist solution to a problem fails. But certain politicians still try to push these old ideas on the American people.

Universal Health care? Failed. And by fail, I mean does not function as promised. Yes, everyone in Great Britian has "health care" but it is crap and once you hit a certain age, you don't get it anymore (for all intents and purposes). The American system, as problematic as it can be, is better.

Nationalized Industries? Just saying those two words together is to answer the question. Does Not Work.

Unions? A good idea once but now an example of what not to do. Yes, they once protected workers but now their leaders are usually symbols of corruption and exploit their union members to gain political power and cronyism.

That's three pretty big examples. I'm sure others will come up in the next four years.

(Here's another, in certain French courts the Prosecuter is also the Judge.)

(Oh, and another - once you hit 75 in Great Britian, if you have a state pension it is converted into an annuity whether you want it to or not.)

If Conservatives do not speak up and point out these Liberal failures for what they are, history will repeat itself yet again.

And who wants to live through that?