Utopia is a joke

Along with everything else, why do these liberal Useful Ignorami fail over and over and over and over again to pick up a damn history book or look beyond their own constituencies to see that their latest brave new idea is the same old tired policy that failed in another place.

This second bill of rights nonsense is case in point.

Did any liberal politician attend an elementary social studies course? Is any politician smarter than a 5th grader? This second bill of rights is a bill of positive rights that make unfulfillable guarantees And the EU already tried it and even in that bastion of (failed) socialism, their positive bill of rights failed.

Failed!

And that brings me to socialism. The American Bill of Rights (Thank you Mr. George Mason) is a bill of negative rights which stop the government from interfering, stops government from deciding what we can and can not do. So negative rights are really quite positive.

Limiting government’s ability to muck about in our lives is America’s great promise. It is the guarantor of the American Dream. It is what provides all Americans and those who come here with that great American Second Chance. That opportunity to start again which makes America and Americans so successful.

Socialism and communism attempt to make a paradise for workers, a utopia. But there can be no utopia (leftwing - communistic, socialistic, fascist or a rightwing).

All utopias are impossible because even if the fallen nature of man was perfected and government was perfect, we’d still have nature. The very physical world we live is chaotic thanks to the uncontrollable-by-man Weather.

Some years have perfect growing seasons, some years have horrible growing seasons. And how would any utopian society deal with a drought and famine? Some would eat. Some would starve. And some would starve to death. Don’t believe me, ask a Soviet Union survivor if food was always plentiful, available, and affordable.

No one can control the environment, so the idea of utopia is a joke.

Socialism and Marxism are based on the idea of “from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs.” Sounds kinda reasonable at first until you see it put into action.

Again, who decides how the wealth is spread around (Hmmm, Mr. Obama)? In every socialist country, you see the elites “needs” are always fulfilled before anyone else regardless of what the elites' abilities actually are. It is the Factory Manager in Communist and Socialist countries that get the extras, not the Factory Workers.

A worker gets the one bedroom apartment for his family of five while the Communist Party Apparatchik/Socialist Government Manager gets the villa by the lake.

Prove me wrong. Show me a legitimate socialist government anywhere in the world where the workers are treated better than the elites? Show me a European socialist government country whose leaders trust the system enough to put their kids in public schools with no additional private tutors. Show me a major American Union that hasn't had its leaders helping themselves to the pot.

My husband left the UK for the US with nothing but a suitcase and me waiting for him. He has gone farther on his own merits here in America than he ever could in the UK. (He didn’t get much help from me.) He is an only child but his elderly parents urge him to stay in the US because he is doing so much better.

If anyone knows the evils even a relatively benign form of socialism in Great Britain can do to a society it is my husband and his family. Universal Healthcare, bah – talk to my husband’s cousin the urologist about universal healthcare but only if you want to weep. Universal healthcare consigned my mother-in-law to a lifetime of crippling pain.

I always plug Jonah Golberg’s book Liberal Fascism for while it is primarily about socialism here in the US, its lessons are lived more deeply in the EU. And all Americans should be terrified of any politician who promotes the failed socialist ideas of Europe and the EU. Europe is not evil but its socialism is depressing. It depresses jobs, it depresses opportunities, and it depresses the people.

It is not fair to say the people of Europe are the ones that stayed, the ones who didn’t want to lose their place in society by taking on the risk of freedom in America, But fair or not, it is kinda true. If you are afraid of risk then you will find solace and reassurance in the false promises of socialism/communism. Never forget that with leftwing ideologies like socialism, you will find your place but never be allowed to leave it.

A modern feudalism has taken root in Europe and wasn’t that feudalist thinking and the desire for (religious) freedom things that drove Europeans to America? And still drives people from all over the world to America today? Drives them towards freedom, second chances, and the American Dream.

When given the opportunity to create any sort of government they wanted, our Founding Fathers chose this one. A new government never before seen on Earth with new freedoms and a bill of rights, born of the Magna Carta but uniquely American.

Now under the cover of a “historic” presidential campaign, a deceptive press, and what increasingly seems like a manufactured financial crisis, the liberal useful ignorami are promoting the destruction of over 200 years of unique freedom and unprecedented wealth creation to create a false liberty under the guise of a positive bill of rights. This is an utopian joke – no, worse a pun.