Timothy Birdnow

Socialism is slavery

He's right; it says everything, including your body and mind, belong to the state and you just get yourself as a favor. Your labor is for the benefit of others. How is that NOT slavery?

And it is a doctrine of demons, leading to corruption (since those in the political class are the only ones who really benefit), hatred, poverty, and suffering of every imaginable sort.

The only good thing about socialism is that it shows how important the individual is; it's an object lesson.

Of course it's always attractive because those who have not, and even those who have less, take satisfaction in dragging down those who have a lot. And at first, while there is still plenty of residual wealth before the socialist program destroys it, the poor and lower middle class see some benefits with things like guaranteed employment and medical care and the like. But it hollows those things out too in time.

I once read a true story, a ship's log, about a bunch of seamen stranded in the Arctic. Stuck in the ice the men built igloos and had to live in them for the winter, awaiting the spring thaw. Of course, being at sea there was no firewood, so the men, who by this point were essentially mutineers, dismissed the captain's efforts to stop them and they broke up their ship for firewood. The captain tried to reason with them "when the thaw comes we'll be at sea with no boat" but all they could think about was how nice it would be to be warm.

I never finished the story - it was in a book at the main library downtown and my time ran out. But they had some Eskimo workers with them and they had their families aboard. These Eskimos (I refuse to call them Innuit in the modern fashion since Innuit are just one tribe of Eskimo) came to the captain begging for help; he was the only guy with a gun. Seems the crewmen were getting mighty hungry, and were eyeing the children with very bad intent.

This is rather like socialism; you break up your boat when the seas freeze then start thinking about eating the children. It wasn't so at first; all seemed well. But in time the situation grows more and more dire and people begin doing things they would never dream of doing.

Socialism is Noso Feratus, the Bringer of Plagues. (Nosferatu is now associated with vampires because of the famous movie by that name, and that name was chosen because it was fitting. The guy who made Nosferatu couldn't get permission from Bram Stroker's widow to use "Dracula" so he renamed his vampire Nosferatu, a corruption of Noso Feratus, Romanian for bringer of plagues.)

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