Democrats Love Socialism Because They Want To Take Your Stuff And Enslave You

Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter

Democrats Love Socialism Because They Want To Take Your Stuff And Enslave You

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is less hideously unattractive than the usual Democrat potentate or potentatette and has therefore been anointed the new face of her pathetic party. This dumb woman, who looks like Huma Abedin without the pedohubby and the weird relationship with Felonia Milhous von Pantsuit, took advantage of her even dumber New York district in order to get elected to Congress by calling herself a “socialist.” Yeah, the subject of a thousand Trader Joe’s house brand chardonnay toasts is a proud adherent of the ideology that butchered 100 million people in the last century.

Considering how much mainstream liberals hate us Normal Americans for militantly defending our rights, it’s no surprise that they are looking to their leftist ancestors for some helpful hints about how to deal with us uppity, kulak-y obstacles to their rightful and permanent domination of society.

Totally unrelated: I know I’m super excited about the idea of giving up our guns right about now. How about you?

Ocasio-Cortez is an idiot, like all adolescent socialists, so she qualified to be the Great Pinko Hope for a party in decline. Here’s how bad she is – she apparently went to college, got a degree in economics, and still ended up a socialist. If she went to med school, she would have probably left a chain smoker.

As for life experience, she was a bartender. Now, being a bartender is an important occupation that provides demonstrable social benefits, and everyone should have at least one crappy job on their resume because it builds character, but it shouldn’t be the only thing you’ve ever done if you want to be in Congress. Note that, like all socialists, she does not dig socialism when applied to her.

Socialism is the fetch of ideologies, and the left is always trying to make it happen. It’s not going to happen, not least of which because us militant Normals have about 400 million or so guns and we aren’t super excited about giving up our stuff or our freedom to a bunch of Marxist weirdos who think we should work harder so their voter base doesn’t have to. But they keep trying to sell us this polished fecal matter of an ideology. In 2009, they put Obama’s smug mug on the cover of Newsweek and announced “We’re all socialists now,” but it soon became obvious that we aren’t anything like socialists now. And, in fact, Newsweek is barely anything at all now, though under socialism, instead of teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, it would be nationalized and we’d all be working to subsidize it so its hack staff could keep their loser sinecures.

A few years later, they tried again by releasing Bernie Sanders from the Old Commies Home to nearly beat Stumbles McMyTurn. That failed and now it’s this nitwit’s turn to spray perfume inside the outhouse.

Naturally, the Pink Dummy was summoned to make the rounds of MSNBCNN in the wake of her win over some other liberal tool. This avatar of a failed nineteenth century death cult was hailed as the future of the Democrats because as the leftist precincts in New York City go, so goes America. She did the same tap dance about socialism that all these twits do – see, socialism isn’t scary. Why, “socialism” is just another word for things we all do together, except when the socialists are in charge they kill you if you defy them.

Out came the memes of snow plows and roads and bridges and all those other emblems of socialism that we have right here right now – mind blown, huh? See, socialism is just…what? Basic infrastructure items we have here now? What every freaking society has, including Singapore and Switzerland, whose commitment to Adam Smith makes ours seem like a drunken Thursday night hook-up?

Most Marxists know that’s nonsense, but a good bunch of the adherents of this poisonous philosophy actually believe it. Pampered spawn of history’s most prosperous and freest society, these goofs are really excited about something they can barely articulate, so they sputter and spit out words like “justice” and “equality” and then get on their iPhones to call their disappointed dads because they are short on cash and want to see Mumford & Sons.

It’s amusing that so many of us Normals understand socialism better than the socialists do not only in terms of what Marx said, and what history says, but in terms of firsthand knowledge. A lot of us Normals have seen socialism up close and personal. Guys like me actually went and lived in its ruins. If you spent significant time, as I have, in the former Yugoslavia, or Ukraine, or even helping to guard the West German border from those friendly fraternal socialist dudes to the east, you’ll be stripped of any illusions about that garbage ideology.

Socialism is about taking your stuff and your freedom and killing you if you complain. They try to pass it off as just Liberalism 2.0, but then you usually don’t call something by a name unless you mean it. If they don’t mean “socialism,” why do they call themselves “socialists?”

They use the term, counting on the stupidity of people educated in public schools (Yah government!), but they are coy about what they really mean. They always point to Sweden and Denmark and Norway when they talk about “socialism,” as if those were their role models (and as if America was full of Swedes, Danes, and Norwegians instead of being a melting pot of immigrants with a radically different history and culture). Yet, how come we always see the most excited champagne socialists trekking off to visit the dictators in Havana and Caracas and not the elected leaders in Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Oslo?

Oops, Venezuela is the socialist paradise that dare not be spoken of. I guess when people are so equal they all have to break into the zoo to eat the zebras, equality stops sounding so awesome. But see, Venezuela isn’t true socialism. Nothing is ever true socialism, which is super convenient since any country that has ever dabbled in socialism tends to run short of food, medicine, and toilet paper. But I bet smart people like Gulag Barbie can totally make socialism work this time, and you’ll be prosperous and free and have your own pet unicorn.

I’ll name mine “Chet.”

They are always sure to stick the “Democratic” in front of the “socialism” when they try to sell it to the suckers, but that’s a grift. Do they contend that if we vote in socialism and find that it sucks – as every single country that has tried it has found – we can vote it out again? Yeah, uh huh. Seems legit.

Socialism is a train that, once you board, never stops except if you derail it – which we would have every moral right to do if this hateful creed were imposed upon us.

You see, socialism is the doctrine that people like you and I get to slave away for the benefit of the people those in charge decide are worthy – especially those in charge. Do you think when there’s socialized medicine you’ll find yourself on a six-month waiting list to get a wisdom tooth pulled next to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or any other bigwig? I bet Chet thinks so.

Socialism means what’s theirs is theirs and so is what’s yours. Our private property – what we have worked for and accumulated over decades – is no longer ours. It’s theirs, to be done with – to be redistributed – as those in power wish. And if you object, they will send people with guns to make you comply.

In contrast, in freedom and capitalism, the people with guns protect you from having what’s yours taken.

They don’t say it, but we Normals are the engine that they intend to power their socialism. We’re supposed to continue working and building and creating just as hard as we did when we kept the rewards. Note how the recipients of socialism – the elite, the bums, the hipster doofuses with their stupid Che T-shirts – never seem to expect that they might be asked to sacrifice too? We’re supposed to give up our property and labor to benefit them, but what do they contribute? New grievances?

As my new book Militant Normals explains in non-FCC compliant terms, we regular Americans are woke to this scam – we understand that all this socialist posturing is just another way to hand us the check for the deadbeats who vote for Democrats while stripping us of any say in our own governance. Marxgirl wants to start off with free college, which means you pay for other people’s college too. Notice how there’s no expectation that her fans contribute toward the benefit they are receiving? And then she’s for free health care, which means you pay for other people’s doctors too. Again, the recipients are not expected to work for their own benefit. Want to guess what she wants to do with the means of production? And with private property? And the rights of people who oppose her schemes?

Oh, and she’s also for banning guns. Gee, I wonder why.

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Card802
Card802
July 9, 2018 7:10 am

The amazing situation with these progs is how stupid they really are.

The movie, Idiocracy, it’s not a comedy, it’s a documentary…….

pyrrhus
pyrrhus
  Card802
July 9, 2018 10:15 am

Idiocracy was supposed to be 200 years in the future–but it’s here already….

overthecliff
overthecliff
July 9, 2018 7:32 am

The first statement of the posting pretty much says it all.

Hans
Hans
July 9, 2018 8:19 am

Female version of Obama.

Dutchman
Dutchman
  Hans
July 9, 2018 9:56 am

They both have cunts!

Hollywood Rob
Hollywood Rob
July 9, 2018 8:38 am

Great read Kurt. Nicely done. I particularly like Chet.

James
James
July 9, 2018 9:07 am

At some point the reality of the economy WILL kick in with deficits/unaffordable pensions/broke medicaid/ss ect.,then,unfortunately the socialists will be seen as saviors by a majority,this will not end well,but end it must!

prusmc
prusmc
  James
July 9, 2018 9:56 am

James:
If you expect reality to kick in you haven’t talked to a government employee at any level or a person 18 to 35, recently.

James
James
  prusmc
July 9, 2018 10:24 am

Prus,the thing is,in the end the simple facts of addition and subtraction,basic math,will roll over those “feelings/opinions”of the folks you mention,what happens then and how it all plays out,well,tis one of among many reasons why folks prep.Sucks to have to think this way but better then the alternative.

Mushroom Cloud
Mushroom Cloud
  prusmc
July 10, 2018 12:13 am

As a millennial, I can easily point out that most of the hell we are about to (hopefully) live through, will be the doing of your generation, not mine.

llpoh
llpoh
  Mushroom Cloud
July 10, 2018 12:17 am

As a boomer, I can easily point out that if the shit hits the fan, the pussified millennials are woefully unprepared to survive, and that hopes of survival for many will be dim.

Southern Sage
Southern Sage
July 9, 2018 9:19 am

Kurt,
Well done. I lived in a “socialist” (Communist) dictatorship for two years, the lovely island of Cuba. This experience teaches you things:
–To hate these arrogant, smug, stupid bastards
–That socialism is paradise for the lazy, venal, dumb part of the population
–A shocking percentage of the human race will squat in a puddle of their own filth and put up with anything as long as Master hands out gruel and dirty water to them and asks for no work in return
–Socialists and their tougher Communist buddies are absolutely immune to facts and the real world. No amount of failure or proof that they are full of shit has the least effect on them. The only way to deal with these people is with a 2X4 to the teeth. Do not make the mistake of thinking you can “reason” with them.
–In socialism the dishonest, the cowardly, and the dull rise to the top like garbage in a harbor.
–A few of the brain-washed eventually fgure it all out. Once they do they simply go crazy if they can’t get the hell out. You do not brave 90 miles of shark-infested water because you just dislike listening to Castro drone on for hours.

Dutchman
Dutchman
  Southern Sage
July 9, 2018 10:00 am

You’re correct Southern: That socialism is paradise for the lazy, venal, dumb part of the population

This is why many Millenials (at age 27, live at home, or in their parents basement) are for socialism. Not only are they lazy, they don’t want to think – life is just a continuation of college – the weekend starts on Thursday.

Grizzly Bare
Grizzly Bare
  Southern Sage
July 9, 2018 10:20 am

SS, it’s a target rich environment out there. if you were swinging that 2×4 I think it might have made the news by now. It would seem you’re socializing your violence, by trying to inspire others to do the swinging for you.

Grizzly Bare
Grizzly Bare
  Southern Sage
July 9, 2018 11:22 am

SS, Socialists and communists are not immune to the facts and the real world. They know exactly what they are doing and the failure it will produce. It is a tool of enslavement. They have their prosperity and they could give a fuck less if we have ours. I’ll even go a step further and say that they very much want the masses to be destitute. Wealth is power and they definitely want to hold a monopoly on power. The people who squat in their own filth in exchange for gruel and dirty water are the symptom, not the disease. Whatever you subsidize you get more of, whatever you tax you get less of.

40 years ago I was where you are now screaming from the rooftops about communism and we have to do something about it. Over the years I have learned a thing or two about the power structure of the world. I’m all for killing communists if you’re talking about going after the architects of the master plan who have put all this bullshit into place. That would be central banks, members of the CFR and Trilateral Commission and that ilk. They are the disease. Attacking the symptoms will do more harm to our cause than good. When you have a solid plan on how to take down the very top echelon of power in the world let us know.

The handwriting is on the wall as far as the economy is concerned. We are on the brink of cataclysmic times. A civil war will only acerbate the hardship. The US is turning into a powder keg. I believe it is by design by those at the very top echelon of the power structure. They want this thing to blow up and they want it to blow up bigly. And you want to be the spark that sets it off.

I’ve had a very hard life. I’ve busted my hump for 45 years with little in the way of reward. My body is worn out and I just don’t seem to have enough sweat in my tank any more to get through a hard day. I’m on the brink of retirement. I just want to finish my house and kick it on the porch with a cold one. I was hoping to have this year, next year, maybe even the year after that to relax before I die, but asshats like yourself who are clamoring for a civil war are trying to take even that little time to relax from me, AND IT FUCKING PISSES ME OFF!

NickelthroweR
NickelthroweR
  Grizzly Bare
July 9, 2018 11:48 am

Greetings,

“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.”
Bruce Lee

Grizzly Bare
Grizzly Bare
  NickelthroweR
July 9, 2018 12:09 pm

I don’t know jack shit about you Nickel, but I’d make a decent wager you havn’t endured half the difficulties I have.

NickelthroweR
NickelthroweR
  Grizzly Bare
July 9, 2018 12:33 pm

Greetings,
You are correct – you don’t know jack shit. If you a too much of a pussy to deal with your life then take it some place else.

Grizzly Bare
Grizzly Bare
  NickelthroweR
July 9, 2018 1:57 pm

Nickel if you didn’t grow up lower class you can stfu. If you grew up in a household with two parents you can stfu. If you weren’t a latchkey kid of a single mother working a full time minimum wage job barely making ends meet you can stfu. If your mother, god bless her good intentions, tried to do good by her children by bringing in a substitute father figure who turned out to be an abusive alcoholic you can stfu. If your mother’s abusive alcoholic boyfriend didn’t run you out of the house before you could finish high school you can stfu. If you didn’t have to go to work full time at the age of fifteen in order to survive you can stfu. If you were able to enjoy the benefits of a college education you can stfu. If you didn’t serve at least 4 years in the infantry or another combat arms MOS you can stfu. If you haven’t spent your entire working career slaving in mining and construction or similar field, sweating your balls off or freezing them off either underground or outdoors you can stfu. If you haven’t had three major back injuries while on the job you can stfu. If you don’t have chronic sciatica you can stfu. If you don’t know the joys of crippling RA you can stfu. I deal with my life, in fact I’m really enjoying my life now. Some of my difficulties are self inflicted, like living off grid bushcrafting in the boonies without AC or running water, but when it’s TEOTWAWKI there’s a good chance I’ll be more comfortable than y’all. When that happens and you are scratching in the dirt for grubs to stave off starvation in the post apocalyptic world, just keep replaying that Bruce Lee quote over and over in your head. Call me a pussy if you want, but I’ll still make that wager.

Hollywood Rob
Hollywood Rob
  Grizzly Bare
July 9, 2018 2:53 pm

Bare, this is not about you. Stop trying to make it about poor points. We all have them and we don’t need yours.

Grizzly Bare
Grizzly Bare
  Grizzly Bare
July 9, 2018 4:38 pm

Hollywood, I apologize. My bad. It wasn’t my intention to whine. I just don’t need advice on enduring difficulties. I’m really tired, and full of pain. I want to finally be able to relax, not have to deal with a stupid fucking civil war.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Grizzly Bare
July 9, 2018 5:18 pm

Grizz, Don’t listen to Hollywood. This place is what you make of it, some folks like to turn it into a recruiting center for race warriors. Others have serious stories to share. Hollywood just wants to show how well off he is cause he did everything right, just like Dutchman and Yobe. Then there’s the riff-raff here, we fight for our right to comment, don’t think it’s easy. the onlyiest person that ever got in without paying her dues is Maggie, everybody else had better come here with a knife or heater. You have just gotten a nibble from one of the sharks here. If you go around apologizing, they will smell the blood and attack. Capisce?
EC

Llpoh
Llpoh
  Grizzly Bare
July 9, 2018 6:00 pm

Damn, Griz, you sure had it good. I can only imagine growing up in such grand circumstances. Seriously. Try growing up as a poor Injun from a Dust Bowl family. Those things either put hair on your chest, or turn you into a pussy. You seem to have chose the latter. Too bad for you.

I have never seen such whining in my life. “Boohoo, I did not go to college, so youse had such an advantage over me!” Guess in the 45 years you have been working you could not find a way to educate yourself. What bullshit.

Living life sour is no way to go. I have seen it up close and personal. And you are living life sour. You made your road, and no one else. I advise a change of attitude. Regret is a killer.

Grizzly Bare
Grizzly Bare
  Grizzly Bare
July 9, 2018 9:23 pm

Llpoh, I understand that you’ve been quite successful with your life. I’m sure it’s a fascinating story and I would sincerely like to hear it. I get butt hurt sometimes over stupid things. I know Nickel didn’t mean any offense, but I took it that way. I have no regrets about where I am in life. I’m better off now than most folks. I’m debt free, have a beautiful acreage, a modest house I’m building and produce almost all my own food. I just don’t want to see it all go up in smoke.

I know that complaining never solved anything or won anybody any friends, but sometimes for some odd reason it sure feels good doing it. You guys can call me a pussy all you want. I know who I am.

llpoh
llpoh
  Grizzly Bare
July 9, 2018 11:42 pm

Griz – you are just the type we need more of around here – capable, independent, reflective. My story is not very interesting. It was just a series of fighting like hell everything that came along – and hence how I have developed my charming disposition.

Truth be known, I was impressed by what you overcame – seriously. But I have zero tolerance for regrets. And hence my bit of pit bull action. For every one with our backgrounds, there is another with an even worse story, or who lacked the IQ you and I have that allowed some hope of digging out of a bad situation. I think you should be proud of what you have done, and forget about what you did not.

Nickel is a good and accomplished fellow. I have never known him to be mean-spirited.

I would like to hear about your off-grid set-up. I am slowly headed that way myself, and am perhaps 80% sustainable off grid. I am waiting on more viable batteries, as I consume a lot of electricity.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote
  Grizzly Bare
July 10, 2018 12:44 am

Grizz, LLPOH just rolled out the welcome mat. That is a rarity here. Usually, LLPOH would kick you around some to toughen you up before the real ass-whooping. You might as well tell folks to fuck off before you go apologizing, You’ve just been handed the mantle from one of the big dogs or yore. Talk about a fast burner.

Grizzly Bare
Grizzly Bare
  Grizzly Bare
July 10, 2018 9:37 am

Llpoh, I have a 48v battery bank that consists of 16 trojan L16 6v flooded lead acid batteries set up in two strings of 8. They are charged by nine 250w 24v solar panels set up in strings of 3 fed through an Outback charge controller. In winter time, when the angle of the sun is low in sky and has more atmosphere to penetrate, when there are fewer hours of daylight, when the skies are more cloudy than sunny, my system is just adequate enough to run a small refrigerator, lights, laptop and satellite internet modem. When I have too many cloudy days in a row I stop using the computer, and will plug the fridge in just enough to keep the stuff in the freezer frozen which doesn’t take much since my house isn’t kept overly warm in winter. I try hard not to discharge my batteries too deeply as higher depth of discharge will dramatically shorten their life. High temperatures will wear them out quickly as well. Batteries are the most expensive part of a system and need regular replacement. In summer I have more electricity available for other things, especially during hours of peak sun. My intention is to add some more panels and start running an air conditioner next summer during hours of peak sun.

Well into my fourth year off grid I have concluded that it’s easier and way more cost effective to find ways to do things without using electricity. I heat my home with wood, which is plentiful on my land. I do some cooking with wood and I’m getting set up to do more, but I still do most of my cooking with propane. Anything with an electric heating element, like space heater, electric range, clothes dryer, hair dryer, or toaster is pretty much out of the question. Think of electricity as a luxury instead of a necessity. I believe it is also essential to have at least one engine driven generator. I have plans to start experimenting with wind power after I get caught up on more of my projects, as I have very strong winds throughout the winter.

EC thanks for your insights and the video. Much appreciated. I love that song. When I lived in the city I lived for the times when I could get outside and leave the pavement behind. Now I’m experiencing the spirit of the wild every day. I’m connected with my inner aborigine, and gladly rarely have contact with pavement any more.

Llpoh
Llpoh
  Grizzly Bare
July 10, 2018 5:02 pm

Thanks, Griz. My problem is that I use a lot of electricity. A lot. Biggest gobbler is the giant pool pump, but there are others as well. I have 6kw of solar panels, and can generate maybe an average of around 30 kwhs a day or so, a lot of which I use, some of which goes into the grid. I would need to store a lot of power. I suspect I would need at least another bank of 6 kw panels, and storage of maybe 50 or 60 kwhs of lithium high discharge batteries. One bank of solar would drive the batteries, essentially, and the other set would power daytime use, where I would concentrate running the pumps and other major items.

Frugal lifestyle is probably not in my future. Autonomous, yes, but frugal, no. I estimate it would cost around 50 to 75 grand to get it set up to take me fully off grid. With a life on the battries of around 10 or 12 years. That means I would barely break even over that time frame. And hence why I am waiting for better batteries. I would love to give the power companies the fingr, but it costs money.

Thanks again.

ragman
ragman
July 9, 2018 10:27 am

A socialist is simply a communist without a gun. We must never forget that.

overthecliff
overthecliff
  ragman
July 9, 2018 10:54 am

Rag, true true true.

Those dumb asses in the basement dont know we have socialism already. What they want is communism.

starfcker
starfcker
  ragman
July 9, 2018 3:43 pm

A socialist is a guy who’s hungry because his job got shipped overseas. You can’t have it both ways. We need to have an organized system for people to get the things they need to survive. It used to be employment. If it’s not going to be employment, that only leaves socialism

James
James
  ragman
July 9, 2018 4:57 pm

Grizz,believe Nickel was just making a point through a pretty smart guy’s(Bruce Lee)thoughts on what we want when times get very challenging.I have had a blessed life in many ways and faced some real horrors(tough times),not the same as yours but no more less/more challenging,we all have our scars of pain.I do not believe any here want civil war(would be this countries first dammit!)/things to turn openly violent ect.,just may happen no matter what we do.I have noticed all around starting with meself folks a bit more on edge.Thus,will end with another great quote from Mr. Lee,”Be like water”.

Speaking of water,the Bisons will pull up to 500+ feet.

As for the back,I also have worked construction for decades,if you do not have one get a inversion table(about 100 used on CL for a quality Teeter),may not cure all that ails you back wise but 5 minutes in morning/5 in evening does great things for back and hell,rest of body.I reccomend one for all as will help one avoid the back and other injuries from tough laboring,some of the best money I ever spent.

Grizzly Bare
Grizzly Bare
  James
July 10, 2018 9:44 am

Thank you James. I like “be like water”. What is the Bisons? I had an inversion table before I moved and I loved it, But I just couldn’t bring everything. I definitely will be getting another one once I have a decent place to set it up.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
July 9, 2018 10:28 am

I like Kurt’s writing style. He is very good at mocking the left.

“A few years later, they tried again by releasing Bernie Sanders from the Old Commies Home to nearly beat Stumbles McMyTurn. That failed and now it’s this nitwit’s turn to spray perfume inside the outhouse.”

I am beginning to think Southern Sage is right, though. They are dangerously deranged.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-08/headless-robespierres-cautionary-tale-alt-left-unleashed-america

Robert (QSLV)
Robert (QSLV)
July 9, 2018 10:46 am

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The Pilgrim’s Failed Socialist Experiment

Nov 18, 2011 | Economy, Taxes |

By Dr. Harold Pease

Few realize that New England’s first form of government under the Pilgrims was communalism (socialism) where “each produced according to his ability and each received according to his needs,” more than two centuries before Karl Marx first penned the above script. The result of “share the wealth” then and now was, and always will be, shared poverty.

William Bradford, the colony’s governor its first 30 years, wrote of the agreement between the Pilgrim passengers and the financial “Adventurers” in his book Of Plymouth Plantation. He noted that the seven-year contract signed July 1, 1620, before leaving Plymouth England, stipulated that the Pilgrims were to pool, for common benefit, “all profits and benefits that are got by trade, traffic, trucking, working, fishing, or any other means of any person or persons…” It further noted “that at the end of the seven years, the capital and profits, viz. the houses, lands, goods and chattels, be equally divided betwixt the Adventurers and Planters…” During this time the colonists were to “have their meat, drink, apparel, and all provisions out of the common stock and goods of the said colony.” It doesn’t get more socialistic than this because the government divvied out the goods and loafers received the same as those who worked.

The first two years the result was shortages and starvation. About half the colonists died. No one did more than the minimal because the incentive to excel was destroyed. The industrious were neutralized. Bradford wrote of the scarcity of food “no supply was heard of, neither knew they when they might expect any.” The socialist experiment Bradford added, “was found to breed much confusion and discontent and retard much employment that would have been to the benefit and comfort. For the young men, that were most able and fit for labour and service, did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men’s wives and children without any recompense….” In other words, socialism made strong men lazy. In another book written by the same author, History of Plymouth Plantation, Bradford spoke of another problem because of the government created famine—thievery. Even in this Christian community, “much was stolen both by night and day….”

After two years of such, with the survival of the colony at stake, they contemplated upon “how they might raise as much corn as they could, and obtain a better crop than they had done, that they might not still thus languish in misery.” They opted to abandon the incentive killing socialist contract in favor of the free market. And so they “assigned to every family a parcel of land, according to the proportion of their number, for that end…”

The effects were almost immediate. A delighted Governor Bradford wrote: “This had very good success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been by any means the Governor… could use, and saved him a great deal of trouble, and gave far better content. The women now went willingly into the field, and took their little ones with them to set corn; which before would allege weakness and inability; whom to have compelled would have been thought great tyranny and oppression.” In other words, the free market is a much greater stimulus than governmental force. The Pilgrims now wished to work because they got to keep the benefits of their labor. “Instead of famine now God gave them plenty,” Bradford wrote, “and the face of things was changed, to the rejoicing of the hearts of many, for which they blessed God…. Any general want or famine hath not been amongst them since to this day.”

Secure property rights are the key to prosperity for all who wish to work. When this right is threatened by confiscatory taxation or outright confiscation of property, or by excessive government rules and regulations governing such, whether planned as in a contract enforced by the government at Plymouth, or gradual as in our day, work and production slow and can eventually stop. The answer for them was to extract socialism from their midst as it is for us today as well. May we have the wisdom to do so?

Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He has taught history and political science from this perspective for over 25 years at Taft College. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit http://www.LibertyUnderFire.org.

Robert (QSLV)

MarshRabbit
MarshRabbit
  Robert (QSLV)
July 9, 2018 11:20 am

Every Thanksgiving someone trots out the “Pilgrims were communists” line. The story goes like this, when they arrived in North America they shared everything so they were communists, and they starved. Then they embraced capitalism and prospered. Don’t bother telling them that Karl Marx wasn’t born until 1818, and Adam Smith wouldn’t show up to tell us about capitalism for another hundred years. But there is an element of truth to the fable. In a practice they called The Common Course and Condition, they did share everything when they arrived in 1620. What he left out of the narrative is that they arrived in November (i.e. winter). Not just any winter, 1620 & 1621 were in a period climatologists call “The Little Ice Age.” The Pilgrims’ first winter in North America was brutal. They had no choice but to share. All they had to live on was the meager rations they brought from England and the corn they stole from the Native Americans.
Their harvest in 1621 was successful enough that they celebrated with a feast we call Thanksgiving. After the feast, an inventory was done and they realized they had greatly overestimated the harvest. They had to cut food rations to get through the winter of 1621-1622. Here’s is where it gets complicated. By the first Thanksgiving, half of the colonists had died in the “Great Sickness”. Only four women survived to see Thanksgiving. Right after Thanksgiving 1621, the ship Fortune arrives with 35 new colonists (only three were women). At this point there are seven women doing laundry for about eighty-five colonists. The seven women complained about doing laundry for all the bachelors. It was at this point that individual plots were assigned, and everyone started to make their own way. They shared when they had to in order to survive, and they “went capitalist” when they were they settled in as experienced farmers and had a full planting/harvesting season ahead of them. In the end, it had as much to do with laundry as it did with economics.

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  MarshRabbit
July 9, 2018 5:08 pm

great post, Marshrabbit

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  Robert (QSLV)
July 9, 2018 5:05 pm

“It didn’t take much research to find that while I have been working to support myself in private enterprise my entire career, including working two jobs and later facing the daunting task of owning my own business, Dr. Pease has spent a career comfortably feeding at the government trough. His long-time employer, Taft (Junior) College, is a government-funded institution.
In his column of June 6, Dr. Pease remarkably even criticizes his own administration for being enslaved by accepting federal funds. Whew, what a load coming from a lifelong government-sucking hypocrite.
Even now, while apparently living in Cedar City, he is still drawing income from the taxpayers in California. What a hoot, but oh-so-typical of the “biting the very hand that feeds me” mentality that seems to prevail with so many other anti-government “experts,” including our own local politicians.”

Brent Holloway
St. George

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  Robert (QSLV)
July 9, 2018 9:06 pm

Karl Marx did not pen the above script. It is found in the book of Acts chapter 4 verses 32-35. The pilgrims simply didn’t understand their Bibles and were living according to a plan which God put a stop to more than 2,000 years ago. Those who believe, like the pilgrims, that the church began in Acts chapter 2 need to rethink their positions.

Robert H Siddell Jr
Robert H Siddell Jr
July 9, 2018 10:53 am

The Communist Party stinks like 100 million corpses; unbearable for Normal Folks but sadly our urban youth bathe in the stuff. We Conservative Southerners had to hold our noses to vote Republican in 2016; no way in Hell should a Christian ever vote Democrat again. Mz Cortez attracts Urban Flies like you’d expect of a seductive female Che Guevara (actually he was the Bolshevik Butcher of Havana) or Obama, but the rest of America will give her the Moon and a Bronx Cheer.

Anonymous
Anonymous
July 9, 2018 11:02 am

The only reason the press loves this cat lady of Westchester, is cause she still looks good on camera, however, her 15 minutes has expired, and now she must use her mouth and brain to help spend other peoples money.

me thinks she will be using more of the former, than the latter, why else would the democratic machine allow for the people to elect an unemployed bartender?

her next steps will be to run for senator, now that she has accomplished so much as a congressional candidate.

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  Anonymous
July 9, 2018 6:09 pm

No way she can run for Senator in New York with Chuck Schumer and Gildibrand as incumbents for the next 20 years. Only chance would be if Gildibrand would run as VP to Holder, Booker or Joe Hairplugs.

NickelthroweR
NickelthroweR
July 9, 2018 11:55 am

Greetings,
Ocasio still has to run in the general election, no? She just won the primary. Were I the Republican party, I’d pound a bit of cash into that race just to keep this woman and her insane views in the news. Make her go on the record so we can have hundreds of silly memes.

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  NickelthroweR
July 10, 2018 4:37 am

Nickel, she’s a nut, who won a Democratic primary with 14,000 votes. I’m with you, I want to see her be the face of the party. Stupid, angry, America hating, white hating, work hating, race-baiting, champion of the lazy. She is the future of the democratic party for sure. I agree with you, the Republicans should nationalize that race.

Tim Jones
Tim Jones
July 9, 2018 12:30 pm

The only reason that this socialist/commie slop is still around is because of the schools. Before WW2 got rolling tons of commies came to the US to escape Hitler. And where did they all end up? In cushie jobs in academia. A large number of the WENT TO THE IVY LEAGUE. Thats not a joke. Cultural marxism moved right into schools like Columbia, NY, Harvard, Yale, etc…

After WW2 they should have aggressively routed it out like the cancer that it is but instead they did much worse. They brought over even more of these people from Europe and gave them even more jobs in academia. This is why this rot is firmly entrenched in the US. And both the govmt and media have sheltered them every since.

They should have fired all of them and publicly disgraced them. Instead they made them department heads and gave them research grants. Academia and the media are the primary reasons that this failed concept is still around.

Today, socialism/communism is advocated in the schools which are controlled by the left and that special group which shall remain nameless. Until it is routed out academia and the left’s strangle hold on the media is broken it will continue.

James
James
July 9, 2018 1:09 pm

This stupid commie should sport a red star as her emblem of progressive detachment from reality. Then she might get noticed by the snowflake generation who is stupid enough to follow her over the cliff.

Marc
Marc
July 9, 2018 2:41 pm

“Less hideously unattractive”. I like that.

SemperFido
SemperFido
July 9, 2018 3:48 pm

She has crazy eyes. Reminds me of my first wife, the Handmaiden of Satan. (H/T Bison Prepper)

Wild Bob
Wild Bob
July 9, 2018 4:39 pm

So she went by the name of ‘Sandy’ as a bartender?
Short for ‘Sandinista’ ?

Grog
Grog
July 9, 2018 4:42 pm
MrLiberty
MrLiberty
July 9, 2018 7:43 pm

So why do the republicans love socialism? Different reasons, or the same ones with different stuff stolen and a different form of enslavement?

On The Beach
On The Beach
July 10, 2018 3:03 am

Ocasio kind of looks like Huma Weiner but she needs to buy some of that bright red 30 dollar hooker lipstick before she can run with the big dogs.