All socialist organizations eventually exhaust the resources they need to survive. The economic strategy of socialism is wealth redistribution, rather than wealth creation. Opportunity and physical resources are moved from the accomplished to the unaccomplished, in the name of welfare and social justice, until everything is consumed. The left knows this, but they hope the voters can be seduced by “free stuff” until their power is consolidated.
The rationalization by which the socialists accomplish this is envy and jealousy. The tool they use is taxation and regulation. When faced with an underperforming economy, a socialist will never claim that we’re not producing enough. They always insist that the problem is that the wealthy are “not paying their fair share,” and the solution is for themselves to have more power.
But socialism suffers from two inherent flaws, which make it unsustainable: burden and disincentives.
Burden
Redistribution is not free. It requires administrative overhead – people who take wealth from one group and redistribute it to another. When the taxman takes a dollar from the wealthy for redistribution to the poor, the poor never receive the dollar. They receive what is left after the taxman takes his salary and pays his expenses – which tend to be quite high. Hence the act of redistribution turns wealth into a continually declining asset. Increasing redistribution creates more overhead, causing more waste. As socialism grows, wealth is consumed by the overseers, at an accelerating rate.
Disincentives
Socialism also disincentivizes wealth creation. That is a fact of human nature and economics.
When a person is rewarded for their work, they work harder and/or smarter, and produce more. Work output is wealth, regardless of whether it is manifested as dollars, crops, automobiles, energy, or something else valued by others.
Socialism also diverts wealth from economic expansion. A dollar taken from an industrialist, is a dollar not spent on expanding a factory and creating new employment opportunities.
The act of redistribution disincentivizes production and slows the economy. It discourages the creation of the wealth which the socialists need for redistribution. Socialism depends on abundance, but it creates scarcity. It is an economic strategy which is inherently self-destructive.
Unfortunately, the Democrat party has become – at its core – a socialist organization. It maintains its power by pandering to its supporters, using the booty looted from America’s most productive.
- Franklin Deleno Roosevelt looted from our grandparents with “The New Deal” to put Americans back to work – working for the government.
- Lyndon Baines Johnson looted from our parents with his “Great Society” to eliminate poverty – by destroying the nuclear family and turning joblessness into a career.
- Barack Hussein Obama looted from us to “fundamentally change America” by “spreading the wealth around” for social justice.
- Joseph Robinette Biden looted from our great grandchildren with his “Inflation Reduction Act” because he’s a crook.
Have you noticed the narrative for each of those schemes to seize wealth from America’s most productive? It was all done for “feel good” reasons like racial equity, climate justice, and helping the less fortunate. But those redistributionist schemes never acknowledge that without incentivizing wealth creation, everything is eventually consumed. Socialism encourages sloth, and discourages production, but depends on hard work and economic expansion to function. Our only reward for the booty we give the system, is that we get to “feel good” about sacrificing for social justice, while we starve from failing to feed ourselves.
The United States has reached a crisis at which survival depends on corrective action. Our government overlords have placed our republic in an untenable position.
Our government is now $37 trillion in debt and has no plan to stop spending more than it can afford. We are borrowing money to pay the interest on our debt – looting the wealth of our heirs.
Almost half of all Americans now receive some form of government assistance, which is money seized from their fellow citizens.
Government produces no wealth, yet up until the current administration was the fastest growing job sector in the country. Every government employee is a burden on private sector employees.
Our reserve of resources available for redistribution is gone, yet government spending continues to increase. The economic house of cards built by our socialists will eventually collapse.
But radicals are loathe to accept responsibility for the coming calamity. It runs counter to their whole “somebody else is to blame for everything” worldview. They insist that we just need to raise taxes, to fund more redistributionist schemes to achieve human harmony.
But Americans are starting to see otherwise, and it turns out the buck doesn’t stop at the Resolute Desk. It stops at the thousands of voting booths across America. Voters said “enough” and sent Donald Trump and his merry band of DOGE disruptors to throw a monkey wrench into the precision gears of the redistribution engine before it turns America into another failed third-world wasteland.
With the socialist Ponzi scheme of the Democrat party collapsing, the blame game has begun.
- Our bartender from Brooklyn in the House of Representatives is blaming the oligarchs (Democrat party donors).
- The Oligarchs (Democrat party donors) are blaming Crooked Joe.
- Crooked Joe is blaming Crooked San Fran Nan.
- The ACLU is blaming the king, because they apparently think it’s still 1775.
- Zohran Mamdani is blaming the grocers … and is promising that communism will work where socialism didn’t.
- Nobody is sure who Cackles Harris is blaming, because she hasn’t said anything intelligible in at least five years.
Of course they’re all missing the root problem. It’s not “who’s” to blame. It’s “what’s” to blame. The problem is not the messenger or the message. It is the ideology. Redistribution does not build – it destroys.
The establishment Republicans are having a grand time watching the Democrat party tear itself apart. Perhaps they should be a bit more introspective. They helped construct this house of cards too. They know it, we know it, and we have the power to fix it. Maybe the RINOs treating our current situation as “business as usual,” should note what the Cheney’s, Bush’s, and Romney’s are doing these days, and start planning for “more time with their families.”
This mess was all avoidable if we had simply followed the counsel of the Almighty. He told us to “be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it” – use the earth’s resources for prosperity. He told us “Thou shalt not covet” – don’t be jealous of another’s accomplishments, make our own. He told us “Thou shalt not steal” – charity is an act of personal giving not of government seizure and redistribution. Rather than stealing from the wealthy to give to the poor, our God-given mission has always been to use our abilities and the resources of the world to create prosperity – not to merely move the money around until we die.
Author Bio: John Green is a retired engineer and political refugee from Minnesota, now residing in Idaho. He spent his career designing complex defense systems, developing high performance organizations, and doing corporate strategic planning. He is a contributor to American Thinker, The American Spectator, and the American Free News Network. He can be reached at greenjeg@gmail.com.
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