Thinking back about many of my postings regarding current Democrat trends, either at the national level or amongst the states, I realize that a continual theme is their bent toward socialism and constant attempts to redistribute “wealth.”
However, regardless of how much they try to achieve their goal of asset redistribution, as a practical matter they fail more often than not. Most recent examples include the exodus of high-earners from overtaxing states and the growing balances in massive offshore bank accounts. And although these are only two very visible routes taken by those who feel financially threatened by government, I’m positive there are many more clandestine solutions kept hidden by those employing them.
And, for government, that’s the rub.
I think that's so because, to my knowledge -and I’m certainly no expert on political theory or practice- the places where communism or socialism were most successful were populated by masses of undereducated, unconnected, disparate folks relatively easy to control by a powerful, menacing, well-armed, self-serving group having some intellect at the top. Therefore, conquest of the greater population was relatively easy.
But the problem government faces here and now is, especially for those in the White House, those they’re trying to steal from are far smarter than all the government leaders are. And quite different from other societies where the proletariat was not only relatively easy to control, but had few resources to draw on, in this case the government's broke and the productive half of the population’s not. Which is probably why the incumbent wants to grab all the public’s guns.
So, in a nutshell, from a political perspective it seems to me that the picture’s upside down for those with socialistic hopes in the U.S. Because although there may be masses who truly believe capitalism’s wrong, it’s worked far to well, for far too long, for far too many to willingly change even an iota now. And what’s even worse for those who want to redistribute other’s wealth, the ones with all the bucks have all the brains as well, so their cause is really hopeless in the end.
That’s it for today folks.
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