Before one can solve a problem they must first realize they have a problem.
The hand that robs Peter to pay Paul, will always have the vote of Paul.
Think.
If only we could just skip the death and famine part of the communist plan.
But central planning always demands a “bad period” of deliberate mass death before it can claim any growth.
The Bolsheviks opened with war communism that starved millions and executed thousands more to seize power.
Stalin industrialized the body count through the Holodomor genocide that starved millions of Ukrainians and a gulag empire that devoured millions of others.
Mao’s Great Leap Forward remains the deadliest famine in recorded history after forced collectivization and backyard furnace insanity killed tens of millions.
Even after the slaughter the results never deliver. And market liberalization, even a little, always turns out to be the only way out of the communist death spiral.
Bastiat’s broken window fallacy shows why destruction does not create wealth. A boy breaks a shopkeeper’s window. People see the glazier get paid to repair it and assume the economy benefits.
They miss that the shopkeeper can no longer spend that money productively elsewhere. The repair only replaces what was lost, not create new value.
Which is why market economies that skipped the genocide phase left them in the dust on actual living standards.
South Korea versus North Korea. West Germany versus East Germany.
Reformed China still trails South Korea and Taiwan in per capita wealth and basic freedoms.
The joke is that Mainland China is still the poorest China.
The graves were not a cost of progress. They were proof the model was broken from the start.
in 2019 David French said that conservatives needed just to be more courageous, so I wrote about cancel culture and how it is an all-consuming fire that destroys decent people
I said that I had a religious line that I would refuse to cross and one day I suspected my employer would try to force me to cross it.
That is *exactly* what is happening in the MLB today, which is kind of hilarious b/c the company I worked for was MLB (well, MLBAM, which was bought by Disney)
https://t.co/y9kaznzSJT
My British brothers, if this is what happens while you're the majority, imagine the horrors once you are the minority. Your window is closing fast. Rise up.
The British Isles are beginning to remember what every civilization eventually remembers:
A government that cannot protect its people eventually loses the moral authority to govern them.
Everything that follows is just the timetable.
The ultimate elitist flex: driving around with a multimillionaire auto collector in a classic Corvette, valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars, that gets 9 miles per gallon and emits more emissions than about two dozen modern cars ... bragging how he tried to kill the energy industry in America.
MLB execs had no issue with acts of protest while cities were burned down by left-wing mobs in 2020. In fact, MLB changed the rules to allow more left-wing messaging!
Meanwhile, Christians are singled out and targeted for taking part in a religious protest. Unbelievable.
I’ll take the trillionaire visionary who creates wealth for tens of millions of people, over the millionaire politicians who loot that wealth for themselves.