"The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of someone else's money." Margeret Thatcher.
I se any number of socialists on social media and occasionally in person and I see broken people that have failed in some way or another and are simply envious of successful people.
Many of these are people that are/were simply too lazy and/or stupid to be successful. Successful people don't become socialists. They are successful and are pretty happy with their lot in life.
Success really isn't always measured by the size of one's fortune, but by an accomplishment of their dreams. Most of the socialists types had big dreams that they failed to accomplish or became jaded when they found out they had overestimated their abilities.
I know of one that is upset because he can't afford a house as big as the one he grew up in. I'm sure he could if he applied himself but instead he blames boomers for holding so much wealth and sitting on it.
That's not 100% true as a lot of retired boomers are traveling and doing other things to spend their childrens inheritance (which is what we are supposed to do). Many Boomers have helped their kids get started, too.
He's angry and bitter over it even though he's in a field of endeavor with plenty opportunity for advancement. It's easier to blame someone else for your own failures and hate those that are more successful than you are.
This guy is no exception to the rule. There are a lot of bitter, angry unsuccessful people running around these days and many of them support socialism.
Most of these people have an automatic hate for the rich and screech that they should have their money taken from them and given to others. It's nothing more than envy because if they can't be rich then nobody else should be.
Socialism looks good to them because they think it will cut everyone down to size.
What they fail to realize is that their now 'unacceptable' standard of living will drop down considerably under socialism. They will likely wind up standing in bread lines.
A trip to a bread rack in any American supermarket will show you that under capitalism the bread lines up for YOU.
The rich will leave and take their money with them and even if they stay and pay the confiscatory taxes they will run out of money and the definition of what constitutes rich will drop to nothing and they will find themselves being taxed to death.
Of course the muckety mucks running the show from behind will not only be able to keep what they have but will likely get richer as the average guy gets poorer.
Socialism advocates are simply unhappy, miserable broken people.
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Many people with TDS are broken people, too.
They would rather have the entire country fail and force us to live in caves rather than see Trump successful because it Trump IS successful the agenda they have been following for their entire lives will come crashing down on on them.
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The reason for the generational friction, is Millennials think that Boomers 'had it easy.' They did not. They were simply paid for their labor in a currency that was worth something, and had real buying power.
ReplyDeleteNeither are Millennials simply lazy, as a group. Rather, they are paid in copper, for what their fathers were paid in silver, and their grandfathers, in gold.
To be clear, Boomers are not blameless. As a generation, they and their parents made a series of shortsighted decisions, that essentially 'killed the goose laying the golden eggs.'
DeleteBut they are not the reason that home prices are unaffordable. The fault for that lies with the Federal Reserve, and inflationary monetary policy since the 70s.
Under Carter.
DeleteNixon took us off the Gold standard, but yes, it really took off under Carter. And every single president since, without exception.
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