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Ayn Rand warned us also.

The following is by Don Chambers, Posted: Sep 10, 2019 12:11 PM

Socialism is a three-stage disease. My last two columns discussed the first two stages: (1) becoming a welfare state, and (2) government seizure of the means of production. The final stage of socialism is the worst: totalitarianism.

In A Time for Truth, William E. Simon asserts that “political freedom and economic freedom are inexorably linked.” A government that denies its citizens the natural rights to private property, trade, and economic liberty must ultimately restrict civil liberties. History indicates a pattern: the more that a government controls economic activity – the more it eventually extends its control over non-economic behaviors such as expressions of dissent. Hong Kong is providing a current case in point. China has plans for Hong Kong to submit – one way or another – both economically and socially.

But what is the reason for the linkage between civil liberties and economic freedom? Can’t a society simply control the production and distribution of its economic resources without denying its citizens other natural rights such as freedoms of speech, religion and assembly? History and reason indicate not.

In a free society people have an incentive to produce valuable output (i.e., make money) and an incentive to consume wisely. But these incentives get distorted in a society in which people know they will receive “to each according to their needs” and will be required to provide “from each according to their abilities”. Socialism incentivizes its victims to exaggerate their needs and hide their abilities. Under socialism, individuals devote their energies to better manipulating the political and economic systems rather than to increasing their productivity.

In socialism there is one class of winners: those who gain power in the socialist regime and bureaucracy. Corruption and bribery flourish. The economic games switch from the revenue maximization and cost minimization of a free economy (both of which make the pie bigger) to political power maximization and economic cheating (both of which make the pie smaller). Creativity and innovation decline. The economy limps along – surviving only by stealing technology from foreign firms and observing pricing information generated by market economies.

Here’s the rub: when an authoritarian society has a failing economy and the ruling class receives special treatment, civil liberties cannot be tolerated. The political elite must orchestrate a demonstrably false narrative to hide past failures and create confidence that better days are ahead. Maintaining the narrative (and obscuring the privileged lifestyles of the political elite) requires oppression of civil liberties.

• Freedoms of expression, the press and assembly cannot be tolerated because they would expose the lies.
• Meaningful rights to vote, petition the government, and receive equal treatment under the law cannot be granted because they would hinder the power of the elite.
• Freedom of religion and the right to bear arms cannot be allowed because the masses cannot be allowed to have the faith and means to challenge their persecutors.

I learned about the fear that permeates socialistic societies through my visits to socialist countries and discussions with students raised in socialist countries. A farmer in Iowa has natural fears such as a prolonged drought. But citizens of totalitarian societies fear retaliation and repression from their government. The fears of free versus socialist societies emanate from very different sources – much like the hurt emanating from being a victim of a disease differs from the hurt of being a victim of a criminal assault. The former tends to bring people together, the latter drives them apart.

Natural resources and proximity to healthy economies can slow the decline of a socialist economy and the government’s progression from economic control to total control. But the long run consequences of corruption, bribery and perverse incentives drag the society down. Just like Boxer, Orwell’s overworked horse in Animal Farm, and Hank Rearden, Rand’s hard-working entrepreneur in Atlas Shrugged, the best and brightest will not be able to stem the tide of corruption and decay. Increasingly the society’s most capable people must be forced to stay in the country and do the bidding of the government. If masterpieces of fiction are not to be accepted as predictive, the non-fiction experiences of Venezuela, North Korea, and Cuba must be. In the final stage of socialism all must stay and bow to the state.

Elite leftists do not seek American prosperity, they seek power. They incessantly mourn when American protestors are killed (“Four dead in Ohio”) but ignore when America’s protectors are murdered (“Five dead in Dallas”). They are silent about founders of socialist regimes (100 million dead in the Soviet Union, Cambodia, China, and North Korea) while they vilify the founders of this great nation.

Liberal elites today seek the power to enslave others. Ironically, if they are successful in remaking America, liberals will eventually implement the strong borders between the U.S. and other nations currently sought by conservatives. However, in a socialistic future, the border guards will be facing the other direction.

Don Chambers on Townhall.com

Good example.

https://youtu.be/GY_U_F_EfHA

The global warming fraud is an integral part of the plan for a global government and global banking. The alarmists will not stop unless they are stopped. The alarmists are the remainers, those who stayed behind, those who want return to feudalism.

Collectivists reject individual freedom and sovereignty which are the revolutionary ideas.

Collectivism is regressive and recidivist. The global-warming/climate-change agenda is like chivalry, knights and titles in the royal courts of feudal kings, queens and emperors. The global warmists/climate-changers are the collectivists, who never learned the lesson of the ‘tragedy of the commons.’

The global warmists/climate-changers are exemplified by our sad Hawaiian Democrat U.S. Senator Mazie Hirono in this short video which she has repeated many times. They truly believe they are smarter than the rest of us. https://www.foxnews.com/…/democratic-senator-says-party…

Also like Democrat candidate for U.S. President Marianne Williamson who truly believes she and her followers are among the group of “higher consciousness.” Perhaps Marianne’s spirit attended the September 12, 2019 Democrat “debate” since Marianne didn’t make it.

This ‘greater than thou’ mentality cannot be defeated with logical argument. They are not listening. They have been overcome by the propaganda and brainwashing. They are in a state similar to Stockholm Syndrome. They are capable of any act when they receive the order. This ‘true believer’ mentality is the same as for example a captain in Hitler’s armies fully expecting a 1000 year Third Reich, or a Muslim suicide bomber, and Khmer Rouge murderer in the killing fields. They are ready to die for the cause and will sacrifice an entire generation.

Decades of indoctrination and billions of dollars have been spent on a well-planned propaganda campaign to achieve this result. And they will spend billions more. Their goal is global domination.

You can love any consenting adult you want. I am happy for you. But don’t try to tell me, my family and friends what is normal. Take your agenda out of my face and shove it. There are only two genders, male and female. Your gender is determined by the x and y chromosomes found in the nucleus of almost every cell in your body; you cannot change that by surgery, drugs, therapy, social consensus, law or policy.

“A court has awarded Australian academic Dr. Peter Ridd over AU$1.2 million ($800,000) in damages after finding the physics professor was unlawfully fired after taking a skeptical stance on some of the impacts of climate change.”

Referring the the Great Barrier Reef offshore Australia, Dr. Ridd wrote that coral is the “least endangered of any ecosystem to future climate change.”

Ridd said, “this case was always about academic freedom. It was a fight that should never have started in the first place.” He pointed to his decades-long history of empirical inquiry into the Great Barrier Reef, saying that it is his “genuinely held belief is that there are systemic quality assurance problems at GBR science institutions.”

James Cook University is reported to have said it will appeal the ruling by the judge.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/climate-skeptic-professor-awarded-800000-compensation-after-university-fires-him-unlawfully_3071558.html

America and the world are running on unreality. Enormous debt has been accumulated mostly to pay for welfare and social benefits.  The social justice warriors, Democrats, socialists collectivists want much more, even though the debt already accumulated can never be repaid when all assets from all persons and companies are confiscated and taxes are increased to 90%.  Worse, there has been no audit that shows the full extent of the U.S. debt.  For example, 4,684,784 non-citizen households (Hat tip to Theo Benetis) are receiving welfare in the US.  That’s “63 percent of non-citizens are using a welfare program, and it grows to 70 percent for those here 10 years or more.” This trend is common to EU, Canada and other countries as well. Yet so-called “progressives” and those who believe they are among the “higher consciousness” group, including the Jesuit Pope, want to open all borders and take on more debt.

The only possible way out of this impending implosion is to re-institute real capitalism, eliminate crony capitalism, re-institute nationalism and limited government, limit immigration, strengthen border and employer immigration enforcement, deport illegal aliens, end birth right citizenship, and anchor chain immigration, end most secrecy in government, and pray that we can bring God back into our lives as nation.  We need to nurture western society at its Judeo-Christian roots and try to slowly and carefully deflate the debt bubble by reducing government spending, increasing savings, bringing business back to America and growing our way out of this enormous worldwide government debt problem.

The so-called “progressive” collectivists/socialists say they want socialism.  Collectivism would make the worldwide problem far worse. Is that their intent? Of course, they never tell anyone that 100 million of their comrades have died trying their utopian dream.  That is 100 million dead in 100 years and that does not include anyone who died in wars.  That is 100 million dead, conservatively, at the hands of their fellow countrymen and comrades.  Today, as they always have, believers in this utopian dream say those examples in the past did it wrong and this time will be different.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/100-years-of-communismand-100-million-dead-1510011810?fbclid=IwAR2Dhw7Veye_kbjjSH4pVW_NKObGdHIo0L-sp4NZ3q3iDS-Atlho33VZtow

Islam is the only thing which has caused more deaths of its fellow comrades than collectivism, yet so-called “progressives” say they want Muslims also in their all-inclusive utopian society, even though Islam’s leaders say they intend to dominate the world and sharia will not be different this time.  “Death to America,” they say.

The fastest growing debt is welfare debt, but the left is inviting into the country more users of welfare and more people who do not share the values of western culture, especially hard work, limited government and individual sovereignty.  The USA is the only place on the planet that even proposes that its government must legally support individual sovereignty as a God-given right; that right is in tatters today.  The current leaders of EU, Germany and France insist that sovereignty is dead.  Russia, China and most of the world have never had it.  The UK, where a group of Barons forced King John to sign the Magna Carta which began to lift the bondage of feudalism from the shoulders of the people, is fighting in its Parliament to support the democratic vote already received of its people to leave the servitude of the European Union.  UK’s elites want more EU feudalism.

Here is an example, Marianne Williamson, running to become the Democrat candidate for U.S. President, in an enthusiastic stump speech to an enthusiastic crowd of supporters.  (Hat tip Franklin Abbott).  In this speech, Williamson spends 15 minutes setting up her audience with red-meat soap box issues with which Trump, you and I and 90% of Americans would agree.  She states many of the reasons Trump was elected, except for a few “tells” like the common nervous twitches of a didact and her mention of “we, in the community of higher consciousness.”  She identifies many of the problems as would Trump and most of us and then after calling for a non-politician to lead the nation, she attacks President Trump.   Beginning around 17 minutes she goes to her proposed solutions, jumping off into full-on collectivism/socialism/communism.  It’s long (56 minutes).  She is getting vigorous audiences.  This is what we are all up against.  This is happening as we speak.  It is a fact of collectives.  It is identity politics.  It is the operating mode of collectivists, socialists and communists who believe a sort of hive mentality is the future.  They identify as “higher consciousness,” “social justice,” and “woke.” It is identity politics straight out of Saul Alinsky.  The people pushing this (including my members of Congress) believe they are in a “community of higher consciousness” who know better than the rest of us.

Marianne Williamson    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUMUYaeUOfs&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR36C-2m2hYAR_TUHQbxHbS2Xh7HwL8DL1ewdxYY-zTmp2CFeQsynjvCAek

Other examples today in America include the technical elites who self-righteously run  Facebook, Twitter, the management of many scientific journals and associations, editors of major newspapers, the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, the DOJ and their equivalents in other countries, the Council of Foreign Relations, the United Nations, Sierra Club, the Democrat Party, Socialist International and its affiliates in a hundred or more countries, and the governments of China, Russia, the European Union, etc.

They have put many holes in the life boat of humanity and they intend to sink her.  One of the communist revolutionaries of Russia claimed they had to be prepared to sacrifice an entire generation.  They want your guns so that we cannot stop them.  This is not different from British King George’s troops attempting to confiscate the guns of colonists in mid 1770’s British Colonial America.  King George was a feudal tyrant and he was stark raving mad.  Today’s forces of tyranny and feudal enslavement have different names and better technology, but their purpose is just as sinister as tyrant King George and his feudal lords.

Read more at https://sovereignnations.com/2018/12/17/us-census-data-non-citizens-welfare/#K8MCV8TzMt2HUiTt.99

“Our results suggest that surface [Downward Longwave Radiation] DLR is tightly coupled to surface temperature; therefore, it cannot be considered an independent component of the surface energy budget.”

Hat tip to Dr. Judith Curry.

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019GL082220#.XVme3nU1p7Q.twitter