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Ruth H's avatar

The decades of escalating welfare for so many programs most people aren’t even aware of but captured by fraud and corruption has finally come home to roost. Welfare is socialism and abrupt dramatic changes must be made so that the truly needed are helped TEMPORARILY and accountability must be maintained. Stop all these federal and state programs that only foster reliance on government instead of hard work and family support.

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🌱Nard🙏's avatar

Atlas Shrugged should be required reading for every American high school student. Every. Single. One.

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Steven Bradford's avatar

Socialism and communism may seem so wonderfully altruistic when it is paid for by capitalists. But once the businesses leave or shut down, and other people’s money runs out, altruism becomes desperation, starvation, and death, and the wake up call can’t come soon enough.

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ward142's avatar

History is a school where you take the class that you fail over and over until you pass. America is now repeating the Spanish Civil War class. Friends, time to hunt for books on the Spanish Civil War. If you want to know our future, the big cities become communist and atheistic, while the rural areas become more conservative and Christian, then there will be a war for the soul of the nation. Read the books, it's all there!

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NeverForget1776's avatar

This is partly the fault of the pro-capitalist, persons like Dennis Prager, Ben Shapiro and even investigative journalist John Stossel b/c they lie repeatedly about Capitalism. They accurately nail down the criticisms of socialism but then they lie about Capitalism.

Capitalism is the best economic system mankind has come up with and it would be great if that's what we had in America but it's not. What we have is a mutant variation called crony Capitalism and Prager and the rest continually deny this and the youth can see thru those lies. In America you can experience Capitalism" so long as you remain small scale and do not draw the attention of the big corporations as either a competitor or something new they want.

Large corporations, the fortune 500, have purchased government protection and favoritism. They are able to use the government to protect them from competition and to assist them when something goes wrong as the private financial institutions did when the Feds bailed them out form the 2007 home mortgage crisis. Every single institution that gambled away and went belly up should have been allowed to stay that way and any $$ that went to those institutions should have gone to the depositors whose money those institutions gambled away. Instead the banksters were bailed out and per the news a number gave themselves bonuses. In a real Capitalist economy they would have been allowed to fail!

So long as people like Denis Prager , Ben Shapiro and the rest "pretend" like as if America is pure capitalism the youth will continue to distrust those who say Capitalism is better than socialism.

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Brenda/Colorado's avatar

Thank you for educating us. The masses have not been taught this and they don’t read… fooled as they have been in the past.

And so goes our country.

Time

to start educating them as they see NY fall into decay and into slavery.

Thankfully we have Trump leading us on our side. We are not perfect. But he is a businessman and wise one at that.

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Calamity Ho!'s avatar

I have issues with certain aspects of Rand’s worldview, but this part is spot on.

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KathyK's avatar

I think we need to call it out as communism, because that's what this is!

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