© 2016 Jim Spence - History is littered with the economic failures of socialism.
Every American should know this. Too few do. This explains how Bernie Sanders
can gather so many votes.
And of course, the great irony is that Barack Obama
and Hillary Clinton are socialists too. The only difference between Obama and
Clinton, versus Sanders, is both Obama and Clinton are under the mistaken impression
that Americans actually know that socialism does not work. Accordingly Obama
and Clinton have never labeled their deep preference for socialist policies as “socialism.”
It is ironic that Bernie Sanders is calling for a political
revolution of socialism when he is actually in favor of virtually every big government idea
that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton ever conceived. Bernie Sanders has
supported every curb on freedom that has already been foisted on the American people
by Obama. Sanders not only embraces oppressive anti-freedom socialist laws like Obamacare, he
embraces U.S. Constitution defying agency actions taken by the E.P.A. Sanders has supported the dictatorship-like
actions that have produced the results he now roundly criticizes.
While Hillary Clinton has resorted to praising everything
about Obama in the hopes of capturing black primary voters, Sanders is railing
indignantly at the status quo he has helped craft. This is some revolution he
is promoting. The truth is both Sanders and Clinton are not only revolting,
they are revolting against themselves.
Why don’t millions of Americans know any of this?
The answer is simple. The influence of public education and
Hollywood has poisoned millions of minds. The great scandal of public education
is that it simply refuses to teach students why free enterprise works and socialism
fails. Public education is the most corrupt institution in America because it always
goes back for more resources and is allotted more money to waste……from
socialists. Public education has no incentive to teach Americans how to raise
their living standards through free enterprise because public education raises
its own living standards via a corrupt relationship with socialist Democrats.
What role does Hollywood play in insuring Americans don’t
understand free enterprise? It is a great irony that the entertainment
industry, while engaging in virtually unregulated free enterprise, cranks out
one feature film and TV show after another that casts free enterprise as evil.
It is the socialists who are the heroes in the pop culture carefully crafted by
Hollywood.
Hollywood also makes sure minorities remain uninformed. Despite
millions of examples of blacks and Hispanics climbing the ladder of free enterprise
success in America, along with public education and pop culture icons, Hollywood
continuously advances the false narrative that free enterprise rigs the system
against minorities. It is the greatest paradox of all that Hollywood engages in
free enterprise to destroy free enterprise.
How uninformed is the America we live in today? Few
Americans know that Donald Trump is hardly a self-made man. Few realize his
wealth came, not from his abilities or wisdom, but from those of his father. Most
Americans think Trump is some sort of business genius. And few Americans know
Trump stiffed thousands of people out of their money with several bankruptcy
filings that left his inherited wealth intact…..while those who relied on his
big promises got screwed.
In the end, it is pretty hard to undo what public education
and Hollywood has done to America. Allowing public education to corrupt the
minds of several generations of Americans has finally produced a nation
that contains too many uninformed rubes. More than ever before Americans now
know so many things that simply aren’t true.
Thirty-six years ago we temporarily fixed this increasingly
dangerous situation when Ronald Reagan helped America understand that
government….“Wasn’t the solution, government was the problem.”
Sadly and due
mostly to public education and Hollywood, we have unlearned the lesson about the dangers of big government all
over again. Both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton want us to unlearn that tough lesson even
more.
Astonishingly, Donald Trump may be our only hope to reverse this pathetic trend.
Astonishingly, Donald Trump may be our only hope to reverse this pathetic trend.
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