The Road To Socialism Is Paved With Good Intentions

On November 4, we will be deciding which path America should take. Sometimes we need to remind ourselves, from time to time, that "We the People…" are the government. It is easy to succumb to the allure of Socialism, because somehow Americans feel that we can "control" it, mold it into an American image. It is not possible. Whether we call it Progressive, Liberal, Socialism, it is still Communism. Socialism requires that free men voluntarily give up their liberty, not all at once, but slowly and surely, Socialism demands we turn more control of our daily lives to a secluded power. A government that can give us everything can take everything away.

In the words of Ronald Reagan, "..this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power
except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man's relation to man. This is the issue of this election. Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them ourselves."

Which path should we take, Socialism or Self-government? One simply needs to read the quotes below to see where each path leads:

"Innocent people have to die in a revolution. Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at."

Bill Ayers,
former leader of the Weather Underground

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Ronald Reagan

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout,I chose my friends carefully.The more politically active black students.The foreign students.The Chicanos.The Marxist Professors

Barrack Obama, US Senator

"the American people would never vote for Socialism, but under the name of Liberalism, the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist programs."

1930's Socialist Norman Thomas

"Globalization and technology and automation all weaken the position of workers, and a strong government hand is needed to assure that wealth is distributed more equitably."

Barrack Obama, US Senator

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

Karl Marx, Communist

"The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

Ronald Reagan

"Your grandchildren will live under communism!" To which Secretary Benson enthusiastically replied: "If I have it my way, your grandchildren will live free!" Khrushchev, undeterred, fired back: "Oh you Americans! You're so gullible! We'll spoon feed you socialism until you're Communists and don't even know it. We'll never have to fire a shot!"

Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev bragged to American patriot and Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Karl Marx, Communist

"I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."

Barrack Obama, US Senator

"We need a revolutionary communist party in order to lead the struggle, give coherence and direction to the fight, seize power and build a new society"

Bill Ayers, former leader of the Weather Underground

We do not have the luxury of believing that the threat of Socialism is an exaggeration. With each election we seem more willing to surrender our destiny into the hands of bureaucrats; and each election they eagerly accept a greater control over the People they were meant to serve. Is it possible we are witnessing the fulfillment of predictions by Khrushchev and Thomas? I pray Americans are smarter than that.

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."

Ronald Reagan