by Charles Lewis

The caller to the Rusty Humphries show had to be in his twenties at most.  His question reflected that, along with the fact that he must have been government schooled, which, thanks to the NEA and the other educrat institutions, has long sheltered students from the truth about such issues as we're about to discuss.  That question: "what's wrong with socialism?"

Rusty's valid, but typically incomplete response (typical of someone who, at another juncture of the same show, denied, even at this highly advanced stage, the existence of a conspiracy for one world government): "socialism has never worked anywhere."  When the caller replied that it's worked here, Rusty did a little better, citing the bankrupt state of social security, medicare, and all the other socialist programs to which the caller might have been referring.

But that was still poor, considering the overwhelming body of philosophical, psychological, and historical evidence against the greatest fraud ever perpetrated on mankind.  My answer would have started with a few choice names: "Hitler, Stalin, Castro, Chavez, Ortega, Ho, Mao, Mussolini, Mugabe" - socialists all, grave oppressors all, mass murderers on a scale the world had never previously seen.

The caller's retort may have been that these were extreme socialists (mostly communists, actually).  I would have been ready for that.

I would have pointed out that "mild" socialism leads inexorably to the harsh form.  That its central tenet, "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" runs so counter to human nature, so destroys progress, innovation, and prosperity, it can never be an end in itself.

I'd have told the caller that America's greatness and prosperity stem from her unprecedented adherence to the totally contrary theory that one is entitled to the fruits of one's own labors (I probably would have cited Rick Santelli's recent CNBC "Chicago tea party" outburst as evidence of the universality of the principle's self-evident appeal).  I would have pointed out that the last vestiges, however, of this principle have been discarded with Obama's recent spending bill.

I would have described a hypothetical John Jones, who works super hard his whole life, saves, invents, builds a better mousetrap, whatever, then pays his house off and provides a life of comfort for his beloved family.  Along comes Joe Smith, who, by contrast, has either sat on his fanny his while life, squandered his money on wine, woman, and song, or a combination of the two.  Now our socialist government, with its ideal of equal outcomes, decrees that Jones must pay the mortgage for Smith.

Under such a system, I would have noted (and shown that history bears this out), Jones will soon stop innovating, soon stop working  hard, and eventually see that there's no advantage in working at all, and cease.  It's at that point that the inevitable metamorphosis occurs.  In order to maintain the faux religion of socialism, government then has to force it subjects to work.

That is when socialism must become some form of bolshevism.  It's not the wealth that gets distributed equally.  There can be no wealth (except for that segment of the population composed of party members, generally 2%, who co-opt what there is of it for themselves, even further impoverishing the other 98%) only equally distributed misery, in this most corrupt system of government and economics ever conceived and implemented.

I would have added that socialism is such a lie that it must be vigilantly protected from the truth.  That is why "Fairness" Doctrines and the like are in the works to shut down opposition speech in the airwaves and even on the Internet.

Join the "just say, 'no' to socialism" movement brewing in America.  Stand up for the 10th Amendment, and for those provisions in our national constitution and those of your state that provide protection against the insidious tyranny in already-passed legislation and those bills waiting in the wings.

Draw the line when it comes to North American integration, martial law, evaporation of free speech, gun confiscation and ammunition unavailability, conscription of middle schoolers into a gestapo-style elitist ultra-funded military, further oppression of Christians, government control of all health decisions, mandatory government school attendance and the like.  Join or form a state sovereignty movement in your state - before it is too late.

Refuse, resist, separate.  Preserve what's left of the spirit of America - in whatever nooks and crannies where we still can.  Stand shoulder to shoulder with America's Independent Party, and say "no" to the unparalleled evil of socialism that is gripping America.