News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
Bernie Sanders famously said that “real” socialism has never been tried. Frankly, we’re shocked he would ever suggest such a thing because there are numerous examples of real socialist utopias that we have to pull from.
Here are just a few:
1) Star Trek’s Federation of Planets: There’s no money, but people still work for some reason. Workers of the world set your phasers to Social Contract!
2) The Borg Collective: Like a more efficient Federation that tears through freedom-loving planets and subjects them to the will of the collective.
3) In the wonderful dream AOC had last night: Elon Musk even made an appearance.
4) In John Lennon’s “Imagine:” Everything works perfectly when you imagine it! Even marriage to Yoko Ono.
5) Smurf Village: Cheerful workers in a heavily regulated population. Just like China.
6) In Bernie Sander’s serial fanfic: He’s been writing Social Thunder for three years now. It’s a big hit on his substack.
7) A beaver dam: Everyone chips in or they all die.
8) The nuclear family: Too bad the nuclear family is RACIST.
9) An Ant Farm: It worked great until a kid came and shook it up.
Go here to read the rest.
Ha! Does Bernie Sanders and his ilk live the “real” socialism. Lenin drove around in a Rolls Royce Silver Ghost Limo. Putin, who is trying to re-create the old mother land, gets around in a Mercedes. Yep.
“Bernie Sanders famously said that “real” socialism has never been tried. Frankly, we’re shocked he would ever suggest such a thing because there are numerous examples of real socialist utopias that we have to pull from.”
Couldn’t help noticing the word “utopias” in that sentence. Rather – shall we say – coincidental,& perhaps ironical, that today is the Feast day of St. Thomas More who prophetically penned the book, “Utopia” – a very foresightful book on the system of socialism, but with a idyllic twist which was unfulfilled – much as Bernie’s version today.
The real question is, “What is wrong with the voters of Vermont?”
I understand the Belgian monastery that makes ale performs quite well. Of course it has to rely on its non-socialist customers to succeed in the business sales end.
The real question is, “What is wrong with the voters of Vermont?”
Supposedly he was, as Mayor of Burlington, more than adequate. Kinda funny that municipal government was his niche. His only accomplishment from age 17 to age 40 was scraping through life in a messy sort of way.
A real oddity is that his father, Eliasz Gitman, arrives in the U.S. in 1921 from the former Congress Poland. Over the period running from 1921 to 1940 he learns about paint, initially by landing a job standing on a ladder applying it to surfaces. Eventually he finds a position selling it wholesale. Betwixt and between, he marries Dora Glassberg, the daughter of a Yiddish-speaking wage-earner whose family had been in the country about 30 years at that point. By Apirl 1940, they have a son, an apartment in a fairly new building in Brooklyn, and answer questions for the census enumerator. The enumerator asks about their income and is given an answer. The per capita personal income of the household as reported is somewhere around the 85th percentile of the population at large (though, being New Yawkers, they live in 3 1/2 rooms and and do not have a car). Note, for 11 of the 19 years Eliasz Gitman had lived in the country, the country was sunk into an economic Depression. His father was a capable man and knew how to earn well. There’s enough time and money for both sons to cadge a baccalaureate degree, something done by perhaps 25% of their contemporaries, and for the older son to earn a law degree as well. His family thrived in a certain matrix, but he was not motivated to understand it or defend it.