Ele at Homepaddock runs regular quotes from Thomas Sowell and today is so accurate.

“There’s no point blaming the tragedies of socialism on the flaws or corruption of particular leaders. Any system which allows some people to exercise unbridled power over others is an open invitation to abuse, whether that system is called slavery or socialism or something else.”

Socialism must fail eventually as Baroness Thatcher so correctly surmised when she stated:

“The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money”.

There is no surviving example of socialism in its various guises other than some watered down systems that enjoy a substantial funding stream beyond the relentless taxation of the productive sector  for disbursement to the idle that is always the default position for wannabe socialist dreamers, and New Zealand is no exception.

Welfare navigates a course that is in direct conflict with the natural driver that has almost everyone desiring to improve their economic state, offering the lesser option to get out of bed and go to work. Survival can be achieved by welfare topped up too often with a little bad stuff considered by working folks as criminal activity in any of its many guises.

Sowel himself might have had every reason to just end up in the trough of poverty. Born into a solo mother large family in North Carolina, his dad died before his birth. That family did what so many Afro Americans did in migrating to New York, where the very obvious and impressive intellect of that young fellow soon became noted by many and he earned opportunities to advance to an outstanding record of academic achievement.

Thomas Sowell is approaching ninety years of age but his understanding of the human spirit is undiminished. A journey that saw an early flirtation with Marxism eschewed in the classic Churchillian summation that: 

“If a man does not embrace socialism in their twenties they have no heart, if they have not become conservative by forty there may well be no brain.”

It is also suggested that Churchill also summed up Socialism with:

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Our day of reckoning is coming down the line now, fuelled by the global slowdown as a consequence of the Wuhan Virus.

All that great effort from Bill English in the aftermath of the work of The Good Dr Cullen that saw NZ enter recession a full year before the global meltdown, to turn around the predicted “decade of deficits”, will need a reprise after the Coalition of Losers appointed by Mr Seven Percent under the non-performing leadership of the Part Time Prime Minister who is currently needing a week in Fiji to gather her resources, is given a DCM next September.

Wondering if that might earn the attention of world media, as the “Wellington Spring” sort of a rerun of the ill fated Prague Spring of the Czechoslovak Republic that began in the winter of January 1968.
That very minor liberalisation of Alexander Dubcek ended in August of that year with an invasion of soviet troops; 200 000 in total with 2000 tanks to restore the Soviet version of Socialism. One major departure saw Dubcek avoid a firing squad. He was merely removed to a low-level forestry job and lived to see the end of Soviet-maintained socialism some three decades later.

It is not “rocket science”. All human development comes from the inherent motivation of people to better themselves, something socialists must snuff out or the truth will overcome the dogma and the peasants become restless, resulting in  an overthrow of the Pigs from  Orwells Animal Farm.

Real education will remove scales from eyes and the Dear Leaders in their express lanes, showering the masses with mud, suddenly extinguishes all the noble rhetoric and the Emperor really has no raiment.