The other day, I was talking with a history teacher out at one of our local Starbucks, and we both noted that famous quote; "those who fail to study their history are doomed to repeat it," and I suggested that maybe we should be teaching kids in our school about heavy handed, socialist type governments and the dangers of that style of leadership for a nation. Okay so let's talk shall we?
One thing I found amazing was that the left-leaning Democrats had tried to label President Bush as a modern day Hitler. The reason this is so ridiculous is because President Bush was a free-market capitalist, solid Christian, and although he did some interesting political maneuvers to secure votes, and thus engage in crony capitalism, he didn't do nearly the sorts of things that the Obama Administration is doing. Further, what most people don't understand from their history is that Hitler road in to power through organized labor, and then he turned the country into a socialist dictatorship. Plus, he was of no religion, so, he was the opposite of President Bush in that regard, so the comparison is laughable.
Now then, let me ask you a question. What if Germany had rejected Hitler's style's socialism after that country's legislative branch had been burned down? What if they decided, that the propaganda of change and a hope and belief for a new tomorrow was simply not viable even though Hitler was a great orator and gave great speeches trying to convince them otherwise? What if they had simply and completely rejected this man back then? The world would be a different place, and so perhaps the citizens of the United States should think about this, and study their history.
In the last four years we've moved faster towards big government and socialism than at any other time in the last five decades. What do we have to show for it? In just four years we have increased our national debt by $5 trillion, money which was said to be spent to help revitalize our economy, but we haven't increased the baseline of jobs, we are at the same place as we were four years ago. After seeing this, and what's happened, should the US citizens reject socialism? It's not working.
Interestingly enough, it's never worked in the history of mankind. So many nations have been destroyed by leaders promising the people things they couldn't deliver and running those countries into bankruptcy. Then everything falls apart, the country crumbles, and works to rebuild again. We don't need to go through that here, and it's time that we reject socialism and all of its hidden secrets, insidious potential outcomes, and debt ridden futures. Please consider all this and think on it.
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