If you wonder what governance under "democratic socialism" would look like, the past 48 hours tells you all you need to know.

If you wonder what governance under "democratic socialism" would look like, the past 48 hours tells you all you need to know.--Michael Smith
"If you wonder what governance under "democratic socialism" would look like, the past 48 hours tells you all you need to know.
This isn't a "post-truth" age, it is a no-truth age where accusations rule - and the more unprovable the accusation, the better.
This is the age of scorched earth where only the agenda matters.
This is your Democrat Party in 2018.
In 1944, F.A. Hayek laid it all out for us:
"Advancement within a totalitarian group or party depends largely on a willingness to do immoral things.
The principle that the end justifies the means, which in individualist ethics is regarded as the denial of all morals, in collectivist ethics becomes necessarily the supreme rule.
There is literally nothing which the consistent collectivist must not be prepared to do if it serves “the good of the whole,” because that is to him the only criterion of what ought to be done.
Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarianism which horrify us follow of necessity.
From the collectivist standpoint intolerance and brutal suppression of dissent, deception and spying, the complete disregard of the life and happiness of the individual are essential and unavoidable..."
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