Neighborliness and Socialism

The Democrat VP nominee, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz told a group that socialism is what some people would call neighborliness.

And what does the weed growth in my yard have to do with the price of tea in China?

Neighborliness is watching your neighbor’s pet while they’re away or mowing a sick neighbor’s yard. It is helping a neighbor financially who lost their job. It is giving to a church or charity that spends less than fifty percent of its donations on administration and advertising.

Socialism is trading your liberties for the financial well-being of bureaucrats. We are told socialism reduces the gluttony of the elite. But it just reassigns gluttony to the controlling class from the producing class; from factory managers and workers to Washington bureaucrats, from entrepreneurs to professors and teachers who teach less and indoctrinate more.

How has the middle class fared in socialist Venezuela, Cuba, China, or the Soviet Union? Their expanded bottom class lives off the whims of the controlling elite. How many times have we heard that socialism would work if only under better management only to see it fail?

The Harris minions are spouting commitment to the middle class. But as our government has grown in the last five decades, the middle class has shrunk from 61 to 50% of the population, according to the Pew Institute. Are we to assume growing government even more will alter the trend?

Nominee Harris’s policy-lacking indications (mostly hidden) plans to increase government spending dramatically. She has proposed food price controls. The grocery store industry operates on the lowest margins of any industry. Can we look forward to food shortages as experienced in Soviet Russia or Venezuela?

Do you remember toilet paper becoming a form of currency in Venezuela. Recently, while independent exit polls in Venezuela showed the opposition leader winning 70% of the vote, the socialist regime holds power claiming 51% of the vote. Is this our future?