It is a delusion to believe that either communism or socialism can be a good thing even if honest people implemented it.
Both of them depend on the dissolution of capitalism. Only capitalism produces the means by which a society can finance any form of government even if it is trading 4 chickens for a pig. There has never been a free lunch.
The worst cost in a socialist or communist system is the suppression of the human spirit as it is expressed by the individual's ability to seek and secure his or her own goals. "The laborer is [still] worthy of his wage".
To the extent we allow government to give us anything we must surrender something else. All the experiments in the socialistic and communistic systems have demanded the surrender individualism, innovation, and security, and ultimately have had to depend on capitalism to supply the basics they promised would be available to everyone in abundance.
Do not be suckered in by promises, ie delusions, of paradise. There is a serious cost for anything in a socialist system beyond the obvious economic destruction it demands.
Believe me, not everyone will be wearing the high collared uniforms sitting on the assembly lines of government owned factories. Someone will walk around enforcing "equality" in production, and someone above him will be overseeing at every level. . . And no one will have more at the basic levels than those above them say is "their fair share".
It is a stupidly naive concept that insists on repression, subjugation, and enforced poverty at the lowest levels. These systems have never raised the collective standard of living, nor can they. The only way that is done is in a system where the individual spirit is encouraged, where wealth can be created and distributed throughout the businesses created by those who worked hard enough to realize their goals. Only capitalism has ever created wealth, security, and hope.
I am not wealthy, at at this point in life likely never will be, but I can afford the things that matter most. The day socialist policy is instituted in this nation will be the day I will begin to lose my grip on what I have worked for my entire life since I picked up my first payday at 12 yrs old. And it will be the beginning of the end of the dreams my children and grandchildren will never be allowed to pursue.
