Socialism Rising Up as Soviets Predicted

By Douglas V. Gibbs

When I hear the banter by the leftists about hating corporations, the one percent versus the poor down-trodden, the ills of capitalism, and how without government we'd all just be lost souls, I am reminded that I have heard that kind of rhetoric before. . .

I was in the military during the Cold War. Anyone that tells you that the Cold War was not a hot war is a liar. The enemy was communism, because socialism stands for everything that the American System does not. If ever there was an ideology that threatens to destroy liberty, it is the authoritarianism of socialism. The Soviet Union spewed all kinds of propaganda about the evil corporations, how the American System was designed to keep the rich rich, and the poor poor, the Soviets continuously proclaimed the failings of capitalism, and how without a ruling elite the goal of utopia could never be reached - just like today's liberal democrats.

Europe has been drowning in the consequences of its socialism, and for just a moment it looked as if the reality of impending doom would make them move away from the destructive ideology. The people in France, however, voted to keep their goodies from the government, even though there is no money left. The socialist candidate in France's election proclaimed he would tax the rich rather than resort to austerity measures. He won the election, and the rich are jumping ship as fast as they can. France has turned left, again, and has turned its back on fiscal responsibility while embracing the failed ideology of socialism.

Francois Hollande is a socialist with a capital S, campaigning on the promise of a big government, and a platform very similar to Barack Obama's. He appealed to a populace fearing losing their gifts from the treasury, promising to reverse Sarkozy's relatively conservative fiscal policy decisions - promising to raise taxes on big corporations and the wealthy with a top tax rate of 75%, while increasing public spending, raising the minimum wage, hiring more government workers, lowering the retirement age, and doing what he can for the struggling youth.

In other words, all of the ingredients for an unmitigated economic disaster.

This all sounds familiar because Hollande's policies mirror those of Barack Obama. What has been the result, however, has not been renewed prosperity, but a deepening of our economic woes, trillions of wasted dollars on stimulus plans, bail outs, and other unconstitutional spending, government controlled health care knocking at the door, federal favors for labor unions, and yes, a promise to soak the rich and corporations with punitive taxation.

France is a little further along than we are, however, so watch them carefully as they crumble, because that will be us soon if we don't get Obama out of the White House, and the liberal democrats out of Congress.

In Europe there is no more money. Nations are collapsing economically. The promises of the socialist ruling elite has destroyed these nations, and their debt has become too much to bear.

Greece has all but completely toppled. Spain is not too far behind. France is nearly there too. It is all because of the idiocy of the radical left. These nations have literally spent themselves into crisis, and with massive debt, unemployment at record highs, failed bailouts, and fiscal irresponsibility beyond imagination, what is left for much of Europe has already begun to erupt - Blood in the Streets.

In America we have not yet gone beyond the point of no return. There is still time to turn this around. But it will not be an easy process. Like an aircraft carrier making a U-Turn, it will take time, patience, and a lot of work.

Either we turn away from the socialism the Soviets predicted we would embrace, or we follow Europe into economic ruin and chaos.

In the end, it is up to us.

The answers, as it turns out, are in the pages of the United States Constitution.  Only a federal government that adheres to the Constitution will avoid the disaster socialism holds for us.

Or as I have been saying for years: "The Constitution is the Solution."

-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary