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Why Socialism Seems Like the Only Solution

I’ll get crucified for saying this, but here goes. I watch a LOT of YouTube about current events, because I get the truth there, at least from the videos I watch. There’s a lot of talk about Mamdani right now, as you know. He touts Socialism but he really wants a dictatorship, if you listen to HIS own speeches. Not what somebody wrote about his speeches: HIS speeches.

His election has proven that the disparity between the classes has become top of mind. There is no more middle class. It has been systematically erased, but workers are still being beaten to produce, produce, produce so the products can be mandatorily swept away. Cash grabbing is so common it’s not even hidden anymore. Right out loud, workers are hearing, “Give me your money or go to prison”.

Our ads, social media and daily life tout wealth, wealth, wealth, but obviously most people are not rich. Instead, most ‘normal’ people are losing sleep over finances, as their money has been sucked upward towards the Zuckerbergs, the Soroses, the Clintons, the Bezoses, the Gateses, the ‘government servants’ who steal right in front of Americans, without consequences..on and on. The current government system is upended and the youth can see it. Polls say a scary population of young people want ‘socialism’, even though they cannot describe what that means. They are sick of the current government system and who can blame them?

Average people have seen their grocery money, their house payment money, their healthcare dollars handed to ridiculous programs in other countries they can’t even find on a map. And the assumption is that those dollars actually GO to some program or other, and not into the account of, say, Pelosi, for example. And they see their government stealing their hard earned dollars while these actual criminals are also being bought and paid for by lobbyists; they have money coming in from everywhere. Government officials in this system are rewarded for criminal theft, while never giving a thought to the consequences to the workers (tax payers). This current government system encourages handing the reins to pharmaceutical executives with NO idea how to run a country, to ‘healthcare’ execs with NO idea how to run a country, to insurance company execs with NO idea how to run a country. These entities have forgotten the people, the PEOPLE whom they are supposed to serve, and instead view us as merely a piggy bank there for them to rob at will. And who is there to stop them? Apparently, nobody. And while We the Piggy Bank are robbed, our rights are diminishing. ‘Socialism’ inches closer.

Yet the EXPECTATION for lower class people (remember no more middle class) is that you must be rich. So people become desperate and overly competitive, and will do anything to get money. Remember money is the only goal now, hence the violent behavior invading society and the wholesale disregard for the well-being of others. The people with calluses on their hands are now struggling and the ones with soft hands have the majority of the wealth: huge disincentive to even try, but we must, to feed the beast. That’s why ‘the trades’ are now more interesting to pursue than education. Bill Gates couldn’t plumb a house, but he’ll PAY to have it done. And I should add that ‘education’ also doesn’t exist anymore. Now, you show up, you get a college degree, setting up even more unqualified ‘leaders’ scrambling to the money trough we call ‘government’. This is one of the cornerstones for the demise of Democracy.

The ones making decisions about the future of actual workers, many of whom are COMPLETELY unqualified to lead anything, are the ones who never broke a sweat, so to speak. Our society has somehow made the ridiculous leap in cognition, that more money makes you an expert at everything. This might be the worst cornerstone of destruction of democracy. This ridiculous paradigm makes Bill Gates and Fauci qualified to mandate unproven, experimental substances be injected into all people. (Not THIS person!) It gives Bill Gates access to people in Africa to be lab rats for birth control. This should frighten everybody and yet…yet, statistically nobody is even aware. He seems to believe that an entire population of another continent are his to play with, because he is rich. Think about that. BTW Africa was used as a test site a looooong time ago. Think polio vaccine. Read about it.

Then the exhausted worker bees get to see the videos of newly purchased yachts that cost a million dollars a month, just for docking and upkeep. Bad idea. So, that’s the look and actually, the reality. Lower classes (remember middle class no longer exists) look to find financial relief and they see it ‘way up there’, in the hands of people who never knew how it feels to worry about making ends meet OR to feel complete fatigue from exhaustive work. Forget about the young people who cannot even dream about home ownership now, very possibly never, at your peril. These youth very possibly saw their working parents lose their home, remember. Even with all the hard work, Mom and Dad lost their dream. Under the current government system…These circumstances and many others, set up resentment about the imbalance: “You don’t know how it feels to be me”; yet, you make the rules by which we live.

Meanwhile…poor people from other collapsed economies (socialist, dictatorship) believe the hype of free-stuff America and here they come, believing they won’t have to work, tipping the imbalance even further and putting more burden on the actual workers. And corrupt politicians welcome them in, just to remain in power over the piggy banks of workers. Nobody seems even slightly capable of understanding that the backs upon which these wealth climbers have ridden, are breaking or broken. It is also clear that these grifters are now so wealthy that they have zero need to care about the backs of workers. They’ve gotten theirs (from you, so you are no longer needed). READ THAT AGAIN…workers are no longer needed! So the current government is psychopathic. This system CANNOT survive. This is elementary and yet, people don’t GET IT. There’s your education system, folks. And the question is: Should we care?

Remember Chinese youth ‘laying down’? That illustrated a complete collapse of faith in their government system…and wasn’t that Socialism? The Chinese youth were right. There is NEVER enough money for money hungry criminals, never. Even at the peril of the ones working for the money they take. Until there is a way to reset ‘wealth’, new voters are GOING to ‘kill’ the current system that seems determined to kill them. This seems like first grade stuff to me. Once upon a time in a college class years ago, I asked the professor if he saw a ‘great leveling effect’ as I called it, on the distant horizon because of the outsourcing of everything American. He pooh poohed the idea. Wonder how he likes me now. This is why youth are leaning towards ‘Socialism’. They want something to believe in and the current system, for them, just ain’t it. Socialism isn’t either, by the way, but they vote and they think they want it.

I’ve watched decades of government ‘leaders’ by now, and the current system no longer works for the middle class workers, the ones it was designed for, by the way. It’s too easy to corrupt, the hacks are in place, and money has become absolute God for government ‘workers’. I’ve been proud to be American for a long time; now I’m frustrated and disappointed and sad. Don’t get me wrong, I am not a ‘Socialist’. I know that system does NOT work because it becomes, or even starts out as, a dictatorship. And besides, even if Socialism was a good idea, it’s populated by humans who would destroy an anvil with a rubber hammer. No good thing survives humans.

“Socialism comes across as a push to lighten the load on ordinary workers and make sure the benefits of the economy aren’t concentrated only at the top.” -AI

The problem is, ‘the top’ is ALREADY IN CONTROL and how are you doing with your finances? I rest my case. For goodness sake read that AGAIN.

So what am I trying to say? I’m saying: we need a whole new system. New requirements for ‘government workers’, EDUCATION, term limits, INCOME LIMITS for politicians, psychological evaluation, a ban on purple hair (yes I did say it), JAIL FOR POLITICIANS WHO steal from the government. AND…wait for it…

Teach imbeciles that WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT! You are, I am, your mama is, your neighbor is, your preacher, your sister…are you UNDERSTANDING YET? When you steal from the government, you are stealing from ME, and in case you missed it, I’m sick of it.

Perspective

Everyone should have the opportunity to be made to feel so small as to be hard to see. Everyone should have the opportunity to be reminded how inconsequential we humans are. I have had that feeling twice in life: Once at the Grand Canyon and once in France, standing before Notre Dame Cathedral before it burned.

We see pictures and videos all the time about such historic landmarks, but standing right there, well, it is life changing. I’ll tell you why. First, you get to know how very small you are standing before such grandeur; and you realize that compared to the skill it took to create such a grand example of architecture, you are insignificant. How small we are is especially apparent when we see the Grand Canyon up close. I thought, “I’m really just a very, very tiny biological entity, not so special after all, here and gone so quickly in the grand scheme that I don’t matter at all.” Hmmm.

In our society, and maybe even in all of them, we seem to have the feeling that we are more important than we are. We’re really not the center of the universe and we’re not that special. If you doubt it, do visit Notre Dame Cathedral. Think about the incredible talent and skill of the craftsmen who built Notre Dame Cathedral! That magnificent building, that majestic architectural phenomenon was built in 1163, taking over a century to build. And it stood strong and glorious until it burned in 2019. I cried that day. Still, I get choked up thinking about it. I feared it would be the end of the magic. They rebuilt it, by the way, with hundreds, perhaps thousands, of skilled craftspeople using historic methodology to the extent possible. It was an effort that had to happen. I could not have gone undone.

At the Grand Canyon, not only did I feel invisible compared to the magnificence of the canyon, but I was reminded…in full color…of history. The canyon wasn’t built by craftsmen with genius in muscles and fingertips, but by nature, over immense stretches of time. And there I was, barely a blink in that time continuum. It put things in perspective in a colossal way. In other words, it put me in my place.

If you visit the canyon you will learn that the ocean once covered that space. I don’t remember how many years ago it was, but there were the sea creatures, right there, forever pressed into their historic layer, undeniably revealing the presence of the ocean once upon a time. I was amazed. We hear stories about these things, but we never really, really hear them.

Seeing these two massive and glorious paragons threw me into a state of contemplation I wish I had experienced sooner in my life. I felt incredibly blessed to have seen such grand sites, and was quiet, for a long while, thinking. In the Cathedral, I know others felt that same feeling. In that grand hall, surrounded by a thousand people, there was not a sound, other than soft footfalls. The grandeur commanded respect, and it was freely given.

I realize that my own insignificant body is also a miracle of creation, with billions of cells working together in systems that have to work perfectly in order for me to live. So I do matter and in that way, I am also grand and I am important. But it is about perspective. I am a speck, dust ultimately, and I will pass through life so fast I won’t register on any detector. Nobody will stand near me and marvel in a thousand years. In a couple of generations nobody will remember me at all. Centuries after I am reduced to dust, these two grand sites I speak of will still exist, each a reminder of deep history, each no doubt putting others in mind of perspective.

Welcome back, Notre Dame Cathedral. I have missed you these five years.