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These were the words of Karl Marx. He once said, "Democracy is the road to socialism".
The idea being that eventually the masses would rise up and strip the top 1 or 4% of everything they had by mob rule. This was the way to empower the average citizen.
However, collectivism does not empower the average citizen. Collectivism does the exact opposite. For you see, in order for collectivism to work, the individual must surrender certain rights for the good of the whole. That is why the Constitution is so repugnant to modern day liberals. They wish us to give up our right to a free market in order to redistribute the way they think is fair. They wish us to surrender our right to privacy that was thought to be covered under the 4rth Amendment, all in the name of our collective safety. In fact, they are willing to surrender our right to due process under the NDAA by allowing the government to detain us without due process covered in the Constitution, all in the name of our collective security. Their is not end to this collective push to diminish individual rights for the common good.
What we need to start doing is asking ourselves, what are our rights under any given collectivist policy? What is my right to health care? Well it all depends what is offered. Medicare turns down more people for medical treatment than private insurance. What is my right to social security? There are no promises as to how much we will get or if it will even be there when we retire. All of these "rights" are merely the whims of those in power at any particular time.
And finally, the irony here is that collectivism is actually at odds with democracy. Democracy implies that our votes count. However, the more centralized government becomes, the less input I have into that said system. In fact, if we wanted a true representative democracy, then we would push for more power to our local governments. Unfortunately, we are stuck with a system that empowers Congressmen and women in the other 49 states to have power over me that I cannot even vote for or against. That is why Congress now only has about a 9% approval rating. People elect their one representative because they are good at taking federal funds for their own state, but hat the other 49 states that take their federal money for the other states. Thus they keep electing their guy while detesting the others. It was never meant to be this way and was not set up this way by the Founding Fathers. State rights have been gutted and we are left with a representative body with only a 9% approval rating. That is our modern day democracy.
To sum up, collectivism only works as an oligarchy or dictatorship. The goal is not only to diminish your own personal freedom and rights, all in the name of the collective good, it is also a movement that seeks to diminish the power of your vote in that system by centralizing power rule by elitists that could really care less about your meaningless vote.
The idea being that eventually the masses would rise up and strip the top 1 or 4% of everything they had by mob rule. This was the way to empower the average citizen.
However, collectivism does not empower the average citizen. Collectivism does the exact opposite. For you see, in order for collectivism to work, the individual must surrender certain rights for the good of the whole. That is why the Constitution is so repugnant to modern day liberals. They wish us to give up our right to a free market in order to redistribute the way they think is fair. They wish us to surrender our right to privacy that was thought to be covered under the 4rth Amendment, all in the name of our collective safety. In fact, they are willing to surrender our right to due process under the NDAA by allowing the government to detain us without due process covered in the Constitution, all in the name of our collective security. Their is not end to this collective push to diminish individual rights for the common good.
What we need to start doing is asking ourselves, what are our rights under any given collectivist policy? What is my right to health care? Well it all depends what is offered. Medicare turns down more people for medical treatment than private insurance. What is my right to social security? There are no promises as to how much we will get or if it will even be there when we retire. All of these "rights" are merely the whims of those in power at any particular time.
And finally, the irony here is that collectivism is actually at odds with democracy. Democracy implies that our votes count. However, the more centralized government becomes, the less input I have into that said system. In fact, if we wanted a true representative democracy, then we would push for more power to our local governments. Unfortunately, we are stuck with a system that empowers Congressmen and women in the other 49 states to have power over me that I cannot even vote for or against. That is why Congress now only has about a 9% approval rating. People elect their one representative because they are good at taking federal funds for their own state, but hat the other 49 states that take their federal money for the other states. Thus they keep electing their guy while detesting the others. It was never meant to be this way and was not set up this way by the Founding Fathers. State rights have been gutted and we are left with a representative body with only a 9% approval rating. That is our modern day democracy.
To sum up, collectivism only works as an oligarchy or dictatorship. The goal is not only to diminish your own personal freedom and rights, all in the name of the collective good, it is also a movement that seeks to diminish the power of your vote in that system by centralizing power rule by elitists that could really care less about your meaningless vote.
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