The Harris-Walz campaign is running on high octane socialism. Walz said recently on a White Dudes for Harris Zoom call, “One person’s socialism is another person’s neighborliness.” Never mind the implicit racism in an organization that self-selects based solely on pigmentation. But that sort of balkanization is a hallmark of socialist politics.
Walz’s brand of neighborliness sounds enticing. But, so did the Serpent’s invitation to take a bite of the forbidden fruit. It’s the kind of platitude that appeals to the first level thinker and the “bleeding heart.” It’s a lie wrapped in good intentions and half truths — the purest form of evil. It’s the same kind of lie that adorned the entrance to Auschwitz, “Arbeit macht frei,” or “Work makes one free.” Too extreme a comparison? Hardly. Socialism is merely the gateway drug into the world of totalitarian Marxism.
The utopian ideas of Karl Marx are responsible for an estimated 110 million deaths worldwide. During World War II, 80 million people died as the result of a war started by Hitler with the support of the National Socialist German Worker’s Party or NSDAP—more commonly known as the Nazi party. Hitler’s fascism and Stalin’s communism were really distinctions without much difference. Both were totalitarians who controlled every mechanism of economic production and social function.
What liberals miss and what commissars like Harris and Walz know is that neighborliness is destroyed in the furnace of socialist utopianism. Charity is weaponized and bureaucratized out of existence and all pretenses to civility, neighborliness, and civil liberties are dropped when power is achieved. And, make no mistake, for people like Harris and Walz, power is the only objective. How do we know this? Consider how you’ve been lied to for four years. All in the name of keeping a senile, Democrat stoolie in power—Joe Biden.
Charity is at the heart of neighborliness, and charity loses all meaning when enforced by the state.
For Democrats, socialism is merely a term of art. Though most modern Democrats may balk at full blown Stalinism, they are quite at home with the ideas of Karl Marx. And, this is no accident. Our institutions of higher learning have been co-opted by the left and its Marxian paradigm. For them, it’s a unified theory and applies not just to economics, but to every aspect of human interaction. Properly understood, Marxism is government control of every interaction, be it economic, social, domestic, or religious.
Why do Democrats constantly attack fundamental institutions like Christianity? Because it opposes the absolute primacy of the state, which is essential to the Marxist utopian worldview. Harris and Walz are the political progeny of Barack Hussein Obama, a Marxist in the tradition of Bill Ayers, founder of the Marxian Weather Underground. Obama was a long time associate of Ayers, and has never repudiated Ayers or his subversive activities.
No argument can be mounted against the assertion that Harris and Waltz are government interventionists. And, as legendary free market economist Ludwig von Mises said, government interventionism tends inexorably to socialism. A growing segment of American society is entirely comfortable with what are perceived to be the equitable aspects of socialist economic and political theory.
However, socialism doesn’t deliver justice in any sphere of application—political, social, or economic.
Socially, the notions of Marxism or socialist theory engender division and animosity. DEI is an example of the collectivist idea of equity in action. The results are always critical inefficiencies, basing hiring and promotion decisions on immutable characteristics in the name of fairness. The outcome is always the same: quotas, racism, and the erosion of work-force competency. Equity promises sameness of result, but only delivers injustice perpetrated on those who’ve achieved based on merit and capability. It’s an insidious disincentive, since it reduces the value of all labor to immutable categories like race, gender, and now the enigma of identity.
The socialist politics of Harris and Walz bends toward totalitarianism. Just as government intervention tends inexorably towards socialism, socialism tends inexorably towards totalitarianism. A government, whose raison d’être is to ensure equitable distribution, must of necessity be one of complete centralization. Power and control become the indispensable tools of the state. Democrats, far from egalitarian, continue to centralize power in the federal government, driven by their secularist lust for control.
If Democrats could only compel the ignorant masses into being noble, utopia could be achieved. At the heart of this notion is the perfectibility of man. A notion completely antithetical to Biblical teaching, and throughly debunked by experience. The horrors of Auschwitz are an eternal testament to the diabolical nature of man empowered to pursue utopia.
Economically, socialism is simply the redistribution of other people’s money by the most inefficient means possible. The outcome is shared poverty and misery. Historically, there is not a single example of the successful application of socialist-Marxist economic principles. Socialist economies survive only so long as capitalist mechanisms remain to sustain the dissipation of capital. Even the vaunted Norwegian example limps along, sustained by the free market components of their economy. The American experience of free market capitalism is one of unparalleled prosperity for the most people. Of course, there are always individuals left out at the edges, and this is where true charity comes into play, funded by a prosperous people motivated by eternal principles.
But, Harris and Walz know nothing of eternal principles or love for their fellow man. Unlike the Good Samaritan, Harris and Walz pass by the beggar on the other side of the road. Their policies will create a nation of beggars, secularized beyond compassion, with no one capable of lifting up their neighbor.