With socialists and communists occupying elected positions in both the United States and Canada, how is it possible that so many people living in the most free nations on earth could possibly embrace the ideology of socialism?
That’s a question plaguing many on the Right, who often mistakenly assume that those on the Left share their love of individual freedom.
“From each according to his ability to each according to his need” has long been a socialist bromide, seen by some as a virtuous altruistic ideology upon which a society should be based.
But one need only take that slogan literally to recognize that this is a prescription for human slavery – the very political prescription that is followed by socialist, communist, and fascist dictatorships everywhere.
In an attempt to alert the public to the true evil nature of this ideology, American ‘right-wing YouTuber’ and influencer Nick Shirley (known for exposing the fraud at Somali-run child care centers in Minnesota) recently visited the Communist nation of Cuba where he found conditions so horrific that he could only describe them as being “super-super-super sad.”
Concerned by the rise of communism and socialism in the U.S., Shirley says “I wanted to show people what a communist country looks like.” And what he saw and described during his recent interview with Patrick Bet David was a horror story beyond anything most fictions could make believable.
Beyond the real suffering and despair, that horror is based on an understanding that what is happening in Cuba today, and for most of the past century, could also befall any Western nation that succumbs to socialism.
Both in theory and in practice, it is abundantly clear that socialism is evil, as is communism, as is fascism, as is any variant of collectivism. In fact ‘evil’ is the singular thing they all share in common, and when expressed as an acronym – E.V.I.L. – the commonality becomes clear:
Every Variant Is Leftist.
For many on the Right, this presents a reality difficult to accept.
As British podcaster Elliot Bewick expressed it: “People need to respect and understand that people aren’t evil simply for having different viewpoints. We all have so much in common. Often times we’re just disagreeing on the ways of getting to the same thing. But all these arguments about morality and the implementation of stuff… (are arguments) about implementation rather than a fundamental disagreement.”
Nothing could be further from the truth. When it comes to the Left and Right polarities, they have nothing in common: the Left represents tyranny; the Right represents freedom. Any compromise between the two represents a victory for the Left (tyranny) and a loss for the Right (freedom).
Combined with evasions of the two polarities expressed as some version of ‘Left and Right are no longer valid political distinctions,’ the Right is all but paving the way for the very distinctive Left to fill the ideological vacuum.
Until a significant number of people on the Right come to understand that individual rights and freedom are always Just Right, and never Left, the continued erosion of freedom in the West will forever be questioned.
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