The Horrors Of Socialism

Why right-thinking voters in the USA are terrified of what socialism would mean for the nation

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Every Republican voter knows that unless they stand firm, lib’ruls will turn the USA into a socialist quagmire in which welfare queens will live off the taxes of hard-working Americans and the United Nations will come to take away everyone’s guns.

In real life, however, things are rather different and it’s instructive to see just how backward the USA truly is compared to evil socialist European countries.

Let’s begin with unemployment. Everyone knows Europe has trillions of unemployed people because taxes have destroyed jobs, whereas in the USA everyone can become a trillionaire provided they’re willing to work hard.

Except for the fact that for more than twenty years now, Europeans have enjoyed far greater upward social mobility than citizens of the USA, who’ve actually experienced a net downward social mobility. Translated: in Europe more people have risen into middle class income brackets over the last 20 years while in the USA more people have fallen out of the middle class into blue-collar income brackets.

Oh, and that includes becoming very rich. In the USA it’s now nearly impossible to attain great wealth unless you were born into an…