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John Stamp's avatar

The whole premise of this article if false. Poverty doesn't produce crime, crime produces poverty. Thomas Sowell discussed this in detail. He destroys commie drivel wherever it rears its ugly head.

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Fraunt Hall's avatar

I am a conservative, but I have no membership in any political party.

I became a conservative after some decades of passing through socialist political life, but became concerned along that way that socialism was no answer to solving the ills of our societies and economies because, among other things, it did not change human nature and had too much prior baggage.

I found that socialism, at least in Canada and other places I knew, also subsumed within its zeitgiest or the thinking patterns of its adherents, an admiration of "experts" (like Fauci, for example), such as well-educated and trained specialists in sciences and pseudo-sciences (such as psychology, sociology, etc.) whose opinions, ideas and proposed policies were sacrosanct and so far above the 'ignorance' of the "masses" that deviation from that collection of opinions, ideas and policies was not only heretical, but not to be tolerated and allowed. Democracy, free speech, freedom of thought, etc. were not cherished or valued.

Socialism merely substituted another way to govern the means of production and the redistribution of money and wealth that was as corrupt and flawed as the system dominated by the owners of the vast wealth derived from the benefits inheritance, or of monoploy capitalism as described in this interview.

Once the so-called workers became the wielders of power, they became as corrupt, autocratic, fascistic and arrogant, tribalistic and intolerant of ideas, and the people that held those ideas, that did not accord with their own ideological predelictions or dogmas, as today's Wokeists or as the aristocracies and the dominant religious powers of past centuries, such as the RC Church.

What disturbs me about Mr. Collins exposition is to be found in this statement: "If you don’t have broad worker ownership or a real stakeholder society where others share, then you do have to redistribute." If I have ever heard such an idea once, I have heard it hundreds of times.

As well, as I've read, real, competitive capitalism, might be tolerable, but who is to decide and judge what is or is not "competitive capitalism". It cannot be the politicians and their hand-servants in the bureaucracies, for their record heretofore is not envious or admirable. So what are we really talking about?

I wonder if you have abandoned the dogmas and thinking patterns you learned in your earlier years. I certainly have. I do not know you Ms. Henley, so I cannot be certain of that.

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