Socialism Is Here - and It’s Wearing Tight Jeans and Lipstick

One of the clearest proofs that the socialist virus is dangerous to humanity, despite the general assumption that ideas, in and of themselves, aren’t dangerous to open-minded people, is what happened to me today in a small coffee-shop in Connecticut.

Sitting across from me in that small café was a strikingly beautiful woman in her mid-to-late 30s, speaking with a Russian accent and gushing about social democracy, positively gleeful as she talked about dismantling capitalism. This is a woman born in Saint Petersburg. She didn’t choose to stay in Russia; she fled it. She came here, and now has the audacity to lecture on the evils of capitalism after escaping the wreckage of socialism. Let that sink in.

Can anyone explain to me how she’s any different from the Arab women in Michigan, who fled the hardships of the Third World only to try and turn America into the Third World?

And just like their Islam should be outlawed as a threat and danger to free humanity, so too should this woman’s socialism.

When I asked her whether the 40 million dead in Russia weren’t enough for her, and whether she now wanted to bring that here, she smiled and brushed it off.

When I suggested she read a particular book, Mises’s Human Action, she brushed it off with, “I read plenty.” Obviously, with her, it’s quantity over quality..

Meanwhile, she sat there in a trendy café, comfortably enjoying all the luxuries capitalism affords. And don’t even bother trying to explain to her that a functioning socialist economy doesn’t exist - it’s an empirical impossibility.

The fool still thinks Sweden or Denmark are “social democracies.” Good luck trying to explain to her that the term “social democracy” is an oxymoron, because any regime that pre-decides an economic system is not a democracy, period.

Now, the fact that this Russian woman, infected with the mental pollution of socialism, feels nostalgia for standing in line for bread means little. Sadomasochism comes in many forms, even for those who already know the definitions of sadism and masochism in a foreign language.

So then, what is global socialism? The deranged belief that everyone should have the same, achieved through theft. What is national socialism? The same delusion, confined within borders. And democratic socialism? The fantasy that you can impose an economic system of forced equality and still pretend it's democracy. In short, it's ideological lunacy wrapped in moral pretense.

Now, I’m not your typical capitalist. I actually do believe in universal healthcare, and I do believe in lending a hand to the downtrodden. But America already does those things. Literally any low-income person in all 50 states has access to free healthcare and welfare. So what more does this witch want? In fact, many libertarians and Friedmanites would argue we’re already living in socialism. So she might as well enjoy the best socialism the world has to offer - and shut up about it.

This brings us to big questions about the ability of Americans to deal with the socialist disease. It’s a disease that emerged after the American Revolution, and like Islam, it began spreading in the East and South just as the American Empire reached its peak (as a Soviet and Nazi proxy).

And so we must ask: Are there ideas so fundamentally opposed to the Lockean vector of the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence that we may have no choice but to outlaw them? Ideas whose very expression is akin to incitement to murder and violence? I’m not comfortable toying with this notion, neither philosophically nor politically. But it may well be that Americans will have no choice but to deal with their socialists the same way they once dealt with their British.

After all, Monarchy and Socialism are not that far from one another anyways.