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Listener: Don H.
Category: General
Date: 09 Jul 2010
Time: 11:34:33 -0700
Remote Name: 69.151.26.84
Pratt,
A couple of days ago you mentioned that the Green Parties were a bunch of communists. I wrote the attached note in Dec of '07, expanding upon your contention. I cut a lot out of it, but it is still a bit long.
Don H.
Green Parties are Anti-Capitalist
When the Berlin wall came down and freedom swept into the Soviet Union and
Eastern Europe, communists were hard pressed to find a home. Once the Soviet
Union went bankrupt trying to compete with the economic and military power of
the United States, it didn’t take long for the people of its enslaved satellite
countries to throw off their chains and establish democratic governments.
Communists who had spent their lives fighting capitalism because it deprived
them of power, now found themselves on the periphery, watching as their
countries prospered under new-found freedom. What was a self-respecting
communist to do? Clearly, it made sense to join those organizations that still
battled on against capitalism. They joined the Green parties all over Europe.
While the rank-and-file of the Green parties may have environmental preservation
as their goal, the leadership has a much different agenda. Their goal is the
destruction of capitalism and the freedom it brings. Look at what the
environmentalists are attempting to do in the name of fighting global climate
change. They are demanding that the developed countries, especially the United
States, reduce carbon emissions to pre-1990 levels, while exempting developing
countries. Such a reduction would decimate the US economy, while allowing China,
India, and others to continue expanding their economies while they continue to
release huge amounts of carbon dioxide and pollutants into the air. The proof of
the true goals of the environmental movement is its blatant hypocrisy. For
example, when George Bush refused to sign the Kyoto Protocols, he offered
instead to create huge carbon sinks in the under-populated regions of the
country by planting millions of tress. The environmentalists rejected this idea
immediately, claiming that sinks could not wholly solve the problem and might
delay emission reductions. These carbon sinks are exactly what Al Gore and
others are promoting in their selling of carbon offsets.
Perhaps we have a little hypocrisy here? Perhaps we have a little more proof
that the crisis of human-caused climate change is a hoax promulgated by the
liberals to fool the lazy, mis-educated masses into giving them more power over
our lives.
The cleanest countries on earth are the democracies. Their people have the
freedom to prosper and to demand that their governments clean up any pollution
caused by the economic activity that produced the prosperity. The filthiest
hell-holes are those countries still under communist rule or the rule of
military dictators; these are, for the most part, also the countries with the
weakest economies and the poorest populations. It is not the economic prosperity
of the wealthy countries that is responsible for the impoverishment of the
poorest; rather, it is the lack of freedom that prevents capitalism from taking
hold and lifting a population out of poverty.
A free people, left to their own devices, will use their freedom and prosperity
to solve problems. That is what capitalism promotes. If the burning of fossil
fuels truly creates problems, capitalist societies will figure out ways to
overcome them while maintaining living standards and freedom.
Nuclear- and latest generation coal-fueled power plants are two examples.
More efficient engines, stronger, lighter materials, high-capacity batteries,
fuel-cells, solar panels, wind turbines, etc. are more examples of solutions
created by clever people in capitalist societies acting in their own
self-interest. Consider the people and companies who developed any of these
technologies. They saw an opportunity to make a fortune creating something that
would improve the lives of millions of people. If a person wishes, he can trade
his money for a car that is more efficient to operate and pollutes less, or
heating or lighting for his home that costs less to operate, saving energy. Both
the individual and society benefit while freedom is preserved. The entrepreneur
is rewarded for his innovation and risk-taking. This is capitalism.
The anti-capitalist method is to mandate particular ‘solutions’ and demand that
everyone participate. The natural market that exits among free people is
thwarted. Entrepreneurs are less willing to risk developing new technologies
because the government may not allow a payoff for them; freedom is lost because
there are no choices, only mandates. This has been the economic model for
communist societies for a hundred years. All of them, from the Soviet Union and
North Korea to China and Cuba, were able to provide their people with only a
meager subsistence. Russia and China have largely abandoned the old communist
economic system and are allowing market forces (capitalism) to work. Their
economies are now booming and their standards of living are improving immensely.
It will be interesting to see how much longer the government of China will be
able to subjugate its people, now that it has given them a glimpse of prosperity
and freedom.
On the other hand, the United States is going in the other direction. These
anti-capitalists are smart. They realize it is difficult to convince others of
the exemplary nature of communism when their populations had to be kept from
fleeing by electrified fences and armed guards. But everyone wants clean water
and air, and if we humans are causing dangerous global warming…well, obviously,
too much freedom is a dangerous thing. So with the help of our very dishonest
press, they have us Americans begging our government to take our freedoms away.
The unending demands for higher taxes on the rich, windfall profits taxes on the
oil companies, attacks against the pharmaceutical companies, etc., are nothing
other than attempts to harm the successful engines of our economic prosperity
under the guise of ‘fairness’ or ‘saving the planet’. They are nothing other
than attempts at income redistribution, which punishes success while making
large segments of the population more dependent on government. We are
subsidizing incompetence.
Subsidies always produce more of the activity being subsidized. It is no longer
necessary to practice any kind of self-discipline in order to survive. It is no
longer necessary for anyone to get a good education, or get a job, or even limit
the number of children in one’s family. No matter how many bad decisions one has
made, no matter how poorly one has structured his life, there are taxpayer
funded assistance programs to provide food, child care and medical care for
entire families. There is even a hot-line telephone number (211) that one can
call to find out about all the assistance programs available. In our compassion
to help the poor, we have robbed them of initiative, self-reliance, and pride of
accomplishment, and replaced those virtues with a somewhat comfortable
subsistence that is based on a sense of entitlement and dependence. Fifty years
ago, most people who came to need public assistance did so with a sense of shame
for not being able to provide for their families. It was a condition thrust upon
them by forces outside their control and they vowed to get off the dole and back
to self-sufficiency as soon as possible. Today, there are millions of families
in which this dependence on public aid is the norm. We have gone to great
lengths to remove any sense of shame connected to one’s inability to care for
oneself and family, and actively encourage people to sign up for food and
medical assistance. Every year more money is allocated to these programs while
qualification standards are lowered. Consequently, every year more people are
pulled into a condition of dependence upon government.
The communists have figured out how to enslave us. Vote liberal.
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