This sums it up - Socialism and Progressivism are cannibalism
No, not in the true sense of the word of cannibalism - no actual flesh eating here. However, in a philosophical sense, Carol over at American Thinker is right: that which is
Socialism and Progressivism are cannibalism.
When I work, I use up hours of my life... my limited, mortal, human, physical life. The money I am paid represents the life I expended to earn it. My pay-my wealth-is my labor. It is the expenditure of some of my body's short, precious life on earth.
So when someone takes my money, they steal my hours of labor. They consume not only the fruits of my labor, but my labor itself, that labor which is the very expenditure of my life.
When someone loots and consumes the money I have earned, they consume the part of my life devoted to producing what they have taken.
What is that but cannibalism? A selfishness so profound, so inhuman, so greedy, so barbaric that it encourages and celebrates-and seeks to legally require- the consuming of the life's blood of one human by another.
That is the vicious reality of Socialism.
Don't let the bastards call it anything else.
All we have here on this ball of mud IS our time on it. What we make of it is our labor, our intellect, and our inate ability to strive for better. We Conservatives believe that less is more when it comes to Government - it is there to provide a platform to preserve our freedom and liberties.
And not, as the Lefties constantly whine, to be Big Daddy and soothe everyone's hurts with a dollar bill. I reject the notion completely that America is simply made up of one "victim class" after another whose grudges and complaints have to be solved and put away before America becomes the America they want (yes, the argument of the "now" vs "the ideal").
Cannabalism? Again, not in the true sense of the word. Death of freedom by a thousand cuts in incrementalism?
You bet.
