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<\/a>And what do you think Cornel West\u2019s answer was to the question, if socialism is so great, why can\u2019t you find toilet paper in Venezuela? What do you think his answer was, Mr. Snerdley? Exactly! The reason socialism and communism have failed everywhere to date is that the wrong people have tried it.<\/p>\nWait a minute. Marx was the wrong people? Engels was the wrong people? Stalin was the wrong people? Lenin was the wrong people? Mao was the wrong people? Ho Chi Minh was the wrong people? Castro was the wrong people? How many people do you have to go through to find the right people? Of course, Cornel West thinks people like him are the right people. Obama was of a similar belief.<\/p>\n
The reason why utopia hasn\u2019t happened is twofold, we haven\u2019t had enough money, and the right people haven\u2019t been in charge. But that\u2019s not really the point here. And people asking for my analysis on this are keen, I think, because they\u2019re aware that my analysis will go much deeper than just the surface. Because there is a legitimate question to ask here.<\/p>\n
So you ask an avowed socialist like Cornel West, you point out to him that the current, most obvious iteration of failed socialism is Venezuela, and you ask him to explain if it\u2019s so obviously a failure, and if it hasn\u2019t worked anywhere, why do you still advocate for it? You see, that\u2019s the real question. Not just that it\u2019s failed in Venezuela. It\u2019s failed everywhere. Socialism has failed in its promises, by the way. Not just in reality.<\/p>\n
Socialism, communism promise a utopia. They promise eternal happiness and contentment, equality, sameness, no discrimination, no stress, pretty much. And it hasn\u2019t happened anywhere. Not only has it not happened on paper, it hasn\u2019t happened in real life. And so the question is, with socialism such an obvious failure, why does it still have advocates? And that is a great question, with the pure evidence throughout human history of the failure of socialism to create anything like a utopia.<\/p>\n
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Socialism does not create prosperity. Socialism does not provide the means to increase production and create wealth and elevate standards of living. It doesn\u2019t do any of this for most people. But it does do that for a very select few. And so the answer to the question, why do people — just to pick a name of someone most recently seen to TV advocating for it, Cornel West, but take any college professor or any left-wing liberal Democrat advocating for socialism — and, by the way, now they\u2019re doing it by name. Now on the left they\u2019re getting so bold and so brazen, they don\u2019t think they need to mask it anymore. And they\u2019re dead wrong.<\/p>\n
The polling is running entirely away from them on this. For some reason, their belief that Trump is failing and that everybody hates Trump is making them confident now that they can shed the camouflage and be openly socialist and openly communist, and it\u2019s somehow gonna attract all kinds of people. But the reason people like Cornel West and other prominent people continue to advocate it, is for them it would be panacea.<\/p>\n
For the leaders in socialism, it\u2019s everything, including unlimited power over the people beneath you. Socialism and communism has an incredible, intriguing draw to people who are authoritarians and elites, who envision themselves as part of a very small, exclusive group of people that would lead any socialist country or arrangement.<\/p>\n
And for people who think that they\u2019re gonna be in the upper echelon, it would be fabulous, because you get to live off of everybody. You get to take whatever you need from anybody, and you get to use it personally and enrich your life personally, where everywhere else life declines and misery ensues and there isn\u2019t utopia and there isn\u2019t contentment and there isn\u2019t happiness and there is stress and there is inequality. None of it affects you.<\/p>\n
This, to me, makes it even more hideous that the people advocating for it know full well that it is a failure, know full well they\u2019re lying to people. They\u2019re lying to these college students. They\u2019re lying to their high school and middle school students about the wonders and greatness of socialism.<\/p>\n
Because they cannot point to a success anywhere in the world; they cannot even get close. All they can do is hold themselves out as the ones we have been waiting for, and it\u2019s always the people at present alive who can make this magic utopia happen.<\/p>\n
Do you realize how near — “criminal” may be too strong a word, but it\u2019s not far off — how near criminal it is for these advocates of socialism to knowingly brainwash a bunch of young skulls full of mush into supporting, when they know it is not going to accomplish any of the promises that were made since it\u2019s been invented.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s gonna create a life of unparalleled wealth for the select few that end up being leaders or members of the exclusive club at the top, the elites, they\u2019re gonna make out like gangbusters because they get to collect whatever they want from all of the people, calling it taxes or fees or what have you.<\/p>\n
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Because of their power, they have access to the treasury, they have access to the power. But more importantly, what really, I believe, excites these advocates for socialism is the power, the abject power they will have over other people. So this advocacy for socialism and communism is not just a bunch of people intellectually wrong. It\u2019s worse than that. It is much worse than that. It is people who know that they\u2019re promising nothing. People who know that they\u2019re educating and promising these kids things that can never happen, have never happened, and will never happen under socialism. And they\u2019re doing it for their own personal benefit.<\/p>\n
Whereas intellectual honesty and rigor would require of these college professors that they teach that socialism is an ongoing failure, that it has never worked, and that none of the promises come true. The promises of equality, nondiscrimination, no stress, contentment, happiness, everybody has what they need, everybody gets what they want, nobody has more than anyone, none of that ever happens, it never has happened, and it can\u2019t. It\u2019s impossible. What does happen and what can be guaranteed with socialism and communism is loss of freedom and the encroaching poverty that takes over a country as it is plundered by the leaders who have advocated for it.<\/p>\n
And it would be no different than if the advocates for it today were to succeed in pulling it off. They could turn the United States into Venezuela. They won\u2019t. Because they\u2019re nowhere near winning enough power to do it. But they could do it if they had the power for long enough. And they wouldn\u2019t mind. Because even in Venezuela people at the top of the list there, they have toilet paper, and they have air-conditioning, they have whatever they need, whatever they want. It\u2019s 99% of the people that don\u2019t.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. Here\u2019s the Cornel West sound bite, or one of them, when he was on Chatsworth Osborne Jr.\u2019s show last Friday on Fox. The question from Tucker Carlson, “What happened to Venezuela? They call that Democrat socialism, but they don\u2019t even have toilet paper, and it\u2019s less equal than ever.”<\/p>\n
Now, here\u2019s Cornel West. He\u2019s a Harvard professor. He\u2019s been at Princeton, an avowed socialist. He has gone out there with Tavis Smiley I think on an end poverty tour in America. I don\u2019t know how that ended up. Is there still poverty out there? See, that must not have been great shakes. But he tried, give him credit, went on anti-poverty tour, made some speeches. (interruption) It was? Oh. That\u2019s right, the anti-poverty tour was actually an anti-Obama tour, according to Cornel West, \u2019cause he wasn\u2019t left enough for them.<\/p>\n