Editor’s note: Here we go again with election recounts in Florida, and The Daily Signal’s audience is none too pleased. This week’s mailbag begins with some of those comments. Remember to write us at [email protected]—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily Signal: One again we see the double standard, as Fred Lucas reports on the Florida recounts (“Trump […]
The sham re-election of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on May 20 has made it clear that the humanitarian crisis in that country will only get worse. Maduro has been running a dictatorship since the election of the constituent assembly in July of 2017, and Venezuelans are suffering because of it. Many on the left have […]
Several recent polls, plus the popularity of Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., demonstrate that young people prefer socialism to free market capitalism. That, I believe, is a result of their ignorance and indoctrination during their school years, from kindergarten through college. For the most part, neither they nor many of their teachers and professors know what […]
George Reisman My purpose today is to make just two main points: (1) To show why Nazi Germany was a socialist state, not a capitalist one. And (2) to show why socialism, understood as an economic system based on government ownership of the means of production, positively requires a totalitarian dictatorship. The identification of Nazi […]
When a survey finds that 53% of 18-to-29 year olds support socialism, we’ve got a big problem. I’m sure you’ve come in contact with people who claim to be Bernie Bros or ardently support socialism. What is the most ironic is these people benefit daily from capitalism. Here are eight quick facts you can throw at […]
Once South America’s richest country, Venezuela implemented a socialist agenda. Now people are starving to death. Venezuela’s inflation, estimated by the International Monetary Fund to reach 720% in 2017, is the highest in the world. The economy has shrunk 27% since 2013, according to local investment bank Torino Capital; imports of food have plummeted 70%. […]
by Tyler Durden “[T]he government has to take resources from someone before it can dole them out to others. This act of taking destroys an economy. The more you take from the productive members of society, the less productive they become. That’s the primary lesson of the history of socialism.” The above quote is from […]
By Michael Snyder The full-blown economic collapse that is happening in Venezuela right now is a preview of what Americans will be experiencing in the not too distant future. Just a few years ago, most Venezuelans could never have imagined that food shortages would become so severe that people would literally hunt dogs and cats […]
By Douglas V. Gibbs Forget the possibility of the enemy at the gates. The enemy has breached the gates. The enemy is within. The enemy is in Washington, D.C., and in Ferguson, Missouri. The ideology that has grabbed a hold of Ferguson is the same one that destroyed Detroit. Black Nationalism. Imagine mixing a little […]
By Dr. Robert R. Owens : Our President has made no secret of what his end game is. Remember him with Joe the plumber? He just wants to spread the wealth around. He is perhaps not an avowed socialist but he is certainly an announced one. Yet he has won two elections one way or another […]
