Rational Nation USA

A accurate illustration representing the goal of all socialist minded groups and governments. There are "officially accepted" definitions of socialism that define the concept in both economic and political terms. They are probably all accurate to a degree. In the long past days of my youth, during that idealistic period when many youth experience the belief that government can better peoples lives, the thought of utopia fleetingly passed through my mind. Until reason took hold. The day when it became clear that an individuals life, and its success or lack thereof must rightly depend on them. When the realization the accomplishments and value one receives in life should be the direct result of each individual and their efforts, of lack thereof. Socialism at its core holds that each man is responsible for the welfare and well being of his fellow man. Put another way, as the picture above aptly  illustrates, it is the belief the the mo...

Food for thought. As Winston Churchill so wisely said, and I paraphrase, If not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if not a conservative at forty you have no head." We have many in the leadership of the majority party in congress that fit the later part of Churchill's words to a tee. The strugglr is worth waging.