Image (c) AFP This article is an excerpt from Godvernment: Government as God
Tom Sheppard
9/4/2020
Socialism makes citizens into slaves.
You don't believe me? Consider the state of the slave and his family.
Slaves are always fully employed: Slaves don't ever have to worry about
unemployment. Mom and Dad, and even the children,
work when they become old enough. Moms don't
have the option of one of them staying at home to raise the kids while the other
brings home the bacon. If they don't all
work, the master punishes them.
Slaves are all economically equal: No matter how hard they work, or
how much they produce, they get paid the same as the slaves who do nothing every
time the master looks away. They are taxed
100 percent, and then the master gives them what she or he thinks is appropriate
to keep them healthy enough to keep working.
Slaves have completely equal opportunity: Slaves don't get to keep the
fruits of their labors. No matter how hard
they work, or how smart they are, it won't automatically make their situation better. Did you know that it is probable that Eli Whitney,
the inventor of the cotton gin—an invention that gave the Southern cotton industry
real economic legs and is credited with "reinvigorating slavery," actually
took credit for an invention made by his slave?
You don't hear that story in American History class—do you?
Slaves have totally free healthcare: The slaves don't have to pay for
healthcare. The master gives them whatever
level of healthcare that the master decides is suitable for them, even though the
master may have access to a much better level of care than is provided for the slaves.
Slaves have free housing: The slaves don't have to pay for their food
and shelter. They get whatever food and shelter
the master decides to give them.
Slaves are safe from crime: The slaves don't get to have access to guns. That might not bode well for the master, making
it hard for him to keep the slaves in line.
Slaves have totally free education: The slaves don't have to pay for
education. They get whatever education the
master thinks they need to be effective in the work he assigns them.
Slaves get free clothing: The slaves don't even have to pay for their
clothes. The master sees to it that they
have whatever clothing he or she feels is appropriate for the work they do.
Slaves get rewarded for government service: There is opportunity for
a better life for slaves. Slaves that are
especially pleasing to the Master can work in the "big house." There, they get better clothes and food and education,
because they are directly serving the master.
Doesn't that list of "government
benefits" sound a lot like the liberal agenda for this country? It does to me.
Star Parker describes herself as "a
welfare, crack ho." The story she tells
of her gradual realization that the welfare system has the "unintended consequence"
of enslaving its recipients is enlightening.
Now, she is a champion of capitalism and freedom, which causes many people
of color to decry her as an "Oreo"—black on the outside, but white on
the inside. That kind of thinking is another
tool used by liberals to snatch economic freedom and victory from the hands of the
poor and keep them in poverty.
The socialism in this country was championed
by the Democratic Party by the likes of Woodrow Wilson and his protégé Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
It should not be forgotten that it is
the Democratic Party that pushed to keep slavery in place. It is the Democratic Party that passed the infamous
Jim Crow Laws, and it is the Democratic Party that initiated "The War on Poverty"
under Lyndon B. Johnson. It is now and always
has been the aim of the Democratic Party to keep people of color under their thumb
and their control.
I wish I could say that the Republican
Party has staunchly opposed this creeping socialism and reprehensible oppression
of people of color. Unfortunately, the party
of Lincoln and Frederick Douglass has largely been won over into the camp of socialism
too. Most presidential elections, we are
given the choice between a socialist (Democrat) and a lite-socialist (Republican).
Neither choice is very appealing, and
neither turns back the tide of socialism and slavery that is rolling in on us.
What is the answer?
Constitutional conservatives need to
quit viewing politics as a spectator sport.
They need to overcome their natural revulsion over running for office and
get into the ring. They need to run for offices
at all levels—local and state mostly—and take back our country, one city and county
at a time.
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Tom Sheppard is a business consultant and coach to small business owners and individuals. He is a recognized author with dozens of titles in business and fiction to his credit. One of his endeavors is to help those who want to see their own book in print. He does this through his trademarked Book Whispering Process (TM).
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