Can You Define Woke?
Try to describe what ‘woke’ is to people who will reject emotional language and who don’t know anything about history and philosophers like Marx. Keep it short. Here’s more from Amazing Polly.
Call Me Stormy
Finding righteous currents in turbulent times
Archive for the tag “socialism”
Socialism Ruins Environment
Socialists say they care about the environment, but the real world shows that capitalism works better.
Tom Palmer, executive vice-president of Atlas Network, says we tried controlling the environment through socialism and it was a complete failure. “Socialist governments have the worst environmental record on the planet,” he says. Here’s the evidence.
Venezuela Is Socialism
I hope progressives wake up and realize that socialism caused Venezuela’s destruction.
Otherwise tragedies like Venezuela will happen again and again. More from John Stossel.
College Freshman Digs Socialism
Brett is a college freshman. He knows all about socialism because his socialist professor told him all about it. And he’s ready to share his knowledge with a Cuban man who escaped socialism on a raft. More from The Babylon Bee.
9 Upsides To Socialism
Socialism isn’t ALL bad. Here are 9 upsides you might not have considered. More from The Babylon Bee.
Chaos Descends Upon Brazil
Brazil has fallen into chaos as the Socialist President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva attempts to consolidate his power while anti-Lula protesters storm government buildings, including the corrupt Supreme Federal Court.
The highest court in Brazil, the Supreme Federal Court exonerated Lula after his 2017 conviction on corruption charges, allowing him to run for president again. More from Steve Turley.
Orwell’s Eerie Predictions
Caleb Jones, host of the Sovereign CEO podcast, says some uncanny predictions by George Orwell nearly 80 years ago, mirrors the world we live in today.
Orwell’s prophecy came in a summary excerpt of John Burham’s book, The Managerial Revolution, where he writes, among other things, that capitalism is disappearing, but socialism is not replacing it–frightingly on target to what we are experiencing today. Jones gives his take on the excerpt, breaking it down line by line.
What Power Looks Like
Benjamin Netanyahu, who returns for his third stint as Israel’s Prime Minister, tells The Rubin Report how the country has been able to harness free markets and capitalism to achieve a higher GDP per capita than France and Japan.
Netanyahu, who says socialism was a major thorn in the Israeli economy the past few years, also elaborates on the difficulty of forming a coalition government and what issues matter most to conservative Israelis.
Sweden’s “Socialist Success”
Sen Bernie Sanders say America should become more like Sweden. I agree.
Sweden has a private pension system, school vouchers, and no minimum wage law. More from John Stossel.
