Fabianism
by Dr. M. Sidney Wallace
Picture in your mind a mighty river running to the sea. In the early stages it is created by melting of snow capped mountain peaks into small streams. As these small streams collect together they create small creeks that again merge into small rivers. As rain waters slake the lands hungry for moisture and create green productive farms the excess water continues to flow to the oceans. In the later stages the small tributaries merge together to form mighty rivers. Like the Mississippi River at New Orleans these watersheds are over a mile wide at the most narrow point.
Individuals can use these flowing waters to improve their lives. Farmers use the moisture to irrigate their farm lands and grow crops for the betterment of all mankind. Builders use the waters to help them economically move their completed works to individuals who need them in other parts of the nation. Some individuals use the waterways for pleasure and relaxation. Some build small fast boats to go in all directions while the river’s current steadily moves to the sea.
Wild life sporadically builds blockages to small tributaries to try and capture some of the river's waters. These blockages are usually very small and have little impact on the overall water volume in the river. Occasionally man may try to use a little of the mighty river's excess power by building dams and canals to improve small local areas. However, only a fool would try to dam the Mississippi River at its mouth to the Gulf of Mexico.
Now let’s compare the American dream to a mighty river. In the beginning we had small settlements of immigrants from Europe, Africa, and Asia. Most came to the new world fleeing societies that wanted to dominate their economic life. The early Americans saw that the individuals that worked for a goal were more successful than those that waited for someone else to decide what was best for them. As more and more American saw that individual initiative worked, they used their personal freedom in the new land and started dreaming and growing for themselves. Time after time when old world ideas of collectivism were attempted they always ended in dismal failure.
As the number of entrepreneurs grew in the new nation the quantity and quality of the goods and services produced started to surpass even their wildest dreams and the American standard of living started leaving the rest of the world in the dust. America has grown and prospered on individual enterprise. Socialism has never been and will never be successful in the United States or anywhere else in the world.
A respected economist, Dr. Richard Rahn, once said: Examples go beyond the US. It can be seen in the growing economic dysfunctionalism of France, Sweden, Germany, Great Britain and Canada are only a few of the worst offenders. The European Union's real Gross Domestic Product per capita has remained at approximately 70% of the United States' since 1970. Its growth in productivity has remained below the United States’ since 1995 with high unemployment, stagnant economies and massive unfunded liabilities. Given that 2 centuries of socialist experiments, whether by utopians, Marxists, or Fabians, always ended in economic failure and a loss of personal liberty, why are people around the globe still proudly proclaiming themselves socialists?
Now we come to American individuals. There are three types.
- An individual that has no reservation about his own ability. He simply wants others, and government to get out of his way and let him attempt to solve his own problems. He is willing to fail in his attempt to succeed.
- An individual that has no personal enterprise to attempt anything on his own. He simply wants others to tell him what to do. These make great government wards and workers because the fear of failure is their greatest motivation.
- An individual that wants power over others and knows that government is the easiest way to gain that control. He simply wants to manage others and knows that he has little to nothing to offer on his own.
As we come to the present we find Obama is a radical Marxist that wants to control everything he sees. John McCain is a Fabian that believes in free enterprise; however he is willing to accept creeping socialism for peace and harmony.
Which individual do you think will be the best for America in the long run? One that wants to decide what you need for your life, or one that still thinks that you make the best decisions for yourself?
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