Only a Liberal…

Liberals, or progressives, will acknowledge that socialism and fascism have failed compared to capitalism, but capitalism is evil too (so they believe), so there has to be another way. One of the goals of the Communist Party USA is the “creation of a truly humane and rationally planned society.” Nothing wrong with wanting that, but what does it mean to be rationally planned?

‘Just need the right people’

The backbone of the socialist argument is that if you have the right people in charge, they can design society to be ideal. I totally agree, but who decides who the right people are? How do we ensure the people that are in charge enact policy based on what is, rather than what should be? Once we choose those people, how do we police them if they do get out of line? The assumption is they would decide all that, basically making them infallible BY DEFINITION.

The fact is that any society that relies on a handful of people to ensure the success of a nation can never work, because it is impossible to ensure that the candidates in question will behave properly. This is common sense; why not have a dictatorship? If you ask people what is a dictatorship good at, the knee-jerk reaction for most people would be “nothing, its oppressive.” Well the fact is, dictators get things done infinitely faster than a democracy. That is a fact. The problem is what if that dictator gets bad things done faster? Like, oh… I don’t know, engage in genocide?

Equality destroys nations

How do you ensure equality? Let’s say we wanted everyone to be equally proficient at rocket science. How would we do that? We could educate everyone at a PhD level to ensure everyone is good at it. Would this work? Of course not. Many people don’t like rocket science; some do not have the intelligence to grasp all of its concepts. So an equal PhD level is unattainable. How about if no one gets to know it? That would make everyone equal.

The path of logic I just followed is undeniable, but if applied to wealth, home ownership, etc., people go on tilt. They don’t comprehend that equality is so bad, it will actually destroy a nation. A society can only demand equality of opportunity. Being poor should not prevent you from getting a decent education, but it does not entitle you to an extravagant education. Same goes for health care.

Equality = spread misery equally

If I have less money than someone else, and I want more, that might drive me to work harder, make certain choices in order to better myself. The way to make most people equal at golf is not to teach everyone how to play at Tiger’s level, it is to make them all equally mediocre by preventing practice, or expensive equipment. If no one makes more than I do or performs better than I do, what will drive me? The greater good? What if the guy next to me doesn’t give a crap about the greater good?

Inequality is wonderful

Inequality is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY to ensure the continuing advancement of a society. When people compete, some will lose. But that doesn’t mean everyone should lose to ensure equality.

I am so sick of people whining about our “reputation” in the world. How many years did our parents teach us not to worry if we were popular at school. “Just be yourselves.” We give away more money to countries by a mile, yet people hate us because our president is from Texas.

Oderint dum metuant. -Caligula (not the best source to quote, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day)

This video shows how letting in 1 million poor immigrants a year cannot possibly keep up with the 80 million increase that occurs in that same time period. This is not a racist conservative point of view; IT’S MATH!

Roy Beck: Immigration by the Numbers

Your compassion is falling into a bottomless pit. Immigration is not and never will be the solution to battling world-wide poverty.

Now if you need a courtroom burden of proof to admit we might be in danger of an attack, you’ll remain in denial after this article. I do not have Osama on videotape standing next to a nuke. I only ask you to apply logic and common sense to this list of facts:

Every day 30,000 trucks, 6,500 rail cars, and 140 ships deliver more than 50,000 cargo containers into the United States, but only 5 percent ever get screened. But even this screening, which rarely involves physical inspection, may not detect nuclear weapons or fissile material. -Graham Allison, Nuclear Terrorism

Lost nukes

Experts estimate the U.S. has lost about 11 nukes over the years. This has occurred due to planes crashing over the ocean in the 50s and 60s and also at least one lost nuclear submarine. If we have lost some nukes, how many nukes could the Soviet Union have lost when it dissolved? Russia claims it has never lost any nukes, nothing to worry about. A Russian National Security Adviser claims otherwise. The “moderately” good news is these are very old suitcase nukes, 1 kiloton of power (a nuke located on the ground at detonation would have to be at least 50 kilotons to destroy most of San Francisco). Just to be clear, you don’t want to be near a 1 kiloton bomb, but its small compared to today’s hydrogen bombs. You can see effects of a nuke on multiple American cities, from 1 kiloton to 4 megatons here.

Not if, but when

There is plausible certainty that terrorists from somewhere have acquired a suitcase nuke, or multiple suitcase nukes. If I were Al Qaeda I would collect a bunch and deploy them in multiple cities throughout the U.S., targeting the economic infrastructure. These suitcase nukes cannot wipe out the nation, only hydrogen bombs can (only 5 nations have them), so the only way someone like Al Qaeda could inflict real damage on a nation as large as America is to target the economy with suitcase nukes. Yes, they can kill tens of thousands of people, which would be atrociously awful, but in a war sense, the deaths will only piss us off, and therefore strategically are not in their best interests.

I don’t know if its possible to stop all suitcase nuke attacks… its probably not. What we can stop is highly coordinated, multiple site attacks with seamless cooperation between all intelligence agencies, and by taking out the terrorist leaders. Cut the head off, and you’ll prevent the really devastating attacks. Cells can still set off one here, one there, but the true devastation can be avoided.