Slaves of Utopia
Col Mike Walker, USMC (retired)
All,
Leftist Socialists prove to be endlessly ineffective because they are lazy at heart. Stuck in the twentieth century, they follow a stale paradigm of critique and condemnation of the present that is fatally devoid of the requisite labors needed to offer cogent solutions.
Instead, the Socialist Left invokes dreams and visions far beyond those of any past conjurors, seers or snake oil peddlers. The outraged shout supplants hard work and form always beats substance.
This of course, quickly devolves in to disastrous populism that effortlessly opens with "socially just" promises to remedy all our ails at next to no cost and unerringly ends in failure, great suffering and increased poverty.
Svetlana Alexievich, as to be expected of Nobel Laureate in Literature, succinctly summed up the believers of this nonsense in three words: Slaves of Utopia.[1]
The Socialist Left’s proposition is nothing more than a banal debating trick that simplistically declares the present wanting while selling an impossibly perfect future, a position that should render the argument unworthy of serious consideration, but such is the allure of utopia.
Semper Fi,
Mike
