The greatest danger to a free society is not that some citizens become richer than others. It is that government becomes so powerful that citizens must ask permission to become anything at all. — YNOT! There is an old political trick that has survived … Continue readingCapitalism vs. Socialism — The Difference Between Opportunity and Permission
France is burning, communists are organizing, China is watching, and somebody is paying the bills. –YNOT! What do the Democratic Socialists of America, the Revolutionary Communists of America, Che Guevara, communist revolutionaries, radical Islamists, Iran, China, and a bunch of angry French teenagers have … Continue readingNOTHING HAPPENS BY ACCIDENT… Not even Riots in Paris
If capitalism truly rewarded skill or intelligence, the richest people would be neurosurgeons, engineers, scientists, artists, writers and creators. If it rewarded hard work, it would be cleaners, laborers and service workers. — Some Random person on Internet Capitalism Doesn’t Reward Hard Work. It Rewards … Continue readingCapitalism Doesn’t Reward Hard Work. It Rewards Leverage.
The central problem was never a shortage of educated planners. The problem is always concentrated power combined with human nature. –YNOT! I have been around long enough to notice that America develops a strange case of political amnesia every few decades. An old idea sticks … Continue readingThat Ugly Thing That Sticks Out Its Head in America Every Few Decades…
The Children have to dance — YNOT! Fidel Castro would have turned one hundred years old this week, and I see people here and there celebrating the occasion. Celebrate him if you wish. I prefer to remember what he cost everyone, especially the Children of … Continue readingFidel Castro at 100: Ask Whether the Children Still Play
If you have two children and one learns faster than the other, you don’t make the smarter child learn less. You push both children to become the best they can be. Equality isn’t making everyone the same—it is giving everyone the opportunity to become better. … Continue readingWHY SOCIALISM IS A RACE TO THE BOTTOM
Free societies survive because they can admit they were wrong. Tyrannies collapse because they punish anyone who says so. –YNOT! Every civilization eventually confronts the same question: Why do some societies continually invent, build, grow, correct their mistakes, and improve the lives of ordinary people—while others … Continue readingTHE GOLDEN GOOSE- Why Free Societies Keep Winning—and Why Closed Systems Eventually Lose
Ernesto “Che” Guevara is often presented as a romantic rebel: the bearded doctor who abandoned comfort to fight injustice, became a commander in the Cuban Revolution, and died attempting to spread revolution abroad. That image leaves out the central fact of his adult life. Che … Continue readingChe Guevara: Revolutionary Soldier, Executioner, Architect of Violence and Death
The Guerrilla War Failed. The Ideological War Did Not. Che lovers still get together to celebrate his “triumphs” –YNOT! Most Americans think Che Guevara is ancient history. And after 60 years it should be. He is the face on an old T-shirt, a college dormitory … Continue readingWhy Che and Cuba Still Matter to America 60 Years Later
If you still describe Sweden as the model of old-fashioned Nordic socialism, you are not looking at modern Sweden—you are repeating old propaganda. Sweden is no longer what you think it is. — YNOT! The Nordic Model Didn’t Work—So Sweden Quietly Rebuilt Itself For decades, … Continue readingSWEDEN THREW AWAY SOCIAL DEMOCRACY – It is now the most Capitalist Country in the World
A regime can imprison the body, starve the home, and silence the street — but its final victory only comes when it captures the mind. Free the mind, and the chains have already begun to break. –YNOT! Cuba was not destroyed in one day. It … Continue readingHow to turn a Nation Into a Mortuary and how to escape.
The planners had theories. Joe had waffles. — YNOT! Every few years someone comes along and says, “Socialism will work this time.” Fine. Let’s run a little experiment. Take a Waffle House and turn it into a worker-owned collective in the glorious Socialist Communist … Continue readingThe People’s Waffle House
Socialism in Cuba did not eliminate the rich — it simply replaced businessmen with generals, and called the new monopoly ‘the people.’ Meanwhile, the people stood in line for bread while the revolution built luxury hotels. — YNOT! People imagine socialism as a system where … Continue readingHow Socialism Really Works in Cuba — And How Did Raul Castro End Up Owning the Country? GAESA
You can confiscate wealth once. But prosperity only survives when someone still knows how to create it tomorrow. –YNOT! Every few years, somebody rediscovers the same magical idea: “If we just take all the rich people’s money, all our problems disappear.” It sounds wonderful right … Continue readingTake All the Money… And Then What? The Day after tomorrow?
“Most folks think the grass is greener on the Neighbor’s yard. Half the time, it’s just growing over the septic tank.” — YNOT! There is a strange little trick the human mind plays on itself. The people who live inside a hard system dream of … Continue readingWhy Socialism Sounds So Attractive in America -— While People in Socialist Countries Dream of Freedom
Have you ever noticed that the things minding their own business usually scare people more than the things actually causing trouble? I will tell you all a raccoon story. I live in the city, but in one of those older areas where somebody once remembered … Continue readingWhy Are People So Desperate to Control Everything?
“Communism begins with speeches about dignity and ends with people standing in the dark surrounded by garbage wondering where the food went.” –YNOT! There are moments in history when a lie grows old all at once. For years, Cuba has been one of those grand … Continue readingCuba Is Falling, and the Left Can Feel the Floor Moving
“If you want to measure how successful socialism has been in practice, don’t follow the slogans — follow the cemeteries.” — YNOT! There’s something peculiar that happens when a grand theory crashes into reality. Most ideas, when they fail, get revised. A bridge collapses? You … Continue readingIs Socialism Really a Cult in Disguise?
“If it is Free then you are the product – But Eventually you really are the product, rebranded of course.” –YNOT The most famous line in Soylent Green isn’t subtle. It never was. “Soylent Green is people.” People shout it, meme it, laugh nervously about … Continue readingWhat If “Soylent Green Is People” Wasn’t the Scariest Part of the Story?
Have You Considered New York City, or Are You Still Clinging to Comfort? Hello, friends — Zohran here — and let me personally invite you to New York City, where ambition ages poorly, rent ferments aggressively, and individuality is finally distilled down to its purest … Continue readingAre You Tired of Freedom, or Do You Just Not Know It?