{"id":12508,"date":"2013-05-03T18:38:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-03T18:38:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-05-03T18:38:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T18:38:57","slug":"capitalist_reality_versus_socialist_fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/05\/03\/capitalist_reality_versus_socialist_fantasy\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitalist Reality Versus Socialist Fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: I want to expand on something that I said right before the top of the hour ended. Walter Williams, who still occasionally guest hosts the program, once said, “Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.” Nothing could be closer to the truth than that. In a communist\/socialist society where nobody has any freedom, nobody has any liberty, how do you get anything?<\/p>\n

You have to be a member of the party, and what are they going to do? They\u2019re stealing from people. They\u2019re imprisoning people. They\u2019re looting. They\u2019re taking what other people have. You had to go out and steal things to have anything. Capitalism frees people to provide services and products people are willing to pay for, and if you hit it big, you get really wealthy. If you don\u2019t hit it big but do reasonably well, you\u2019ll do reasonably well.<\/p>\n

Capitalism is made up of people who are forever dreaming about coming up with ways to make life better. Capitalism is about improving the quality of life, improving the standard of living for as many people as possible. That takes us back to: It\u2019s not possible for everybody to be the same. So the socialists play on this class envy business. “Well, it\u2019s not fair that X should have all of that. Not everybody does, so it isn\u2019t fair.” So they say we need to do what the left always does, what socialists always do to “equalize” society.<\/line><\/p>\n

They never elevate the people at the bottom. They always try to penalize the people at the top and take away from them and blame them for the inequities and the problems in society. But it doesn\u2019t stop with economics. Then they go after what people say. Then they go after the way certain people live. They have to make sure that anything that creates human triumph is discredited, because that sends the wrong signal to a socialist or communist government. You can\u2019t have exceptions on the plus side.<\/p>\n

You simply can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

The whole system is defeated once people see that. You know what brought down the Soviet Union? I mean, no question it was the Strategic Defense Initiative and the Soviets realizing that there was no they could keep up. But what was also a factor: Reruns of Dallas and Dynasty showing up on television in the black market of the Soviet Union, and they found out their government was lying to them all those years about what life in America was all about.<\/p>\n

Literally lying to \u2019em.<\/p>\n

The stories that were told about Americans and the hell that their lives were, the Soviet citizen had no way of knowing any different. They believed it. All of a sudden they started seeing American TV and there was a run on blue jeans in the Soviet Union. Blue jeans became one of the biggest black market items in the seventies. Blue jeans! At that point, it was only a matter of time. Now, had the Soviets been willing to do what they had done in previous years and simply murder their own citizens in the millions, they could have controlled it.<\/p>\n

But they weren\u2019t able to get away with that anymore. Stalin could do it via a famine but there wasn\u2019t any television to see the results and there weren\u2019t any networks that cared to show it, and the New York Times was willing to deny it and the writer get a Pulitzer Prize for it. But in today\u2019s media, you\u2019d have a tough time getting away with that. Never mind the sympathy that leftists have with communists, you\u2019d still have a tough time getting away with that. So it\u2019s getting tougher and tougher on the left.<\/p>\n

So they have to be trickier and trickier in order to succeed, and one of the fastest ways to take away people\u2019s freedom — one of the fastest ways to do it — is to take away their money. You limit people\u2019s financial resources and you limit their freedom. You limit people\u2019s availability or access to energy and you limit their freedom. It\u2019s no wonder the left attacks the things they attack. The things that leftists attack are the things that provide the most opportunity for wealth and freedom.<\/p>\n

You take a look at their enemies list, and that\u2019s what you\u2019ll see. That\u2019s why they have those enemies. “Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering, and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man,” and “serving” doesn\u2019t mean slavery or servitude. It means making an iPhone. It means building a car that a lot of people want. It means having a service for people that want a butler if somebody provides a butler service.<\/p>\n

If that\u2019s what people want, they\u2019ll see if they can make it work. Whatever the service is, capitalism lets you make people happily pay for what they\u2019re getting. It ratchets up everybody\u2019s wealth and creativity, or the vast majority of people, and that\u2019s the real source of prosperity. All of that taking place, it\u2019s called commerce. Too many people now think the source of prosperity is government.<\/p>\n

All government does is take away prosperity. All government does is destroy wealth. It doesn\u2019t create it, and it certainly doesn\u2019t reward it, unless — there are exceptions to everything — government will reward you with wealth if you\u2019re one of them. They\u2019ll share the wealth with you. There are any number of ways that can happen, but those are corrupt things, folks. All of that is corruption. Corporate cronyism is corruption. It\u2019s not genuine. It\u2019s level-playing field kind of stuff.<\/p>\n

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<\/a>RUSH: one more observation here on Walter Williams. This is from a column that he wrote, by the way. “Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering, and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man.” You might say to yourself, “That\u2019s so obvious. Why do we have these arguments?” There\u2019s a very good reason why we have these arguments.<\/p>\n

Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It\u2019s a fantasy where everything\u2019s perfect; where there\u2019s no pain; where there\u2019s no suffering; where everybody has whatever the socialists think is important today. Everybody\u2019s got health care. Everybody has a house, has an electric car. It\u2019s a dream. It doesn\u2019t exist. Capitalism is hard, cold reality. There\u2019s no question it is by far and away the best economic organizing system of human beings there\u2019s ever been. But it is said to be a failure because it\u2019s evaluated against fantasies. There never has been a successful socialist country. There\u2019s never been a successful communist country.<\/p>\n

So the people that promote that stuff are always talking to you on the come. They\u2019re always telling you about what can be. And they\u2019re always telling you, “Well, yeah, it may have failed but the right people are finally in charge now.” That was Obama\u2019s sales pitch. “We\u2019re the ones you\u2019ve been waiting for. We\u2019re the ones we\u2019ve been waiting for.” What that meant was, “Okay, it may have never worked in the past, but finally the right people are charge.” But it never has worked. It never will. So capitalism, which is a proven, demonstrable, there hasn\u2019t been any other legitimate world superpower, economic and everything combined, except the United States of America.<\/p>\n

Now, we might have created military superpowers in a psychological sense, or there might have been military superpowers with the Soviets. And the ChiComs might because of the numbers of people they can send into a battle and lose. They got a billion people in their population, but there isn\u2019t another United States. Well, there wasn\u2019t. We\u2019re in the process of throwing it away. We\u2019re in the process of transferring it to other places. But in the history of the world there has never been anything close. There have been wealthy societies, but very few people participated in that. The rest were slaves or common, ordinary, everyday nothings who made all the wealth possible but never shared in it. There\u2019s been wealthy places but there\u2019s never been a wealthy superpower.<\/p>\n

The United States developed, fed, clothed, protected, defended, provided for, took care of disasters, the world over. No other country has ever been able to do that. And yet there\u2019s this constant battle in this country. The United States is unfair, it\u2019s unjust, it\u2019s racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic, it\u2019s immoral, it\u2019s run by white guys. None of that has ever been true. But let me ask you a question. What else has a chance when evaluated against a fantasy or a dream. Let\u2019s say, guys, you have this fantasy of the perfect woman, and you really think she exists.<\/p>\n

I mean, every aspect of your dream, every aspect of your fantasy, you hold out for it. Guess what? Your life is going to be miserable because it doesn\u2019t exist. Take any other fantasy, any other dream, any other figment of your imagination where there is perfection and then evaluate that against reality, and I guarantee you reality is gonna lose every time. Capitalism is reality and it\u2019s got more to recommend it than any other way or system. But compared to the utopian dreams of socialism and communism, it is always going to come up short with the dreamers and the fantasizers. And when those people end up in power, like now, then you end up with real problems. And we have them. But we\u2019ll come out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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