Yes, Virginia, the Student Loan Cancellation is Communism
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Biden’s student loan “cancellation” is an expensive, yet important, event.
It is what the left likes to call a “teaching moment”.
What it is, is a pure and unadulterated object lesson in communism.
It’s not theoretical, academic or a “thought exercise” – it is real and has real implications for everyone.
It proves three things:
No matter how hard you work and try to do the right thing, you will be forced to pay for those who choose not to work hard and do the right thing, in the name of “equity” of course.
If you don’t want to work hard and do the right thing, don’t worry, because the government will take from those who do and give it to you, again, in the name of “equity”.
Communism is NOT a classless society, its leaders help those who help them – and most often, those are the useful idiots in the upper middle class.
You get a dacha! And you get a dacha! And YOU get a dacha!
Not you over there in the MAGA hat. You go to gulag.
Remember what Marx wrote?
From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.
Boom.
This is that.
This is communism for dummies.
To you successful, upper middle class, casual, dilettante lefties, the occasional AOC flirters, this is what you wanted.
Well, you got it, good and hard.
Let this be a lesson to you.
But you won’t learn, you will bitch about this for a few minutes and then go back to supporting Biden, AOC, Bernie and Liewatha. You will go right back to calling Trump an authoritarian and you will forget that if Trump did something like this, you would be contacting your congressman to see if impeachment included a public hanging.
I don’t hate you because I don’t hate anyone, but I do severely, totally, terrifically, dislike you – and with extreme prejudice.
I have more respect for the lefties who scream that this isn’t enough, Biden should have cancelled all student debt. At least those people have the courage of their convictions.
But of course, the Biden administration is lying about what they are doing, which not so coincidentally, is another feature of communism.
F.A. Hayek stated:
“Collectivism means the end of truth. To make a totalitarian system function efficiently, it is not enough that everybody should be forced to work for the ends selected by those in control; it is essential that the people should come to regard these ends as their own. This is brought about by propaganda and by complete control of all sources of information.”
And from the death of truth, follows the rest.
In such a regime, there can be no free press or freedom of speech because public criticism or even expressions of doubt must be suppressed because they tend to weaken support of the regime. People must forgo their values. They must be convinced to adopt whatever values are necessary for the success of the plan – and the easiest way to do that is to redefine the language so that people can be persuaded that they are really the same values as those they have always held, but were not properly understood or recognized (until now).
Total subservience also means an end to morality (and any religion that establishes a moral code) because nothing must stand in the way of the success of the plan, people must be prepared to break every moral rule they have ever known if this seems necessary to achieve the success of the plan. People must accept and adopt a willingness to do immoral things and when they do, the motivating principle is “the ends justify the means” (the denial of all morals) necessarily becomes the supreme rule, in service of which all other things must fall away. Hayek noted that:
“There is literally nothing which the consistent collectivist must not be prepared to do if it serves “the good of the whole,” because that is to him the only criterion of what ought to be done. Once you admit that the individual is merely a means to serve the ends of the higher entity called society or the nation, most of those features of totalitarianism which horrify us follow of necessity. From the collectivist standpoint intolerance and brutal suppression of dissent, deception and spying, the complete disregard of the life and happiness of the individual are essential and unavoidable. Acts which revolt all our feelings, such as the shooting of hostages or the killing of the old or sick, are treated as mere matters of expediency; the compulsory uprooting and transportation of hundreds of thousands becomes an instrument of policy approved by almost everybody except the victims.”
Reasonable people can compare Hayek’s words to our current history and decide for themselves if what I propose is valid. Hayek’s observations of how the UK and Europe fought totalitarianism and then voluntarily succumbed to collectivism in the aftermath of WWII is more relevant today than ever – therefore, we close with a Hayek quote:
“The worst sufferer in this respect is the word ‘liberty.’ It is a word used as freely in totalitarian states as elsewhere. Indeed, it could almost be said that wherever liberty as we know it has been destroyed, this has been done in the name of some new freedom promised to the people. Even among us we have planners who promise us a ‘collective freedom,’ which is as misleading as anything said by totalitarian politicians. “Collective freedom” is not the freedom of the members of society but the unlimited freedom of the planner to do with society that which he pleases.”
What we are in the middle of, this revolution of communism is so painful.
Most of us have no knowledge of the French revolution. We know there was something called "the storming of the Bastille" and we know that a French king and Marie Antoinette had their heads chopped off. Few realize that four years passed between the attack on the prison and the murders or that the "terror" inflamed Europe to the point that most European countries went to war with France because of the excesses of the revolution.
We have had creeping Commmunism in the USA since LBJ instituted his Great Society and since affirmative action replaced qualifications for jobs and higher education.
When I was a social worker in Michigan, supporting a family of four on one paycheck, many of my ADC clients lived better than I did. Welfare payments often are used for cigarettes, alcohol, drugs, and entertainment. When those funds are used up, states provide "emergency funds" to cover the actual expenses of living.
It is a sad reflection on our society that those who attempt to make good decisions with their lives are punished by the government for doing so and those who choose to abuse the system are rewarded. It's all about equity.