When you’re wealthy, you have the luxury of supporting socialism and Communism. You don’t feel the effects of rising prices. You don’t suffer the invisible taxes of regulations. You don’t have middle class concerns. And, by supporting Communism, you get to feel like you’re virtuous. Actually, the enslavement of other people through the replacement of meritocracy and private property with government-run everything is NOT virtuous. But you think is. So you get to have your cake and eat it too. “I’m virtuous, because I support money and programs for the less well off.” You don’t stop to think about how these programs destroy the middle class, and — through the immense spending, taxation and ultimately inflation required to support them all — that everybody outside of (your own) elite class is … poor.
When you’re a Communist or socialist, you THINK you’re virtuous. But you’re actually killing off the middle class. You’re responsible for making 99 percent of the population poor. In America, if that happens (on our present course, it absolutely will), that will be particularly painful. The middle class has dominated America for generations. People in America don’t grasp what it’s like to be poor, not most of them. But we’re all getting poorer every day. As one insightful person said on a post I read, “Inflation is not a problem of rising prices. It’s a problem of your money becoming worth less.” THAT’S the cost of the welfare-entitlement state on steroids, created decades ago but which has escalated since 2020. Everything has a cost. There are consequences for everything. The elites will feel those consequences the least, if at all. But the rest of us, unless we demand (by whatever means necessary) a return to private property, capitalism, individual rights and economic liberty, will heavily pay the price.