The Socialist Mind Game: A Brief Manual

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American Thinker:

We are being played; it's time we learned the game.

Conservatives have their Constitution. Progressives have their Narrative. The current battle for America is between these two concepts, and each side uses different rules to fight it.

One set of rules is consistent with an unchanging objective: limited government and individual freedoms. The other side's rules are as fickle as their goals, which are never fully disclosed beyond the equivocal references to fairness and hyphenated forms of justice. They will have to remain vague and deny their true allegiances until a time when American voters will no longer squirm at the word "socialism."

And yet spotting them isn't that hard. As a bird is known by his feathers, socialists are known by their Game.

First tried and mastered in the USSR, the Game has since been popularized around the world, assuming various forms, names, and colors -- from red to brown to green. It is now taking hold in the United States under the blue web banners of Obama's campaign infomercials.

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Why does Cuba buy butter from New Zealand, which is 8,000 miles away?

‘Crony socialism’

 

Mark J. Perry |

December 29, 2012, 9:13 am

 

In a post titled “New Zealand Butter,” Cuban blogger Yoani Shanchez tries to explain why Cuba has so many expensive basic food items from faraway places, like the butter that comes 8,000 miles from New Zealand and the rice that travels 10,000 miles from Vietnam. Obviously, many of the basic food products (milk, cheese, hamburger, chicken, cheese, rice, etc.) could easily be produced domestically at a much lower cost and without the high transportation costs from distant countries. As you might expect, the explanation has nothing to do with economics, and everything to do with “crony socialism.”

http://www.aei-ideas...rony-socialism/