Deep Sixing the Socialist Idiots

Today Dinesh D'Souza has an excerpt from his book The United States of Socialism. He asks why the economic failures of socialism haven't made socialism a dead letter all over the world. Why do the AOCs and Co. still believe?

They are on a grand quest, and they refuse to look back. The[y] insist that they are the champions of a moral ideal. The only way to refute them is to refute their moral ideal, to expose their dream as a nightmare, to capsize their utopia. 

But, he writes, there is a problem. How to persuade people that Socialism is a fantasy? The problem is that, for humans,

a fantasy continues to hold its appeal even when it is exposed as a fantasy. So we have to expose the socialist utopia not as an illusion but rather as a racket.  

This approach would have the advantage, of course, of tying into Eric Hoffer's notion that

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.

So, with socialism we would say that it starts with St. Simon, Fourier, and Marx as an incandescent dream. It becomes with social democracy and the welfare state a business of votes for benefits. And it became with Communism and now Wokism, the dull thuggery of: "nice little job you got here, real shame if it got canceled for Wrong Think, James Damore."

Of course, my Great Reaction notion is designed to be an all-fronts attack on leftism. And my Four Laws notion is designed to show that a government-run economy cannot work.

And my study of Prophecy indicated that prophetic failure does not extinguish the prophetic cult, not right away. But, hey, you'd think that after all the prophetic failures of socialism it would be about time for Good Little Girls like AOC to reject socialism. But they don't.

Well, we know why. Because the education system teaches Good Little Girls that socialism is good. Nobody is teaching the Good Little Girls that socialism is a lurch back to the primitive, that it is always cruel and unjust and always will be, that is always leads to poverty and famine, and that it imagines a world that can never be, not in this world and not in the next world.

This is actually not surprising, because with a government-dominated education system of course the system is going to shill for the ruling class and teach little children the wonders of a government-dominated society.

I guess the attack on socialism needs to operate on several levels. Let' s call it Routing the Left.

1. We need a meaning of life, a religion that appeals to educated Gentry more than the current over-under ideology that makes the educated Gentry into a convocation of saints trying to bend the arc of history towards justice. My idea, in A Vision of the Good Life, that we should teach the educated Gentry to be Sacrificial Heroes rather the Egoist Heroes, is one such effort.
2. We need a new common-sense, set of aphorisms that marginalizes the socialist fantasy. My Four Laws is one such, saying that socialism cannot work, because this and that and the other.
3. We need an ideological offensive that cuts across the grain of socialism putting everything about the left in a bad light. That, I believe is the role of my Great Reaction notion.

Hey, this is not rocket science. We need to engage people at all levels: at the prophetic vision level, saying here is a vision of the good life better than socialism; at the logic and reason level, saying that socialism cannot work, because reasons; and at the gut level, saying that anyone that believes in socialism is an delta-minus moron.