January 23, 2018

Matt O’Brien

The Washington Post

1301 K Street

Washington, DC 20071

Mr. O’Brien,

Logic would dictate that Chavez and Mugabe – Why leave out Castro and Kim Il whatever? – will shortly be followed by, drum roll please, of the perils of ignoring the “slippery slope” of ignoring the perils of Trump.

Your unlinkable Washington Post article enjoining us to sell our stocks to buy small diamonds for barter and, sotto voce, hand guns, plus some non-cancelable transit visas a la Casablanca, is well taken.

Socialism, to cite Churchill, is “the equal sharing of miseries”.

Despite the ham-handed attempts of Barack the Beneficent [OK,OK, he was distracted what with his quest to find the Holy Grail of dictionaries, the elusive Austrian/English in one of those missing 7 or was it 8 states] to bludgeon the economy,, into somnambulistic subservient submission, and where did that perpetual Summer of Recovery go, someone seems to have heeded the great Lord Keynes who said cutting taxes is the one sure way to revive said economy by “letting the animal spirits” loose. 

The only “animal spirits” left in Venezuela involve biting the heads off chickens and trying to make shoes, socks, and shingles into stew. Zimbabwe, nee Rhodesia, your other exemplary failed Socialist state, has a new version of musical chairs. The loser gets fed…to the crocodiles.

Socialism works very well if your C.O. is Mother Teresa or a to ugh as nails 3 tripe sergeant.

Every other time, in every other place, in any and all circumstances where it has been tried it has failed. [Perhaps we could solve the problem of why Johnny can’t read if we paid as much attention to the English teacher as we did to the football coach] Having dug ditches in 3 countries I assure you that if the ditch you’re digging isn’t deep enough you don’t have to dig a new ditch. Dig deeper in the old one]

Since modern American Liberals are usually closeted lower case socialists – “It hasn’t really been tried” or “Socialism needs a heart” or some such ca-ca, with ca-ca meaning bull shit – the results of the effort to prove that effort is the same as results is always forgotten. I shan’t mention because I would be flogged for piling on but every time it has been tried on a grand scale – Think Russia, Germany, and China – we wind up with gulags, gas chambers, and heads on poles. 

Supposedly rational adults reuse to accept the facts that – A – rational self interest is and will always be the thing that makes the dog hunt and – B – the laws governing gravity are not subject to either repeal or amendment.

Bernie Sanders has such fervent followers because thought Is not required. Knowledge of such turn in the punchbowl inconvenient truths, things such as why hasn’t it ever worked even a little bit can is eclectically sent down the memory hole. No thought or work is required; just blind belief in the perfectibility of man.

No wonder they want perpetual DACA

Serfs who reproduce and vote

“I’ll retire to Bedlam”

Viva Trump!

Kevin Smith

PS – Wide Bottomed Hillary would have loved Mussolini