Is it really socialism?

You hear about Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talking about “democratic socialism” and how it’s working in countries like Sweden. Well, they’re wrong.

First and foremost you have to understand that Sweden isn’t a socialist country. Sweden’s government doesn’t own the means of productions. Sweden’s government doesn’t manufacture cars or own other industries. Yes, Sweden does have very high taxes on income earners and spends a lot on social services. But that isn’t socialism. Call it theft, call it altruism in its finest form. Call it what you like, but it isn’t socialism.

In a real socialist country the means of producing goods and services is all owned and controlled by the government. Cuba is probably the best example I can think of where the government tries to make everyone equal. The unintended outcome of this is that it only succeeds in making everyone in Cuba equally poor (unless you are Raul Castro with an estimated net worth of over $100,000,000.00)

What Sen Bernie Sanders and the chronically clueless eye candy girl AOC are talking about isn’t real socialism, but wealth transfer. They want to take the wealth of those who have it and hand it over to those who don’t. They feel that people who have worked for their wealth don’t have any actual right to it. They feel that if you have enough in their mind to live well, it’s immoral to have others in society living with less.

What is less American than the idea that you don’t have the right to what you have earned?