Socialism is all the rage these days, thanks in part to politicians like Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
But few of socialism's supporters really understand what they're getting into. As Bill Murchison explains over at TownHall.com, socialism would make a fundamental change to the power structures in our country.
So what if we did get Bernie Sanders, a proud democratic socialist, as president next year? Or say we got Elizabeth Warren -- no socialist, perhaps, in the formal sense, but a lady given to the espousal of policies much like Bernie's? What if we got a socialist government? Would it be a good thing or a bad thing?
I put it to you this way: It would be a very different thing, for one fundamental reason, a reason we should not glide past as we take in all the media's political blah-blah. The difference between socialism and capitalism, in pure form or in practice, lies in the answers to the questions: Who decides? Who makes the rules? Who tells whom what to do and how to do it? Under socialism, the government decides, not you -- save, possibly, in the small things. In the larger things, such as health care ("Medicare for All"), the government and its agents cut you out.
They have to, don't you know? They've got big policies to implement, policies for the people as a whole. Your discrete ideas as to how things should be done don't matter, save as information the government is free to take into account or discard altogether. If you want the government running your life, by all means, vote for Bernie. He'll gladly assume the burden of figuring out what you need.
Unfortunately, this change has already begun to take place. Over the last few decades, the federal government has taken on a gradually increasing role in American life, making decisions and rules that citizens would never make on their own.
This attack on self-governance must stop before the next president or Congress tries to enact a total takeover of the American economy. We can't trust D.C. to fight this threat, which is why the people and the states must step in with a Convention of States.
A Convention of States can propose constitutional amendments that limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government as a whole. These amendments can clarify the Founders' vision of a limited federal government by amending portions of the Constitution like the General Welfare Clause and the Commerce Clause.
The Supreme Court has warped the original intent of these sections in order to empower federal agencies, and amendments with an eye to these activist judges would go a long way towards ending the threat of socialism once and for all.
The American people have always governed themselves, and they always mean to. It's time to put that liberty-loving spirit into action by calling the first-ever Article V Convention of States.
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