A false equivalence, Fred. 

Socialism, whether from the left (communism) or the right (fascism) is a form of Statism in which all power resides with the State, and the rights of the people are granted or refused by those holding the reins of power, whether through democracy or dictatorship in its many forms.

True Liberalism, particularly in its republican form, acknowledge all power and rights reside with the People who charter a government with citizens to represent them and protect their natural-born rights.  In this form, the government is subservient to the People and have only the powers the People grant them, and those powers being the powers the People themselves already possess.  If an individual cannot dictate to his neighbors, the representative republican government cannot do so either.  With such a government, power is distributed, not concentrated.  The government cannot grant rights, it can make no laws that abridge the natural-born rights of every individual — true equality.

There is no limit to the power a Statist government may claim in the name of 'the common good.'  However, a republican government has no power it has not been granted explicitly by the People through the government charter, i.e. Constitution.

Inequality is the basis of Socialism — some are more equal than others.  Whereas in a republican government, all are equal before the law — justice is blind, and 'social justice' is but a clever form of statism.  Socialism is a form of servitude, the ultimate appropriation of all into the hands of authoritarians who call themselves experts who rule the less 'expert' common people.  Inequality in its most obvious form.

Classic Liberalism does not claim for itself the seats of power in which the common people must submit to 'experts' or authorities.  No claims are made to the lives, liberty and property of the people, in fact its sole purpose to is to protect their rights above the insidious wiles of 'experts' who deign to rule.

Such cognitive dissonance is precisely why the world is in the predicament it's in.  This groupthink causes people to lose themselves in the mass — they know not who they are or for what they are responsible. 

Socialism is an indefensible con that appeals only to the feeble-minded, hence government-subsidized education to churn out millions of educated fools in debt perpetually and dependent upon a "governmental institutional relationship."  At least you know you have been institutionalized!  Good luck with that.

Hear! Hear!  Thanks, Mike.  Very clearly explained.  Only a partisan could find fault in it...

Believe the fascists when they call themselves socialists.  Hitler & Mussolini being the two most famous fascists, both were the Socialist party leaders of the day.  Right and left are merely the same scale of Statism.  Top vs bottom is Liberty vs Authoritarianism.  "Liberals" in the classic sense are for Liberty. Statists are for any version of government that places itself above the people.  A republican form of government keeps power distributed among the people, while a statist form centralizes power into fewer and fewer hands.  

Just like the word "democracy", the right-left scale is a misnomer designed to discredit republican governance and obfuscate the power grab of those who aim to be rulers of us all.  

The battle is for hearts and minds, and to get people to believe they are beholden to authority other than themselves.  Such an idea is considered 'anarchy' today, but it is merely the classic liberalism upon which republican government has been founded.

I love this quote — probably because I am an elder now and have learned what a republican form of government is.

I imagine today's young adults might be confused by this quote, thinking that it IS the job of government to 'establish schools, assume the provision of the poor, undertake the regulation of all roads other than post-roads, in short, every thing.' ;-)

Compound this corruption with the ability to print up unlimited amounts of currency and charge the people compounding interest on what becomes an unpayable debt, and you can't help to see that we have become slaves to the government, which has become a slave to the private banks that create this 'money' for Congress to spend, spend, spend.

Nowhere in the Constitution is the power and authority to regulate carbon emissions, energy production, 'hate speech,' social media, nor to mandate medical procedures — experimental or otherwise — or allow millions of non-citizens to emigrate, work, and even vote, thus displacing the citizens whom the government are supposed to represent.

Heed Madison's words.  The Founding Fathers have become the enemies of the State, and their words have all but been blotted out from the minds of the People.

Gibberish.

Good call 10 years ago.  Unfortunately they HAVE gotten away with it.  Carbon tax is here!  

This assertion is becoming more and more believable. 

It is common knowledge in Central America that the drug trade is run by the DEA & CIA.  The Mexican cartels are even behind the current illegal immigration push now looking to reach 10 million new 'illegal' immigrants during the Biden admin.  I don't think there is a way to deport them at the same rate as they have come in, so it looks like they are here to stay, along with the already present 10 million illegal aliens. 

Presidents Bush 1 & 2 and Clinton had ties to the drug trade during their tenure, Reagan, too, was tainted with the Iran-Contra fiasco.  Only Trump has remained defiant as far as I can tell — thus the onslaught of the swamp and deep state intelligence agencies known for their complicity and black-money budgets.

Just look at San Francisco, Portland, NYC, Chicago, where criminals are not even charged or are let loose to thieve again on no-cash bail.  It seems intentional, if you ask me.

And don't forget 10% for the 'big guy'!  I wonder how many politicians are raking it in from the Ukraine...

Unfortunately, today's so-called 'money' is actually debt — every dollar, pound, peso, and rupee has been 'loaned' into circulation at interest.  There is not even enough currency to pay off every debt currently on the books, not by a long shot.  It's nothing short of economic servitude — i.e. slavery!  And boy are we "sorrowing" ...

Hmm, not so hard to imagine now, eh? ;-)

(Talk about a "tirade" ... Sheesh, Fred)  And you've gotten every point you are trying to make wrong.

Fred, that is a straight up LIE!

Yes, mark the date, Fred.  The next crash is inevitable now, and for we conspiracy realists, it has never been more self-evident that the intent of all this money printing after QE 1234 and Covid is to intentionally break the US economy and the US dollar.  Why?  For the same old reasons: to loot and pillage the remains of a once prosperous people. 

They have the next currency in the batter's box — digital currency that they can mint, unmint, turn on and turn off at will.  It's already been implemented in China and starting in Europe on a "voluntary" basis — you know, like the 'voluntary' vaccine passports they rolled out across the world, already tested with the (un)willing masses falling into line.  All they need is the right crisis — which is their specialty.

Fred, how the hell would you know?!  Sheesh, talk about arrogant.

Mike, I don't think Fred knows what socialism really is, servitude to the state/government.  But who knows, since whenever socialism is explained to him, he says that he is the ONLY one who knows what it is... he is THE socialist (whatever that means).

Socialism is slavery.  Period.  It offers no creativity at all.  It is the appropriator of all to make dependents of us all. It is the antithesis of Liberty and personal responsibility.  Any and every good idea is turned into a racket.  Socialism almost always leads to dictatorship as authoritarianism is its modus operandi.

The only happy socialist is one who has a good job enslaving his/her fellow man, working for government, banking, propaganda, military, or any of the businesses that serve them.  No one living on social welfare is happy with it.  The history of socialism is nothing but empty promises by bought-and-paid for politicians and oligarchs.  The real rulers of this world absolutely know what they are doing keeping the populace ignorant and squabbling with each other while they go laughing to the bank.

Unfortunately, Fred is one of those useful idiots and will NEVER EVER examine how the monetary system works, proving he has been duped over a lifetime by those he calls heroes.  And he is unfortunately (for us) in good company.  Good Lord, help us all!

Money is simply a storehouse of labor.  Even capital goods only have value due to the labor necessary to create them. 

Therefore if money can be corrupted, the corruption can steal the fruits of one's labor — even the property of a nation en masse.  Such theft is incomprehensible to the uneducated man and why government-sponsored education never touches the subject.  But every currency trader understands the principle and bets with one currency against another for gains due to its expansion or contraction.  Ask George Soros...

A central bank that prints money out of thin air to buy government promissory notes (bonds) will eventually own the government and its citizens — this is nothing short of slavery, and is the system employed by every member nation of the UN — in fact, it is one of the requirements of membership.

Real money is liberty, interest-bearing fiat currency is servitude.

Thanks, Robert, this is excellent!  Real history, long ignored.

Sheesh, Fred, 'price controls' are what you have read into this quote?

Republicans in name only — RINOs.  The real government is the Federal Reserve, and politicians are beholden to the money-printing power, no matter what party.

More like a "a tangle of squabbling" ideologies at odds with Liberty and the republican form of government established by We The People to protect us from those who claim power over us.

If social security was indeed implemented as it was proposed, a savings account for the worker, I might agree with you.  But it is merely another Ponzi scheme to benefit interest-bearing fiat currency. 

By the time one is old enough to collect the savings, the value of the currency has lost most of its value, whereas if that money had been put into real capital (and protected from government spendthrifts) it might actually have worked.  The truth is SS is just another tax, and recipients are paid from taxes collected today, not 30 years ago.  There is no money!

The censor reveals the truth by censoring it.  The media have been complicit for a LONG time, to the point that whatever they report you can nearly guarantee it is not true.

Love it!  Spoken by a leader of a people who have suffered greatly under socialism.  Javier Milei indeed has many ideas — firing 75% of the government was his start, with more to come.  Watch and learn.  I do hope we see more of this around the world from nations that are tired of the yoke of socialism.  We are lions, not sheep!

"Think globally, act locally."  There is plenty to correct of my own actions that will make a real impact, rather than writing letters to my Congressman to end conflict in Palestine or Yemen.  Just saying...

"Wars are caused by undefended wealth."
~ General Douglas MacArthur