Socialists are fascinating creatures. They produce nothing. They assume no responsibility for anything. They preach a morality of duty and self-sacrifice. Yet they offer to the world no marketable skills. They require government salaries, stipends or subsidies to survive. They demand the end of profit and private property. Yet they simultaneously demand that people — always others, never themselves– produce the loot in the multiple billions to be distributed solely to those whom they, the Socialists, deem deserving. On top of it, they call for censorship of all ideas, books, or forms of entertainment they dislike. They call any and all dissenters unspeakable monsters, horrible “white supremacists,” while demanding and getting everything they want.

Socialists are like the 30 year old son or daughter who won’t move out of the parents’ house, and who lectures the supporting parent on the evil of his or her ways. The great irony? Only capitalism and freedom of speech could have spawned the socialist, because without the luxury and comfort of a free society, the socialist could not survive five minutes. The even greater irony? Socialism will destroy the good life of capitalism and return humans to a state of Nature. The glowering, pedantic, mean-spirited Socialists will be the first to perish. There is justice in nature, even if not in socialism.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason