Socialism is not optional. The government monopolies it creates and the impoverishment that results are mandatory. Unless you are a politically connected elite, you must and will participate in it all. The ignorant, brainwashed fools who claim there’s a difference between Communism and socialism ignore a crucial point: Once the misery of socialism sets in, the censorship and political prison camps are inevitable–to shut you up.

It’s hard to fathom that America, of all places, comes closer to Communism every day. But if you take a minute and listen to the magnitude of the utterly faulty thinking everywhere today, you have to marvel that it hasn’t gone even further. Once the total end of freedom comes in America (if it does), the final collapse will come quickly. Most of us will wonder how it could have happened so fast.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason