Socialism and Self-Esteem

Ayn Rand wrote, “Socialism is the doctrine that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that his life and his work do not belong to him, but belong to society, that the only justification of his existence is his service to society, and that society may dispose of him in any way it pleases for the sake of whatever it deems to be its own tribal, collective good.”

She nailed it.

Because I am a therapist, people always ask me: “What is self-esteem?”

In part, self-esteem refers to the attitude that you have a right to your OWN life, and to live for your OWN sake.

In line with Rand’s quote, socialism (which is tyranny) is incompatible with self-esteem.

In short: Freedom (economic and otherwise) is the mental oxygen you breathe. Your self-esteem will choke under socialism. And if you possess any self-esteem at all, you could never support socialism.

Michael J Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

The 2020 Election: the Undoing of the American Republic

The revealing thing to me about election 2020 audits in Arizona? Double counting of Democratic mail-in ballots. No doubt this happened in many other states. It was a perfect storm: Democratic desperation to unseat President Trump at any cost, combined with the chaos and subjectivity of mail-in voting rationalized by a bad flu. Acceptance of mail-in ballots was a tragic mistake. Without it, the outcome of the presidential election almost certainly would have been different–and even if not, certainly not the subject of so much doubt. Now we are stuck not only with a horrible President, but with a regime hellbent on imposing a dictatorship; and with subjective, rigged voting as a permanent fixture going forward. If future historians are honest, they will recognize election 2020 as the final undoing of the American republic.

President Trump on Fox News’ reporting of the Arizona audit: “They spew the gross misinformation purposefully put out by the country and the Associated Press and ignore the very important Arizona Senate’s hearing yesterday, which showed 168,000 fraudulent ballots printed on illegal paper (unofficial ballots), 74,000 mail-in ballots received that were never mailed (magically appearing ballots), 11,000 voters were added to the voter rolls after the election and still voted, all the access logs to the machines were wiped, and the election server was hacked during the election.”

He continued: “They sided with the County and not the brave Arizona Senate who is fighting for the people of Arizona. The same anchor at the desk the night Fox called Arizona for Joe Biden now wants you to believe there was no fraud. The anchor was Bret Baier.” [Source: Telegram and Newsweek]

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason