Michael F Schundler
2 min readJun 29, 2022

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The sad thing is you seem confused about "human rights". You make allegations regarding Republicans and people like Manchin and Sinema claiming they are denying us our rights, when in fact, they have largely acted to defend them.

You confuse the resistance by politicians to limit the power of the state to do what you want it to do with being an obstruction to human and civil rights. You have it ass backwards... what you seem to support is majority rules.

Majority rules is the total opposite of human and civil rights which relate to protecting the individual from majority rules.

You appear to advocate socialism and not human rights. So be honest like Bernie Sanders is. He makes no pretense about it. He is not about individual rights, he is for advancing what he believes is in the "collective" interest of society even if some individuals have to get run over to do so.

On paper, socialism is incredibly attractive, it "protects" people through the agency of government, but it suffers from a terminal flaw, it simply does not have the mechanisms other than coercion to get people to work.

It fails everytime and it is only appealing in a wealthy society with enough poor people who want access to the wealth of their country to temporarily impose socialsim on a country. But once that wealth is gone and consumed the nation falls into poverty like Venezuela.

Once you figure out how to get people to work under socialism, without allowing them to keep the "fruits" of their labor and investment, then you might have solved socialism's fatal flaw. But until then, regulated capitalism remains the best system on the planet... warts and all. The country is sinking into poverty not because of capitalism, but because our government spends more money than it has. Politicians are buying votes by selling the future of our country... pretty disgusting...

Concentration of wealth is a problem because of the jealousy it produces and the political power it bestows. But the answer is not shifting that power to a bunch of indulgent politicians that have no clue on what it takes to make an economy work (in fairness, no one does, which is why state controlled economies ultimately fail). Perhaps the simple answer it to limit how much wealth can be pass on to one's children (say $100 million) and require the rest be distributed to charity upon death. That means each generation has to "earn" it fortune and can enjoy for their lifetime, but once they die, their wealth gets recycled into our economy.

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