Democrat Socialism? Let's Start With The Screen Actors Guild

 There is so much truth in this quote by Thomas Sowell.

Our politics has evolved over the years such that Republicans and Democrats seem to view things in 100% terms no matter what the issue.

Independent voters find themselves in the middle of this.

Who and what is anyone supposed to believe?

In last week's election they chose to believe the likes of James Talarico, Abdul El-Sayed and others who believe the answer to our problems is to take a hard left turn.

A big reason I write BeeLine is to provide data, facts and context to the big issues we face to make better decisions on what to believe.

I have a friend who is a Republican who believes that the party would be more attractive to Independents with a little more humility by admitting that the answer to most issues is not known with 100% certainty.

There might be something to what he suggests considering the huge swing that Independent voters made to Democrats in the midterm election last week.

A big reason for the the success of Democrats was their messaging.

At the same time, my friend is continually amazed at the hypocrisy that seems to permeate the Democrat party.

There are so many things that Democrats want to impose on you that they are not willing to do themselves.

They want open borders into the United States but many party leaders live in walled mansions.

They want to raise your taxes to help the poor but are not generous with their own charitable contributions.

They say that climate change is an existential threat but buy expensive oceanfront properties and fly on private jets.

My friend would like for his two concerns packaged into one idea that I think is rather ingenious.

He suggests Republicans come out and, instead of warning about the dire consequences of voting for Democrat Socialists and their collectivist ideas, be more nuanced in their messaging.

He would also like to see Republicans confront Democrats on their hypocrisy in a more direct way.

His concept might come together as the Republicans saying something like this.

We think moving hard left as the Democrat Socialists want to do would be very bad for the country. History shows no examples where it has been successful in improving an overall society. 

However, we may be wrong.

Perhaps it just has not been implemented the right way by the right people.

At the same time, it would be very risky to adopt a hard left turn for the entire country if it turned out to the wrong idea.

What if the Democrats are not right?

To test who is right and wrong in this, we are willing to agree to a limited experiment to assess the concept so that everyone can see the results without risking everything we already have.

Since many in the entertainment industry in tv, films and music are heavily invested in the ideals of the Democrat party, we suggest that the Screen Actors Guild and SAG-AFTRA put in place a socialist economic model to see how it might work when tested under the complexities of real life.

This would seem to be a reasonable way that the broader body politic could assess the suitability of this economic, social and government model for broader use in the United States overall.

This might better answer the question as to what is the best model for the entire country moving forward.

As Republicans, we are willing to admit we may be wrong about this. 

Will the Democrats meets us halfway on this and persuade their supporters in the entertainment and music industries to implement this experiment?

Let's see how this all works in real world circumstances with a group committed to its ideals.

There is a real beauty to this idea.

We hear a lot about the imbalance of income and wealth between the rich and poor these days.

It is the primary driving narrative upon which almost the entire Democrat Socialist agenda is built.

Elon Musk is the preferred target.

Why does he have so much? Why does the 1% prosper why the other 99% struggle?

It is not fair.

However, there is a also huge divide between the haves and have nots in the entertainment industry.

For every Taylor Swift. Susan Sarandon, Ben Affleck, George Clooney, Sean Penn and John Legend there are thousands and thousands of struggling actors, singers and musicians attempting to eke out a living.

There is probably a larger divide between the superstars of entertainment and those struggling at the edges of that industry than any other group in the United States.

The only thing separating the haves and have nots in entertainment is often providence or happenstance because the levels of talents between the rich and poor are not objectively much different in many cases,

I have been to college plays where the acting talent was just as good as in a Broadway show.

I have heard singers in church that were the equal of the talent of performers in 50,000 seat stadiums.

Why not try an experiment where all the union members of SAG and SAG-AFTRA put their incomes into a common purse and the unions can then determine how much each member needs to live?

Would that not be fair method for the allocation of income and consistent with the ideals of Democrat Socialism?

Remember it was Karl Marx who said,

"From each according to their ability, to each according to their need."

This is the foundational principle of progressive, liberal, socialist collectivist thought.

What better way to conduct this experiment than with those who are among the strongest and most vocal supporters of that political theory?

How does that theory work when confronted with the complexities or real life?

Of course, we do not have to guess how this would turn out.

It has failed everywhere it has been tried.

We also can be sure that the experiment challenge would never be accepted.

After all we should know by now when it comes to issues like this, it is ......

"Rules for thee, but not for me."

That is unfortunate, because if we could ever implement this experiment it would be certain to be one of the most entertaining and enlightening things we have ever witnessed.

I started this blog post with a Thomas Sowell quote.

It seems appropriate to end with another.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Republican/comments/1m5vug6/truth/