There are politicians that spend all their time every day praising and advocating socialism, as if socialism will right all the wrongs, right all the divisions, right all the inequality that civil society has, sort of like some big, governmental magic wand. But all of this talk, and there is plenty of talk, isn’t really necessary, so if you want to really see socialism in action, you can see it right here live and in-person, simply by spending time and observing American Indian reservations.
Although American Indian reservations are considered to be sovereign nations, at least in print, they are also considered to be, “domestic dependent nations”, so that the federal government takes a very paternalistic view of American Indians, essentially providing them with their sustenance, which means being under the umbrella and aegis of the federal government, and the result of such a dependence can be seen in your typical American Indian reservation.
American Indians, in substance, are the least educated, the most impoverished, and by far the most dependent upon federal largess than any other segment of our population. As you might remember, socialism is essentially the elimination of private enterprise and capitalism, replaced by governmental control and regulation of the productivity and the planning of the means of the usage of man’s productivity and ingenuity. Socialism, is in theory, the sharing of man’s productivity amongst the population, and at least as envisioned, the creation of an utopian society in which all needs are met for all. The most significant issue with socialism is that in order to have such a thing, individuals must cede all of their sovereignty to those governmental officials, and must be subservient to them in all matters.
When you are no longer responsible, or considered yourself to be no longer responsible, or by fiat are not really responsible for your daily needs, than not too surprisingly your initiative to do anything of substance often diminishes, and for those generations following, any semblance of initiative is virtually stillborn. American Indians living on protected reservations are little enclaves of socialism as it really is in the real world. Since they don’t have to take responsibility for their livelihood, they soon lose any desire to apply themselves to anything of real substance, and instead depend upon the government, to provide everything for their day-to-day living effectively becoming permanent generational wards of the state.
The bottom line is that when you change the mindset of the individual from one in which they are sovereign onto themselvesinto one in which they are not, behaviors and incentives will change, and the fewer people diligently applying themselves to accomplishing something of merit, results in a shrinking pie of prosperity, mediocrity at best, and rather than some sort of socialistic paradise, it makes for a life filled with little purpose, little productivity, and an endless belief in entitlement, in which, the living conditions and life itself, resembles life on present-day American Indian reservations, which are often hopeless, bleak, and demoralizing.