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Letter: Once upon a time, we liked success

The Columbian
Published: February 10, 2014, 4:00pm

Once upon a time in America, we looked upon success and thought, “With hard work and a little luck, I could be like that.” Fast forward to today, and we find ourselves wallowing in the human sins of envy, greed, lust, hatred and sloth, orchestrated for political gain by the “Party of Compassion.”

Those who wish to lead their lives with a minimum of government interference are vilified as mean, racist bigots by those who prefer to be coddled from cradle to grave. In the best tradition of the “Three Wise Monkeys,” and reminiscent of the adulation of an earlier socialist at Nuremberg in 1938, my Democrat friends refuse to acknowledge anything but a mystic, near-messianic aura emanating from today’s White House.

“What’s wrong with socialism?” they ask.

In the words of Winston Churchill, “Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.” In 1945, after a bitter war against National Socialism, he remarked, “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

Is it not better to have the possibility of success to strive for than misery to share?

Richard Willerton

Vancouver

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