Socialism. The Political Disneyland ...

Sleeping Beauty's Castle - Disneyland 

by Ralph Benko, Contributing Author: Patrick “Kit” Bobko, a former two-term City Councilman and Mayor of Hermosa Beach, California, writing at Townhall, beautifully nails the goofy charm of socialism.

With his wit, charm and lovely common sense let's hope he discovers and joins The Capitalist League. Here's some of what he taught me:

Not long ago I went to Disneyland with a friend and his young family who were visiting from out-of-town. His two boys, aged 6 and 9, were thrilled in the way only a 6 and 9 year-old who are about to enter the happiest place on Earth can be. They buzzed with the knowledge that Mickey and Minnie and Pirates and a Haunted Mansion were only minutes away.

And that’s when it hit me.

As we stood at the entrance waiting to shell out more than $100 each for our tickets it occurred to me that “Democratic Socialists” think of America in exactly the same way my friends’ kids think about Disneyland.

The country’s growing ranks of Marx’s admirers are more than willing to enjoy the wondrous benefits, products, and near-infinite spectrum of services that have been created, paid for, and maintained by a complex system they do not understand and cannot appreciate.

For example, my friend’s children have no concept of cost. And why would they, they’re kids! From their perspective, they get to see Donald Duck and Goofy and scream their little hearts out as they zip through Space Mountain because Dad puts a card into a little box, punches a few buttons, and when he’s finished a person in the kiosk lets them into the park. The hours of work their Dad performed to earn the money that paid for the tickets is beyond them. The money spent on lunch and snacks and parking and a custom-built lightsaber means nothing to them. Ideas about work and value are as foreign and meaningless to the kids as Euclidean algebra.Bobko goes on to illuminate as to how:Uncle Bernie and the Democratic Socialists, like my friend’s kids at Disneyland, only see the miraculous advances in healthcare without any apparent appreciation for the dizzyingly complex, difficult, and risk-laden system that makes it all possible?

Or, to paraphrase the old saying, it’s easy for a former Brooklyn bartender to perform an appendectomy in Iowa from her posh congressional desk in Washington, D.C.

The same could be said for any of the other industries or sectors of the economy Democratic Socialists aspire to control.Listen up, Comrades!

I don't want to be too rough on my Socialist drinking buddies. There's something slightly charming about their magical thinking about free stuff for, well, anybody gullible enough to throw their votes away on preposterous promises.

Until, that is, you think about it.

Turns out that in mean old Reality... somebody has got to pick up the tab for that open bar. And it always -- always! -- turns out that that "somebody" isn't some billionaire.

It's me. And you.

Welcome to Socialism.

Your wallet, please....
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Ralph Benko is Chairman, The Capitalist League.

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