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THE NEW SOCIAL DEMOCRACY (Part III)
Where Social Democracy Ends
by H. David Blalock
Some time in the too near future, America will find itself facing a critical decision. How far do you allow the ideologies of minority interests to drive public policy? The highest ideals demand each individual be given equal opportunity to succeed in life, but common sense should temper such ideals. A paraplegic should not be allowed to sue the NFL because the league will not hire them as a player. The local Baptist Church should not be sued for sponsoring a charitable function in a public school auditorium under the "separation of church and state" provisions. And not every legal case should be subject to appeal all the way to the US Supreme Court.
The Democratic Party maintains that all the issues facing Americans today, from abortion to sexual harassment, from racism to poverty, can be solved by more government regulation. If there is a problem, pass a law, create an agency, assign an investigative committee, in short, increase government size. The argument seems to be that social problems can be eliminated with a large enough government. Perhaps the Party believes that eventually the sheer weight of government paperwork will stifle the culprits.
There is a simple logisitical truth: in order for government to get larger, it must hire more people. Using the Party logic, eventually there will be more people employed directly or indirectly by the government than are in the private sector. The ultimate aim now becomes clear.
"The proletariat will use its political supremacy to wrest by degrees all capital from the bourgeosie, to centralize all instruments of production in the hands of the state..."
The inevitable end of this is the death of free trade and free market in America. In its place will be a perfect society, wherein everyone works for the state, no one is different from anyone else, and the incompetent are placed in positions of critical import, protected by the system itself. There will be no more innovation, no more invention, nothing that might threaten the status quo.
The Democratic Party will have raised "the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to establish democracy."
How can we, in good conscience, oppose such a fate?
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