Left-wing candidates aren’t hiding anymore. They are outright admitting that they are fully willing to purchase votes. Free college, free health care, free housing, reparations and every other major part of their platform are all part of this strategy. There’s no hiding or playing coy. The message on the left is, “Vote for us and we’ll give you money.” That’s all they have to offer.
Let’s give credit where it’s due. This is a clever way to get around bribery and corruption laws. It was clever when Lenin came up with the idea a hundred years ago, and it still works today. What isn’t clever is the hundred-million or so Americans who are going to fall for this old, worn out ploy.
“Vote for me and I’ll give you stuff,” has ruined every economy it has ever touched. It has killed countless millions with starvation. It has created gulags, Tiananmen Square and nuclear arms races. It was the greatest evil of the 20th century, and if it fully takes hold in the United States, it will undo 300 years of societal progress.
Among all of these “free stuff” programs, reparations is easily the stupidest and easiest to knock down. Rather than take you through that the long way, let’s sit back and watch Ben Shapiro do his thing. There’s nothing better than watching a fast-talking pundit annihilate the left’s leading position.
