If you asked the average person on the street if they want the government in their lives taking their money and controlling their choices, most people would say no. Of course no one wants to be controlled by bureaucrats or have less freedom, but the erosion of liberty is an inevitable consequence of the ideology that Obama and the Left ascribes to. When you switch a society from an individual to collectivist based, you must give up many economic and personal liberties. There is no way to have a nation that is part free, part collectivist. Capitalism cannot coexist with socialist policies and an ever-increasing government; they are mutually exclusive.

The Obama Administration has already toyed with the idea of nationalizing the banks, and will soon nationalize health care. How have other nations fared with nationalizing major parts of their economy? Every nation that has nationalized health care has to ration care for its people (except for the elite of course), with long waiting times and inferior equipment. The old Soviet Union had nationalized its farms. The result? A nation that was once an exporter of food, now could not feed its own people. It is clear from studies that nations with the greatest poverty also have the largest government control over the economy.

Socialism has long been discredited everywhere it was put into action, whether in a giant like the former Soviet Union, or the small island of Cuba. Every form of collectivism believes it has the right blueprint for a perfect society. It does not matter if they call it communism, Marxism, fascism, Nazism, Fabian socialism, syndicalism, or just plain socialism; they are all different flavors of the same poison. They all have as their end goal the same impossible objective; they only differ in the ways they believe they can get there.

Those on the political Left believe, in spite of all the evidence, that it is possible to perfect humanity and its institutions, and form a utopian society. They believe with the right leaders and enough tinkering in society they can achieve this fantasy. Lenin and Hitler believed the same thing. Human nature is unchanging, and as such, the only form of social organization that works best is individual liberty with free markets. No other system has ever produced a higher standard of living for the greatest number of people. It is not perfect, but no system is, and if you try to chase the mirage of perfection, you will only create tyranny and oppression. No matter how well your intensions may be, it’s best to remember the saying that the road to hell is paved with good intensions.

Utopias have never existed, and can never exist, at least under the rulership of human beings. That would explain why the word ‘utopia’ literally means ‘no place’.