{"id":1504,"date":"2016-02-18T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=1504"},"modified":"2016-02-18T12:00:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T17:00:34","slug":"socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=1504","title":{"rendered":"Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The youth of today don&#8217;t know what Socialism is.\u00a0 They hear about how great it is, and that&#8217;s the lure.\u00a0 It sounds great.\u00a0 Equality for all.<\/p>\n<p>However the truth is much harder, stark and depressing.<\/p>\n<p>A professor I back\u00a0about 1990 or so,\u00a0was from Poland.\u00a0 He told us a story of the first time his mom was finally able to see him in the US.<\/p>\n<p>He went, picked her up, emotional, after all he hadn&#8217;t seen her in years.\u00a0 On the way back from the airport he realized he needed some beer, and stopped at a gas station to pick some up.\u00a0 His mother came in and stood there, amazed.\u00a0 She had never seen so much food in one place before in her life.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t even a Safeway, HEB, or large grocery store like that.<\/p>\n<p>That is the difference between socialism and capitalism which the youth do not understand.\u00a0 They think it can&#8217;t happen to a modern country.<\/p>\n<p>Look at Venezuela.\u00a0 A beautiful country ruined by true Socialism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The youth of today don&#8217;t know what Socialism is.\u00a0 They hear about how great it is, and that&#8217;s the lure.\u00a0 It sounds great.\u00a0 Equality for all. However the truth is much harder, stark and depressing. A professor I back\u00a0about 1990 or so,\u00a0was from Poland.\u00a0 He told us a story of the first time his mom [&hellip;]<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/?p=1504\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,21,20],"tags":[858,357,1226,996,1225,1224,1004,1227,1228],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals","category-united-states","category-world","tag-capitalism","tag-food","tag-grocery","tag-liberals","tag-poland","tag-socilaism","tag-story","tag-teacher","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1505,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions\/1505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativeme.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}