Bill Whittle: Socialism —- The Loch Ness Monster of Politics

The Loch Ness Monster is a “cryptid” — something rumored to exist but without actual proof. The Socialist Utopia of the progressives is a cryptid too. In his latest Firewall, Bill Whittle shows why Good Socialism, like the Loch Ness Monster, is a giant, air-breathing creature that (conveniently!) NEVER COMES UP FOR AIR. See the video and transcript below. 

TRANSCRIPT:

LOCH NESS SOCIALISM

Hi everybody. I’m Bill Whittle and this is the Firewall.

Ah, Progressives! You really have to – well, not admire them exactly – but if not admire them then at least grant them a grudging respect for the tenacity of their beliefs.

Unfortunately for them, the Socialist utopia is a Cryptid, which, according to Wikipedia’s serviceable definition, is “a creature whose existence has been suggested but has not been discovered or documented by the scientific community.” Here’s another example of a cryptid: it’s called the Loch Ness Monster. Like the socialist utopia, the Loch Ness Monster requires a lot of magical thinking.

Magical thinking is not wishful thinking. “It sure would be cool if there was a Loch Ness Monster!” That’s wishful thinking.

Magical thinking is the belief that belief can make things actually manifest themselves in the real world. Magical thinking not only dulls reason – it kills reason. Magical thinking is actually form of anti-thinking: belief in something not because of evidence, but in spite of evidence.

For example, people who believe in the existence of the Loch Ness Monster will almost universally claim that it is the last of the Plesiosaurs – giant marine dinosaurs that definitely did exist millions of years ago. Like all dinosaurs, Plesiosaurs are air breathers. So in order to believe in the Loch Ness Monster, you have to believe that an air-breathing creature the size of a city bus lives under the surface of Loch Ness.

Now conservatives have beliefs too, but our beliefs are not based on what we wish to be true but what the evidence shows us to be true. We believe in the power of the free market, of individual effort and reward, and of the power of self interest to make life better for everyone. So we too believe that there are bus-sized creatures that breathe air and live under the surface of the water.

But the creatures we believe in are called whales. We believe in whales not because we want to believe in whales. We don’t depend on a mystery wake, or a blurry, distant outline of what might be humps or might be a tree trunk. Conservatives believe in whales because there are thousands of pictures of whales taken every single day. We believe in the power of capitalism and the free market because there are billions of people that benefit from it every single day, and the evidence of that benefit – even and perhaps especially from former socialist economies like China and India – grows every single day.

The fact that there are no pictures of the Loch Ness Monster – not one – that is even close to the thousands and thousands of pictures of whales, tell those of us who do not believe in magical thinking something very important: and that is that whales exist, and the Loch Ness Monster does not.

If you could print wealth instead of money, that would be a close-up of the Loch Ness Monster. But you can’t print Cadillac’s: you can only print what people use to buy Cadillac’s and the more you print the less it’s worth.

If Health Care were free, that would be HD video of the Loch Ness Monster being petted on the head. But Health Care is not free. Health Care is very expensive. And if the government pays for it – from your taxes – then the government controls it. Which means they can turn off the health care you pay for with your tax money.

If war were a big misunderstanding that could be resolved though open discussion, well, that’d be Nessie in a tank at Sea World. But it’s not a misunderstanding. ISIS wants the world to pray to Allah five times a day, murder homosexuals, and keep women in tents, indoors. We don’t like that, so we’re going to have to fight those people.

Now Progressives, to be fair, say that the history of socialism isn’t just the Great Terror of the French Revolution, the purges and enforced famine of the of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; the mass starvation of maybe fifty million Chinese peasants in the People’s Republic of China; seven, eight, ten million more teachers, doctors, and musicians murdered in the progressive socialist takeovers in Vietnam and Cambodia; plus throw in a couple more million murdered by socialists – but progressive socialists! – in Cuba, El Salvador, Nicauragua and Venezuela, etc. and so on. They say Socialism can work without killing hundreds of millions of people, and to prove it, they point to places like Sweden.

For many years, this was the best single piece of evidence for the Loch Ness Monster. It’s called the “Surgeon’s Photograph.”

The Surgeon’s Photograph was a hoax. And decades after this picture was taken, some researchers reproduced the hoax, to show how it was done. And the shocking thing about it was the little model monster they used for the picture was only about this big: about the size of a duck decoy. And it’s only knowing that that you can look at the Surgeons Photograph and see what’s wrong with it: the waves are too big, and too smooth – they are shaped like ripples. They’re shaped like ripples because they are ripples: the best evidence of the Loch Ness Monster was so poor that without magical thinking people would have seen through it right away.

Now it is absolutely true that Sweden is a socialist country, in the real world. But “good” Socialism, as it exists in Sweden, is not real. It’s a plaster cast of socialism. Sweden has cradle-to-grave socialist benefits because for a while – and only a short while – because like the Loch Ness Monster, Sweden is a fake, for two beneath-the-surface reasons.

First, Sweden can afford to pay all of these benefits –“free” health care, “free” maternity leave, and so on – because the cost of defending Sweden is paid by American capitalist taxpayers. I don’t want to hear about the few jets or token troops Sweden might have.  ALL of the money made by ALL of the Swedes could not pay for Sweden’s defense against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Good socialism only exists because capitalists pay to defend the good socialists from the bad socialists.

And Sweden, and the rest of the socialist states, is a fraud for a second reason: All of the European socialist states – ALL of them – are dying.

Socialism is a Ponzi scheme. In order to pay for someone from cradle to grave, someone else has to do the work to come up with the tax money. As long as you have a pyramid – enough young people working – then you can afford these kind of benefits. And sure enough, that was the case for several decades after World War 2.

But…

A stable society – not a pyramid but just a column – requires about 2.1 births per woman: one to replace the man, one to replace the woman and point 1 to take the fire challenge on Facebook. That .1 belongs to Darwin – they’re not going to live long enough to have kids.

Sweden’s birthrate is 1.9. There are fewer Swedes every year. Norway is 1.9; Denmark is 1.7; Canada is 1.6; Japan is 1.4, and Spain and Greece are all 1.3. These social welfare states are dying. Turns out if the government gives people everything they need to live, they don’t seem to want to live anymore – not as a culture, anyway. They’re all dying – all of them – and their welfare states are propped up by importing workers from places like Yemen – where the birthrate is a robust 4.2. Unfortunately, these imported workers – many of them from Muslim countries, where they still do want to live – aren’t Swedes, no matter how hard Sweden tried to make them Swedes. So blonde Swedish women no longer feel safe going out in a mini-skirt. And for at least five years in Neighboring Oslo, Norway, the percentage of rapes caused by the Muslim minority was – 100%. All of them. As the brilliant mark Steyn said: demographics is destiny.

Bad socialists murdered at least 200 million people. Good socialists are committing suicide, and would have been extinct long ago without American capitalism to protect them from the bad socialists.

The Progressive utopia is the Loch Ness Monster of politics: a giant, air-breathing creature that never surfaces for air. Progressives claim to love it because of their morally advanced love of the poor, but the fact is, the reason they love wealth redistribution to achieve income equality is because other people’s wealth is being redistributed to them. It’s not morality. It’s laziness, envy and it’s stealing, and the history – the photographs – show that time and time again they will murder those who create wealth and steal it before they would, you know, go out and create some of their own.

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  • Patriot077

    Another terrific Whittle dissection and debunking! I love the way he spreads sanity with every quiet word.

    • OneManITDept

      Agreed. The best part if you ever want to have a good laugh is whip one of these videos out on a some pathetic liberal and watch them scream bloody murder:) For the next bit of fun have them refute with evidence this guy and you can then sit back and be entertained all day long:)

      • Patriot077

        That would indeed be entertaining.
        Bill is irrefutable!

        • Jason Tuttle

          Well, except his claim about rapes in Norway. That’s easily refutable, since it’s totally bogus and also, what does it have to do with socialism in Sweden? Oh, right, nothing at all.

          • Patriot077

            I’ve heard that before from other sources so you will need to provide a link before I give your rebuttal any credence.
            What does it have to do with socialism in Sweden? You don’t understand how a Ponzi scheme works?

          • Jason Tuttle

            Yes, that particular lie is making the rounds on certain types of websites. Similar to the lies about healthcare and Saul Alinsky. These lies are appealing because they fit in with how certain groups of people perceive the world. We all know Socialists are shifty and underhanded, so it becomes very easy to believe further lies about them as long as it fits our preconceived notions. But just because we want to believe something, it doesn’t make it real. Saul Alinsky was dead for years before someone added controlling healthcare to his ‘rule’ for creating a social state.

            As far as links to disprove the rape claim, here is the link to the original Norwegian police report: https://www.politi.no/oslo/aktuelt/nyhetsarkiv/2011_05/Nyhet_9976.xml

            However, if like me, Norwegian is not your native language, here is an excerpted translation:
            http://www.scribd.com/doc/76695373/Excerpt-From-Oslo-Police-District-Report-on-Rape

            The report lists backgrounds for perpetrators of rape in 2001, 2004, 2007, and 2010. In 2007 as many as 30% of rapes were committed by individuals of African origin, but that is the highest percentage year. In all other years listed in the report most rapes in Norway were committed by Norwegians, at between 34-50% rates.

            Now, please explain to me how the presumed criminal activities of a particular ethnic group in Norway are a result of socialism in Sweden.

          • Patriot077

            Well, I’ll just leave you to your fantasies and cherry picked assumptions and twisted words.
            It wouldn’t hurt to read the transcript if the video confused you.

          • Jason Tuttle

            Lol, you’re adorable. It’s ok, really. It was a trick question. You can’t answer it because it’s unanswerable. The author’s use of the false rape statistic serves no logical purpose.

          • Patriot077

            I’ve got better things to do than try to reason with someone who chooses to remain ignorant. I trust Bill Whittle’s intelligence and integrity far more than some twit trying to toss out obfuscations. Get lost.

          • Jason Tuttle

            Yes, I know you trust the unsubstantiated claims of others. I’m just hoping I can convince you to start thinking for yourself. I posted a direct link to the actual report that directly refutes Bill Whittle’s lie. There is nothing difficult or misleading about that. It took all of 30 seconds to disprove. The fact that the author chose to repeat an obvious falsehood instead of spending 30 seconds on Google to verify it shows that he has no integrity to speak of. I love that you’ve fallen to name calling already. It’s so very very delicious.

          • Patriot077

            Why don’t you ask Bill which 5 years he was using in his stat? He could acquit himself quite easily.
            Your link didn’t provide consecutive years (odd, to say the least). I’m not interested enough in your assumptions and accusations to pore over some cherry picked numbers.
            But you are somewhat amusing in your “superiority”.
            I am done with this conversation.

          • Jason Tuttle

            Lol. I don’t have to ask Bill which 5 years he was using, because there has never been even one year where 100% of the rapes in Oslo, Norway were committed by Muslims, let alone five.

          • mtman2

            “Well” Jas, it’s about what his point is -that Islamists are gonna impose Sharia and Jihad were ever they settle when their populations hit over 10% and and it is because the natives peoples repopulation numbers are declining while the Muzzies soar and 2+2 outnumbers 1+1 and these nations will ALL be taken over by Muslims and their rules-!

  • Capnmikey

    So astute even a Harvard Marxist Law student could understand!

  • Douglas Mayfield

    Excellent discussion. The Left is motivated by bloodthirsty power lust and, hating and fearing freedom and individual rights, will do literally anything, per Lenin’s dictum tell any lie, to gain power, to enslave, to create a giant concentration camp here in America.

    • mtman2

      And if they can disarm us of OUR 2nd-Amendment Rights(which over-arches the Constitution); then you’ll see MAO’s favorite proverb come to pass that: “Freedom breathes from a gun barrel”.
      As such these are cowards to actually reveal what they’d like to do but lack the courage to speak it let alone DO IT unless WE are helpless ~!

  • Sniper says

    Me whittle put in perspective what #Napoleonlegal wrote in ‘The Progressive Virus” They should come together on a project. Would love the see it.

  • gustavusadolphus

    The plesiosaur in Loch Ness exists alright. Just because there are few (NOT no) photos of it does not disprove it. One photo was taken underwater and it clearly shows a plesiosaur. A plesiosaur was photographed after its carcase was caught in a net on a Japanese fishing boat off of New Zealand in 1977. Others have washed up on beaches.

    • mtman2

      I remember that -yet it was “canned”
      as it did not fit the ‘template’ for their ‘theories’, evidently ~!

      • gustavusadolphus

        You are correct. The Japs made a huge thing out of finding the monster with toys, stamps etc., but the so called wise western scientific community denied that it could be anything other than a known living creature such as a basking shark, despite the obvious differences in appearance. The experienced fishing crew on the boat that caught the carcase were totally bewildered as to what it was. It was decomposing and a threat to their tuna haul so they dumped it back in the sea. Anyone seeing the carcase must admit it looks exactly like a plesiosaur.