In his United Nations speech Sept. 19, President Donald Trump correctly identified that socialism inevitably fails and that it devolves into tyranny.
To wit, capitalist demand-based economies always outperform socialist command-based economies because millions of individual personal economic decisions conform best to public interests than do singular, centralized economic decisions; i.e., one size doesn’t fit the many.
Socialist economies also have a fatal flaw in that collective endeavors encourage freeloading.
The “why work hard — let others do it” attitude sublimely prevails.
Failed communes prove this point.
Reality also shows that centralized planning leads to centralized control and ultimately to tyranny.
Two names, Hitler and Stalin, suffice to prove this.
Hitler, a National Socialist (Nazi, in German) and Soviet Socialist Stalin collectively murdered tens of millions in the last century.
Names such as Mao, Castro, Minh, Pol Pot and Amin also come to mind.
Trump’s U.N. speech covered many subjects, none of which was more important than his expose of socialism’s failures and evils.
Gerald J. Stiles,
Sequim