Breaking News: Socialism Works: we just haven't done it right yet

The role of government is to protect life, liberty and property and more broadly to do other beneficial things that businesses can't profitably provide due to free riding. In other words liberty should trump democracy. This is in the long term interest of Australia including the median voter. -David Lyonhelm.

Clickbait title aside, there is an important message being conveyed by Sen. David Lyonhelm in regards to how Australia spends money. Also in how dangerously unequal, the concept of equality is.

Socialism attempts to establish homogeneity in a population by creating equality of outcomes. This is done by establishing a level of so called "prosperity" for the general population (determined by the ruling class of course) and then taking the excess from the more wealthy of the population and spreading it around.

Equality in poverty is not something we should aspire to.

I use the word prosperity sarcastically, as this never turns out to be something that could remotely resemble prosperity, think of Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea and the like. Don't quote me Sweden either, their clock is ticking.

I post this for Australians to ask them to ask themselves what their expectations are for what quality of life we will have in future of Australia. This is also relevant in which ever western country you live in. If the majority of us are happy with our direction, so be it, however I get the feeling there is growing dissatisfaction with Australia's direction as indicated in the last elections.

Of course I don't expect anything to change through politics, but supporting the lesser evil will definitely not get us anywhere.

Let me close with a question; *In light of the liberals supposedly being our conservative party, how do other Aussies feel about our direction going forward? *

LB

P.S. I note that David mis-spoke in his speech.