A Low-Trust Society Is an Impoverished Society – LewRockwell

The sole remaining reservoirs of trust in American life are personal networks, local enterprises and local institutions. It’s not exactly news that social trust has declined significantly in the United States. Surveys find that public trust in institutions and the professional classes that dominate those institutions has cratered. (see chart below) Social trust–our confidence that other people are trustworthy–has also fallen to multi-decade lows. This was not the case in decades past. Americans maintained high levels of trust in their institutions, government and fellow citizens. The decline in social trust is across the entire spectrum: our trust in institutions, professional elites and … Continue reading →

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Communism and depopulation in America – LewRockwell

Communism is frequently used as a synonym for socialism and the exact differences between the two are heavily debated. One difference is that communism provides everyone in the country with an equal share, rather than the equitable share promised by socialism. Communism is commonly summarized by the Karl Marx slogan, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs,” and was believed by Marx to be the step beyond socialism. Individual private ownership is illegal in most communist countries. I once had a favorite meme I would push out as kind of a tongue-in-cheek that said “When exposing … Continue reading →

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