During a recent episode of his podcast, Joe Rogan noted one of the main problems with the highly-priced policies that are being pushed by DSA radicals currently running for office.
He points out that you can’t just steal people’s money, and this is important. If these people want to take more from taxpayers, just how are they going to do that? They would have to pass actual legislation and they would likely run into a ton of resistance to that.
This is very similar to a point recently made by Greg Gutfeld, that in order for socialism to work, it has to be aggressively enforced.
The only thing about this clip that Rogan gets wrong is that he glides over a ridiculous point about fire departments being a form of socialism. They are not. Other than that, he gets this right.
Breitbart News reports:
Podcast megastar Joe Rogan dismantled the appeal of socialism as Democratic Socialists of America candidates eke out wins in Democrat primary contests across the nation.
Rogan blasted the entire basis for the DSA policy agenda and noted that socialism only works when the government has the guns and power to force their way on the voters.
“And they think that this idea of Democratic socialism is a really good idea because there are some examples of socialist policies that do work, like the fire department, and there’s a bunch of stuff that makes sense,” Rogan said as he and guest Andrew Wilson talked.
“But the problem with enforcing any of this stuff that they don’t understand is it always comes down to power,” he continued.
“You have to have massive authority and usually guns, because you can’t just steal people’s money,” he said.
“They’re not going to let you.”
“They’re not going to let you just come in and decide, hey, we just devised a new tax where everybody who makes more than $500,000 a year… everything over that, you have to give 100% to the state,” he concluded.
Watch the clip below:
Joe Rogan exposes the fatal flaw behind the Democratic Socialist platform to his 21 million listeners.
Their big government playbook always ends in the exact same outcome.
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Mamdani is already running into this problem in New York City.
On a national level, it will be even more difficult.
