Ultimately it is even worse than that. In the end socialism is the political expression of a collective death wish. Socialism is not just throwing in the towel regarding the worship of God and having children – socialism means throwing in the towel regarding life its self.

I’d say support for socialism is just the juvenile desire not to have to worry about tommorrow, to let someone else take care of it for you. It’s the response of coddled children used to getting things for the asking who are slapped in the face by their first taste of the real world and whine to mom and dad. Prosperous societies seem to do a lot of coddling that way.

The implementers of socialism though, they’re a different type. They’re willing to do the work and take the consequences, but they still aren’t future-focused. I still think that one, perhaps the, definining characterist of all socialist philosophies is a hunter-gatherer mentality that doesn’t see the need for building a future. They assume the universe provides what it provides and they just need to gobble it up as it comes ’round.

Either way, socialists live in the present. Imagine indeed. Imagination is the one thing they don’t have, don’t really need. You don’t have to imagine the present, it’s always here. The future is hwat requires imagination.