James Hill: “America recently witnessed the new mayor of America's largest city share his democratic socialism vision with New…”

“America recently witnessed the new mayor of America's largest city share his democratic socialism vision with New Yorkers. He pledged to ``replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.'' Here in our Nation's semiquincentennial, 250 years of liberty, the new mayor rejected the fundamentals of American hard work and the extraordinary benefits of markets that have freed billions from hunger and poverty around the globe. Anyone with even a basic knowledge of history knows that government-enforced collectivism always ends in poverty, death, and despair. Mr. Speaker, look at Cuba, where the warmth of communism has left people with no rights, no freedom, and driving cars from the 1940s and 1950s; or Xinjiang, China, where the Uyghurs are imprisoned and enslaved to labor; or certainly no modest case, the Korean Peninsula, North Korea, where people are in darkness for 12 months a year and where people are stunted by malnutrition and oppression and live in darkness, literally and figuratively. Compare that to South Korea, Mr. Speaker. In less than three generations since the end of the Korean conflict, the average South Korean is three inches taller, lives 12 years longer, and earns 18 times more than their northern struggling counterpart. Same people; same peninsula. One system embraced the individual; the other, the collective.”