Jodey Arrington: “I thank my friend from North Carolina for yielding. Socialism, like the Devil, does not appear with horns and a…”

“I thank my friend from North Carolina for yielding. Socialism, like the Devil, does not appear with horns and a pitchfork. He masquerades as an angel of light with promises of human flourishing, all failed, all broken. Socialism isn't empty words. It isn't a speech. It is a series of actions that rob people of their freedom and concentrate power in the hands of a few in their central government. I heard my colleague say: Socialism is controlling the means of production. We are not doing that. Except there is a whole-of-government assault for all the world to see on an industry, American energy, and it is being replaced with this Green New Deal--hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies, tax credits, grants. If that is not control of the means of production, I don't know what is. Universal healthcare: We don't want healthcare in the hands of doctors and patients. We want it in the hands of bureaucrats. We want government to control healthcare. Masquerading as an angel of light is this concentration of power. Socialism is the road to serfdom, and history is littered with the failed experiment in central planning. Those countries that have taken that ruinous road have ruined, destroyed, their country and left their people in despair. Our Founding Fathers believed fundamentally this: If we limit the Federal Government's role in our lives, we will unleash the greatest potential of free people created in the image of God. They were right.…”