day no. 16,031: the answer to every prayer or the leverage to answer them yourself

"This is the high road to communism; in other words, legislation will be—as it now is—the battlefield for everybody’s dreams and everybody’s covetousness." -- Frederic Bastiat, The Law

They say that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, but the high road to communism is paved with bad legislation. 

When government is God, it bears the weight of every failure to provide for what it promises. A god who can't keep their word, after all, is not a god at all. You don't blame your daydreams for leading you on, but you do blame your idols when they under-deliver.

The State then is either the answer to every prayer or the leverage used to answer yours prayers at the expense of others. It either is the highest power to which an appeal can be made or the greatest power one can brandish to exert power.

Socialism exists where law has become the battlefield of everybody's dreams and everybody's covetousness. It is energized by envy. It is predicated upon sin. It needs sin to exist in order to survive, so it seeks to enshrine it in our hearts by establishing it as our law.