Government Reform

The 2016 election was certainly a historic one filled with surprises such as Donald Trump pulling out a whimsical win. The election showed how Americans are truly fed up with the American government as we saw an immense amount of support for two candidates that wanted huge government reform these two being Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. With the rise of Bernie Sanders we saw a huge wave of support by Americans to become a more socialistic society than we already are today. While they should certainly be giving credit for wanting to fix our scandalous government they have too much of a radical change to help improvise the American government. Their ideal of government may be good but is too unrealistic or impossible to achieve due to its
vulnerability in being taken advantage of. In order to fully understand how socialism has worked in today’s world we should take a look in how socialism works today. Now most of the majors countries after seeing America's success changed to a capitalist society even France, where socialism was developed. Today the three most major socialist countries are China, Finland, and Denmark. These three countries do not live up to the happiness that people may believe exists in the country. China is the most current example of government abusing power in a socialist society according to the HRW China has censored multiple news reports and information from the people along with arresting women for trying to provide information about sexual harassment. This information was generally kept hidden from the Chinese people. The Danish are not safe from human rights violations as well with some very unjust punishments for criminal actions that are far beyond our 8th amendment. In 2008 the Danish implemented new forms of punishment for crimes going as far as torturing criminals before putting them to death. Finland flat out ignores its constitution at times according to the 2010 Human Rights Report even though people are allowed to consult attorneys and such before appearing in court, however for the sake of convenience government officials were known to deny people access to these for the sake of time. For a government based on human rights they sure do seem to violate them. Most supporters of socialism seem to believe that with this type of government will provide a more rights for people and provide more fair lives for people.
The idea that our current system of government treat people lives unfairly is that about 14% of people in the U.S. live in poverty. Thanks to a conversation with Dr. Daniel Owen and some statistics from ThinkProgress.org I was able to find out college students are the ones making up majority of the poverty level with 56% of students living off of campus are in poverty. In which case majority of these will be considered in poverty for a swift time after graduating college. In fact very few Americans will stay in poverty for a large portion of their lives even the single parents with multiple children. From what it appears is that most of these socialist advocates are these college students which may indicate that students are unaware that things will get better as life goes on. Another common argument is that the socialist is an advocate for human rights. As I mentioned before that simply is not true. What happens is not that people are treated more fairly, but the government has a way easier ability to abuse its actions and censor from the people. That is not to say it doesn’t happen in the United States but it is immensely more difficult. The reason being their jobs depend on what the people think of them so in order to pass a law violating human rights. They would first off have to get all three branches to agree on it, get the media not report it, and then get the people to support it. While a socialist can pay off the media due to it controlling cash flow and cover it up from the people. The fact it was pulled off in the United States in World War 1 is with acts like the Sedition Act is terrifying to comprehend the unseen going on in a socialist
society. Skewed data is apparent in socialism and can be seen even in their claims that their countries are in a constant state of euphoria and are far happier than any other country. As I have stated these countries feel no remorse for violating their founding and covering it up. With this in mind it is a simple connection to see that citizens are misled to believe that the country they depend on has few to no problems while others has majors problems. Problems are not as hidden as communist countries as the data may still be attainable, but still China out of 180 countries rated 176th in press freedom. This is directly related to how one feels about his or her country, because in this censorship they can completely diminish another country while claiming that they have these blessings giving to them from their government. The citizens of countries like China do not understand that other countries do infact have better lives than they do, because that information is hidden. While in America since media is a company it’s a lot harder to censor it because value comes from the people not from the government. Where we know other countries have some better systems in place leaving us a little less glee. So from the data that is presented it isn’t complex or difficult to understand the abusiveness and treachery that goes on in a socialist society and that it isn’t the best option for a formidable government. What we need to realize as humans is that we in order to develope society as a whole cannot be controlled by a small group of people. Probably the best way to fix the corruption in our government is force it out of social issues. Socially speaking government should be there to protect and accept the natural development of society.