Surely you're not implying that a properly executed socialist movement results in this? Define service?
I'm not implying there should be a socialist movement. I think there's a balance and we all have different definitions of what is socialist. To me, the highway I drive on is a result of socialism. Do I believe that everyone should have the same of everything? Certainly not. This is pure stupidity.
I'm a fan of Heinlein, although there's much I don't agree with. But his quote below gives a pretty good picture of democracy in this country and where we're headed:
“The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a “warm body” democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction…. Once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader — the barbarians enter Rome.”
To Sail Beyond the Sunset
Robert A.Heinlein
I see service as military service, volunteer work, anything that advances the well-being of the country as a whole.
