The maxim, “To each according to his need, from each according to his ability”, may be the most evil spell ever incanted. Norman Mailer once said that Marijuana is the Devil’s grace. Maybe, maybe not, but this pronouncement, this Marxist fundament, is the Devil’s Golden Rule.
The real Golden Rule, for those who may have forgotten, states, “Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.” The first rule, the basis of Marxism, is enforceable by the State. The Golden Rule, the basis of Christianity, is enforceable only by the free will of the individual who chooses to freely follow it.
That is the difference. And that is what this election, and the 2012 election, is all about. What is the ultimate source of wealth and charity? The omniscient state? Or the unfettered creative energy of the individual exercising his or her God-given free will?