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Voting for communists because you’re poor is roughly akin to throwing virgins into a volcanic caldera to stop an eruption.
But then so are most of the things governments think they can do to improve the economy, from printing more money or less money, raising or dropping interest rates, regulating several aspects of the economy, or just about anything else.
I mean, all of those do something. They just rarely do what the government thinks its doing/wants them to do.
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Which is why communism is the worst of all systems, because it thinks it can “scientifically” and “top down” control all of economy from production to consumption.
And all it does, over and over again, is throw virgins in volcanos to stop the lava flow.
Only the promised wonderland of free stuff never arrives.
And you end up tragically short on virgins. And everything else, as well.
Sarah A. Hoyt
November 6, 2025
Throw Another Virgin Into the Volcano! – According To Hoyt
My analogy for this is that an economic system is a like a machine. Government is like friction in the machine. It removes energy (wealth) that could have been used for something else. Some of this government removed energy is put to beneficial interests. Enforcing contracts and protecting the rights of individuals are essential functions that government has the potential to do reasonably well. When government imposes regulations the friction does little more than turns the machine energy into heat and the benefit is near zero as far as the machine (economic system) is concerned.
As more friction is inserted (regulation and taxes) into the machine the net energy decreases and more and more system in the machine must be shut down to conserve energy while still allowing the machine to run in some capacity. Black markets appear as bypasses around the friction points. These bypasses work after a fashion but there are other problems. Contracts are ultimately enforced by violence and threats of violence. Trust decreases because of all the laws that are being broken put people at risk of being ratted out to the government. Planning becomes difficult because supply chains are not predictable. If enough friction is added the machine slows down and stops (economic collapse).
The socialist will not admit responsibility for their destruction of the economy. Among other excuses, they will claim it was bad luck.
It’s not bad luck. It’s hoarders and wreckers.
Those too.
And Counter-Revolutionaries.
We can’t forget those, either.
Part of the problem with sacrificing virgins for Communism is once full Communism takes hold, you run out of virgins as they trade favors for food. Barter and underground capitalism still rule in the land of equality and virgins are a commodity you can and will have a limited supply of.
That and the fact a lot of those who are claimed to be virgins being tossed off the precipice really aren’t and that tends to upset the Gods. One does not mess lightly with politics of lava that can burn you as badly as Communism. False virgins are consumed in the false name of Communism.
You’d think after the Khmer Rouge that people would see through it. Stacks of skulls tend to do that. Or Venezuela. We have a literal modern example of riches to rags in the name of Socialism/Communism/Collectivism occurring within the lifetime of its starry eyed proponents and they still refuse to see the results of their misguided beliefs!
Throw Another Virgin in the Volcano!
We have to fix this mess!
That’s almost short enough for a bumper sticker.
I compare Democrat policies to Cargo Cult. They can sit at their desks all they want, shuffling papers and making humming noises like airplanes, but John Frum (or Karl Marx) is never showing up with the cargo they want, so in between making fake control towers, when they get tired of merely humming, and the people begin to see that’s all they are doing, they go out among the people and collect what cargo they have and redistribute it, taking a healthy cut off the top because after all, they are the experts and are “doing something to help.”.
Oh, and as to your analogy of government as frictrion; As I put it, sometimes government is the jockey, but usually it’s just the saddle.