IF EVERYONE DID THEIR BIT.

Roosevelt's Social Democracy Was Centered on the Choice of  Individual Opportunity 

to Make Individual Progress through Voluntary Labor for Society

Today's most vocal Utopians, far from those whom I would consider to be idealists, comprise raging Leftist mobs in developed countries. Antifa, the ninjas of anarchy, seem to think that universal narcissism would develop into a perfect world magically. This perfectionist view of worldwide solutions is, of course, sourced from the babbling of 'social justice' academics, generally people who could not excel in any academic endeavor that would require research, reflection, articulation and scientific analysis. 

Victims do not make a Utopia. The destitute of Venezuela who naively rallied to extreme socialism would most likely agree. 

Smashing the American Protestant Ethic to pieces with the moral conviction that it is simply a symptom of White Privilege is akin to the child who throws his dinner plate to the floor because he hates broccoli. He may derive a brief buzz from his defiance, but he will eventually miss his preferred part of his destroyed meal later when his stomach is growling. 

The cornerstone of The Protestant, or Puritan, Ethic was the principle that everyone in a community must try to do their bit, whatever that bit may be, to the best of his/her/their ability. Granted, the religious superstructure which enforced this common-sense and ancient human tribal precept in Early White America was brutally coercive. But that reflected the survival demands of that tribe at that time in that place. And it does not diminish the astounding success of that guiding principle over time.

The rabid ranting against The Protestant Ethic by those who advocate a new Soviet socialism of speech, property and mind control exposes their ignorance of the basic principles of the previous experiments in this failed political approach to social justice. The actual practice of socialism or communism entailed the assignment of each individual to his most likely aptitude as judged by brutally coercive power for the good of the collective. 

Would anyone prefer being told to do their best bit by an assigning authority over volunteering to do what he/she/they can? The evidence is that the answer is a resounding "No.". The success of American freedoms over Soviet coercion is not debatable. If Cubans were riding around in affordable, environmentally sophisticated automobiles produced without exploited labor in their own country, there may be something to debate, but that just isn't so. 

It seems obvious to me that those on the streets screaming for more oppression by government in the form of redistribution of wealth, racialist policies, sexist policies and the like while also berating White Privilege and Patriarchy are an ignorant and perhaps unemployable lot. There is speculation that they are actually employed malcontents, on the same low pay scale as those who are paid to circulate petitions in shopping malls about things they have no actual knowledge of or commitment to. 

If everyone simply did their bit every day to be self-sufficient and to contribute a little something to the social environment with respectable and socially responsible behavior, would there be any need for us to be hectored constantly by insatiable self-perceived victims? If the standard for being a functional citizen were raised to a standard that was commonplace for centuries in America, despite the despicable evils of some who indulged in exploitation of slaves and the decimation of aboriginal people, wouldn't we all be better off? I think so.