Emily Austin recently spoke at the Christians United for Israel conference. She had a message for the students protesting America and calling for revolution. 

First, she asked them if they “have any idea what happens when American values die?” She said she did because her family “fled a country where freedom died.” She acknowledged that often you don’t know what you have until it’s gone.

Her message to those students were summarized with these six statements:

1. You think America is oppressive because you have never experienced real oppression.

2. You think silence is violence because you’ve never been silenced.

3. You think words are dangerous because you have never watched a government drag someone away for speaking them.

4. You think capitalism is evil because you have never stood in a breadline.

5. You think borders are immoral because you have never had to flee across one.

6. You think revolution is romantic because you have never had a revolution take everything from you.

I believe this is the sort of message that needs to be sent to so many students and young people who do not know the history of this country and the world. They don’t know the sad history of what happened in countries that had a socialist or communist revolution.

 In my booklet on A Biblical View on Socialism, I list the 25 failed experiments in socialism documented in more detail in the book by Dinesh D’Souza. I also take on some of the false statements made about socialism that fall apart with some scrutiny.

 We need people who have lived under socialism to speak out, and we need to get the right information to these students and young adults.