Here's Your Mainstream Democrat

[PoliticalChic]

About SA | Socialist Alternative

• Raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, as a step toward a living wage for all.
• Free, high quality public education for all from pre-school through college. Full funding for schools to dramatically lower student-teacher ratios. Stop the focus on high stakes testing and the drive to privatize public education.
• Free, high quality health care for all. Replace the failed for-profit insurance companies with a publicly funded single-payer system as a step towards fully socialized medicine.
• No budget cuts to education and social services! Full funding for all community needs. A major increase in taxes on the rich and big business, not working people.
• Create living-wage union jobs for all the unemployed through public works programs to develop mass transit, renewable energy, infrastructure, healthcare, education, and affordable housing.
• For rent control combined with massive public investment in affordable housing.
• A guaranteed decent pension for all. No cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid!
• A minimum guaranteed weekly income of $600/week for the unemployed, disabled, stay-at-home parents, the elderly, and others unable to work.

Democratic public ownership of the big energy companies, retooling them for socially necessary green production. A “Just Transition” for all workers in polluting industries with guaranteed re-training and new living-wage jobs.

“To hear ... Sen. Bernie Sanders talk, a handful of robber barons owns all the means of production -- the land, the factories, the industries -- while everyone else -- tens of millions of the slaving, underpaid proletariat -- struggles in Dickensian conditions.

This may have been true in Russia at the end of the 19th century. It is most certainly not true of America in the 21st. The “abolish capitalism” crowd uses the terms “business” and “business owner” as epithets –



Let’s take a look at the facts.

According to recent U.S. census data, there are approximately 30.4 million firms -- businesses of any sort -- in the U.S. Of that number, fully 81% -- 24.8 million firms -- employ only their owners. But even if we look at the 5.6 million firms that have other employees, almost 90% employ fewer than 20 people. Almost 90% of all corporations in the U.S. employ only the owners, or a small handful of employees.

In other words, huge numbers of Americans own their own companies. Millions more work for very small compheanies. And even when one looks at the relatively small number of large corporations that are publicly traded (fewer than 4,000), millions of their shares are held by small investors; 55% of Americans own stock individually or through participation in mutual funds or pensions.”
American Socialists Don’t Understand American Business



....huge numbers of Americans own their own companies....

And, contrary to the other Leftist......they did build it.

 

[the other mike]

haha...I see right through this shit...Be honest...do you kind of need some free shit...but you're kinda embarrassed to be too transparent about it?

I never got anything free. Not even shit.

 

[eagle1462010]

About SA | Socialist Alternative

• Take into public ownership the top 500 corporations and banks that dominate the U.S. economy. Run them under the democratic management of elected representatives of the workers and the broader public. Compensation to be paid on the basis of proven need to small investors, not millionaires.
• A democratic socialist plan for the economy based on the interests of the overwhelming majority of people and the environment. For a socialist United States and a socialist world.

 

[miketx]

This is your heroine, Bernie's spokesperson in Seattle, demanding an end to 'capitalist exploitation and oppression.'

Kshama Sawant Self-proclaimed Socialist city council woman from Seattle







Can you see why the Democrat establishment is sweatin' bullets, ......the audience sounds like Munich, 1933.

I can't understand anything babbling loon says. This makes more sense.

 

[PoliticalChic]

You put your foot in your mouth again, dunce.

The term 'worship' can only be used for Democrats.

They called Hussein god, Jesus and the messiah.


Bet you can't find Republican elites calling their candidate by those terms.



Next time....take your shoe off before you put your foot in your mouth.

A Tony Soprano "Oh.....You kiss your kids goodnight wit dat mouth ?"

I never use vulgarity.....but you can think of me as Karma, and this as the Karma Cafe....

There are no menus, but everyone gets what they deserve.

You're welcome.

 

[the other mike]

 

[the other mike]

 

[eagle1462010]

 

[bluzman61]

You put your foot in your mouth again, dunce.

The term 'worship' can only be used for Democrats.

They called Hussein god, Jesus and the messiah.


Bet you can't find Republican elites calling their candidate by those terms.



Next time....take your shoe off before you put your foot in your mouth.

A Tony Soprano "Oh.....You kiss your kids goodnight wit dat mouth ?"

I never use vulgarity.....but you can think of me as Karma, and this as the Karma Cafe....

There are no menus, but everyone gets what they deserve.

You're welcome.

It's the idiots that post on here who routinely resort to vulgarity when they have nothing to debate you. These idiots are predominantly liberal lunatics.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Let's put the spotlight on the Marxist you're supporting, as it is clear you don't know:



1. " [At] the University of Chicago, Sanders joined the Young People’s Socialist League, the youth wing of the Socialist Party USA. He also organized for a communist front, the United Packinghouse Workers Union, which at the time was under investigation by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

2. ...graduating with a political science degree, Sanders moved to Vermont, where he headed the American People’s History Society, an organ for Marxist propaganda. There, he produced a glowing documentary on the life of socialist revolutionary Eugene Debs, who was jailed for espionage during the Red Scare and hailed by the Bolsheviks as “America’s greatest Marxist.” Don’t be fooled by Bernie Sanders — he’s a diehard communist | New York Post


a. Eugene Victor Debs, Bernie's paragon: "... Debs agreed with the left wing of the Socialist Party—people like Bill Haywood and Mother Jones, who would help found the Industrial Workers of the World (the 'Wobblies). They advocated workers taking control where the power of the ruling class was rooted—in the factories. ... Within the SP, members had verydifferent ideas about socialism and how it would be achieved. Some believed in socialism as a steady increase in social reforms achieved by socialists being elected to political office—others looked to a revolutionary transformation of society.....

Eventually, those leftists who remained in the SP quit to help form a new Communist Party on the model of what Lenin and the Bolsheviks had built in Russia. Debs, while he supported the Russian Revolution and remained a revolutionary, nonetheless stayed in the SP." Socialism according to Eugene V. Debs


Still imagine there is any great difference between socialists and communists....and Bernie?



3. This subversive hero of Sanders, [Eugene Victor Debs,] denounced even by liberal Democrats as a “traitor,” bashed “the barons of Wall Street” and hailed the “triumphant” Bolshevik revolution in Russia.


“Those Russian comrades of ours have made greater sacrifices, have suffered more, and have shed more heroic blood than any like number of men and women anywhere on Earth,” Debs proclaimed. “They have laid the foundation of the first real democracy that ever drew the breath of life in this world.” Socialism according to Eugene V. Debs


4. "In a 1918 speech in Canton, Ohio, Debs reaffirmed his solidarity with Lenin and Trotsky, despite clear evidence of their violent plunder and treachery. Sanders still hangs a portrait of Debs on the wall in his Senate office." NYPost, Op. Cit.


This Trotsky: "We must rid ourselves once and for all of the Quaker-Papist babble about the sanctity of human life."
Now about the Democrat Party elite, Bernie Sanders: Communist, Socialist, Liberal, and Progressive


5." ... Sanders helped found the Liberty Union Party, which called for the nationalization of all US banks and the public takeover of all private utility companies. [Before Maxine Waters, too!]

... Sanders in 1981 managed to get elected mayor of Burlington, Vt., where he restricted property rights for landlords, set price controls and raised property taxes to pay for communal land trusts. Local small businesses distributed fliers complaining their new mayor “does not believe in free enterprise.”


6. His radical activities didn’t stop at the water’s edge. Sanders took several “goodwill” trips not only to the USSR, but also to Cuba and Nicaragua, where the Soviets were trying to expand their influence in our hemisphere.

In 1985, he traveled to Managua to celebrate the rise to power of the Marxist-Leninist Sandinista government. He called it a “heroic revolution.” Undermining anti-communist US policy, Sanders denounced the Reagan administration’s backing of the Contra rebels in a letter to the Sandinistas.

“The Sandinista government has more support among the Nicaraguan people — substantially more support — than Ronald Reagan has among the American people,” Sanders told Vermont government-access TV in 1985." Don’t be fooled by Bernie Sanders — he’s a diehard communist | New York Post


(BTW...Ortega and the Sandinistas were voted out of power in 1990. Ortega ran for election again, in October 1996 and November 2001, but lost on both occasions)





7. "Sanders also adopted a Soviet sister city outside Moscow and honeymooned with his second wife in the USSR. He put up a Soviet flag in his office, shocking even the Birkenstock-wearing local liberals. At the time, the Evil Empire was on the march around the world, and threatening the US with nuclear annihilation.


Then, in 1989, as the West was on the verge of winning the Cold War, Sanders addressed the national conference of the US Peace Council — a known front for the Communist Party USA, whose members swore an oath not only to the Soviet Union but to “the triumph of Soviet power in the US.” Don’t be fooled by Bernie Sanders — he’s a diehard communist | New York Post



8."Today, Sanders wants to bring what he admired in the USSR, Cuba, Nicaragua and other communist states to America.

For starters, he proposes completely nationalizing our health care system and putting private health insurance and drug companies “out of business.” He also wants to break up “big banks” and control the energy industry, while providing “free” college tuition, a “living wage” and guaranteed homeownership and jobs through massive public works projects.

Price tag: $18 trillion.

Who will pay for it all? You will. Sanders plans to not only soak the rich with a 90 percent-plus tax rate, while charging Wall Street a “speculation tax,” but hit every American with a “global-warming tax.”

Of course, even that wouldn’t cover the cost of his communist schemes; a President Sanders would eventually soak the middle class he claims to champion. From each according to his ability, to each according to his need, right?



9. Sanders and his Sanderistas are all still pining for what Debs called “the Greater Revolution yet to come.”

What’s revolting is how this hardcore commie’s campaign has gotten this far. With his ascendancy in both Iowa and New Hampshire, Sanders is no longer just a fool; he’s now a dangerous fool.

While it may be hard to hate the old codger, it’s easy — and virtuous — to hate his un-American ideas. They should be swept into the dustbin with the rest of communist history."
Don’t be fooled by Bernie Sanders — he’s a diehard communist | New York Post

 

[eagle1462010]

 

[eagle1462010]

Dems need to RUN SANDERS.........so all of America can SEE what they have Become........

 

[PoliticalChic]

“Just for fun, find a Marxist professor- who scoffs at the idea that people work less if they lose the incentive of money- how he would feel if his name were not put on the academic articles he published. Instead the articles would be published under the name of another academic who needed the recognition more than he did. After all…he would still have the satisfaction of having written the articles….His completely reasonable response would be that he earned’ the right to have his name on those articles, and denying him that measure of earned success is viciously unfair. Exactly.”
Arthur Brooks, “The Road to Freedom,” p. 26.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Dems need to RUN SANDERS.........so all of America can SEE what they have Become........

You and I have known it for quite a while.....

 

[Shawnee_b]

I never got anything free. Not even shit.

You pay for a bucket of shit?

 

[the other mike]

You pay for a bucket of shit?

I never run out.

 

[eagle1462010]

You pay for a bucket of shit?

I never run out.

Who took my dang chickens.....................

Is Bernie around again.

 

[the other mike]

And, contrary to the other Leftist......they did build it.

But, most "small businesses" are now owned by large corporations,
kinda like the media.

 

[PoliticalChic]

And, contrary to the other Leftist......they did build it.

But, most "small businesses" are now owned by large corporations,
kinda like the media.

No they're not.



Remember the last time you were correct about anything?


Me neither.

 

[Gdjjr]

You republicans who have turned into far right libertarians created Bernie Sanders.

That has to be one of the most idiotic statements I've ever seen on any political message board- MOST hard core libertarians were democrats, doofus.