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Republicans Have Been Smearing Democrats As Socialists Since Way Before You Were Born
From FDR to Barack Obama to Bernie Sanders, conservatives are reading from the same playbook.
Republicans believe they have hit on a bold, brand new line of attack that is sure to doom Democrats heading into the 2020 elections. President Donald Trump made it a central point of his State of the Union. Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, promises to bring this fresh hit in his party’s effort to regain control of the House.
The big plan is to ― wait for it ― attack Democrats as socialists.
“Socialism is the greatest vulnerability by far that the House Democrats have,” Emmer told the New York Times.
As any American who has developed to the stage of object permanence can tell you, this isn’t a new plan. It is, in fact, the oldest trick in the book.
Every single political actor since the late 19th century advocating for some form progressive social change ― whether it be economic reform, challenging America’s racial caste system or advocating for women’s rights or LGBT rights ― has been tarred as a socialist or a communist bent on destroying the American Free Enterprise System.
Contemporary political conservatism has been focused on blocking social change that challenges existing hierarchies of class, race and sex since its founding in response to the French Revolution. Socialism emerged as the biggest threat to class hierarchies in due time and conservatives have called everything they don’t like socialism ever since.
More: Republicans Have Been Smearing Democrats As Socialists Since Way Before You Were Born
Once again, it's the same ole socialism bogeyman. Hopefully most voters are smart enough to see through this GOP bogeyman. Socialism is a major part of our society - and has been for a long time. It makes our lives much better - each and every day. Socialism comes in various forms - it isn't one size fits all.
75 Ways Socialism Has Improved America
Bullshit. Unregulated capitalism is a nightmare. Read some Dickens or look at the sweat shops and child labor of the late 19th century-early 20th Century.Cons cant even explain what democrat socialism is .
Democratic socialism - Wikipedia
You are fully against Capitalism and private ownership.
Democratic Socialism goes against what our Founding Fathers wanted.
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Bullshit. Unregulated capitalism is a nightmare. Read some Dickens or look at the sweat shops and child labor of the late 19th century-early 20th Century.Cons cant even explain what democrat socialism is .
Democratic socialism - Wikipedia
You are fully against Capitalism and private ownership.
Democratic Socialism goes against what our Founding Fathers wanted.
what we HAVE...and what we require is regulated capitalism...and that by definition is "socialism"
The only REAL question is how MUCH socialism do we require.
Let's at least understand the terms and be honest about them.
Can you do that?
Bullshit. Unregulated capitalism is a nightmare. Read some Dickens or look at the sweat shops and child labor of the late 19th century-early 20th Century.Cons cant even explain what democrat socialism is .
Democratic socialism - Wikipedia
You are fully against Capitalism and private ownership.
Democratic Socialism goes against what our Founding Fathers wanted.
what we HAVE...and what we require is regulated capitalism...and that by definition is "socialism"
The only REAL question is how MUCH socialism do we require.
Let's at least understand the terms and be honest about them.
Can you do that?
Dickens is fiction, you babbling buffoon!....OMFG, you get dopier by the post!Bullshit. Unregulated capitalism is a nightmare. Read some Dickens or look at the sweat shops and child labor of the late 19th century-early 20th Century.Cons cant even explain what democrat socialism is .
Democratic socialism - Wikipedia
You are fully against Capitalism and private ownership.
Democratic Socialism goes against what our Founding Fathers wanted.
what we HAVE...and what we require is regulated capitalism...and that by definition is "socialism"
The only REAL question is how MUCH socialism do we require.
Let's at least understand the terms and be honest about them.
Can you do that?
He doesn’t get out of his safe space much at all...Dickens is fiction, you babbling buffoon!....OMFG, you get dopier by the post!Bullshit. Unregulated capitalism is a nightmare. Read some Dickens or look at the sweat shops and child labor of the late 19th century-early 20th Century.Cons cant even explain what democrat socialism is .
Democratic socialism - Wikipedia
You are fully against Capitalism and private ownership.
Democratic Socialism goes against what our Founding Fathers wanted.
what we HAVE...and what we require is regulated capitalism...and that by definition is "socialism"
The only REAL question is how MUCH socialism do we require.
Let's at least understand the terms and be honest about them.
Can you do that?
"Democratic socialism"....As if you can say "chocolate covered" before "dog turd", and that turns a chunk if shit into a Snickers bar.Cons cant even explain what democrat socialism is .
Democratic socialism - Wikipedia
You are fully against Capitalism and private ownership.
Democratic Socialism goes against what our Founding Fathers wanted.
Bullshit. Unregulated capitalism is a nightmare. Read some Dickens or look at the sweat shops and child labor of the late 19th century-early 20th Century.Cons cant even explain what democrat socialism is .
Democratic socialism - Wikipedia
You are fully against Capitalism and private ownership.
Democratic Socialism goes against what our Founding Fathers wanted.
what we HAVE...and what we require is regulated capitalism...and that by definition is "socialism"
The only REAL question is how MUCH socialism do we require.
Let's at least understand the terms and be honest about them.
Can you do that?
I read it and it doesn't say what you think it says. In fact just the oppositeCons cant even explain what democrat socialism is .
Democratic socialism - Wikipedia
You are fully against Capitalism and private ownership.
Democratic Socialism goes against what our Founding Fathers wanted.
I do....Move your dead ass to Cuba, commie moonbat.Who wants to get rid of American socialism for pure capitalism?
75 Ways Socialism Has Improved America
Hegelian horse shit.....Real freedom doesn't need your or anyone else's votes or permission.I do....Move your dead ass to Cuba, commie moonbat.Who wants to get rid of American socialism for pure capitalism?
75 Ways Socialism Has Improved America
Okay, let's look at a country that did exactly that.
In order to take over a country using just Capitalistic natures, the first thing you have to do is to get rid of the Government and get your people in it's place. You start out by taking over 61% of the Legislation. Then you need to disband the Supreme Court or have replace at least the majority with Capitalists. Okay, now you've done that. Let's move on to the next phase.
Now you need to get all the elites who are also Capitalists to agree on a leader. That's pretty easy to do since you now control all the methods of "Election". You have have an election where both candidates are Capitalists hand picked. You con the public into believing that they had a say into it. The person that the Elites had already picked with "Win" the election by a very close margin to give the public the idea that their votes actually meant anything. Now the next phase.
Okay, you got your leader in place now. First thing he does is to abolish (as in arrest) the Supreme Court the second they show any resistance by using the Capitalist controlled congress to write new laws that allows him to do this. Next, the Leader starts to systematically replace the other 39% of the congress with his own people until he controls all of congress.
On to the next phase. The Capitalists or Corporations then go on to systematically take it all or most of everything. What's to stop them? The price of Bread is out of site. Fuel is out of site. Housing is out of site. Life for everyone not an elite becomes a living hell. Oh, and if anyone complains, they conveniently have trumped up charges against them leveled and sent to prison not be heard of again or they just disappear quietly. If this phase sounds familiar to you what happens then Socialism goes arry, that's because when either Socialism or Capitalism gets out of control, it ends up exactly the same place with a Dictator or a Monarchy.
On the Capitalist out of control side of things, this is what brought Mussolini to power and he even gave it a name, Fascism. Hitler learned almost everything he knew from Mussolini. Both started out as capitalists out of control. Stalin and Lenin took Communism to the Extreme and ended up in exactly the same place. The last chapter of all of them were identical and Mussolini could have authored all three outcomes.
The only Fascist Government that broke away and continued was Franco from Spain. He had enough smarts to know when to not go too far. And he cut deals with Mussolini and Hitler for support to defeat the Socialist Government that was completely out of control before 1936. Franco understood to leave the Catholic Church alone while the Socialist were systematically trying to destroy it. Franco understood that it was the Elites that really determined who would have and continue to have real power. He also understood that the common person could only stand so much misery before the rebelled. Hitler also understood this. Mussolini did not and look which one survived to die of old age and which one ended up being shot, drug, and hung upside down from a Lanyard. On the other side of the coin, Stalin also understood just how far to take things before the common person would rebel in force.
In the end, all but Franco completely took over everything and had to be replaced. The two really bad Fascists ran both countries into the ground. Meanwhile, even Stalin had to answer to the Elites somewhat but he wasn't afraid to have them "Disappear". A Fascist would never to that. A Fascist IS an Elite.
Everyone keeps looking at the outcomes rather than how they came to be. Socialism by itself leads to chaos, war, death and destruction. The same goes for unchecked Capitalism. One just comes from a different direction than the other but the outcome is always the same. You need both. One to make the money and the other to protect against the Fascist takeover that comes from the unregulated greed that comes from it. Yes, Capitalism is a good thing as long as you have Social Programs to guide it so that the masses will be able to live. Franco understood this. Mussolini did not.
I read it and it doesn't say what you think it says. In fact just the oppositeCons cant even explain what democrat socialism is .
Democratic socialism - Wikipedia
You are fully against Capitalism and private ownership.
Democratic Socialism goes against what our Founding Fathers wanted.
But YOU failed to read the following:
Unregulated capitalism is a nightmare. Read some Dickens or look at the sweat shops and child labor of the late 19th century-early 20th Century.
what we HAVE...and what we require is regulated capitalism...and that by definition is "socialism"
The only REAL question is how MUCH socialism do we require.
Let's at least understand the terms and be honest about them.
Can you do that?
I read it too and it says exactly what I think it says.I read it and it doesn't say what you think it says. In fact just the opposite
I read it and it doesn't say what you think it says. In fact just the oppositeCons cant even explain what democrat socialism is .
Democratic socialism - Wikipedia
You are fully against Capitalism and private ownership.
Democratic Socialism goes against what our Founding Fathers wanted.
But YOU failed to read the following:
Unregulated capitalism is a nightmare. Read some Dickens or look at the sweat shops and child labor of the late 19th century-early 20th Century.
what we HAVE...and what we require is regulated capitalism...and that by definition is "socialism"
The only REAL question is how MUCH socialism do we require.
Let's at least understand the terms and be honest about them.
Can you do that?
Dude,face it, you don't know what socialism is.I read it and it doesn't say what you think it says. In fact just the oppositeCons cant even explain what democrat socialism is .
Democratic socialism - Wikipedia
You are fully against Capitalism and private ownership.
Democratic Socialism goes against what our Founding Fathers wanted.
But YOU failed to read the following:
Unregulated capitalism is a nightmare. Read some Dickens or look at the sweat shops and child labor of the late 19th century-early 20th Century.
what we HAVE...and what we require is regulated capitalism...and that by definition is "socialism"
The only REAL question is how MUCH socialism do we require.
Let's at least understand the terms and be honest about them.
Can you do that?
Dude,face it, you don't know what socialism is.