Bernie Sanders and AOC are two very important and influential members of the Democratic Party even though Bernie isn’t a true Democrat.
Bernie Sanders’ record demonstrates his longtime support of all things communist and Marxist. By Dave Bohon
thenewamerican.com
The record on avowed socialist senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (shown) continues to demonstrate that he has been a longtime vocal supporter and fellow-traveler with communists and Marxists.
A closer look at AOC’s ideas: They are communist and insane, but I repeat myself
Jeffrey T. Kuhner
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is leading the Democratic Party off a cliff. AOC, as she’s commonly known, is a radical socialist whose ideas are pushing the Democrats to the hard left — and to possible defeat and political oblivion.
Her Green New Deal has nearly 50 Democrat co-sponsors in the House. Besides Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, who sponsored AOC’s bill in the Senate, other top Democrats have embraced it: Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand. This 29-year-old woman-child is driving the liberal agenda.
AOC is right. Yet, if implemented her Green New Deal would be a catastrophe. It is a form of milquetoast communism — it calls for “Medicare-for-all,” a single-payer government-run health care system; it demands the federal government provide a job (at a “living wage”) for every adult; it insists the government provide a basic income (welfare) to any individual, even those “unwilling to work”; it champions free college and universal public pre-k education; it wants to ban all meat consumption; it mandates the end of all fossil fuels within ten years to combat “climate change”; it dictates that 99 percent of all gas-powered cars, SUVs and trucks be taken off the road; it demands a ban on all airplane travel by 2030; it aims to outlaw nuclear power; and it seeks to retrofit every building and home in the U.S. so they can be “energy-efficient.” AOC proposes that America becomes completely powered by clean, renewable energy resulting in “zero carbon emissions,” primarily through alternatives such as wind and solar.
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You state, “There isn't enough Socialist in this country to fill in a thimble.”
The poll finds the largest growth in support for socialism among Black Americans and women.
truthout.org
While a majority of U.S. adults still have more positive than negative perceptions of capitalism, less than half of the country’s 18 to 34-year-olds view the profit-maximizing market system favorably, and the attractiveness of socialism continues to increase among people over 35, according to a new poll released Friday.
The online survey, conducted June 11-25 by Momentive on behalf of Axios, found that 57% of U.S. adults view capitalism in a positive light, down from 61% in January 2019, when the news outlet first polled on these questions. Then and now, 36% are critical of the exploitation of the working class and the environment by the owning class.
Perceptions of capitalism have remained consistent among adults ages 35 and older, meaning that the system’s dwindling popularity is driven by the nation’s young adults. According to the poll, 18 to 34-year-olds today are almost equally likely to hold a negative opinion of capitalism as a positive one (46% vs. 49%). Just two years ago, that margin was 38% vs. 58%.[/I]
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Now on to the insults in your post.
Intelligent people can disagree on issues and have entirely different viewpoints. That in no way means one is stupid and the other is intelligent.
In my experience people who run around calling other people stupid are often the ones with a deficit of intelligence. Such people have an inflated view of their brain power. Often they also have ego problems.
Feeling other people are stupid when they don’t agree with you is also one of the biggest problems in our nation today. Republicans feel they are far smarter than Democrats and Democrats feel Republicans are a bunch of stinky Walmart rubes.
It is hard to make real progress when the two sides of an issue hate each other and both sides refuse to even consider their viewpoint might be wrong.