Socialists urge support of Kerry

WorldNetDaily ^ | 7/25/04 | WorldNetDaily

[wagglebee]

The Democratic Socialists of America Political Action Committee is officially urging its members to work for the election of John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election.

"Kerry was hardly the first choice of our members," said Frank Llewellyn, national director of the DSA. "Most supported Dennis Kucinich or Howard Dean in the Democratic primary elections and would be very critical of Senator Kerry's voting record on trade issues, as well as his support for the resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq; but the most important concern of our members now is to defeat Bush."

The DSA is the largest socialist organization in the U.S., with 5,500 members and local organizations in many large cities. It is affiliated with the Socialist International, a federation of the world's socialist, social democratic and labor parties. It was founded as a group determined to push the Democratic Party to the left and has worked closely with the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

The statement urged DSA members to participate in get-out-the-vote and voter education projects with other progressive organizations.

"It is very important that progressive movements keep organizing and mobilizing so that we will be in a position to make demands on a new administration," Llewellyn continued.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus is a socialist-leaning bloc of about 60 votes or nearly 30 percent of the minority vote in the lower chamber. Until 1999, the website of the Progressive Caucus was hosted by the DSA.

Following an expose of the link between the two organizations in WorldNetDaily, the Congressional Progressive Caucus established its own website under the auspices of the Congress. Another officer of the Progressive Caucus, and one of its guiding lights, is avowed socialist Rep. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent.

The Democratic Socialists of America's chief organizing goal is to work within the Democratic Party and remove the stigma attached to "socialism" in the eyes of most Americans.

"Stress our Democratic Party strategy and electoral work," explains an organizing document of the DSA. "The Democratic Party is something the public understands, and association with it takes the edge off. Stressing our Democratic Party work will establish some distance from the radical subculture and help integrate you to the milieu of the young liberals."

Nevertheless, the goal of the Democratic Socialists of America has never been deeply hidden. Prior to the cleanup of its website in 1999, the DSA included a song list featuring "The Internationale," the worldwide anthem of communism and socialism. Another song on the site was "Red Revolution" sung to the tune of "Red Robin." The lyrics went: "When the Red Revolution brings its solution along, along, there'll be no more lootin' when we start shootin' that Wall Street throng. ..." Another song removed after WorldNetDaily's expose was "Are You Sleeping, Bourgeoisie?" The lyrics went: "Are you sleeping? Are you sleeping? Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie. And when the revolution comes, We'll kill you all with knives and guns, Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie."

In the last three years, the Progressive Caucus has been careful to moderate its image for mainstream consumption.

"The members of the Progressive Caucus share a common belief in the principles of social and economic justice, non-discrimination and tolerance in America and in our relationships with other countries," the group's statement of purpose explains. Most of the members of the Progressive Caucus, including House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, opposed authorizing the war on Iraq. In fact, most Democrats in the House opposed the war resolution. Then House Minority Leader Gephardt and 81 other House Democrats supported the move.

"The Republican monopoly over all three branches of government has enabled an unprecedented rightist attack and rollback of the economic, legislative and policy gains won by the social movements of the twentieth century," said the statement by the DSA announcing support of the Kerry campaign. "The Bush administration has steadily gutted the democratic regulatory state begun by the New Deal and Great Society. This dogmatic commitment to rapacious corporate domination, combined with the administration's hostility to civil rights, has led to outright attacks on environmental protection, labor rights, public education, and the living standards of low-wage workers. In addition, the right's cultural war in favor of the misnamed "traditional family values" threatens to turn back the crucial gains of the movements for women's and gay and lesbian equality. The Bush administration's continued hold on power for another four years would be a devastating blow to the economic security and cultural freedoms of most Americans, as well as to the prospects for peace and stability in much of the world."

[wagglebee]

The Bush administration has steadily gutted the democratic regulatory state begun by the New Deal and Great Society.

What the leftists don't realize is that many Americans are delighted to see the New Deal and Great Society being dismantled.

[Billthedrill]

Another song removed after WorldNetDaily's expose was "Are You Sleeping, Bourgeoisie?" The lyrics went: "Are you sleeping? Are you sleeping? Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie. And when the revolution comes, We'll kill you all with knives and guns, Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie."

I do love coffee-house revolutionaries. 90+% of them have never touched a firearm and 99% of them are bourgeoisie. And they've all forgotten who was first against the wall in the real Revolution.

[KriegerGeist]

Kerry has the endorsement of the Communist Party, the Trial Lawyers, the ACLU, probably the Greens and the Enviro-Wackos and the entire America-haters Party... Why should he not have the support of the Socialists as well? After all, Kerry wants to hand over sovereignty of the U.S.A. to the U.N.

[Fenris6]

In related news:

"Parasites support elites who promise them new hosts."

[wagglebee]

They should be required to look at the lists of books that were banned and burned in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Bloc and other leftist paradises.

[concerned about politics]

They want Kerry to make the U.S. into a mirror image of the old Soviet Union?

This needs to be passed around. These are Kerry's people.

Socialism is the prelude to Communism. No wonder Kerry and Jane Fonda sided with the Communist Vietnamese during the Nam War.
Now they want control of the White House!

[Bonaparte]

So Kerry now has the endorsement of the DSA, the CP/USA, a bunch of anti-American foreigners and the terrorists themselves. Should be the kiss of death for him, but it won't be.

[nothingnew]

The Congressional Progressive Caucus is a socialist-leaning bloc of about 60 votes or nearly 30 percent of the minority vote in the lower chamber. Until 1999, the website of the Progressive Caucus was hosted by the DSA.

I have updated my FMCDH sign-off with the addition of (BITS).....Blood In The Streets, which I foresee coming soon, due to the enormous increase of the communist progressive movement being shoved down the throat of this failing REPUBLIC through the Judicial tyranny of fiat law, and the passing of unconstitutional laws by the Legislative and Executive branches of our government.

FMCDH(BITS)

[Che Chihuahua]

Well, why wouldn't the Socialists want Kerry elected? The democrat party is the direct descendant of the allegedly fallen Communist Party of the "former" Soviet Union. In the last 30 years we have moved closer toward Stalin's model of the ideal State, as the left has deconstructed every meaningful institution of this nation--education, our courts, the legislative process, and our faith in the American economic system.

The Shady Deal and the Great Socialist Society are a part of this grand scheme by the elitist plutocrats to control all of us. They are wolves in sheep's clothing who have fooled million into believing that the struggle is left vs. right rather than the wealthy elite vs. the middle class.

The elitist's "noblesse oblige" mandates that they will "give" us just enough to barely survive, but they will maintain their wealth and position. The Soviets had their elite, who got to go the front of the long lines at the old Soviet GUM department store. They had the best cars, clothes, and forbidden pleasures from the "decadent" West. Yes, Kerry and his ilk (Soros and Buffett) will tax you and me and hide behind the tree of altruism. They will also crush the spirit of individual achievement, which has made America great.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

I was watching the news last week and msnbc must have said at least 10 times how Ralph Reed the former head of the (gasp) christian coalition was bush's southern campaign director. I must have been in the bathroom when they announced kerry's endorsement by the socialists

[Cobra64]

Why would the socialists support a gigilo that married a billionairess? Or maybe they're just to uninformed to know this.

[o_zarkman44]

I saw a membership list of the DSA-USA a few years back and was not surprised to find the names of a large majority of Democratic Congressional members on the list of membership. In checking the site awhile back I saw the membership list had been cloaked so as to not be available for viewing.
Anyone who is a Democrat who claims to support socialism is nothing more than a control freak who wants only the elite to have a say in America's future. Socialism is incompatable with capitalism in every way, shape, or form.
The whole concept of socialism in America is to confuse the people, and claim to represent the oppressed and down-trodden in society. That has always been the mainstay of socialist/Communist philosophy. In the end the oppressed will always be subjected to oppression by the elite government. The DSA-USA is directly in opposition to the American Constitution, and so any member therein is a threat to America.

[Che Chihuahua]

Post Script to Post #9: Socialism and Marxism are the greatest hoaxes ever perpetrated on humankind. In America, the hoax was modified to co-opt the American spirit of individualism. For example the wealthy elitist, FDR gave us Socialism Lite? Just enough to whet the appetite for gimmies. Who can resist gimmies, like free dope given to stupid kids by the local pusher to hook the kids into addiction?

Do you really think FDR was thinking of the poor and unemployed during the Great Depression? No, he was buying a generation of voters for the democrat party. A generation later, that great con artist Lyndon ("Useless") Baines Johnson (poor boy gone wealthy) purchased a new generation of voters with "The Great Society."

Today's generation of neo-Communists are trying to purchase votes through class warfare and socialized medical care. And they have, as Che Guevara preached in his book on guerrilla warfare, gotten control of the TV station to control the information flow to the public. Through all media forms, we are given the mantra, "democrat good, Republican bad."

US Supreme Court Justice Brandeis advocated that industries that became so large that they represented a threat to freedom should be broken up if economic competition could not accomplish the same result. This brings to mind the vast media monopolies used by the elitist democrat party to control information in all forms; movies, music, news, publishing, etc. The reason that crypto-turncoat Senator McCain is so popular with the media talking heads is that he has spearheaded legislative efforts to empower them. Think Campaign Finance Deform and the Telescrewmations Act of 1996, and you'll see that this RINO is in the media's and the democrat's pocket. It is time to fight back by calling on Congress to repeal these oppressive acts. By doing so, you will stop the plutocrats from taking America.

[Noumenon]

What Leftists don't seem to realize is just how fed up a lot of Americans are getting with their hate-filled, destructive agenda. Their Day is coming.

[Rome2000]

"Err Amerika" bills itself as "Progressive" radio.

When did Marxist/Leninism become "Progressive"?

[Rome2000]

They are not Vietnam combat veterans, but they ARE card carrying members of the Democratic Socialists of America's Progressive Caucus, a group ofUNPATRIOTIC UNAMERICAN subversives that are actively engaged in overthrowing the capitalist system of government in the USA and transforming it into a socialist nation.

"Progressive" is a code word for socialist, note that Sanders of VT is an officer.

Why these people are allowed to get on national TV and not disclose or be asked by the press reagrding their membership in a socialist organization is beyond me.

The table below was downloaded from the Democratic Socialists of America

Members of the Progressive Caucus

officers
Member/Position/District	Address	Phone	Website
Peter DeFazio (OFFICER, OREGON-04)	2134 RHOB	225-6416	WEBSITE
Dennis Kucinich (Chairman) (CHAIR, OHIO-10)	1730 LHOB	225-5871	WEBSITE
Barbara Lee (Vice Chair) (OFFICER, CALIFORNIA-09)	426 CHOB	225-2661	WEBSITE
Cynthia McKinney (OFFICER, GEORGIA-04)	124 CHOB	225-1605	WEBSITE
Major Owens (OFFICER, NEW YORK-11)	2309 RHOB	225-6231	WEBSITE
Bernie Sanders (OFFICER, VERMONT)	2135 RHOB	225-4115	WEBSITE
Paul Wellstone (OFFICER, MINNESOTA)	136 HSOB	224-5641	WEBSITE

members
Member/Position/District	Address	Phone	Website
Neil Abercrombie (MEMBER, HAWAII-01)	1502 LHOB	225-2726	WEBSITE
Tammy Baldwin (MEMBER, WISCONSIN-02)	1022 LHOB	225-2906	WEBSITE
Xavier Becerra (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-30)	1119 LHOB	225-6235	WEBSITE
David Bonior (MEMBER, MICHIGAN-10)	2207 RHOB	225-2106	WEBSITE
Corrine Brown (MEMBER, FLORIDA-03)	2444 RHOB	225-0123	WEBSITE
Sherrod Brown (MEMBER, OHIO-13)	2438 RHOB	225-3401	WEBSITE
Michael Capuano (MEMBER, MASSACHUSETTS-08)	1232 LHOB	225-5111	WEBSITE
Julia Carson (MEMBER, INDIANA-10)	1339 LHOB	225-4011	WEBSITE
William "Lacy" Clay (MEMBER, MISSOURI-01)	415 CHOB	225-2406	WEBSITE
John Conyers (MEMBER, MICHIGAN-14)	2426 RHOB	225-5126	WEBSITE
Danny Davis (MEMBER, ILLINOIS-07)	1222 LHOB	225-5006	WEBSITE
Rosa DeLauro (MEMBER, CONNECTICUT-03)	2262 RHOB	225-3661	WEBSITE
Lane Evans (MEMBER, ILLINOIS-17)	2211 RHOB	225-5905	WEBSITE
Eni Faleomavaega (MEMBER, AMERICAN SAMOA)	2422 RHOB	225-8577	WEBSITE
Sam Farr (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-17)	1221 LHOB	225-2861	WEBSITE
Chaka Fattah (MEMBER, PENNSYLVANIA-02)	1205 LHOB	225-4001	WEBSITE
Bob Filner (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-50)	2463 RHOB	225-8045	WEBSITE
Barney Frank (MEMBER, MASSACHUSETTS-04)	2252 RHOB	225-5931	WEBSITE
Luis Gutierrez (MEMBER, ILLINOIS-04)	2452 RHOB	225-8203	WEBSITE
Earl Hilliard (MEMBER, ALABAMA-07)	1314 LHOB	225-2665	WEBSITE
Maurice Hinchey (MEMBER, NEW YORK-26)	2431 RHOB	225-6335	WEBSITE
Jesse Jackson, Jr (MEMBER, ILLINOIS-02)	313 CHOB	225-0773
Sheila Jackson-Lee (MEMBER, TEXAS-18)	403 CHOB	225-3816	WEBSITE
Stephanie Tubbs Jones (MEMBER, OHIO-11)	1516 LHOB	225-7032	WEBSITE
Marcy Kaptur (MEMBER, OHIO-09)	2366 RHOB	225-4146	WEBSITE
Tom Lantos (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-12)	2217 RHOB	225-3531	WEBSITE
John Lewis (MEMBER, GEORGIA-05)	343 CHOB	225-3801	WEBSITE
Jim McDermott (MEMBER, WASHINGTON-07)	1035 LHOB	225-3106	WEBSITE
James P. McGovern (MEMBER, MASSACHUSETTS-03)	430 CHOB	225-6101	WEBSITE
Carrie Meek (MEMBER, FLORIDA-17)	2433 RHOB	225-4506	WEBSITE
George Miller (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-07)	2205 RHOB	225-2095	WEBSITE
Patsy Mink (MEMBER, HAWAII-02)	2210 RHOB	225-4906	WEBSITE
Jerry Nadler (MEMBER, NEW YORK-08)	2334 RHOB	225-5635	WEBSITE
Eleanor Holmes Norton (MEMBER, D.C.)	2136 RHOB	225-8050	WEBSITE
John Olver (MEMBER, MASSACHUSETTS-01)	1027 LHOB	225-5335	WEBSITE
Ed Pastor (MEMBER, ARIZONA-02)	2465 RHOB	225-4065	WEBSITE
Donald Payne (MEMBER, NEW JERSEY-10)	2209 RHOB	225-3436	WEBSITE
Nancy Pelosi (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-08)	2457 RHOB	225-4965	WEBSITE
Bobby Rush (MEMBER, ILLINOIS-01)	2416 RHOB	225-4372	WEBSITE
Jan Schakowsky (MEMBER, ILLINOIS-09)	515 CHOB	225-2111	WEBSITE
Jose Serrano (MEMBER, NEW YORK-16)	2342 RHOB	225-4361	WEBSITE
Hilda Solis (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-31)	1641 LHOB	225-5464	WEBSITE
Pete Stark (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-13)	239 CHOB	225-5065	WEBSITE
Bennie Thompson (MEMBER, MISSISSIPPI-02)	2432 RHOB	225-5876	WEBSITE
John Tierney (MEMBER, MASSACHUSETTS-06)	120 CHOB	225-8020	WEBSITE
Tom Udall (MEMBER, NEW MEXICO-03)	502 CHOB	225-6190	WEBSITE
Nydia Velazquez (MEMBER, NEW YORK-12)	2241 RHOB	225-2361	WEBSITE
Maxine Waters (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-35)	2344 RHOB	225-2201	WEBSITE
Diane Watson (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-32)	2413 RHOB	225-7084	WEBSITE
Mel Watt (MEMBER, NORTH CAROLINA-12)	2236 RHOB	225-1510	WEBSITE
Henry Waxman (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-29)	2204 RHOB	225-3976	WEBSITE
Lynn Woolsey (MEMBER, CALIFORNIA-06)	2263 RHOB	225-5161	WEBSITE

Congressional Progressive Caucus