How Many Members Of The U.S. CongressAre Self-Declared Socialists?

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[yoe]

The following FAQ will help clarify a few facts:

Q: What is the Socialist International?

A: It is the worldwide organization of socialist, social democratic and labor parties. It currently brings together 131 political parties and organizations from all continents. Its origins go back to the early international organizations of the labor movement of the last century.* It has existed in its present form since 1951, when it was re-established at the Frankfurt Congress. They are now headquartered in London, England.

* In 1864, representatives of English and French industrial workers founded the International Workingmen's Association in London. Karl Marx, who was living in London at the time, became the First International's dominant figure. Marx's doctrines were revived in the 20th century by Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilich Lenin, who developed and applied them – and we all know that what was started as a labor movement ended up as the biggest totalitarian/communist state, i.e., the USSR.

Q: What is the Democratic Socialists of America [DSA]?

A: It is the largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International. Their website is http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html

Q: What are seven principles behind what the DSA's calls it's "Progressive Challenge?"

Dignified Work
Environmental Justice
Economic Redistribution
Democratic Participation
Community Empowerment
Global Non-Violence
Social Justice.

Never mind their soothing-sounding leftist doublespeak like 'Environmental Justice' (whatever that is supposed to mean) or the soft & fuzzy 'Global Non-Violence' (a euphemism for unilateral disarmament) — the DSA's self-declared principle of 'Economic Redistribution' clearly shows where these folks are coming from and exactly where they plan to take America.

[yoe]

Do we still have a Constitution? Does it mean anything? Can the people stop this? YES. Impeach Obama and the rest for their attempt to overthrow the Republic and for lying under oath.

[sourcery]

Educate enough people, and the rest of your agenda will follow naturally.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

If the question was how many undeclared socialist I would say between 70 and 75 in the senate and around 350 in the house.

[Tempest]

How many of them are on Goldman Sachs payroll?

[The Cajun]

How many of them are on Goldman Sachs payroll?

How many of them are on Soros payroll?
How many of them are on The Saudi payroll?
How many of them are on the Chinese payroll?

I'm sure a lot more names could be added to the list.

[Tainan]

The ones that are in it for the money are not really the ones to worry about. They'll change coats depending on which way the wind blows. And they are the easiest to monitor.

The one to be concerned about are those in it for 'ideological' reasons. These moles will slavishly work and burrow into the system, doing their damage in a manner so as to not attract attention. These are the ones who do the damage thats most significant and so hard to reverse.
Think monks in a cloister...thats how their devotion to the monster of socialism/social change works.

'Useful fools.'

[Beckwith]

Progressives are individuals who are ostensibly working within the republic and its capitalist system, while their real goal is to subvert it, weakening its foundation, the Constitution of the United States of America, and amending it to reflect the Marxist-Socialist philosophy described as Progressivism.

Progressives contend that Progressivism is rooted in three core principles: “Fighting for economic justice and security for all; Protecting and preserving civil rights and civil liberties; and Promoting global peace and security.” That’s what they say — it sounds great — but it’s not what they intend.

Everything you need to know about Progressives and Progressivism can be learned from visiting the Progressive Democrats of America’s Advisory Board page which features the bios of 25 of the leftiest leftists in America.

http://pdamerica.org/about/board.php

In the United States House of Representatives, these people all belong to the Congressional Progressive Caucus, established in the early 1990’s. The members of the Progressive Caucus also belong to the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), a confederation of socialists formed in 1983 when a splinter group of the Socialist Party (Michael Harrington’s Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, DSOC) merged with the Students for a Democratic Society’s (SDS) splinter group, the New American Movement (NAM).

The main aim of DSA was to convert the Democratic Party into a social democratic organization. to that end, during the early 1990’s, the DSA hosted the Progressive Caucus’ website, which contained the names of its members. When the word got out, all the information regarding the Progressive Caucus vanished. These congress critters don’t want you to know their true colors (red).

The DSA has many celebrity members, including feminist Gloria Steinem, actor Ed Asner, black activist Cornel West, and libertarian socialist Noam Chomsky. It is also the chief American member group of the Socialist International, which includes the British Labour Party and the French Parti Socialiste.

Officers

Barbara Lee (California), Co-Chair
Lynn Woolsey (California), Co-Chair
Directors

Bill Goold, Executive Director
Current members
Neil Abercrombie (Hawaii)
Tammy Baldwin (Wisconsin)
Xavier Becerra (California)
Madeleine Bordallo (Guam)
Bob Brady (Pennsylvania)
Corrine Brown (Florida)
Mike Capuano (Massachusetts)
Julia Carson (Indiana)
Donna Christian-Christensen (Virgin Islands)
Yvette Clarke (New York)
William Lacy Clay, Jr. (Missouri)
Emanuel Cleaver (Missouri)
Steve Cohen (Tennessee)
John Conyers (Michigan) - chairman, House Judiciary Committee
Elijah Cummings (Maryland)
Danny Davis (Illinois)
Peter DeFazio (Oregon)
Rosa DeLauro (Connecticut)
Keith Ellison (Minnesota)
Eni Faleomavaega (American Samoa)
Sam Farr (California)
Chaka Fattah (Pennsylvania)
Bob Filner (California) - chairman, House Veterans Affairs Committee
Barney Frank (Massachusetts) - chairman, House Financial Services Committee
Raul Grijalva (Arizona)
Luis Gutierrez (Illinois)
John Hall (New York)
Phil Hare (Illinois)
Maurice Hinchey (New York)
Mazie Hirono (Hawaii)
Jesse Jackson, Jr. (Illinois)
Sheila Jackson-Lee (Texas)
Eddie Bernice Johnson (Texas)
Hank Johnson (Georgia)
Stephanie Tubbs Jones (Ohio) - chairwoman, House Ethics Committee
Marcy Kaptur (Ohio)
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (Michigan)
Dennis Kucinich (Ohio) - candidate for President of the United States
Tom Lantos (California) - chairman, House Foreign Affairs Committee
Barbara Lee (California) - Co-Chair
John Lewis (Georgia)
Dave Loebsack (Iowa)
Carolyn Maloney (New York)
Ed Markey (Massachusetts)
Jim McDermott (Washington)
Jim McGovern (Massachusetts)
George Miller (California) - chairman, House Education and Labor Committee
Gwen Moore (Wisconsin)
Jerry Nadler (New York)
Eleanor Holmes Norton (District of Columbia)
John Olver (Massachusetts)
Ed Pastor (Arizona)
Donald M. Payne (New Jersey)
Charles Rangel (New York) - chairman, House Ways and Means Committee
Bobby Rush (Illinois)
Jan Schakowsky (Illinois)
Jose Serrano (New York)
Louise Slaughter (New York)
Hilda Solis (California)
Pete Stark (California)
Bennie Thompson (Mississippi) - chairman, House Homeland Security Committee
John Tierney (Massachusetts)
Tom Udall (New Mexico)
Nydia Velazquez (New York) - chairwoman, House Small Business Committee
Maxine Waters (California)
Diane Watson (California)
Mel Watt (North Carolina)
Henry Waxman (California) - chairman, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee
Peter Welch (Vermont)
Lynn Woolsey (California) - Co-Chair

Senate member
Bernie Sanders (Vermont)

Former members
Sherrod Brown (Ohio) - elected to Senate
Lane Evans (Illinois) - retired from Congress
Cynthia McKinney (Georgia) - lost Congressional seat
Major Owens (New York) - retired from Congress
Nancy Pelosi (California) - left caucus when elected House Minority Leader

Supporting organizations

Institute for Policy Studies
The Nation Magazine
Moveon.org
National Priorities Project
Jobs with Justice Campaign
Peace Action
Americans for Democratic Action
Progressive Democrats of America

Co-sponsoring the kickoff event

NAACP
ACLU
Progressive Majority
League of United Latin American Citizens
Rainbow/Push Coalition
National Council of La Raza
Hip Hop Caucus
Human Rights Campaign
Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs
National Hip Hop Political Convention

[brityank]

And I can almost guarantee they are heavily tied in with Acorn!

What Is PDA?

Progressive Democrats of America was founded in 2004 to transform the Democratic Party and our country. We seek to build a party and government controlled by citizens, not corporate elites -- with policies that serve the broad public interest, not just private interests. As a grassroots PAC operating inside the Democratic Party, and outside in movements for peace and justice, PDA played a key role in the stunning electoral victory of November 2006. Our inside/outside strategy is guided by the belief that a lasting majority will require a revitalized Democratic Party built on firm progressive principles.

For over two decades, the party declined as its leadership listened more to the voices of Wall Street than those of Main Street. PDA strives to rebuild the Democratic Party from the bottom up – from every Congressional District to statewide party structures to the corridors of power in Washington, where we work arm in arm with the Congressional Progressive Caucus. In just a couple of years, PDA and its allies have shaken up the political status quo – on issues from the Iraq war to voter rights to economic justice.

These vermin need to be exposed and eliminated, along with the nuts in the other two branches.

[IrishCatholic]

CPC members chair 11 of the 22 committees in the House.

[PIF]

and I won’t be too sure of any of the Senate 25 and the House 50...

[PIF]

Might be easier to count the ones not on any payroll... would one get out of single digits?

[kenmcg]

Back in the 50’s Sen. Joe McCarthy warned the nation about the communist threat to our country. He went after communists in government and was eventually destroyed by the libs and MSM.

[JimRed]

How many of them are on Soros payroll?
How many of them are on The Saudi payroll?
How many of them are on the Chinese payroll?

TERM LIMIT THE B@$T@RD$ OUT BEFORE THEY CAN BUY THEIR WAY ONTO A PAYROLL WITH THEIR VOTES!

(Yes, I’m shouting!)

[Tempest]

I’m sorry, but I’m not clear as to what positions of U.S. Government power the individuals on your list currently hold?

Tresury Secretary? Federal Reserve Chairman? Dog Catcher?

[The Cajun]

I’m sorry, but I’m not clear as to what positions of U.S. Government power the individuals on your list currently hold?
Treasury Secretary? Federal Reserve Chairman? Dog Catcher?

Probably all of the above and more.

[Tempest]

So which positions are they in again?

[azishot]

Good to see you’re back, Beckwith.

Missed your posts........

[null and void]

Missed your posts........

As did we all.

[melancholy]

Sam Farr (California)

Since he got married to the left, his name changed to Sam Farr-Left.

[hoosiermama]

Excellant post. Thanks..ETL will be interested.

[hoosiermama]

Julia Carson is officially dead (she was brain dead long before it was official) Her grandson has taken over her thrown.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Wow. Very enlightening. Thank you for the link to that list.

[The Cajun]

So which positions are they in again?

You don't have to "hold" or be elected to any position in government to control it, you just have to control the person who holds or was elected to that position. That is usually done with money and sometimes blackmail. Right now I believe 90% of the government (Zero on down to newest lowly congressman) are not representing "We the People", but are being controlled (bought and paid for) by other people. Can't explain it any better or simpler.
If that is not an answer to your repeated question, you should maybe state your views further or add more in way of context of your question. I'm into a "Say what you mean and mean what you say" type of dialog with people.

[mojitojoe]

Excellent post! It’s good to see you back. :)

[Candor7]

Each One of them needs to be examined by the Investigating Committee On UnAmerican Activities II.

Surely this progressive movement Usurps their oath of office concerning the constitution of the United States?

[Vendome]

You’re back. Great!

[El Gato]

Global Non-Violence

Except when it's Socialists/Communists doing the slaughtering, then they either praise it, deny it, or cover it up.

What they really mean is no resistance against socialist regimes is allowed, and even outright attacks by social regimes should not be resisted, unless they are upon a more favored socialist regime, such as when the National Socialists of Germany attacked the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, then it was "Second Front, NOW!".

[little jeremiah]

Thanks for this information.

I just keep thinking “we’re doomed”, then I read something like the above, and it turns into “we’re freaking dooooomed”.

I still have hope that deus ex machina one way or another will drag the Steaming Pile off the stage, and expose fiends such as you describe.

(I think I used “deus ex machina” properly...)

[El Gato]

Neil Abercrombie (Hawaii)

The one person who claims to have seen Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack H. Obama Sr together in Hawaii.

[patriot08]

Great post. Glad you’re back.

[patriot08]

Great post. Glad you’re back.

[Tempest]

I see. I understand what you're saying and I agree with you for the most part, but I'm wondering if you can distinguish the difference between the necessity of dealing with foreign governments that you are actively in trade with. And inviting private institutions with conflicting self interest into critical position of government infrastructure and allowing them to make decisions of great influence...

[The Cajun]

.......but I'm wondering if you can distinguish the difference between the necessity of dealing with foreign governments that you are actively in trade with. And inviting private institutions with conflicting self interest into critical position of government infrastructure.........

Well now, I understand your point and I understand the difference, but the results will be the same. IMHO domestic private institutions corrupting our government by various means and foreign powers corrupting our government by various means are both ongoing threats brought upon us by dishonest elected officials more than eager to make a fast buck and will lead to our loss of freedom, constitution and eventually country as we know it.
It's all about the money primarily and then secondarily the power that comes with it.

[Beckwith]

The one person who claims to have seen Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack H. Obama Sr together in Hawaii.

Members of the U Hawaii snack bar crowd don't remember the Obama-Dunham relationship. Hal Abercrombie, Neil's brother, said he never saw them together. Pake Zane could not recall Ann from those days but had precise memories of Senior.