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“What a 28-year-old American with very little international experience sees as socialism is really utopianism,” said Otto J. Reich, a former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela and assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere Affairs. “This woman is ignorant. Socialism offers simple answers, and offers great things, but who is going to pay for these things, like a free college education?”

They can't keep that secret forever.

1 posted on 07/08/2018 5:01:16 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Mexico has unlocked the gates and the socialist infection has spread ...

Now the younger poorly educated US generations see the wonders of free and regulation and cannot wait to become kings in their lifetimes ... all at some one else’s expense.


2 posted on 07/08/2018 5:15:23 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Libloather

Socialism fails over and over. Yet, the idiots are certain it can work with the right people.


3 posted on 07/08/2018 5:20:38 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (Enforce the Law. Build the Wall. Deport them All.)
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...leaders mismanaged the government...

Masterminds. The betters of We the People. Predictable failures. Every time it’s tried.


6 posted on 07/08/2018 5:33:39 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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“In socialist candidates’ election success, some see ominous rejection of Democratic ‘Old Guard’” Wow what a brilliant observation!


7 posted on 07/08/2018 5:51:09 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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When the Democratic Party in the South collapsed, a restraint on the leftward drift of the Party was gone. The Party can now be considered globalist and socialist. It is not an acceptable political vehicle for most Americans.


9 posted on 07/08/2018 6:22:41 AM PDT by allendale (.)
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Obviously she has not read F. A Hayek’s classic book on socialism “ The Road to Serfdom” where the Nobel prize winning economist explains how socialism inevitably leads to not only loss of economic freedom, but individual liberty. Nobel Prize winning economist, Milton Friedman, similarly wrote several books about socialism with the same warning. Despite numerous examples of nations being economically destroyed by socialism and turning into police states, academics have always maintained that socialism would work if it was implemented by just the right people.


10 posted on 07/08/2018 6:35:38 AM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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“None of them implemented socialism in way that actually adhered to tenets because, in general, leaders become corrupt by power,”

This is exactly what the founding fathers were afraid of - somebody getting too much power. That is why they wanted a limited government, and why they created a separation of powers through 3 branches of government and through federalism. Yet, the egotistical self-made messiahs, like Obama, think that they are so superior to the rest of us that they deserve to have the power to order all of society. These prima donnas are exactly the wrong people to be leaders. They will quickly becomes dictators, if given the chance. as Lord Acton said, "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Look at the track record of communism and other socialist countries: China, Cuba, Cambodia, Venezuela, Nicaragua.
12 posted on 07/08/2018 7:39:54 AM PDT by DeweyCA
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So... If this young skull full of mush REALLY believes in No Borders, how many illegal alien trespassers and invaders has she welcomed to live in her own home? Will she take the locks and doors off of her home? Locks and doors are, after all, symbols of borders. Since in her Socialist, Communist Utopia no one owns anything, anyone should have an open invitation to ‘occupy’ her home.


13 posted on 07/08/2018 7:44:00 AM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try.)
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She’s a communist. The only ‘promise’ they keep is a destruction of freedom - and decades of poverty and thugs...


15 posted on 07/08/2018 8:09:38 AM PDT by GOPJ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-s1_nfs7f4 STOP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-IsingvI_I)
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“Venezuela is not socialist; it’s a dictatorship.”

Why they don't notice the regularity with which this happens, I do not know. All socialist experiments either devolve into dictatorship or end up utterly dependent on capitalist patrons and a steady stream of poor migrant labor.

16 posted on 07/08/2018 8:17:03 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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Serves the Democrat Party right for pushing the victim mentality so relentlessly since WWII. Now the “victims” are turning on the Democrats for not solving all their problems in the past 70 years. The victim classes want more than food stamps and free housing now, so the expectations of the Gibsmedats have been kicked up a notch to include free college and forgiveness of student loans for the deadbeats who have never finished college.


17 posted on 07/08/2018 8:32:42 AM PDT by txrefugee
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Rejection of the old guard””

This is the old guard. Hillary and Obama have been socialist criminals for decades. How is this something new?


18 posted on 07/08/2018 10:37:10 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (MSM is our greatest threat. Disney, Comcast, Google Hollywood, NYTimes, WaPo, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC .)
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