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Maryland’s Bread and Roses political party disbands, founder runs for governor as a Democrat
Baltimore Sun ^ | Dec 16, 2021 | Pamela Wood

Posted on 12/16/2021 10:41:06 AM PST by Pxzftrnqfrn

Maryland’s socialist Bread and Roses Party is disbanding, and its founder, Jerome Segal, is launching a run for governor as a Democrat.

Segal said the Bread and Roses Party’s central committee voted to disband and submitted the necessary paperwork to state elections officials this week, ending the group’s brief run as a recognized political party in Maryland.

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“The Democratic Party has moved so far to the left that many things we argued for at the beginning that were viewed as pie-eyed utopianism … now are mainstream Democratic Party positions,” Segal said. “So much more can be done inside the party.”

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TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: breadandroses; democrats; jeromesegal; leftwingnuts; maryland; popularfront; regal; socialism; socialist
Socialist admits democrats have moved so far to the left that there is no need for a separate socialist party anymore.
1 posted on 12/16/2021 10:41:06 AM PST by Pxzftrnqfrn
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To: Pxzftrnqfrn

81 million votes for something a little to the Left of the Bread and Roses Socialist party?

If they say so ...


2 posted on 12/16/2021 10:45:57 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Mass hypnosis of society. So many people are blind to the Truth which is in front of them.)
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To: Pxzftrnqfrn

The Democrats have moved much further to the left than have Republicans to the right. This article has a graph showing that Republicans have for the most part stayed somewhat conservative since 1994, whereas Democrats have pulled hard left:

https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/pew-research-center-study-shows-that-democrats-have-shifted-to-the-extreme-left/

Mind you this is from 2017, so by now the Democrats have gone even further off the rails.


3 posted on 12/16/2021 11:33:50 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: Pxzftrnqfrn

LOL! So true!


4 posted on 12/16/2021 3:09:24 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; piasa

Popular Front ping.


5 posted on 12/16/2021 3:58:27 PM PST by Fedora
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To: Pxzftrnqfrn; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj

Interesting name. Never heard of them.


6 posted on 12/19/2021 10:17:02 AM PST by Impy ("We didn't steal the election, we swear!!!" - Sincerely, The Election Thieves )
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