Posted on 07/03/2018 9:19:35 AM PDT by Hojczyk
The socialism to which Ocasio-Cortez adheres lacks the militancy of old and is supposedly attractive to young voters who have no memory of any communist association. The trouble is that young voters often don’t vote and older voters do. To the latter, the socialist label is anathema and, as far as I’m concerned, unnecessary. This, after all, is the avuncular socialism of Bernie Sanders: universal Medicare and free higher education. It needs no label. Sign me up.
The socialist label, combined with the demand to obliterate the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, is the nitro and the glycerin of a bomb that Trump can throw at the Democrats. It combines the bugaboo of socialism with the irrational fear of immigrant hordes rampaging through the countryside.
The latter fear is not to be messed with. In Germany, it may yet bring down Angela Merkel’s government and has already made doughty Denmark mad with anti-immigrant regulations that reveal a nation demented by cultural paranoia. But the United States, too, has gone through such phases, deporting “aliens” of what a 1918 law called the “anarchistic and similar classes.”
The “aliens” of that era are the illegal immigrants of our own. Whatever threat they represented — and some of them, like anarchist Alexander Berkman, were convicted criminals — their menace was greatly overstated. So, too, today. Trump has exaggerated the depth, breadth and importance of the MS-13 gang and the alleged criminality of immigrants in general. Trump has, however, uttered the one word that sums up anti-immigrant sentiment: culture. “Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people who have so strongly and violently changed their culture,” he elegantly tweeted.
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Richard the cat is out of the bag..you cannot get it back in the bag now..
And what’s more, said kitty has an obvious case of rabies.
“Irrational”.
Same old.
No, YOU communists are IRRATIONAL. Zero common sense.
Starting with, why not just welcome any intruder into your house, even though he sneaked in through a window?
When you adopt that approach, call me.
Gimme free stuff.
Of course they don’t want to use the term “socialism”
That’s what Venezuela had - including free health care.
Sign him up - in fact, sign this twit out and send him to the place where the ideology he loves reigns supreme and where the refugees are climbing each other to get OUT
Rational Democrats are starting to wake up to the Frankenstein they’ve created. It’s too late though . . .
In other words...”Shhhhh don’t tell those MAGA crazies that we’re really a bunch red diaper baby communists”. Too late Richard...we’ve known for decades.
The old "change your name and no one will recognize you" game is getting old.
She is a member of the National Socialist Workers Party?
In other words, just lie to people about the free stuff they’ll be getting...
And it’s some pretty nasty “intruders” in this case. Let’s see these principled “liberals” try to deal with them. If they are laughed off, then that shows that sterner means are needed.
Hate to break out the bad news, but the Establishment Media has been exposed as essentially the Soviet Union-era Pravda/Izvestia. Their problem. :-p
“Walk like a duck; quack like a duck. It’s a duck”
We’ll call it what it is and what we damn well please. It is an evil ideology.
Cohen needs to check out the reading list that DSA provides its youth organization. It includes works by Marx, Lenin, and Trotsky.
it’s ridiculous
When they faithfully follow and enforce their creed “what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is mine” as they always have. The young’uns today only see the “what’s yours us mine” as inviting and have yet to see communist hierarchy on the move after taking it all from the commoners then turning on their lower followers all the way up to anyone deemed under them.
the irrational fear of immigrant hordes rampaging through the countryside.
It is illegal immigrant hordes..fool
“Socialist candidates future of our party” Tom Perez, DNC Chair
Wash Compost, NY slimes etc..shut up Tom, Socialism doesn’t poll well.
You, Alexy from the block and Auntie Max need to zip it.
November can’t come soon enough!! Grab the popcorn...
These commie loons are trying to OutChavez each other.
Yes Richard- let’s just all keep quiet about a DESTRUCTIVE socialism ideology so that it can take over the country and turn us into a socialist craphole like venezuala
Sorry richard- RESPONSIBLE adults are sounding the alarm- despite your efforts to silence them!
IOW, don’t worry about running out of other people’s money, we’ll just print more. It’ll work this time! Honest!
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