Posted on 09/20/2017 12:45:04 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
On a recent September evening, 76 comrades of the Pittsburgh chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America joined together to discuss society’s travails, like the disproportionate harm natural disasters cause poor communities, public-education funding shortages, and access to health care. One answer prevailed throughout the evening as the cause for these problems: capitalism. And, if you ask DSA members, all of these problems have one solution: a new American form of socialism.
“I joined because capitalism has basically ruined my life since I was born,” says DSA member and Shadyside resident Marlene Noble, who was born in Haiti, but moved to the U.S. at age 3.
After Hurricane Gordon struck in 1994, 89,000 Haitians were displaced, and Noble’s family was too poor to fully recover. Noble was placed with Catholic Charities and eventually adopted by American parents in Pittsburgh. She has had chronic back problems that have required multiple surgeries, and worries her health care will be stripped. She says, as an immigrant and a black woman, she has little faith in capitalism to help her.
She joined Pittsburgh’s DSA in August and is part of a growing cohort flocking to the political group that was formed in the wake of President Donald Trump’s election.
Pittsburgh’s DSA is a “big tent” organization, and there are many different roles for potential members, including electoral politics, education advocacy, socialist feminism and even just helping to make memes. She rejects the notion that Pittsburgh is too moderate or conservative to embrace socialism, and notes the robust history of labor organizing in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
“If people look into their family trees,” says Cohen, “they might realize they have been a socialist all along.”
(Excerpt) Read more at pghcitypaper.com ...
Idiots.
And not even useful ones..................
Can?
Or realize that they're the sap.
What an ungrateful *****.
What a spoiled, despicable brat. America SAVED HER SORRY ASS. And all she does is bash America. Would you be happier back in Haiti, bitch?
These people use the term “socialism” but really mean greed. Socialism, to them, is being taken care of like a child and having things given to them at no cost. Her comment that capitalism has ruined her entire life appears to mean that she has needed stuff her entire life but it has cost money she did not have.
The list of demands from the socialists can be summed up as “give me education”, “give me health care”, “give me food”, “give me X, Y, Z”, and “I hate white people”. The hate and the myths they believe regarding whites are the mental justification they use for demanding free stuff.
Uh? note to Ms. Noble. Shadyside is one of the most affluent neighborhoods in Pittsburgh. You were adopted by affluent “old” types suffering from white guilt because they inherited their money and hate themselves because they never had to work for anything in their life. Instead they live in the alternative world of academia and pontificate what about everything wrong with the US. You are just a token black kid adopted to show off their esteemed elegance to their arts and croissant friends there in Shady Side.
Another note to Ms. Noble. You are here because Haiti IS a socialist country, not a capitalist one like we in the US, you moron
They need to be shipped to Venezuela to see how well it really works. Maybe they can eat those roses...they’ll need ‘em.
““If people look into their family trees,” says Cohen, “they might realize they have been a socialist all along.””
So socialism is in our DNA now?
On another note, I’m starting to think that socialism exists so that beta males can act like alpha males in closed gatherings and (literally) use women they’d never have a chance to meet in the real world.
They might get lucky and recruit appreciable numbers near the universities in Pittsburgh; however, despite its history and reputation for championing nonsense labor unions, people in SW PA simply want to work hard and enjoy the fruits of their labor.
These petty, angry doofuses spouting their tired, regressive, 60s politics are going to be in for a shock if they start going door to door. People in Allegheny County are sick and tired of the high property taxes and failing schools ... good luck explaining to jaded property owners that they need more money to fix things. If renters would understand that rent is getting higher due to idiotic property taxes, even they’d tell these people to piss off.
PA going to Trump shows that people in this state are starting to wake up. I hope the trend continues.
Those roses must have been free, along with her wool hat...free.
Tools.
Get the $$ll out of my country.
“”””Noble was placed with Catholic Charities and eventually adopted by American parents in Pittsburgh. She has had chronic back problems that have required multiple surgeries, and worries her health care will be stripped. “””
I wonder if she’s an American citizen?
“If people look into their family trees,” says Cohen, “they might realize they have been a socialist all along.”...Huh?WTF?
She missed out on the Clinton Foundation Relief Fund.
LMAO! The BS FemiNazi sob story,red beret,red wall,red roses and Pajama Boy emasculated male side kick. So pathetic,cliche and bottom of the barrel,do nothing inhabitants of earth. GTF out of this country. There are plenty of Socialist Hellholes to pick from. BTW,Hillary Clinton and her crime syndicate foundation ripped off Haiti for BILLIONS and not one of these POS Socialist/Communist scum said one word. They are hypocrites and frauds.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
