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The dawn of American socialism
The Week ^ | January 11, 2018 | Ryan Cooper

Posted on 01/11/2018 8:24:24 AM PST by C19fan

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To: C19fan

“20 million illegal immigrants can’t be wrong,” Richard Jeni.


21 posted on 01/11/2018 8:58:33 AM PST by EdnaMode
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To: bar sin·is·ter

...who still live with their mothers...


22 posted on 01/11/2018 8:58:35 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: C19fan

The youth is always attracted to “sharing” that they have been taught since preschool. Socialist revolutions are always started by clever manipulators of youth and poor. Hopefully, after the tax cuts, a lot of the poor will no longer be poor and a lot of the youth can start their careers.


23 posted on 01/11/2018 9:01:01 AM PST by jimmygrace
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To: WayneS

Basements will be the hot properties for the next 40 years.


24 posted on 01/11/2018 9:02:17 AM PST by bar sin·is·ter (Climate Scientology - another example of science fiction morphing into a religious cult)
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To: C19fan

So why is the whole of the the Middle East, Indian subcontinent, Africa and Latin America are trying to come to the West?


yup


25 posted on 01/11/2018 9:14:46 AM PST by samtheman (Liberalism is a mental disease.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That is the reason. The US School system has been hijacked by the progressive movement. Our children get spit out the other end as good little socialists. Unless we reform public education and send it back to the states nothing will change.


26 posted on 01/11/2018 10:16:07 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Buckeye McFrog; Georgia Girl 2; All

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If American Socialism is dawning it’s only because we’ve been able to import and mis-educate a sufficient number of people who are willing to vote for it.
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1) Socialism hasn’t Been ‘dawning’ in the U.S. It’s BEEN the U.S. for over 100yrs. (SS, welfare, engineering via tax code, ‘education’ via skools, etc.)

2) Inverse there: It’s only because *WE* have failed to elect persons to uphold, defend and FOLLOW the Constitution. It, alone, specifies that the will\want of the majority (should) shall NEVER preside over the Rights of the minority


27 posted on 01/11/2018 10:22:56 AM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: C19fan
This guy is even wackier than Bernard Sanders.

See how many millennials you can convince that Venezuela and Cuba are failed communist dictatorships. If they can come to admit those regimes have problems they will swear that those problems are caused by the USA.

Three decades of Communist indoctrination has taken a toll.

28 posted on 01/11/2018 10:32:54 AM PST by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: kabar

If the millenidums want to live under SocialistCommunism they should move there. Those who don’t like living under such Hell don’t always get yo leave.


29 posted on 01/11/2018 10:33:06 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: a fool in paradise

The millennials are the future. They don’t want to move. They want to create their own socialist paradise here.


30 posted on 01/11/2018 10:46:14 AM PST by kabar
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To: Georgia Girl 2

The bomb throwing Communist agitators of the 60s and 70s went into Ivy League academia without controversy from the alumni.


31 posted on 01/11/2018 11:02:25 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: C19fan

As Americans get poorer and their buying power shrinks more will vote left, what else would we expect them to do? One party wants to increase mininium wage and social assistance by taxing those with the money more, vs other party that says forget you! However under Trumpism as jobs increase and expectantly wages and salaries that can be held off in part depending on how it impacts low income workers and lower middle class.

But then comes the AI Bots! Less jobs....less $$$...more socialist political power.

Political power comes from who gets the most votes.


32 posted on 01/11/2018 11:09:01 AM PST by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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Don't forget that Norway's “Sovereign Wealth Fund” is worth more than $1 trillion.

All the money in the Fund began as re-invested oil profits.

A substantial portion of that $1 trillion came from USA stock market investments.

By law, the Fund distributes 3% ($30 billion) of the principal each year.

I don't know how the money is distributed, but that works out to $6,000 per citizen.

33 posted on 01/11/2018 2:26:24 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: kabar
Re: Poll - Nearly Half Of Millennials Prefer Socialism To Capitalism

Equally important...

Nearly Half Of Millennials Are Black, Hispanic, or Asian.

White Millennials vote almost like their parents:

50%-60% for the Republican Party.

34 posted on 01/11/2018 2:32:31 PM PST by zeestephen
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To: zeestephen
Nearly Half Of Millennials Are Black, Hispanic, or Asian.

And those numbers are rapidly changing. By 2019 half of the children 18 and under will be minorities as defined by the USG. Non-Hispanic whites will be 50% of the population by 2043 down from the current 63% and 89% in 1970. We are being colonized by the Third World.

35 posted on 01/11/2018 3:08:46 PM PST by kabar
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They’ve been groomed and indoctrinated for the first 20 years of their existence by anti-American cultists.

If Communism is the answer, go live in a Communist country. I notice Hanoi Jane never moved to live under such a system that she actively promoted telling us we’d all be grateful and thankful to live under Communism id we only knew what it was.


36 posted on 01/11/2018 3:27:03 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: C19fan

bump


37 posted on 01/11/2018 3:44:49 PM PST by foreverfree
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To: i_robot73

I was about to say - the dawn of socialism was with Wilson, and ramped up to communisim under FDR. See the thread linked in my tagline about FDR and the New Deal - “The Revolution Was”.


38 posted on 01/11/2018 3:48:28 PM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: ctdonath2
If you’re doing better than 80% of everyone on the planet, you have little to complain about.

We have the richest poor people in the world. PJ O'Rourke

39 posted on 01/11/2018 5:16:07 PM PST by Hardastarboard (Three most annoying words on the internet - "Watch the Video")
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To: C19fan

His point is the collapse of the sovit union opened the door for socalist rather than closing it as though. By taking away a totaltarian example of it’s results. In practice he’s correct without that example and the radicalization of the communist indoctrination in our public schools and collages.
There was no longer the ablity to show kids thou patriotism that this ideoligy leads to evil oppression.

His other point that Europe is socialist is denied by the Europeans, who’s current success is due to their moving away from socialsim as well as their mono-culture and enormous natural resources to bankroll their governments missguided efforts.
Even so today on a whole Europe has only a fraction of the real wealth of Americans.(they should be much richer given their more develup)

In a large or culturally diverse counties socialsim only leads to corruption, disfunction, and oppressuon as it did in the USSR, Venezuela ,Cuba, and even brizille.

This has been the us experience with government run programs even on the small scale. The probem is accountable is more and more difficult as diversity of services and interest grows.

Whereas the freemarket deals with this dynamically by allowing an infinite number of small separately led indistries to cater to minority interest rising and falling based solely on the dictate of price as demanded by said minority.

A ‘democracy’ led indistry can cater only to the majortly as exist at any given time of election. This leads no flexablity between elections and no interest in minority demand.

It’s quite funny but socalist are really quite racist in practice because of this inherit limitation in their operation subject only to the demands of the politica majorty in any given area.

As far as big Government is conserned diversity is a weakness as it complicates and diversifys what they must provide to keep everyone happy. At the same time it makes it politically impossible for the leadership to be held accountable to the quality of any one of these diverse services. As their success depends only on the majorty approval. Winner take all instead of everyone geting a piece preportional to the share of the population that like their product or service best.


40 posted on 01/12/2018 5:06:16 PM PST by Monorprise
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