Former Sanders delegate: 'Midwesterners aren't scared of socialism'

The American Thinker ^ | 07/10/18 | Rick Moran

[pgkdan]

Chicago alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa penned an op-ed for NBC that encapsulates the reasons why Democrats will be unable to capitalize this November on the relative unpopularity of Republicans in the Midwest, given the Dems' turn to the hard left.

Rosa is described as "Queer, Latinx and a democratic socialist" – whatever that means. In political terms, it means he would be a gone goose if he ran for Congress in the vast majority of districts anywhere in the Midwest.

But Rosa doesn't see it that way. In fact, he believes that Midwesterners would embrace a socialist candidate and are "not scared of bold left-wing policies." To "prove" his point, he cites labor activists like Eugene Debs and political movements like the left-wing activists who created the reformist movement in Wisconsin early in the 20th century. He failed to mention the Democratic Farm-Labor party in Minnesota that still dominates Democratic politics in that state today.

[dfwgator]

In fact, under Socialism, you are forced to work, for little money. Stalin used slave labor extensively.

[VanShuyten]

Fascism is government direction of private companies, as in Spain, Italy, Portugal, et al, with created wealth split among the government, owners and employees. It is also known as state corporatism.

Socialism is the government ownership of the means of production, as in British Steel or the Soviet Lada automotive manufacturer, and is characterized by distribution of created wealth to all, as the government sees fit.

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

It is ultimately based on covetousness: the desire to have (or forcibly take what belongs to someone else.)

Read James 4:1.

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Time was, Milwaukee was one of the most socialist cities in America, followed by Bridgeport CT, Reading PA, and Rockford IL, but that was a long-time ago ...