Posted on 09/26/2019 1:30:07 PM PDT by Hojczyk
My cousin once told me that during trips he’d taken to socialist countries in connection with his job, he’d witnessed the glaring failures of socialism many times. I don’t remember what got him started, but he began venting about the wretched conditions he observed in every socialist country he ever visited, all of them.
Obviously grateful that he was born in capitalist America -- he lives in a million-dollar home and owns a private plane -- he ended his anti-Marxist speech with this unambiguous declaration: “I want nothing to do with socialism.” My cousin is a patriotic Democrat and a strident anti-socialist. He loves his country and hates socialism, yet is totally blind to the profoundly un-American direction the party he supports has taken. When I present him with credible information in that regard, such as the respected surveys cited above, he reflexively reaches deep into his tiny bag of rational rebuttals and then, upon finding it empty, responds with the kind of sarcastic, non-serious political comment that pollutes the web.
Here’s my theory. No informed person can fail to recognize that the modern Democratic Party is attempting to fundamentally transform America into a single-party socialist nation. But because the human ego is loathe to admit it’s been duped, especially about politics, many Democrats who love their country will likely continue allowing themselves to be led like sheep into the closing noose of the hammer and sickle. Like distracted grazers in lion country, patriotic Democrats like my cousin won’t realize what happened until it’s too late.
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I will worry about a a patriotic democrat. When I find one.
the modern Democratic Party is attempting to fundamentally transform America into a single-party socialist nation...
Obama announced that this is what his goal was early on.
The most common rebuttal from nonthinking young people to solid evidence is "Where did you hear that? Fox News???"
"Patriotic Democrat" - IF you find one let us know WHO it is!
No such thing.
I didn’t know there were any. I thought they had all defected.
Okay.....repeat after me...
There ARE NO PATRIOTIC DEMOCRATS in 2019!
There ARE NO PATRIOTIC DEMOCRATS in 2019!
There ARE NO PATRIOTIC DEMOCRATS in 2019!
That species went extinct approximately 20 years ago so far as I can tell.
One cannot be Democratic and patriotic. I’m sorry, but there it is.
This author is a complete imbecile if he believes such a thing.
If you are a patriot, you will not be a democrat.
Patriotic democrat, there is no such thing, their patriotic is lies and bulls## to put money in their off shore accounts and thats it.
Ping.
There are more unicorns in this world than there are patriotic Democrats.
I might sympathize, if the rest of us weren't along for the ride.
Slide a little further south. Yes, patriotic Latin American Democrat.
We will see Big Foot and Yeti and get their autographs, before we see a live patriotic Democrat!
There is no such animal any longer. They went the way of the DoDo bird. They are only fooling themselves.
Democrats who are so wrapped up in ideology, so hood-winked by propaganda.. so desperate to be thought of as a ‘good person’.. they can’t bring themselves to admit what the Democrat party really stands for.
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