Posted on 02/27/2020 7:36:07 AM PST by Steve1999
Conservative pundit Herman Cain argued Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is advocating for a version of socialism that does not exist. "Bernie Sanders would have you believe that he is not like the socialists who have ruined Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and — going back a few years — all of Eastern Europe," Cain wrote in an opinion article in the Western Journal. "Oh sure, he agrees with many of their economic ideas, but don’t worry. He’s a democratic socialist, and that’s different." Cain then said, "Democratic socialism doesn’t exist. That’s because it can’t exist, because socialism can’t take hold in a truly democratic system."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
It’s like being a “Moderate Muslim”. There is no such thing. There are just Muslims. And Socialists. And the values of those two groups do not align with American values.
Lenin, when he lost and rejected the results of the Consitutent Assembly election of 1917, pronounced that there is a “higher type” of democracy which results only in the victory of Bolshevism.
“For the transition from the bourgeois to the socialist system, for the dictatorship of the proletariat, the Republic of Soviets (of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Deputies) is not only a higher type of democratic institution (as compared with the usual bourgeois republic crowned by a Constituent Assembly), but is the only form capable of securing the most painless transition to socialism.”
Obviously Mr. Cain hasn’t seen some of the FB posts out there ‘splainin’ the difference between democratic socialism, plain old socialism and communism. LOL!
Cain is right on target. To have a real ‘socialist state’, not a social democrat welfare state there has to be compulsion and a real political police to enforce it.
Two wolves and a sheep voting on who is for breakfast is totally Democratic!
Democratic socialism is like democratic fascism - it does not exist.
But in Germany, pre-WWII, the Socialist Democrat Party was alive and doing well ... Sig Heil!
Lest we, who were taught American history, forget ...
Good to hear from him and know he’s still around.
I predicted weeks ago that Herman and other real leaders would surface.
Democratic socialism - you can vote your way in, but you’ll have to shoot your way out.
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