Posted on 04/03/2018 12:04:02 PM PDT by MtnClimber
display of grassroots power, the Denver chapter of Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA, successfully convinced the Denver Democratic Party to endorse a key tenet of democratic socialism in their party platform. The party’s official platform now includes the following plank:
We believe the economy should be democratically owned and controlled in order to serve the needs of the many, not to make profits for the few.
The construction used here is similar to “for the many not the few,” the slogan used by the U.K.’s Labour Party. That party is currently run by Jeremy Corbyn, a committed socialist, who borrowed the phrase from neoliberal politician Tony Blair, who first used it during election campaigns in the 1990s. Blair and Corbyn both owe it to Shelley, whose Masque of Anarchy Corbyn has taken to quoting:
Rise, like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number!
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you:
Ye are many—they are few!
It even echoes in New York, where Democratic gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon has her own spin on it, promising a “New York for the many, not just the few.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theintercept.com ...
At their 2012 convention they denied God 3 times.
Convinced? Suspect they were already there, just too afraid to say it.
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