Here come the socialists: 'Comrades' seeking office in 2018 take cue from Sanders

Fox News ^ | April 26, 2018 | Joseph Weber

[jazusamo]

A slew of candidates are running in the 2018 elections as in-the-open socialists, in the latest sign that the Bernie Sanders wing is looking to expand its political footprint -- as mainstream Democrats, in turn, embrace their big-government policies.

Those running under the socialist banner this year include nearly two-dozen candidates, for offices at all levels.

One, Texas attorney Franklin Bynum, this week proclaimed he's running on a “far-left” agenda as he touted his Democratic Socialists of America “comrades.” Texas, which has voted for a Republican in the past 10 presidential races, has emerged as an unlikely hotbed for socialist candidates this year -- including Bynum, who last month won in an unopposed Democratic primary for a post as a Houston criminal courts judge.

“Stood with DSA comrades in the Sunday New York Times,” the 34-year-old Bynum tweeted Monday, a few days after he was quoted in the newspaper saying, “Yes, I’m running as a socialist. I’m a far-left candidate.”

Bynum’s campaign did not respond to a request from Fox News for an interview.

[jazusamo]

These Democrats at least admit they're Socialists.

[butlerweave]

Are they getting advice from the Bus Driver in Venezuela ?

[Telepathic Intruder]

What most socialists won’t admit is that they’re actually communists. We won’t find out until they grab enough power that we can’t do anything about it.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Democrats are so deep in the throes of Trump Derangement that they are willing to resort to ANYTHING go get their lazy, entitled, slow-witted voter base off the couch and out to the polls.

So expect the promises of freebie giveaways to be ramped-up to 11.

[jazusamo]

The bus drivers days will be coming to a bad end for him.

[txnativegop]

I’m guessing the giveaway rhetoric will be elevated far higher than that, IMO.

[Pollster1]

If open socialists can win in 2018, America is dead anyways. If they scare normal Americans to the polls, and if that brings a conservative wave, then perhaps President Trump will have time to save freedom and the rule of law.

[jazusamo]

MAGA!

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[rarestia]

I’m glad they’re out in the open, but I’m also sad and a little freaked out that it’s become socially acceptable to label oneself such a thing in modern America. I suppose the days of McCarthyism are dead and buried?

[TallahasseeConservative]

Depends on where they’re running. I could see a Socialist winning in Austin.

[PGalt]

Here come the communists. The socialists are already here...

http://usdebtclock.org

Socialism Is Legal Plunder - “The Law”; Frederic Bastiat

http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html

[jazusamo]

I couldn’t agree more, for socialists to be accepted by some in our nation just blows me away.

[jazusamo]

Bump!

[Salman]

In the old days, there was a meaningful distinction between Socialists and Communists. That is the Communists were taking orders from the Soviet Union.

Now there is no distinction.

[gattaca]

They will come back with the predictable, “tax cuts for the rich” mantra.

[rfp1234]

Now we know it’s OK for bars to kick them out based on their politics.

[PIF]

Bernie is just posing as a Socialist, but longs to be like his long time Hero of the Soviet Union... Joseph Vissarionovich Jughashvili.