Posted on 01/28/2019 5:20:04 PM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
This article reminds me of an abusive boyfriend explaining how he’s not really the bad guy. It wasn’t his fault that he hit each of his girlfriends on so many occasions. He’s a great boyfriend. It’s just that every girlfriend he ever had provoked him and needed to be hit. Besides, the abusive boyfriend is an artist and likes gender studies.
This is the same reasoning. Socialism is fine. It just wasn’t done right by the national socialists, by the soviet socialists, by the Maoists, by Castro, by Pol Pot, or by anyone else who ever tried it, but the hundred million dead because of those outcomes are not socialism’s fault. Besides, I know a socialist who is an artist and another one who is a professor of gender studies. They must be good people.
President Donald Trump and his supporters hate socialism, that much we know.
“THIS TIME IT’S DIFFERENT!”, they shouted before the revolution. After the revolution the leaders declared them untrustworthy because they had betrayed their county and had them all shot.
He’s technically correct. Medicare-for-all will cause only thousands of deaths from rationing of medical care.
They always seem to ignore the history of failures and human suffering under socialism and push the “it could be Utopia!” crap.
oxy moron from a moron if you are a socialist and a historian you must know socialism thru out history has not worked. socialism is for the masses not the socialist is what he is really saying
Q for the author of this swill: Your state is going broke and depopulating. Because socialism is booming...?
Just askin’.
OMG. Check out this dude’s CV...
https://sasn.rutgers.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/whitney-strub
ROTF!!!
Nuff said.
Winston Churchill astutely observed that “you can always count on the American People to do the right thing....once they have exhausted all of the alternatives”.
It seems as if the only way the American people are going to reject socialism is after they’ve tried it.
Socialists/Communists are genocidal racists.
Period.
End of story.
What a creep (and what kind of parent names their son “Whitney” today ?).
How about listening to a warning from a woman who lived through Progressive/Leftist/Nazi aggression:
https://israelunwired.com/progressive-america-is-following-the-same-path-as-nazi-germany/
New York gives us Andrew Cuomo Mengele and his applauding band of baby murdering Gestapo in the New York Senate.
More generally, genocidal bigots.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
First, the states have constitutionally authorized only themselves, not the feds, to experiment with socialism, ultimately depending on what the legal majority voters of a given state want. Note that the states have constitutionally obligated themselves to not only maintain republican governments, but also to not abridge the constitutionally enumerated rights of their citizens.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Next, the reason that the federal government has given socialism a bad name is this. Post-17th Amendment ratification, low-information voters have unthinkingly elected crooks as federal lawmakers and presidents. As a consequence, corrupt lawmakers appropriate unconstitutional taxes without representation, accountability, and use such taxes, arguably stolen state revenues, to establish social spending programs with no express constitutional powers from the states to do so.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
"It is easier to get forgiveness than it is to receive permission." —Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, U.S. Navy's Chips Ahoy magazine (July 1986)
The remedy for unconstitutionally big federal government …
Patriots need to elect a new patriot Congress in 2020 elections that will not only promise to support PDJT's vision for MAGA, but will also promise to surrender state powers that the feds have been stealing from the states back to the states.
And to make this surrender of state powers permanent, patriots also need to support PDJT in leading the states to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.
Insights welcome.
Domino effect from NY.
Maybe.
Rejected in 1620.
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