Posted on 03/05/2019 4:34:41 AM PST by Magnatron
Democrats bristle, but Republicans have successfully framed the 2020 election as a struggle against socialism -- an ideology that not one Democratic contender says they advocate.
President Donald Trump set the table in his State of the Union speech when he declared that “America will never be a socialist country.” He has reiterated the warning over and over since then, most recently on Saturday, when he set off thunderous applause at a major conservative gathering by depicting a push toward “total domination” by government.
“Socialism is not about the environment. Socialism is not about justice. Socialism is about only one thing, it’s called power for the ruling class. Look at what’s happening in Venezuela,” he said at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. “The future does not belong to those who believe in socialism.”
Democrats call the comparison ridiculous and inflammatory. Embracing a more expansive social safety net, they say, is fundamentally different from the autocratic socialism practiced in Cuba, Venezuela or the former Soviet Union.
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Mr. Gillman,
Did you happen to miss Bernie Sanders declaring himself a ‘Democratic Socialist?’
Yes...not one...but ALL of them
Yeah it’s a “boogeyman” that has claimed a gazillion lives in the past 100 years! :)
A Texas paper writing this??
I’d expect the slimes or the compost.
Shilling for the Democrat party never gets old for these folks
It is either Re-electing Trump or Electing Socialism in 2020.
It is a choice voters will decide.
Instead of just “bristling”, I think that a good case can be made for making the democRATs swing in the wind.
Hang the traitors.
Socialism is in all actuality, what the nation which currently is running the single largest trade surplus in ALL HISTORY against America, practices.
China.
Actually it is a bit more than Socialism.
But here we are, steadily supporting them and sending TONS of money to them.
Every single month, more, and more, and more.
Sort of, a mixed message...
We’re a constitutional Republic. Our constitution is written around LIBERTY. Individual LIBERTY.
Democrats and Socialist (mostly the same) are constantly trying to take our LIBERTYS away. Those who are politicians in DC have signed a piece of paper stating that they will defend the constitution. They need to be jailed as traitors.
It’s the New and Improved Socialism!
Not one Democrat admits they support the demographic replacement of the American population either.
Democrats call the comparison ridiculous and inflammatory. Embracing a more expansive social safety net, they say, is fundamentally different from the autocratic socialism practiced in Cuba, Venezuela or the former Soviet Union.
I must be slow as I don’t recognize a difference when I look at the issues Democrats pursue and support.
True! In a lot of ways, it's also pretty close to fascism, but Americans can't seem to recognize that without a racial (Nazi) component...
Reduclious and inflammatory...
Duck rule!!!
Name one in the GOP who is fighting socialism or anything else?
The only problem with raising this 20 months before the election is it gives the Democrats a chance to formulate a response. Waiting a year would have made more sense tactically.
That is a very optimistic assumption.
"Votes do not matter. It is the people who count the votes that matter" (attributed to Josef Stalin).
But wait! If you order Socialism today, you’ll get a free bonus gift of Infanticide!
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