Posted on 04/03/2019 6:11:05 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
If I owned all the real estate in the world, I wouldn’t feel so powerful as I do on the streets of this socialist city,” declared former New York City councilman Baruch Vladeck when he arrived in Milwaukee in 1932 for the Socialist Party’s national convention in that city.
Norman Thomas, the famed civil-rights and economic-justice campaigner who became the party’s presidential nominee that year, celebrated the fact that he was chosen for that honor in a city governed by Socialists. The success of Milwaukee under then-Mayor Dan Hoan, Thomas said, was proof that the party’s social-democratic “dreams will someday come true.
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Oniada, Amana, Shekinah?
Sounds like three female rappers................
Enemies of the state have a way of disappearing.....in large numbers.
Delusion - it’s not just a river in Egypt.
Lots of American cities used to be functional. Whether the demographics brought on the socialism or the socialism brought on the demographics is a less interesting question than why it was done, and by whom. Tax cuts aren’t going to save Baltimore.
Exactly. I love that graphic.
Usually when people speak very positive things about Marxism and how great it is it’s usually coming from the standpoint of:
If THEY were in charge that’s how great it would be.
Serious question.
Who wakes up everyday and on their own using their own logic and reason says, “I must do everything in my power to make America a socialist country”?
I mean, were they born retarded? ...born without any sense of self preservation? ...or were they seduced by a Marshall Applewhite type and actually believe an alien space ship will be passing earth soon to pick them up, metaphorically speaking.
I’d like to see the 5 Whys analysis on this.
Yeah, weren't they Salt-N-Pepa?!
You see - Bigfoot DOES exist!
Interesting stuff about the Indian reservations.
Maybe my reading skills are eroding but I couldn’t find much about what the Milwaukee socialists actually accomplished. Was income redistributed? Did the govt takeover the food markets? They seem not to have been able to take over the streetcars. And what ever success it had seemed focused on one man, the Mayor, who was in office 24 straight years. That speaks to one man rule, not socialism. Oh did the city take over Pabst and Miller?
One of their proven tactics...One useful idiot lies, and the rest swear to it...The Socialist notion of what makes credibility...
The US military is entirely a socialist organization, except that it is charged with producing nothing. And no one was more frustrate than Donald Rumsfeld trying to mobilize for Iraq War I when he discovered that the central military planners would have gotten all required logistics in theater in about 2033. There was a rapid ramp-up of the leasing of commercial assets - planes and ships to transport stuff quickly.
I wouldn't take the US military as a model for running an efficient economy. No one who relies on DOD acquisitions for equipment has a good word to say about the efficiency of the DOD acquisition process.
Great cartoon!
I think there was a Payless in Shiprock.
Nothing in the article proved the headline. I didn’t read anything in that article that gave a description of a “socialist” program and how it worked.
Socialism is always about smashing people and things.
“If I owned all the real estate in the world, I wouldn’t feel so powerful as I do on the streets of this socialist city,” “
And that is it in a nutshell. POWER, that is what they want. Raw power over others. Nothing else.
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