Posted on 07/30/2024 8:55:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Minnesota's Democrat Governor Tim Walz — one of the contenders reported to be on the short list under consideration for the VP slot with presumptive presidential nominee Kamala Harris — said this week that socialism is merely "neighborliness" by another name.
"Don't ever shy away from our progressive values," Walz admonished the "White Dudes for Harris" call on Monday evening. "One person's socialism is another person's neighborliness," the radical Democrat asserted. "Just do the damn work."
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, a top VP contender for Kamala Harris, says socialism is actually just "neighborliness." pic.twitter.com/xISVQSxIUv— Alpha News (@AlphaNewsMN) July 30, 2024
Walz has done the work of inflicting radical policies on Minnesotans — turning the North Star State into something of a "cold California" with driver licenses and in-state tuition for illegal aliens, for example — but he talks like someone who hasn't done his homework on the reality of socialism. More likely, he knows the truth — but is hoping Americans don't.
In some commentary published by the Heritage Foundation, historian Lee Edwards reminded that socialism "is responsible for the deaths of more than 100 million victims," citing The Black Book of Communism published by Harvard University Press in the late 1990s.
That work, Edwards underscored, documents how "each and every Marxist socialism regime has prevailed by way of a pistol to the back of the head and a death sentence in a forced labor camp." This is what Governor Walz calls "neighborliness."
"There is no exception whether in China under Mao Zedong, North Korea under Kim Il Sung, Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh, Cuba under Fidel Castro, Cambodia under Pol Pot, or Ethiopia under Mengistu Haile Mariam," Edwards continued. "Socialism in all its forms — Marxism-Leninism in the Soviet Union, Maoism in China, 'state socialism' in India, 'democratic socialism' in Sweden, National Socialism in Nazi Germany — has never come close to realizing the classless ideal of its founding father, Karl Marx."
More from Edwards' commentary:
According to Stephane Courtois, the editor in chief of The Black Book of Communism, the leading mass murderer is Pol Pot, whose attempt to communize Cambodia resulted in the deaths of one fourth of the country’s population. His closest rival is Mao, under whom as many as 40 million Chinese died in just one socialist campaign — the grossly misnamed Great Leap Forward. Of the Soviet Union’s first two dictators, Lenin and Stalin, Courtois says, “The blood turns cold at its venture into planned, logical and ‘politically collect’ mass slaughter.”
Sounding neighborly yet?
As Edwards correctly declared, the deadly barbarism inflicted in the name of socialism is the failed theory's reality, "a pseudo-religion grounded in pseudo-science and enforced by political tyranny."
So, who wants to be Governor Walz's neighbor?
This shows the true state of the Harris campaign if they find it necessary to protect Minnesota from defeat. It hasn’t gone Republican since the 1970’s.
Socialists are so neighborly when they shoot citizens in the mass graves they made the victims dig.
Klobuchar is exactly the same.
Disgusting hypocrites.
^^^^ Sounds like a perfect fit for Kamela Harris.
Having to shore up Minnesota is the biggest Red Flag I can think of.
You know, the only state, alongside D.C., that Reagan didn't win in 84....
I guess Stalin was just being neighborly when he starved many of his countrymen . . . . I hope the masses wise up.
Let’s just give Timmy a nice free one way ticket to Venezuela 🇻🇪 then.
So, stealing half of someone’s pay is “neighborliness.” Got it.
Before it’s too late.
I had a socialist neighbor who couldn’t pay his utilities.
I came home from work one day and found him tapping into my water and electricity.
How neighborly of him.
They had younger children so I didn’t say anything.
It lasted two weeks.
While I think getting rid of Walz(nuts) would be great.
I would not wish that worthless SOB on anyone.
That is some weak sauce. I would have called the police immediately. The kids would have been taken care of and the communist parents could have learned a hard lesson.
My guess it will be Kelly of AZ. It would be the best move strategically
“That is some weak sauce....”
I learned long ago that the last thing you want to do is go to war with someone who lives 20 feet away.
You topped your weak and sad comment with an even sadder comment. I would never want to be in a foxhole with you.
“You topped your weak and sad comment with an even sadder comment. “
Bless your heart.
Weak, supine suck says what?
Do you mean muslimsota?
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