Posted on 12/10/2025 1:06:06 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie
Last month, I wrote about how Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) introduced a non-binding resolution, asking the House of Representatives to condemn socialism in the wake of New York City electing Zohran Mamdani as its next mayor. It was more theater than anything, but it was also a chance for the House to show the people of the United States — well, most of us anyway — that they stand in solidarity with us in wanting to keep socialism out of our country. It was the opportunity to show that they still support the American dream and values.
Advertisement Only the Republicans were able to do that. Democrats were split, with 98 voting against it and 47 refusing to vote at all.
For many of them, it was personal. They knew he horrors of these failed ideologies firsthand. Salazar is the daughter of Cuban exiles. Korean-American Rep. Young Kim (R-Calif.) had witnessed it in the aftermath of the Korean War. And Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), well, apparently, she and Fidel Castro were besties, so she saw it from the other side, and she threw a little hissy fit when Salazar pointed this out.
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Would the democrats condemn communism? Fidel Castro? Joseph Stalin? Militant Islamism?
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The Constitution's drafters didn't give Congress the specific power to tax and spend for socialistic programs. So post-16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular vote for federal senators) Amendment ratification taxpayers are getting ripped off imo.
In fact, it remains that one of the very few jobs that lawmakers of the peacetime, constitutionally limited power (hint) federal government have is to deliver the mail, most federal domestic policy based on stolen state powers.
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;" It is one of a few government agencies explicitly authorized by the Constitution of the United States." (non-FR)
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 congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen [all emphases added], under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country. —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"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.
In other words, most Democratic and RINO federal lawmakers who want to experiment with socialism should have gotten themselves elected to a state government whose citizens and residents are willing to spend for socialistic programs.
The communists are very comfortable in the DemocRAT Party as they have been in over 100 years.
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