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Socialism Strikes Back. Before many Sanders voters were born, I saw his ideology in action in the Soviet Union and Britain.
Wall Street Journal ^ | February 4, 2020 | George Melloan

Posted on 02/05/2020 5:28:56 AM PST by karpov

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1 posted on 02/05/2020 5:28:56 AM PST by karpov
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To: karpov

Barney Frank has praised Castro and Chavez. He’s a Communist and not even a moderate one.


2 posted on 02/05/2020 5:35:41 AM PST by a fool in paradise (We need a tax to stamp out Communism- If you espouse Marxism weÂ’ll redistribute all of your money.)
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To: karpov

Didn’t bernie say something about legalizing marijuana the first day he was in office? what is actually wrong with this dude. his life has been fails, with him not doing anything but be an annoyance in politics. even his wife is a failure, that her school had went bankrupt.


3 posted on 02/05/2020 5:37:50 AM PST by graciebraswell (are snakes good?)
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To: karpov

Not paying to read, although I wouldn’t mind


4 posted on 02/05/2020 5:41:44 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: karpov

“One taste...
Is never enough
of The Stuff!”

Socialism is far from the only previously discarded/discredited ideology that has recently been eagerly fished back out of the sewers, and “rescued”: given a bath, a shave, and a new coat of paint. There are plenty of others too.


5 posted on 02/05/2020 5:42:06 AM PST by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: karpov

young idiots are attracted


6 posted on 02/05/2020 5:42:38 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: graciebraswell

“””””””Didn’t bernie say something about legalizing marijuana the first day he was in office? “”””””””””

I agree with Bernie on this one. If I am going to be oppressed
and broke I will want to be stoned all the time.


7 posted on 02/05/2020 5:45:13 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: karpov

its the 21st century. Practically, economically and ideologically socialism, which is merely a front for communism, belongs in the ash heap of history. It is not a liberating force for human freedom in any way shape or form


8 posted on 02/05/2020 5:46:35 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible")
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To: karpov

Anyone notice that it’s always young people from which the prophets of socialism get their power? Life is “hawrd”, and it was so easy when you lived with mom and dad.


9 posted on 02/05/2020 5:47:39 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: karpov

Whoever wins the Rat nomination Trump is going to tear them a new one. Right now it looks like either Burny or Buttwipe. It’s going to be a worse defeat than McGovern in 72. When sane rational people see the plans that these commies have in store for America,they’ll pull the lever for Trump. So now while its obvious that the Rats are going to lose get out there and don’t be shy about your support for our President. Cook while the oven is hot.


10 posted on 02/05/2020 5:48:13 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: karpov; GOPsterinMA; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy; LS

“...Mr. Sanders says he is a “democratic socialist,” whereas those unfortunates of the past were ruled by “communists....”

A Socialist is nothing more than a communist that hasn’t decided to use his AK47 yet.

They always get around to it eventually, though... the first time someone says “No” to them.

Too bad for them that here, we can shoot back. And will.


11 posted on 02/05/2020 5:52:49 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: karpov

These young kids don’t really want Socialism. They want a handout paid for by someone else. That’s what they all mean, including the Dems. Gimme gimme gimme and make “the rich” pay for it.


12 posted on 02/05/2020 5:54:19 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: NFHale

Good point——or a Commie who ran out of ammo.


13 posted on 02/05/2020 5:59:36 AM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: cuban leaf

“Anyone notice that it’s always young people from which the prophets of socialism get their power?”

The Obama years were harder for young people graduating from college and high school. They did not immediately get good jobs like than can now and they got propagandized by the Obama rhetoric for 8 years. And then they were convinced they should get free healthcare and the country should pay for their college loans because of all the rich billionaires’ money out there. Why didn’t their parents tell them that most people used to work their way through college?


14 posted on 02/05/2020 5:59:58 AM PST by Antipolitico
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To: LS

“...a Commie who ran out of ammo....”

Ironically, ammo seems to be the ONLY thing the bastards never run short of.

The only thing socialists have EVER been good is spreading misery and death.


15 posted on 02/05/2020 6:06:15 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: Antipolitico

That’s the DEM way. Produce more hardship. Offer up solutions for the hardship. Create new hardships with the so-called solutions. Rinse and repeat.


16 posted on 02/05/2020 6:07:44 AM PST by CatOwner
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To: LS

It was obvious to me, wearing virginal white, Pelosi got royally screwed


17 posted on 02/05/2020 6:10:53 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: shelterguy
"If I am going to be oppressed and broke I will want to be stoned all the time."


18 posted on 02/05/2020 6:17:02 AM PST by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: karpov

What remains is the delusion, long embraced by theorists, that socialism is a morally superior system of governance, which fosters equality and compassion by transferring wealth from the rich to the poor— Robin Hood government.
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That’s Step 1. Step 2 is a bit more severe. That happens when the rich have all joined the ranks of the poor and there is nothing left to redistribute.

And Step 3, when the wealth has been accumulated by the political class and the rulers, involves death sentences for anyone who objects to this cruel system.

No thanks Bernie.


19 posted on 02/05/2020 6:17:31 AM PST by InterceptPoint (Ted, you finally endorsed.)
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To: karpov

Pay to read?! Yeah right. I’m sure the article is factual and best of all...written from experience.


20 posted on 02/05/2020 6:18:38 AM PST by albie
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