rumitoid

The Courier Journal
Berry Craig
Mon, November 22, 2021, 3:53 AM

Having slammed the infrastructure bill as "socialist," Republicans are serving up the same smear against the Build Back Better Act.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, chair of the GOP crackpot caucus, opted for full-bore red-baiting against the infrastructure legislation. She called it "C*******t."

Biden’s whole economic agenda "is neither socialism nor Marxism. If only,” lamented socialist Kate Aronoff in The New Republic.

"The s-word has become an all-purpose epithet that Republicans use to describe everything from an influx of undocumented immigrants to the supposed teaching of critical race theory to v*****e mandates," Max Boot recently wrote in the Washington Post.

He described the GOP disingenuousness as "a rhetorical sleight of hand," explaining, "The s-word has been applied to Scandinavian-style social welfare states that are both democratic and capitalist as well as to Marxist dictatorships (e.g., the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) that were neither democratic nor capitalist. Republicans count on their followers missing the distinction between Sweden and North Korea by trying to convince them that social welfare bills such as the Build Back Better Act will draw us closer to the latter rather than the former."

The Democrats are a capitalist party. They are moderate-to-liberal by American political standards, centrist when compared to other parties in other democracies. (In those democracies, the Trumpian GOP would be a far-right party that tilts toward white nationalism and authoritarianism.)

Anyway, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy know the Democrats aren't a socialist party. But they also know that pinning the socialist tail on the Democratic donkey is red meat for the red MAGA-hatted white folks.

When true-believer Trumpians of the Greene-Gosar-Gohmert-Gaetz genre shriek "socialist!" (or "c*******t!") at the Democrats, they prove just how deep they dwell in their party’s proto-f*****t fever swamps.

America is the most conservative industrial democracy on earth and the only one that doesn't have a viable socialist party. (There is a tiny and virtually unknown Socialist Party USA, which was founded in 1973.)

Democratic Western Europe is the heartland of real socialist parties. Also called social democratic or labor parties, they thrive and routinely win e******ns.

Most importantly, these parties favor parliamentary democracy and condemn c*******m and violent revolution. They're not for abolishing all private property either.

Typical is the German Social Democratic Party, which, in September e******ns, won the most seats in parliament.

"In our understanding, markets are a necessary form of economic coordination, superior to other ones," explains the party's Hamburg Programme. "However, a market left to itself is blind in social and ecological terms."

The Social Democrats favor "the strength of law to overcome the law of the strongest." To that end, they and other socialist parties support laws that safeguard worker rights, including the right to unionize, and that shield consumers and the environment against the greedy excesses inherent in unfettered red-in-tooth-and-claw capitalism, which Republicans worship as the "free enterprise system."

Socialists also champion civil, economic and political rights and individual liberties, such as free speech, a free press, and separation of church and state.

The GOP has been dissing Democrats as "socialist" at least as far back as the 1930s, the era of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's historic New Deal program in which the federal government took the lead in fighting the Great Depression.

"All of this raises some obvious questions that Republicans never seem to ask themselves: If the United States has been traveling down the road to socialism for 90 years, how come we’ve never arrived at our destination and still have a flourishing capitalist economy?" Boot also wrote. "And what makes them think that every Democratic bill will finally usher in a Marxist nightmare?"

In any event, the GOP's "socialist" sliming is another big lie from the Big Lie party.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-democratic-party-isnt-socialist-105311487.html

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

Nailed it!!!!
Socialism is not a bad word in Germany.
It isn’t here either, except when the masses
Try access the benefits of socialism the rich have so blatantly sequestered for themselves only. The right desperately needs the left to appear C*******tic , desperately .
This will enable their screwed up behavior of being anti c*******tic.
Otherwise they have nothing. Most of our corporations could barely survive without the Government Socialism they so readily accept on a daily basis.
But Complain when the commons ask for ….
Medicare for All.

It’s Socialism for the Rich
And F*****m for the poor.

JR-57 Loc: South Carolina

I’m trying to better understand your position and posts.

▪️Do you agree with the Constitution?
▪️Do you agree with the Bill of Rights?
▪️Do you agree with The Federalist Papers?
▪️Do you agree with Thomas Paine’s books titled Common Sense and The American Crisis?

Liberty Tree

Publishing an article by an extremely leftwinger saying Democrats are not socialists just because they are currently prohibited from being as socialist as some Europen countries proves nothing. Because they cannot practice socialism as much as they would like does not mean they are not socialist. In fact, however they are more Marxist. They h**e the Constitution and Bill of Rights as written and intended by our founding fathers. They also h**e anyone who stands in the way of their radical agenda.

Wonttakeitanymore

They are c*******t!!

microphor Loc: Home is TN

I h**ed opening this today, just more of the same ole same ole. If you want to live as a socialist, move, I'll buy your f...ing ticket.

Strycker Loc: The middle of somewhere else.

What you refer to as socialism for the rich is in fact crony capitalism. The corruption of capitalism by government and the rich to line their own pockets, at the expense of the ordinary people. That is evident everywhere. Your solution of socialism for everyone by those very entities that are already corrupt is, at best, foolish and self destructive to the very people you claim you want to help. More and broader corruption is not a solution. You are promoting and fighting the wrong parties.

Ronald Hatt Loc: Lansing, Mich

"Oh Rummi"...Baby...get your head out of your....*#&^*

How can you be so erroneously convoluted?

What garbage you spew! You fit in so well in the *Demoncrat attempt to o*******w this republic....{ You should be proud}....{ NOT!}...

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

Maybe not, but the party leadership is socialist, the policies are socialist, and a huge majority of the socialists in America belong to the Democratic party instead of the Republicans or Independents. It doesn't matter how often you tell your Big Lie Rumi. You can't make fact out of fiction no matter how you try to spin it. You spend so much time on this topic that it is yourself that you are trying to convince, along with the small cadre of self-loathing l*****t comrades here on OPP that you are trying to convince. No one else is buying you B.S. It's a lost cause as you and your ilk, along with the evil l*****t Democrats in office, will become acutely aware of after next year's e******n.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

And the Corporate Lamestream (crony Capitalism) Media!!!!

Ricktloml

Not too long ago the Democrat/C*******t Party wanted to make sure the v**ers didn't realize how far left the Party had gone. Now the Democrat/C*******t Party is more and more comfortable about admitting their admiration for socialism/c*******m, at least the younger socialist/c*******t/Marxist members of Congress are.

Here's Our 70 Socialist Congressmen-women...
https://www.independentsentinel.com/heres-our-70-socialist-comgressmen


Congress Now Has More Socialist Than Ever Before in U.S....
https:// inthesetimes.com/article/democratic/socialism-dsa-aoc-bernie-sanders...

And the Democrat/C*******t Party members who want to claim they are not socialists/c*******ts/Marxists still ALWAYS support/defend/excuse/promote these socialist/c*******t/Marxist policies and agendas. They must have run some focus groups that showed Americans still don't want this kind of oppressive system and are getting nervous about Americans finding out about their real policies and agenda.

rumitoid

Yes, and what's your point?

rumitoid

Too funny. Have any proof of your statements?

JR-57 Loc: South Carolina

rumitoid, are you also Milosia2? Because my question was addressed to Milosia. I’m trying to better understand their posts. Based on experience, you are not worth the effort. Find someone else to annoy.

rumitoid

Mr. McCarthy, why are your sitting around here? Get out there and persecute American Citizens, violating their Bill of Rights and defaming innocent people. Seems that should excite you.