Commie, commie, commie!
Commie, commie, commie, comedians!
They come and go. They come and go.
Better dead than red. –Barry Goldwater[1]
Boomer here.
In the titles I was trying for a Karma Chameleon vibe. No? Here’s a link to the Culture Club song.
It was before my time, but President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Democrat, was called a socialist, Marxist, and communist.[2] You know about FDR don’t you? He was one of the most consequential Presidents of modern times and served 4 terms as President. In addition to leading the nation through WW2 he got major legislation passed that changed the path of our nation.[3] He’s the “commie” that signed Social Security into law. Republicans are still outraged by it because … you know … socialism.
Who established Medicare and Medicaid? President Lyndon Johnson in 1965.[4] Yet more popular socialism signed into law by a Democrat. So, it’s only natural that MAGA Republicans are gutting it to give more money to their billionaire patrons.
The incredibly popular Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka Obamacare, that made medical coverage possible for millions of Americans, was passed in 2010 during President Barak HUSSEIN Obama’s Administration (MAGAt Rs really love accenting his middle name). MAGAt Republicans have been trying to do away with the act since the very beginning. Despite their big talk, in 15 years they have been unable to come up with a plan of their own to replace it. FIFTEEN YEARS. This is probably because they don’t actually want Americans to have healthcare. In fact, the closest they have ever come to a plan of their own is what is currently happening – i.e. doing away with the subsidies that allow millions of Americans to buy health insurance they can’t otherwise afford.
If Democrats are unable to stop the reconciliation bill that MAGAt Republicans used to cause the current shutdown then President Puddin’ Brains will have succeeded in taking away affordable healthcare from millions of Americans.
They’ve got a tough, tough job. MAGAts control the House, the Senate, the Executive Branch, Trump has his MAGAt Supremes on speed dial, and they are ignoring court orders. MAGAt Johnson sent all the Republicans home and won’t swear in a newly elected Democrat because she’ll cast the deciding vote to get the Epstein files out of committee and before the House for a vote. President Puddin’ Brains has instructed his representatives NOT to work with Democrats.
For as long as I can remember Republicans have called their opposition in local or national races foreigners, commies, unchristian and Marxists. They campaigned against President Kennedy for being Catholic and claimed that the Pope would be running America. The Southern Baptist church I attended in my youth was rabidly anti-Catholic.
MAGA Republicans continue their proud traditions. Have you heard the expression that MAGA’s accusations are confessions? That applies here. Only now MAGA has added terrorists and jihadists to their repertoire of campaigning accusations.
Who is currently terrorizing the country with their secret police gestapo? Who is trying to impose their fascist Nazi Jesus beliefs of society through their puddin’ brains President? Did you guess MAGA white “Christian” nationalists?
We have lived through years of Republicans passing laws to stop things that were never happening. Remember when Republicans claimed that Muslims were seeking office to impose sharia laws wherever they were running? Oh, they’re still doing that. It’s almost like they don’t understand how laws get passed except they do, as they try to undo 250 years of democratic progress.
MAGA Republicans are why we can’t have nice things.
DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST
What do it mean?!
Socialism is NOT communism. Frankly Russia qualifies more as a fascist state today rather than a communist state. China, Cuba, North Korea, North Vietnam, and Laos are still communist states.
Democratic Socialism means a lot of different things to a lot of different people.[5] For a substantial number of people it means people rather than corporations/capitalism being in charge and that the government should put people first.
We shouldn’t be a country of the rich, by the rich and for the rich like we have today with over a thousand billionaires, 40 million people living in poverty, a middle class struggling to make ends meet, and a growing disparity between the rich and their insatiable greed. Does that sound like a capitalism success story to you? A nation where people have the freedom to go without food and affordable healthcare.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is NOT a political party but rather a political organization, like the Young Republicans of America but without the racism or misogyny. While AOC is reported to be a member interestingly Bernie Sanders is not. Rashida Tlaib is also a DSA member as is Zohran Mamdani.
Sweden and Denmark would classify as social democracies. That is, social democracies that exist within an economic framework of capitalism.
Given where we currently are, the long history of capitalism to service the wealthy elite, and the plans of MAGAt Republicans to take our democracy apart and replace it with Christian White Nationalism I am willing to try what has worked in the past for our nation.
Here’s where I am.
Fuck the MAGAts that are trying to destroy our democracy.
[1] https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/goldwater-rule/
[2] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2009/sep/22/barack-obama/obama-roosevelt-socialist-communist/
[3] https://millercenter.org/president/franklin-d-roosevelt/key-events
[4] https://www.aarp.org/medicare/history-of-medicare/
[5] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/democratic%20socialism
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Nice read considering bad situations abound.