George Carlin: ‘I Like Individualists’

Posted on June 14, 2019 by kireschneider
George Carlin_ I Like Individualists

Source:George Carlin– So does Ayn Rand

Source:The New Democrat 

“From ‘When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops.”

Source:George Carlin

Before I get into George Carlin and what he thought about individualists and individualism, I need to mention a certain conversation that I had on Facebook last weekend and last week about my previous post about George Carlin, which fits into this piece, because it gets into what another thing that George George had in common with Ayn Rand. No Kidding: they were complete opposites on economic policy with Ayn being an Objectivist and George being what you could call as Socialist with how he thought about corporations and American capitalism, what’s known as identity politics today with how he thought about race in America and European-Americans. But they both believed in free speech, free thought, and personal freedom. They both believed in individualism, at least as it related to one’s personal affairs.

Last Friday, I posted my piece about George Carlin in a Facebook group that’s dedicated to George Carlin. Apparently most if not all of the members of that group actually understand George, but this one member who apparently read my piece about George Carlin and ‘Question Everything’, the only thing this guy has in common with George is that they both swear a lot. Which makes his about as unique as snow in Minnesota in January. I actually told him that the only thing he has in common with George is that they both swear a lot, which makes him as unique as sunburn in Florida, but you get the idea.

This guy attacked my piece and called me an asshole, for political correctness reasons and that I paraphrased Ayn Rand. Think about that for a second: a member of a George Carlin Facebook group, attacking posts in that group, because he views them as politically incorrect and that I paraphrased in my last piece. If you know anything about George Carlin, you know that he hated political correctness., loved free speech and free thought, reason, and individualism: so did Ayn Rand.

So unless this guy is simply not familiar with George Carlin, or perhaps had George Carlin mixed up with George Washington, perhaps George Harrison, or so other guy named George who is in love with political correctness to the point that he would screw it if he could, and hates Ayn Rand, because he hates free speech, free thought, free will, reason, and individualism, this guy simply doesn’t understand George Carlin at all and perhaps joined the wrong group on Facebook by accident. Maybe he was drunk or high one night or couldn’t sleep after drinking an entire keg of Red Bull and didn’t know what to do with himself and up on his computer and stared joining Facebook groups randomly.

If you wanted to know what the joke was that this guy in the George Carlin group thought was politically incorrect and the paraphrase of Ayn Rand that he didn’t like, I’ll tell you anyway: I made a comment about politicians last week saying that politicians especially Congress are less productive than people on Welfare and Unemployment. Which is actually a very true statement in way too many cases and their lack of productivity comes at taxpayer expense. Actually, people on Welfare and Unemployment are required by law to look for work, or be in job training or both. Members of Congress, already have jobs that are subsidized by taxpayers and they don’t bother to them in way too many cases.

But this guy hated that line about comparing politicians with people on Welfare and Unemployment, because apparently it’s politically incorrect and said that George Carlin wouldn’t like the joke either. Even if he’s right about George not liking the joke, he would at the very least defend the writer’s right to make the joke and not have to face legal or court action against it, simply because someone was offended by it, because again he hated PC and loved free speech and free thought.

As far as George Carlin and what he thought about individualists and individualism: again, this is something else that he had in common with Ayn Rand, along with free speech, free thought, and personal freedom, which is individualism. So again, what wrong with comparing the two, especially if you’re familiar with both? Yes, anyone who can read knows that there is no I in team, “but there is an I in individualism, independence, and integrity.” Again back to the smartphones: but if you bother to put down your smartphone for more than a minute, ( why don’t you go crazy and put down your phone for an entire 5 minutes and see if you’re up to that challenge ) you’ll be able to think for yourself and at least be able to examine for yourself what you’ve been seeing on your phone or computer, or TV.

When I was growing up, the worst grade that you can get in school was an F. The first letter in faddist is also f. I’m not saying that faddists, are the worst people in the world, especially if they also aren’t murderers, rapists, terrorists, crooks, or other felons, but they’re the less free and have the less freedom, because they’re only interested in what’s cool at the given moment and being cool. And will do, talk, dress, a certain way just to sound cool, because they want to fit in with the cool crowd, with whatever the hip clique is at the time.

But the individualist is a rebel, because the individualist, not only has brain but bothers to use it. And because of that is able to make their own decisions and do what’s right for themself at any given moment, because they’re not worried about being cool and popular and simply want to be judged for who they are as a person. Not based on what’s their favorite coffee drink, or how often they go to coffee houses, or do they go at all, what kind of cell phone they have, how up to date they are on celebrity culture and reality TV, ( if they’re interested in those things at all ) how they dress, how they talk, etc. But instead be judged by who they are as a person. The individualist, might not be the coolest person in the room, but they get the most respect and are the most trusted, because people know they’ll tell them the truth and at least be honest, as well as intelligent. Which I believe George Carlin would agree with.

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CNN: Jon Stewart- ‘Chokes Up, Gives Angry Speech To Congress: Telling Congress To Do Their Jobs?

Posted on June 13, 2019 by FredSchneiderUS
Jon Stewart chokes up, gives angry speech to Congress

Source:This is 50– Jon Stewart: speaking to an empty audience

Source:The New Democrat 

“Former late night host and 9/11 first responders advocate Jon Stewart chokes up and slams Congress over health care for the 9/11 first responders during the hearing for reauthorizing the 9/11 victim compensation fund. ”

Source:CNN: Jon Stewart- ‘Chokes Up, Gives Angry Speech To Congress’

With all due respect to Jon Stewart: who I believe is one of the best political satirists of his generation and if he were a late night talk show host right, I believe he would be the best and the most popular, but telling Congress to do their jobs, is like telling a death row inmate to personally escort himself to the death house and put the needle in his arm, and the leave the doors open so he can escape from the prison.

Telling politicians to do what’s not in the best political interest, is like telling your dog not to eat the potato chips that you left on the floor for him, why would they do that, especially when they represent people who continually reelect them, aren’t aware of how unproductive at their expense that they are, or simply don’t care even though they’re paying for their un-productivity. Even when something is obviously the right thing to do like compensating 9/11 responders and financing the care and benefits to our military veterans things that are very popular and benefits that taxpayers owe these people, Congress sits on their fat, overpaid asses and does nothing, if it doesn’t personally benefit them in their own district or state, or maybe a fringe in their party doesn’t want them do to those things.

Jon Stewart, could’ve been speaking to a full house on Tuesday in that House committee hearing room and he still would’ve been speaking to an empty room as far as the people hearing him that would actually say: “you know, Jon Stewart is right: we should take care of the benefits of our first responders and do that right now.” Congress right now, is made up of primarily careerists who are in public office to stay there or get promoted to the next office. Not to do their jobs, which is to represent their constituents like people who gave their lives and health to protect innocent Americans during the 9/11 attacks in 2001. And they can get away with it, because they keep getting reelected.

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Scott Bradley: ‘To Run For Office Or Not’

Posted on June 13, 2019 by Rik Schneider
To Run for Office or Not

Source:Freedom Rising Sun– That is the question for this piece

Source:The New Democrat 

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Source:Scott Bradley

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Source:KWIZE– “Political language — and with variations this is true of all …
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When I think about politicians, I think about one of George Orwell’s quote about them: “political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.” Not all politicians are bad people who lack character and morality, but enough of them even if not most of them are and have replaced whatever character and morality that they started with when they were growing up with careerism. Once they into public office, they are there to stay there, or get promoted to the next job. That becomes their number one objective. And if doing a good job once they are in office helps them politically like effectively responding to a natural disaster, then they’ll do that, just as long as it helps them politically and they need the support of the people that are getting hurt by that disaster.

If being in public office just meant that once you are elected to whether it’s Congress or some other office, or being promoted in Congress like moving from the House and getting elected to the Senate, if it just meant doing what you ran on and campaigned on, then I might like the job myself. Whether it was Congress, Governor of Maryland, General Assembly.

I mean think about it: members of Congress ( House and Senate ) make roughly 150,000 dollars a year. If you’re in leadership, you make more than that. Roughly three times more than the average American who can’t afford to make bullshitting ( excuse the word ) their number one tool at work. If the average American bullshitted as much as the average politician, they wouldn’t be able to hold a job, because no responsible employer would be able to trust them. And they might find themselves in jail for committing fraud.

If you’re in Congress, you make 150,000 dollars a year and for what: even if Congress doesn’t do their jobs which they’re supposed to do not just under the Constitution, but under their own rules like pass an annual Federal budget and appropriations bills, they can give themselves a raise. Congress, not only supervises itself, but is responsible for their own compensation, as far as deciding how much they should be paid and then leaving the taxpayers with the bill to compensate them, even if they’re doing nothing other giving speeches, raising campaign funds, and taking political positions that are only in their best political interest.

So I get back to George Orwell’s quote: “political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder sound respectful.” Politicians succeed on their ability to bullshit especially when they’re either in trouble or facing tough political situations and positions. And trying to find a way to make people believe what they don’t believe: like trying to make something that they’re guilty of like flip flopping on a key issue make it seem like they’re not flip flopping at all. ( That’s about Joe Biden and his flip on the Hyde Amendment: in case anyone is wondering )

Or when they get caught in hypocrisy, trying to make people believe that they’re not being hypocritical at all: like a right-wing politician claiming to be against big government, except when they’re in favor of it, because they’re against high taxes and government spending, but are in love with big government to the point that they would sleep with it when it comes to people’s personal affairs and their own personal lives like when it comes to consensual sex amongst adults.

Or a left-wing politician claiming to be pro-choice, because they support abortion rights and gay rights, but are anti-choice and pro-big government on just about everything else like as it relates to school choice, gambling, and everything else that the Far-Left in America would like to outlaw and put big government in charge, even telling people what they can eat and drink, and how we can talk to people.

Politics in America in way too many cases regardless of how many cases and what the percentage is, is not for people who believe in strong character and morality and just want to make the world a better place for themselves and their country. American politics makes liars out of truth-tellers, and crooks out of moral people, because once good, average even if they’re good people before they were elected, figure out that once that they’re in office they like being able to make good money without actually having to be productive.

Politicians like traveling around the country or even world at taxpayers expense and being able to attend campaign events at someone else’s expense and giving speeches at someone else’s expense. And decide if they want to keep their cushy taxpayers jobs ( like former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt ) they need to fall inline and not do anything that could hurt them politically, even if it’s the right thing to do, especially if they’re looking to serve in higher office.

If being a politician was simply about doing the job and attending the committee hearings, asking important and relevant questions, holding government accountable, and actually legislating which at this point at least in the U.S. Senate sounds like a foreign word or at least a word that U.S Senator’s seem to need to re-familiarize themselves with, because it’s been so long that they’ve actually done any actual legislating, then I might be actually be interested in serving in public office myself. But then I get about to George Orwell’s quote about politicians which keeps me out.

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Brianna Keilar: Kay Bedingfield Sputters When Asked To Explain Joe Biden’s Flip Flop Over The Hyde Amendment

Posted on June 12, 2019 by Ederik Schneider
Biden aide sputters when asked to explain flip-flop on Hyde Amendment

Source:Washington Free Beacon– Biden Aide Struggles to Explain Flip-Flop on Hyde Amendment: ‘This Is Not a Decision About Politics”

Source:The New Democrat 

“CNN host Brianna Keilar accused her of not answering her questions.”

Source:CNN

From Joe Biden’s own words last Thursday when he explained his flip flop on the Hyde Amendment: “I can no longer support and amendment that denies health care to women, when I believe health care is a right.” So last Wednesday when he still supported the Hyde Amendment that according to his own words denied health care to women, when he believes that health care is a right, he believed that was OK. But less than 24 hours later he now believes that denying women their right to health care is wrong, even though the previous 43 years when he supported the Hyde Amendment first in Congress, then as Vice President, and now as a private citizen, he believed denying women health care was OK. And he apparently didn’t have any issues with it.

The only thing that changed from last Wednesday to last Thursday, was the politics. He was getting hammered from the Left of his party that believes that abortion should be legal at all times for any female in the country who is pregnant, even if they can’t afford to get an abortion and that people who are antiabortion should be forced pay for low-income and teenage females right to an abortion. And has calculated that even though he prefers to run a general election campaign during the Democratic primaries. he needs the radical pro-choice-abortion vote in order to get the Democratic nomination next summer to face off against President Donald Trump.

Before last Thursday, the biggest asset that Vice President Biden had going for him other than his experience, personal charm, and sense of humor, was his candor. He really is the John McCain of the Democratic Party, but more likable and perhaps not as blunt. And less than a month later after entering the 2020 presidential race he’s already in danger of losing perhaps his biggest asset which is candor and trust that people have in him and that they tend to believe him when he says something and when he takes a position on something. You can’t run an anti-Donald Trump campaign when he you make the same flip flops that he does and flat out lie about important issues like the Hyde Amendment and abortion.

Listening to Joe Biden’s flip flop over the Hyde Amendment, reminds me of George Carlin’s monologue called Question Everything: the only people that automatically take the word of any politician on anything, even an honest politician ( if honest politician is not an Oxymoron ) without first looking at what the person is saying and the evidence behind what they’re saying and what is actually happening, are people who buy used cars from car thieves without even test driving the car first. Perhaps they even buy the car without even seeing the car first. “So what if the doors falls off every time I open it: that just makes it easier to get in the car.” The same people who automatically take a politician’s word on anything, are the same people who ask to get kicked in the balls: they’re begging for trouble and are completely unprepared for the fallout.

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Gene Tierney: Mysteries & Scandals

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Derik Schneider
Gene Tierney - Mysteries and Scandals - Google Search

Source:Hannah Howe– Hollywood Goddess Gene Tierney.

Source:The New Democrat 

“A lovely quote from Gene Tierney, discovered while researching her life and career, “A romantic picks the rose and is careless with the thorns.”

From Hannah Love

“Joaquin Smithey farkıyla sunulmuştur.Lütfen takip etmeyi unutmayın.Mysteries and Scandals (also known as Mysteries & Scandals) is an American television program hosted by A.J. Benza. The series was originally broadcast on.”

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Source:The New Democrat– Gene Tierney’s ex-husband Oleg Cassini.

From Jacinto Ruffeew

When I think of actress Gene Tierney, ( and this might sound corny ) but I literally think of the woman when she makes her entrance, she steals the show. That as soon as she appears, the only person and only thing that anyone can concentrate on is her. Maybe the woman who owns the show and just takes it over and everyone just automatically assumes the show is now hers.

She was literally not just that beautiful, but she was so adorable in an adult and sexy way, not in a little girl way like Marilyn Monroe and a lot of other Hollywood babydoll’s from that era, but she was so sweet and sexy at the same time and literally mesmerized any man who saw her.

If you are a political junky such as myself and you are interested in Hollywood political movies and you are also interested in Congress specifically, then Advise and Consent from 1962 where Gene Tierney plays the girlfriend of the Senate Majority Leader, is a great movie for you. ( Played by Walter Pidgeon ) Gene, essentially plays the role of a Washington political wife even though she and the Majority Leader aren’t married yet, but she throws Washington parties for her boyfriend in the movie.

There’s this one scene in Advice and Consent where a couple of Senator’s are arguing about foreign policy and one of them ( played by George Grizzard ) gets frustrated and stars yelling. Gene’s character enters the room where this debate is going on and there’s nothing but complete silence in room, because everyone is mesmerized by Gene’s character.

That was Gene Tierney in Advise and Consent and Gene Tierney in real-life where you really believe that peace could break out where she appears simply because of her presence.

There’s another scene in Advise and Consent after their Washington party where she and the Majority Leader ( her boyfriend ) are alone together in their apartment. And Gene’s line in that scene is and I’m paraphrasing here: “Someone in Washington once said that any bitch with a million bucks, a big house, and a good caterer can be a social success in Washington.” And then she asks her boyfriend: “Do you think I’m a bitch?” With her boyfriend replying: “Well, if you are one, you’re certainly a perfectly nice one.” If all bitches were Gene Tierney, that word would completely lose its meaning, because she was a total sweetheart who always seemed way too cute to ever be mean.

Gene Tierney, was a Hollywood Goddess of Hollywood Goddesses and someone who wasn’t just beautiful and adorable, but someone who was extremely special because of how sweet and beautiful that she was. Who is also one of the best actresses of her generation ( if not ever ) because she always owned every room and scene that she was ever part of, because of her beauty and ability to own every scene she was ever part of.

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The Washington Post: Karen Tumulty: ‘Joe Biden Learned The Hard Way There is No Middle Ground On Abortion’

Posted on June 10, 2019 by Erik Schneider
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Source:The Washington Post– Joe Biden: flip-flopping on the Hyde Amendment

Source:The New Democrat 

“There has long been a relatively safe space for a Democratic politician, particularly a Catholic one, to inhabit on the morally fraught issue of abortion.

It was the stance that then-Vice President Joe Biden took during a 2012 debate: “Life begins at conception. That’s the church’s judgment. I accept it in my personal life,” Biden said. “But I refuse to impose it on equally devout Christians and Muslims and Jews. . . . I do not believe we have a right to tell other people — women — that they can’t control their body.”

At the time, that blanket declaration was enough to satisfy most Democrats. It is not anymore — as Biden learned this week, when the man who leads all the polls for the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nomination was thrown off balance on the question of government funding for abortion.”

Read the rest of Karen Tumulty’s piece at The Washington Post

Biden flips on Hyde Amendment

Source:ABC News: Joe Biden- ‘Flips On The Hyde Amendment’– Joe Biden: flip-flopping on the Hyde Amendment

“2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden reversed his stance on a measure that prevents using federal funding for abortions.When former Vice President Joe Biden announced that he was running for President last month, his message and appeal was basically that he wasn’t President Donald Trump and that he was different.”

If you look at Donald Trump before Barack Obama before he became President and then after he became President, the so-called Donald was basically a mainstream Democrat. A wealthy, New York City businessman who backed Democrats for most of his career. And then a guy named Barack Obama becomes President the first African-American in American history, with the bogus ( to be kind ) and racist birther movement around him and The Donald decides that he wants to be in politics too and becomes the champion of the Far-Right with the birther movement back in 2011.

And then in 2015 The Donald decides he wants to be President after 6 years of a Progressive, African-American President running the country and gets behind the Far-Right on everything in launching his own Nationalist movement in the country and basically other than perhaps tariffs and immigration, reverses course on almost every single political position that he had before. Making Mitt Romney look like the most principled politician that this country has ever seen.

Joe Biden, is running not just as the anti-Trump, but as someone who will change the character of the presidency and get it out of Donald Trump’s morality toilet and return honor and decency to the country.

Kind of hard to make that case when on Wednesday of last week you’re saying that your support for the Hyde Amendment, ( that was proposed by Representative Henry Hyde in 1976 ) that was passed by Congress in 1976 that then Senator Joe Biden voted for and continued to support during his entire career in the Senate, was a deeply heartfelt view that American taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to pay for someone else’s abortions, ( except in the cases of life and health of the mother, or rape or incest ) and then on Thursday announce you can no longer support an amendment that denies abortion rights to low-income women, even though on Wednesday that you already knew that low-income women couldn’t get taxpayer assistance to pay for their abortions.

The Hyde Amendment to me at least is not about whether abortion should be legal in this country: I’m pro-choice on practically everything short of people hurting innocent people with what they’re doing, including abortion because I don’t believe life starts at conception, but at the last stages of the woman’s pregnancy. It’s not a question of whether abortion should be legal in America or not, but who should pay for it.

We all make our own choices and we all have our own personal freedom in this country. We also all have our own personal responsibility in this country and are held accountable for our own personal decisions. Why should abortion be any different? I’m not talking about forcing women who are raped including by their own male relatives to be forced to carry that pregnancy to its end. Or denying women abortion even though they need it to protect their health and even life. The Hyde Amendment, has all of these exceptions in it. I’m just saying that American taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to subsidize the abortions of others other than the exceptions that I just laid out. And until last Thursday, Joe Biden shared this exact same position and held that exact same position since 1976 when he voted for the Hyde Amendment when it was passed in that Congress.

People who oppose the Hyde Amendment from the Left, argue that Hyde Amendment denies low-income women the same reproductive rights as women with means in this country who aren’t poor and who can afford to get an abortion either from their private health insurance or out of their own pockets. And they’re completely right about that, but that’s not the issue. This shouldn’t be a newsflash for anyone: low-income women simply don’t have the same freedom as middle or high income women in this country. And low-income Americans regardless of gender, or race or ethnicity don’t have the same freedom in America as middle or high-income Americans either. But that’s not unfair, that’s just life. You want to have a lot of freedom in America, you need to have the income to finance that freedom. That’s just how America has always worked and how it should always be.

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George Carlin: ‘Question Everything’

Posted on June 7, 2019 by kireschneider
George Carlin - Question Everything - Google Search

Source:HBO– As great as George Carlin Was, RIP: even question George when he tells you something

Source:The New Democrat 

“All credit for the video goes to its producers.”

Source:HBO: George Carlin- ‘Question Everything’

At risk of sounding serious for a minute: ( and it might only be a minute ) do you want to live in a liberal democracy where you have the right to think for yourself, or do you want to live in a prison your whole life ( like a communist state ) and be told what to do, what to think and how to think, because that’s what this is about. If you are someone who thinks for yourself and lives an evidence based life based off on reason, ( to paraphrase Ayn Rand ) then of course you are going to question everything.

We live in a country with career politicians who get paid very well with a benefits package that rivals a lot of great CEO’s with their health care, housing, retirement package all at the expense of the people who voted them into office and the people who were smart enough to vote for someone else, who do only what they believe they need to do in order to get reelected. They routinely take positions based on what can help them politically at that moment, ( take Joe Biden for a moment on the Hyde Amendment ) or help them get elected to a higher office and get paid to bullshit us.

So I have to ask this question: with so many people like this who are supposed to represent us in government, would you just automatically take their word every time they opened their mouth like you were some type of slave at North Korean work camp, or would you bother to use your brain for a moment ( perhaps even longer than that ) even if it meant putting your smartphone down for an entire moment ( or even longer than that ) and ask yourself: “does this guy really believe what’s coming out of his own mouth right now, or is he just saying and doing this to help him politically?” And of course it could be a female politician who is also a professional garbage thrower ( to be kind ) trying to feed us garbage ( to be kind ) as well.

And it’s not just our wonderful career politicians who at times are less productive than your average person on Unemployment or Welfare, who just get paid ( to be kind ) or take our money for themselves who give so many Americans great incentive to question everything that they do and say, who make great cynics out of us at all.

From our parents who raise us as hypocrites who our entire childhoods telling us not to do what they did when they were growing up and if we disobey, there will be steep consequences for that, even though they routinely got away with doing the exact same things growing up that they don’t want their kids to do. Or supervisors at work who seem to know less about their business than the people who are supposed to work for them. The coaches that know less about their sport than their own players. Anyone who lives life anywhere in the world who doesn’t question everything that they hear, is living life in a coma and watching the world go by.

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Dan Mitchell: ‘An Emerging Anti-Socialist Wing of The Democratic Party?’

Posted on June 6, 2019 by Rik Schneider
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“Since I’m a policy economist, I rarely comment on political matters.

But I am worried that the Democratic Party is veering too far to the left. Bernie Sanders, an out-of-the-closet socialist is leading the way, followed closely by other leading Democrats with hard-left policy agendas, such as Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren.

But not every 2020 candidate is hopping on the socialism bandwagon. Some of the major candidates, such as Joe Biden, have avoided saying anything favorable about socialism.

And two of the candidates have explicitly rejected the poisonous ideology.

Interestingly, they’re both from Colorado.

CNN reports that the former governor, John Hickenlooper. received a very hostile reception when he rejected socialism.”

Read the rest of Dan Mitchell’s piece at International Liberty

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Source:Fortune Magazine– Meet another governor that almost no one has never heard of.

“He’s the former Governor of Colorado.”

From Fortune Magazine

Dan Mitchell is right here, but for obvious reasons: the only evidence that you need to know that not all Democrats and not even a majority and probably more like a small minority of Democrats haven’t all moved to Cuba, Venezuela, Scandinavia ideologically, mentally, and culturally is that Joe Biden is the clear frontrunner right now. When you’re getting 30-40 of all Democratic support right now and you are running for President, you know that the Democratic Party isn’t a socialist party yet. Why, for the obvious reasons that Joe Biden is not a Socialist and never has been.

If you look at the top 5-10 Democratic presidential candidates right now as far as their support, really only Senator Bernie Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren are the Socialists running for President. Bernie, being an out-of-the-closet Socialist ( as Dan Mitchell says ) and damn proud of it. With Liz Warren, being a trapped in the closet Socialist who believes in and proposes the exact same policies as Bernie except for a complete government takeover of the health insurance system, but they essentially believe in the same things ideologically.

Bernie and Liz,  would be part of the Center-Left in Europe, but the only problem that they have is that they are running for President of the United States and they are part of the Far-Left here. And the other problem that they have is that they’re both running for and competing for the same voters in the Democratic Party. Whether 20-30% of the Democratic Party are now Socialists, that alone is not enough to win the Democratic nomination and when you have two candidates cancelling each other out because they’re going for the same voters, that makes it even more difficult for even of them to emerge and get beyond the Far-Left of the party.

The reasons why Vice President Biden is doing so well right now, is because you still have a strong Center-Left of the party that still dominates the leadership of the party. Which Joe Biden has been part of his entire political career. And most if not all Democrats ( even if they’re Socialists with Che Guevara t-shirts in the hearts ) want to win in 2020 and are smart enough to know that a Socialist doesn’t win back Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Florida even against President Donald Trump. And a Socialist wouldn’t even be able to compete with President Trump in North Carolina, Texas, or Arizona. All states except for perhaps Texas where a Joe Biden could compete and perhaps even beat President Trump in.

As far as John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennett, both 2020 presidential candidates: they’re both part of the Center-Left ( the real Progressive Democrats ) wing of the Democratic Party that Joe Biden is running away with right now. And it’s good to see that they’re not Socialists either, ( as if the jury never came back on that ) but they’re probably room for only one Joe Biden type of Center-Left presidential candidate in the party right now, which would explain why he’s currently running away with the polls right now.

 

 

 

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Reason Magazine: ‘Why Bernie Sanders Communist Misadventures Still Matter’

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Ederik Schneider
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Source:Reason Magazine– Bernie Sanders, hasn’t always looked like someone’s grandfather. LOL

Source:The New Democrat 

“Sanders no longer favors government takeover of “the major means of production.” But his four-decade quest for political revolution continues.”

From Reason Magazine

Perhaps we can file Bernie Sanders even further Far-Leftist leanings back in the 1970s and 1980s as being young and stupid. And like a lot of people from his generation, perhaps he was someone who hadn’t recovered from the 1960s yet emotionally and mentally. And to be completely honest here, ( for a change, LOL ) who isn’t stupid when they are young and then once we get some real world experience, we become smarter ( if we have a brain and are capable of learning ) and who would want to be judged by how dumb they were as a young adult when they are middle age or in Bernie’s case a senior citizen now.

Another way to look at Bernie Sanders flirtation with state socialism ( if you want to call it that and not communism ) is that no one can run away from their record. ( Don’t believe me, ask Donald Trump ) And we’re always accountable for everything that we do and say no matter how long we live and how much we change. So it’s one thing for someone to say that their views changed and as they got more information and facts But that begs the questions: why did that person change their views and what have they learned. As well as why did they believe what they believed when they were younger.

I’m not saying that Bernie Sanders is a State-Socialist or a Communist today. I’m also not saying that Bernie is a Eugene Debbs Socialist where he wants the national government to run and manage the entire economy, but where personal freedom would be vast and we could even own our own personal property like our homes and perhaps small businesses. He’s been in Congress since 1991 and at least since he’s been in the Senate since 2007, today he’s a Democratic Socialist at least as far as his Congressional record in the Senate at least and his current positions and proposals. But your record is exactly that and similar to your brain, it’s not something that you can really ever run away from and is something that Democratic voters at least will be able to use to judge whether Bernie Sanders should be their presidential nominee or not.

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Justin Stapley: ‘Karl Marx vs. Thomas Jefferson’

Posted on June 4, 2019 by FredSchneiderUS
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Source:Slide Player– “7 Thomas Jefferson Karl Marx Example Subjects to Contrast”

“Our political conflict can often be boiled down to the stark differences in how Karl Marx and Thomas Jefferson viewed history and their different beliefs about the role of government in crafting the future.”

Read the rest of Justin Stapley’s piece at The Federalist Coalition 

“Today on the Ancestral Findings Podcast I’ll answer the questions… Who was Thomas Jefferson? Beyond being our third president and author of the Declaration of Independence, who was he? Where did he come from, what was his family like, and what other contributions did he make to our country?”

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Source:Ancestral Findings– Thomas Jefferson: the father of American liberalism?

From Ancestral Findings

Whether Karl Marx is the founder of Communists and communism and the founding father of Socialists and socialism in general, I don’t know that and I’m not sure anyone else does. So instead of writing a piece about Thomas Jefferson, who I believe at least is the father of American liberal democracy, if not liberal democracy in general, with Karl Marx who perhaps at best might be more of a spiritual figure and leader for Socialists and Communist, but perhaps not their founding father, I believe a more appropriate piece would be to look at Thomas Jefferson who for me at least represents the Liberals and liberalism ( Classical Liberals and classical liberalism, if you prefer ) versus Communists and communism.

I think the best way to compare liberal democracy and communism, is to look at what the Founding Fathers in America ( our Founding Liberals ) created in the 1700s and then look at what the Bolsheviks ( Russian Communists ) created in Russia when they created the Soviet Union there 100 years ago.

The Founding Fathers, created a liberal democracy in America built around individual rights and limited government. And of course they really only meant for this freedom to be for European, especially Anglo-Saxon men who owned property, but the fact even if it wasn’t intentional the rights that they created were for everyone in America regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, or religion.

The Russian Communists, created a superstate in Russia ( known as the Soviet Union ) that was built around one central, national government in Moscow. Where individual freedom of all levels and all forms was highly discouraged if not outlawed, where everyone was supposed to be taken care of by the national state instead. That is how Socialists tend to operate whether they are democratic or communist: you give up individual freedom and choice, in exchange for personal and economic security.

The real differences between liberal democracy and communism comes down to power and who gets to decide: in a liberal democracy, the power is given to the people to manage their own affairs and lives. In a communist state, the power is given to the national state and is supposed to be used to serve the people. It generally if never works like that in a communist state where those countries tend to the poorest and most corrupt in the world, but that’s what Communists tend to promise for their people. This debate is not about big government versus small government, but about power and who should have it: the state or the people.

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