{"id":344178,"date":"2025-12-14T20:16:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T20:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/go-ahead-be-a-socialist\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T20:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T20:16:17","slug":"go-ahead-be-a-socialist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=344178","title":{"rendered":"Go Ahead, Be a Socialist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/progressive.org\/downloads\/22379\/download\/MamdaniTrump.jpg?cb=a646fba109bb820caf41d8638a293aec\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" data-transition=\"content\" data-loop=\"false\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"lead\">In late October, the U.S. House of Representatives took up a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/119\/bills\/hconres58\/BILLS-119hconres58ih.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Link opens in new window (resolution)\">resolution<\/a> declaring that \u201cCongress denounces socialism in all its forms, and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The resolution <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/11\/21\/congress\/house-denounces-horrors-of-socialism-00664412\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Link opens in new window (passed)\">passed<\/a> easily, on a vote of 285 to 98. It\u2019s probably not surprising that no Congressional Republican voted against it. But eighty-six Democrats were also among the yes votes.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first time this has happened. A nearly identical resolution <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/minutes\/congress\/02-2-2023\/socialism-resolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Link opens in new window (passed)\">passed<\/a> the House 328 to 86 in 2023, but it was not taken up for consideration in the Senate. Introduced by Representative Mar\u00eda Elvira Salazar, Republican of Florida, the 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/118\/bills\/hconres9\/BILLS-118hconres9ih.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Link opens in new window (resolution)\">resolution<\/a> similarly denounced the \u201chorrors of socialism\u201d while also condemning a list of communist dictators, such as Vladimir Lenin and Kim Jong Un.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The newer resolution, which, like its predecessor, is mostly symbolic, passed on November 21, just hours before Zohran Mamdani, the mayor-elect of New York City, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/11\/21\/nx-s1-5615169\/trump-mamdani-oval-office-communist-socialist\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Link opens in new window (wowed)\">wowed<\/a> the heck out of the squatter currently occupying the White House. \u201cWe agree on a lot more than I would have thought,\u201d the squatter gushed. \u201cI want him to do a great job, and we\u2019ll help him do a great job.\u201d Previously, he had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/11\/21\/nx-s1-5615169\/trump-mamdani-oval-office-communist-socialist#:~:text=In%20the%20lead%2Dup%20to,have%20thought%2C%22%20Trump%20explained.\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Link opens in new window (pegged)\">pegged<\/a> Mamdani as a \u201ccommunist\u201d and threatened to cut federal funding to the city if he was elected.<\/p>\n<p>The recent House resolution, also introduced by Salazar, says, \u201cthe United States was founded on the belief in the sanctity of the individual, to which the collectivistic system of socialism in all of its forms is fundamentally and necessarily opposed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator Rick Scott, Republican of Florida, introduced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/119th-congress\/senate-concurrent-resolution\/21\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Link opens in new window (concurrent resolution)\">concurrent resolution<\/a> in the Senate. It has yet to be taken up. Said Scott in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rickscott.senate.gov\/2025\/9\/sen-rick-scott-leads-senate-resolution-condemning-socialism-as-failed-ideology-that-always-leads-to-poverty-and-oppression\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Link opens in new window (statement)\">statement<\/a>: \u201cSocialism is a failed ideology\u2014it has destroyed countries, crushed economies, and robbed millions of their basic human rights. . . . Time and time again, socialism has led to . . . misery, poverty, and oppression. It\u2019s despicable to see far-left radicals villainizing capitalism\u2014a system that has helped billions of American[s] achieve their dreams\u2014and try to tear down our country and rebuild it in their woke, radical image through socialist policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The House resolution lists many of the most well-known abuses that have been carried out by \u201csocialist ideologues,\u201d such as Pol Pot in Cambodia and Kim Jong Un in North Korea. But of course it doesn\u2019t mention any of the positive manifestations of socialist thinking that are quite popular among people in the United States, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.peoplesworld.org\/article\/social-security-turns-88-but-how-long-can-it-survive-republican-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Link opens in new window (Social Security)\">Social Security<\/a> and Medicare and public infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Those who have tried to dirty up the word socialism throughout the years want us all to believe that the very concept of it always has and always will lead to decline into brutal dictatorship, whereas capitalism has never hurt anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Any old schlump can go around saying that they are a socialist, like Hitler did. But the proof of who you really are is in the action that you take.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"bottompageinfos\">\n<p>    <time datetime=\"2025-12-10T17:00:24.469161\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"date\">December 10, 2025<\/p>\n<p class=\"time\">5:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>    <\/time>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late October, the U.S. House of Representatives took up a resolution declaring that \u201cCongress denounces socialism in all its forms, and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States.\u201d The resolution passed easily, on a vote of 285 to 98. It\u2019s probably not surprising that no Congressional Republican voted against it. 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