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turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
Thu Apr 4, 2019, 03:23 PM Apr 2019

GOP congressman launches 'Anti-Socialism Caucus' to 'defend liberty'

Utah Rep. Chris Stewart has been a frequent, fierce critic of socialism.
Luke Barnes
Apr 4, 2019, 1:59 pm

A Republican congressman has received approval to set up an “Anti-Socialism Caucus” in the House of Representatives, which he said would highlight the “dark history” of the political ideology.

“Just received approval from the House for the formation of the Anti-Socialism Caucus. This caucus will defend individual liberty & free markets and highlight the dark history of socialism,” Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT) tweeted Thursday.

Stewart originally created the caucus in February, but it was only green-lit on Wednesday. In the initial press release, Stewart spoke of the “dangers of socialism,” saying that, “wherever it rears its head, it leaves a wake of destruction in lives and freedoms lost.”

“So much time has passed from the fall of the Iron Curtain that many have internalized — or never experienced — socialism’s ultimate price,” Stewart said. “If we fail to recall those dangerous times, the primitive appeal of socialism will advance and infect our institutions.”

https://thinkprogress.org/republican-congressman-chris-stewart-anti-socialism-caucus-34be0942923a/

And you support a demented narcissistic psychopath in the white house, that just had his resort breached again, by a person that had "MALWARE" on thumb drive.................shows what your priorities are.........................your an idiot.................your republican

November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.........................

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GOP congressman launches 'Anti-Socialism Caucus' to 'defend liberty' (Original Post) turbinetree Apr 2019 OP
So Stewart is showing his Wellstone ruled Apr 2019 #1
Reality has left the Republican party. Iliyah Apr 2019 #2
I hope the socialist town snow plow avoids his house next winter. Vinca Apr 2019 #3
There is no Socialism Yavin4 Apr 2019 #4
McCarthy again, anyone? F ing idiots CurtEastPoint Apr 2019 #5
Were the trillions of dollars in bank bailouts socialism? CrispyQ Apr 2019 #6
OK matt819 Apr 2019 #7
 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
1. So Stewart is showing his
Thu Apr 4, 2019, 03:26 PM
Apr 2019

John Birch Society Roots. He learned well in Southern Utah from the best Hate filled uninformed Rethugs.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
2. Reality has left the Republican party.
Thu Apr 4, 2019, 03:32 PM
Apr 2019

Liberty equals to Social issues as well as to freedom.

The Republican party only want one power, them. That sounds like a dictatorship.

CrispyQ

(36,457 posts)
6. Were the trillions of dollars in bank bailouts socialism?
Thu Apr 4, 2019, 03:43 PM
Apr 2019

Are the billions of dollars in subsidies to the richest corporations in America socialism? Why is it only socialism when we spend treasury dollars on The People?

Slavery is the fiction that people are property;
corporate personhood is the fiction that corporations are people.

Reclaim Democracy - Corporate Personhood Pages

matt819

(10,749 posts)
7. OK
Thu Apr 4, 2019, 04:14 PM
Apr 2019

Shut down the military, the largest socialist organization in the US.

Extensive training, family education and housing, lifetime medical care.

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