I believe that it is now a good time for the national Democrats to expose that which 2008 Nobel Prize-winner in Economics, Paul Krugman, refers to as the “Dishonest political strategy” used by conservative-Republicans of calling some and most (if not all) congressional Democrats names like “socialists,” “Marxists,” “communists,” “far-leftists” and “radical leftists.” In actuality, I do not believe that any of them are true socialists at all. They are “social democrats,” just as most of our allies are in Canada, Australia, western Europe and Scandinavia.
What Democrats really want is simply to make our country more like our allies, in that their federal governments do more and spend more than ours does (in proportion to population size) on social programs in order to help their lower and middle classes to be able to pay their bills and receive good-quality health care and a decent overall quality of life.
I know some Americans actually believe that the Democrats want to abolish our market-based capitalist economic system. I want to assure them that none of them want to do this. Democrats know that a truly socialist economy has never worked or been successful in any large-scale society. We would all have to change a great deal for socialism to work, and my guess is that it would probably take another 2,000 years from now for it to work in a country with 330 million people.
Don’t fall for this right-wing propaganda. Wanting to abolish capitalism and to replace it with a genuine socialist economic system is what makes someone a “socialist.”
If the truth were to be told and revealed, I believe that about 95% of conservative-Republicans KNOW that the Democrats are not really socialists. They just want to scare the American people, and that is why they keep telling this LIE.
STEW EPSTEIN, Rochester, N.Y.
For those of you who have never read the infamous, effusive personal praise heaped upon accused sex trafficking pedophile pimp to the billionaire class — Jeffrey Epstein — by Epstein’s biggest fan and close personal friend, Donald Trump, see the Oct. 28, 2002, New York Magazine article, “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery.”
Disgusting Donald did indeed say the following about Trump’s apparent partner in sex crimes against children, Jeffrey Epstein, with whom Trump was often seen and photographed together in public, both in Manhattan and in Palm Beach, Florida:
“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy, he’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”
Or so says the former owner and proprietor/perpetrator of the Miss Teen Universe Pageant, Donald Trump! Trump & Epstein were like two perverted peas in a pedophile pod. Just ask Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime criminal companion Ghislaine Maxwell.
And just take a look at all of the available photos and videos of Florida’s version of the Fab Four: Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Donald Trump and Melania Trump. Reportedly, Donald and Melania were originally introduced to each other by Epstein and Maxwell. Pictures don’t lie. These four were clearly close friends, and the Trumps made no secret of that fact until after Epstein’s first arrest in 2006.
And we all, of course, recall how uncommon it is for truculent Trump to say anything nice about ANY woman; however, misogynistic monster Donald Trump inexplicably said the following when Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested during July 2020 for sex trafficking a 14-year-old child, among accusations of many other heinous acts against children:
“I don’t know — I haven’t really been following it too much. I just wish her well, frankly. I have met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach, and I guess they lived in Palm Beach. But I wish her well, whatever it is.”
Ghislaine Maxwell’s upcoming criminal trial is scheduled to begin in late November, so long as Ms. Maxwell does not succumb to so-called “suicide,” the same way her criminal companion Jeffrey Epstein supposedly did in 2019 prior to his trial for sex trafficking, etc. Fortunately for Ghislaine Maxwell, Trump and his Attorney General Bill Barr are no longer in charge of the Justice Department or her protective custody.
Donald Trump, as the entire world knows, is terrible at hiding the truth, and as prolifically dishonest as Trump is, he is such an incredibly incompetent liar he usually will end up admitting to his own guilt eventually, including infuriatingly pretending as if the fact that he voluntarily incriminated himself openly will somehow absolve him. It won’t.
For instance, among Trump’s many disturbing, disgusting, creepy public comments about his favorite daughter Ivanka — made both while Ivanka was a child and an adult — here’s Trump at his grossest from a 2015 interview with Rolling Stone magazine making an incestuous sexual reference to his biological daughter Ivanka:
“Yeah, she’s really something, and what a beauty, that one. If I weren’t happily married and, ya know, her father …”
Sincerely Nauseous,
JAKE PICKERING, Arcata, Calif.
Francine Townsend’s article on Wall Street and her mobile park take over (“When Wall Street came to my mobile home park,” 11/15/21 TPP) sent déjà vu shivers down my spine. Didn’t this happen to Toys R Us and many other successful companies? Hasn’t it happened to thousands of newspapers all over the US? I’m sorry if I sound like a conspiracy advocate but who’s behind all this dismantling of perfectly decent profit-making firms?
Is it Republicans who started it by wrecking newspapers nationwide? Is it foreign corporations quietly messing up our towns and disrupting so many lives? Is it sabotage or private equity firms buying and selling out of uncontrolled greed?
There are many take-overs happening all over the US of large businesses and small. Sounds fishy to me. I think it needs investigating.
Grace Gambino, Jacksonville, Fla.
From our earliest forms of primitive communications to technological communications, whether it be from reverberation of our native American “tom-toms” or the advancement of the telegraph, our need for messaging via a multitude of “communicative ways,” from speaking, writing to today’s “nanosecond” digital communications anywhere around the globe instantaneously. None has proven to be a threat to the aforementioned inclusive “smoke signals,” the pony express nor the laying of the Atlantic cables, facilitating communication across continents, as “digital communications” coupled with the ability of harmful human behaviors.
The combination and culmination of a multitude of evolutionary advancements via the competition for the attainment or retainment of “power/control” motivated with avarice, greed, ideological ideals and religious precepts that have poisoned and divided a nation/world both intently and purposefully to the precipice of pernicious outcomes, if not countered with deterrents and punitive measures expeditiously. The threat of this innovative form of communicative expediency, should it be allowed to continue unabated leaves greater credence to the fears promulgated by growing numbers of citizens questioning, “Shall civilization make it to the 22nd century escaping human annihilation?”
FRANK ROHRIG, Milford, Conn.
From The Progressive Populist, December 15, 2021
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