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On Thursday, the Home overwhelmingly voted in prefer of a useless decision “denouncing the horrors of socialism.” Unluckily, the majority of Democrats felt compelled to approve the utterly performative measure, which passed 328 to 86.
Even if most Democrats voted for the decision, it’ll no longer forestall Republicans from persevering with to accuse them of trying to enact a full-blown commie takeover of the US. Although all 212 House Democrats voted for it, conservatives would continue to roll out the identical McCarthyite speaking factors towards their liberal colleagues.
The Republican financial plan to chop taxes for corporations and rich people, who are ceaselessly trust fund millionaires and billionaires, doesn’t do a lot for reasonable Americans. Republicans comprehend this, which is why they feel the wish to concoct “socialist” boogeymen adore it’s the Fifties in perpetuity.
The time period “socialism” has primarily develop into meaningless in mainstream discourse. It has been bandied about by means of conservatives as a cudgel to malign any coverage they don’t like, even when it has completely nothing to do with economics.
As Harry Truman said in 1952, “Socialism is their title for nearly anything that helps all of the folks.”
Again, the calendar has modified, but the Republican song remains the same.
That brings us again to the decision, introduced by Rep. Maria Salazar (R-FL). It cleverly however wrongly identifies objectively terrible people such as Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, and Fidel Castro as socialists. In reality, they have been communists who endorsed complete executive keep an eye on of business job. Then again, a socialist machine can coexist with capitalism. We see this in western European nations, whose social packages are a ways more tough than in the US.
And yet by some means, none of these nations have succumbed to Stalinism.
Anyway, simply 86 of the 212 Democrats within the Home had the fortitude to vote towards the decision “denouncing the horrors of socialism.”
Here are the 86, followed by way of an inventory of extraordinary Democrats who felt the necessity to sign up for the Republicans’ performative inanity:
Alma Adams (NC)
Becca Balint (VT)
Nanette Barragán (CA)
Joyce Beatty (OH)
Don Beyer (VA)
Earl Blumenauer (OR)
Suzanne Bonamici (MI)
Jamaal Bowman (NY)
Cori Bush (MO)
Tony Cárdenas (CA)
Andre Carson (IN)
Greg Casar (TX)
Joaquin Castro (TX)
Judy Chu (CA)
Yvette Clarke (NY)
Emanuel Cleaver (MO)
Gerry Connolly (VA)
Joe Courtney (CT)
Danny Davis (IL)
Diana DeGette (CO)
Rosa DeLauro (CT)
Mark DeSaulnier (CA)
Lloyd Doggett (TX)
Adriano Espaillat (NY)
Dwight Evans (PA)
Lizzie Fletcher (TX)
Valerie Foushee (NC)
Maxwell Frost (FL)
John Garamendi (CA)
Chuy García (IL)
Sylvia Garcia (TX)
Robert Garcia (CA)
Dan Goldman (NY)
Jimmy Gomez (CA)
Al Inexperienced, (TX)
Raúl Grijalva (AZ)
Jahana Hayes (CT)
Brian Higgins (NY)
Jim Himes (CT)
Steny Hoyer (MD)
Jared Huffman (CA)
Pramila Jayapal (WA)
Hank Johnson (GA)
Sydney Kamlager-Dove (CA)
Robin Kelly (IL)
John Larson (CT)
Barbara Lee (CA)
Summer Lee (PA)
Betty McCollum (MN)
Morgan McGarvey (KY)
Jim McGovern (MA)
Kweisi Mfume (MD)
Gwen Moore (WI)
Kevin Mullin (CA)
Jerry Nadler (NY)
Grace Napolitano (CA)
Richard Neal (MA)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY)
Ilhan Omar (MN)
Frank Pallone (NJ)
Invoice Pascrell (NJ)
Donald Payne (NJ)
Chellie Pingree (ME)
Mark Pocan (WI)
Katie Porter (CA)
Ayanna Pressley (MA)
Delia Ramirez (IL)
Jamie Raskin (MD)
Linda Sánchez (CA)
John Sarbanes (MD)
Jan Schakowsky (IL)
Bobby Scott (VA)
David Scott (GA)
Brad Sherman (CA)
Adam Smith (WA)
Mark Takano (CA)
Shri Thanedar (MI)
Rashida Tlaib (MI)
Jill Tokuda (HI)
Paul Tonko (NY)
Norma Torres (CA)
Juan Vargas (CA)
Nydia Velázquez (NY)
Maxine Waters (CA)
Bonnie Watson Coleman (NJ)
Nikema Williams (GA)
Amazing Democrats out of the 109 who voted to play along with Republicans’ performative rubbish include:
Pete Aguilar (TX)
Katherine Clark (MA)
James Clyburn (SC)
Josh Gottheimer (NJ)
Hakeem Jeffries (NY)
Ro Khanna (CA)
Ted Lieu (CA)
Zoe Lofgren (CA)
Seth Moulton (MA)
Joe Neguse (CO)
Nancy Pelosi (CA)
Adam Schiff (CA)
Eric Swalwell (CA)
Ritchie Torres (NY)
Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL)
Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), the Democratic chief within the House, railed towards the resolution in a fiery press convention. He called it “phony, fake, and fraudulent.”
Regardless of his protestations, Jeffries in some way voted for the measure, to that end sparking questions about whether or not he’s additionally “phony, pretend, and fraudulent.”
The publish Here Are the Minority of House Democrats Who Had the Guts to Vote In opposition to Republicans’ Idiotic and Performative Decision on ‘Socialism’ first appeared on Mediaite.
