Democrats’ sway toward socialism: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Socialism’s growing reputation amongst Democrats, with a number of DSA-allied main winners.
The hazard of romanticizing the unconventional left is akin to the fable whereby a frog that’s making an attempt to cross a creek hitches a journey on the back of a scorpion who stings the frog, thus sending it to its death (“Socialist lean for Dems,” Aug. 17).
The frog asks why he did that, to which the scorpion responds “because it is what I do.”
There is no such factor as a “democratic socialist.” The time period is used to cloak their actual intent of communism and to lull of us into a false sense of security, just like the frog who tried to disregard the reality of the scorpion’s nature. If we don’t acknowledge what democratic socialism actually is, we might endure that very same destiny.
Ken Karcinell
Hewlett
Democratic socialists need a authorities that helps staff reasonably than the billionaire class. Socialism is just not actually an correct time period for them. If something, Republicans are far more socialist.
A socialist authorities takes over main industries and tells them what to do. Trump has taken authorities stakes in main firms and, in some instances, given himself veto powers. He needs to control the media and have say over who’s allowed to be on the air and what they’re allowed to say.
Republicans hate the Constitution, our system of authorities and most Americans.
Bruce Ellis
Houston, Texas
The DSA commits to scrapping the Senate, defunding the Department of War, granting amnesty for all immigrants and changing “the president and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.”
I don’t perceive how they suppose they will win once they’d must take an oath to “protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” They are the enemy.
Michael Pacer
Kingman, Ariz.
Senate and House Minority Leaders Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries have the ability to avoid wasting America by telling voters that communism is on the best way if the democratic socialists win.
Reasonable Dems will hearken to them. They should stick up for our democracy, or face the downfall of the nation.
Barry Smith
Watermill
The mainstream media makes use of the time period “progressive” when discussing socialists.
But progressive is a soft-ball labeling time period to obfuscate what these people actually are.
They are painted as people who push for the betterment of social equality. But when these alleged progressives seize energy, the harsher socialist and communist components will immediately seem.
Earl Beal
Terre Haute, Ind.
The Issue: AOC freezing her eggs whereas owing not less than $15,001 on her federal scholar loans.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s refusal to repay her federal scholar loans, whereas saving money for an egg-freezing course of that may price up to $20,000 per cycle, is “egg-regious” (“Student loan IOU for AOC,” Aug. 15).
When it involves perverse priorities, Ocasio-Cortez leads the pack. She makes $174,000 a yr and has no dependents. It’s time for her to pay up.
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She graduated from Boston University with a BA in worldwide relations and economics, however now holds a PhD in BS.
Richard Reif
Kew Gardens Hills
AOC is foregoing paying off her scholar debt to pay for freezing her eggs. She sees this as a teachable second for the plenty. Yet she takes an irresponsible cross on her scholar loans, persevering with to push for debt forgiveness, and is placing these {dollars} in direction of freezing her eggs. Both are “eggs-pensive.”
She’s made a non-public matter a politically expedient one.
Peter Cooper
Bronxville
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