The House Republicans just passed a “resolution” condemning socialism. This is a 150 year old bullshit trick from the Jim Crow South that fools still buy into. These MAGA Cultists have nothing to run on, certainly no achievements these last two years - pointless war, rising inflation, food price escalation, farm foreclosures, endless sickening corruption, hiding the Epstein Files, attacking Canada, destroying decades of alliances worldwide, sticking water sucking pollution belching data centers all over hell and back…no winners there…
Historian Heather Cox Richardson makes it very clear that after the civil war the slaves were freed and as voters they pushed for government programs to aid the common good – schools, libraries, public roads, etc. The wealthy oligarchs who had lost their slaves were not about to let the slaves rise up in any way. So what they did was scream “socialism”! And, of course, they overturned the confederacy loss into a confederacy continuation by driving federal forces out of the south and ending reconstruction. And by establishing the new confederacy’s slave-like structure of Jim Crow, complete with cross burnings, beatings, rapes, imprisonment, and of course accusations of “socialism!”
They sure as hell were not about to let the slaves become educated and empowered in anyway. Keep them down. They stay on top. Racists. Oligarchs. Rich, greedy, entitled, cruel.
And here we are again, as usual in America the oligarch billionaires are screaming “socialism”. It’s the same story. It’s the currently empowered confederacy oligarchs, spread now across the entire land. As always doing everything they can to disempower normal people with planned destruction of food Security, Social Security, Health Security, legal security, as much of government assistance and protection as they can get away with. They are out to crush all of us, not just former slaves. By crying “Socialism”! “Communism”! It’s bullshit.
And Republican voting sheep keep falling for it and vote to give more and more power to the billionaires - and give up more and more power for themselves.
Don’t fall for it.
