Political Quotes

“I rise to oppose this cynical and silly resolution. I am not a socialist myself, but a Tom Payne Democrat, a champion of strong democracy, universal freedom, and equal rights for everybody, but this resolution is ridiculous. From its first paragraph, it promotes the fallacy that socialist ideology leads to social collapse. In fact, many of our strongest democratic allies on Earth, including Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland, lead strong, democratic socialist governments and thriving societies and economies. Yet, House Republicans base their entire resolution on this falsehood and advance a false equation between democratic socialism and Communist dictatorship, a preposterous assertion that contaminates the entire resolution. The resolution even tries to conscript to these ideological deceptions the words of Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, enlightenment liberals who lived long before socialist ideology even existed and would detest the fanatical, theocratic politics of the MAGA movement and the plutocratic billionaires and plundering CEOs who are running these things behind the curtains. Thomas Jefferson is quoted embarrassingly in this resolution for the proposition that to take property from one to give to another is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association.”