Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa), to share with us some of the key things we are trying to accomplish here in the waning days of the 118th Congress. Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, we cover a wide range of topics here, and it is important that we discuss many of them with the public. Something that is an interesting trend these days and is lost in the memory or never even learned about by newer generations is the topic of communism. What? Yeah. It is something that needs to be understood better because when you see polls out there that 28 percent of Gen Z view communism favorably--which shows a very fundamental misunderstanding of its consequences and what it is about--it is very alarming. You have 19 percent of Gen Z that believes a dictatorship would be the best political system. With the rhetoric flying these days, the word ``fascism'' is thrown around so loosely or calling politicians in this country ``Nazis,'' this is all cut from a very similar cloth. For people to believe that a dictatorship or these types of--it is not even government, it is just flat power over the people. What it really boils down to, these trends are the result of a failure to adequately educate our youth about that history, about how brutal that history is. How did it come on board? When you think about in Russia, the Bolsheviks, murdering the powers that be back in the teens of the last century in order to gain power, that is being lost on people these days.…”