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The popularity of Democratic Socialism is rising, and more and more people are viewing it as a generous, compassionate alternative to cruelty of capitalism.

As The Week notes, membership in Democratic Socialists of America has more than tripled in the past year, and last weeks conference in Chicago was by far the largest ever. There are many reasons for this and the likability of Bernie Sanders, especially compared withthe likability of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, is certainly part of it.

But another part is the way that progressives routinely portray their economic platform as being morally superior. The holier-than-thou branding is everywhere; just think about how often progressives accuse economic conservatives of wanting to kill sick people, just because they believe that the free market can solve problems. The ultra-liberal are the generous ones, the ones who want to give you things like health care. The conservatives are the mean, old ogres who want to take those things away.

The popularity of the Democratic Socialists seems to suggest that these kinds of tactics are working, and I have just one question: Just how in the hell do so many people seem to believe that its generous to spend other peoples money?

Let me clear this up for the people who dont seem to understand: Progressive politicians are not people who are going to give you health care, because in order to give something, then it has to be yours to give awayin the first place. Think about it: If your boyfriend were to surprise you with dinner and a present, then youd probably be quite happy and thank him for giving you those things. But if you found out that your boyfriend had actually paid for those things using your credit card? Well, then youd probably think much less of it, and maybe youd remind him that the only way that that could count as giving would be if he were nineand you were his mother. People who advocate for progressive politicians are not advocating gratitude; theyre advocating for big government, plain and simple.

Believing in the ability of big government to solve problems doesnt make you any better than the people who believe in shrinking government to solve them; it just means that you have a different view of economics. And the politicians who promise to give you health care, welfare, and other benefits in exchange for votes arent really promising to give those things at all; theyre promising to take resources from others in order to fulfill their promises, without ever having to feel the pinch themselves.

Its going to be incredibly difficult to find solutions to these sorts of problems unless we all acknowledge that everyone is, in fact, looking for them. There isnt just one ideological group who wants people to be healthy and prosperous; literally anyone who is not a sociopath wants that. Its just that one group believes that the best way to do that is to take other peoples money and let the government distribute it. Democratic Socialism is not generosity, its a political view and one that has historically had outcomes more despicable than heartwarming.

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Katherine Timpf is a National Review Online reporter.

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What's So Generous about Spending Other People's Money? - National Review

Louis DeBroux Aug. 16, 2017

The awful violence this past weekend in Charlottesville is the inevitable culmination of the Lefts goal of achieving the complete eradication of opposing viewpoints. Whitewashing history (pardon the pun) and engaging in political violence are tools to that end.

As the Dallas Morning News observantly noted, History is not easily compartmentalized. It isnt simply right versus wrong, black versus white, or blue versus gray. But theres an entire crowd of folks who want to do just that because they believe it is all those things, and most egregiously, they believe there is an individual right for all to go through life unoffended.

Dr. Lee Cheek, senior fellow of the Alexander Hamilton Institute, concurred, noting, The events in Charlottesville have no connection to understanding the political traditions of the American South, and everything to do with battles among professional ideologues without any attachment or knowledge of the historical situation.

Millions of Southerners are proud of their heritage for reasons that have nothing to do with slavery. They revere Confederate General Robert E. Lee, who stated in 1856, five years before the commencement of the War Between the States, Slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil in any country. Lee is heralded as a brilliant military strategist who served America faithfully in the Mexican War and as Superintendent of West Point. However, when called upon by President Abraham Lincoln to lead Union forces against the seceding South, he declined, incapable of bearing arms against his family, friends and home state. He accepted the commission as commander of Confederate forces in order to defend his beloved state of Virginia. Following the war, Lee worked tirelessly to convince his fellow Southerners to seek peace and reconciliation.

None of this matters to the Left, though. There is no understanding of the complexities of history, no appreciation for context. Slavery has existed throughout human history, regardless of color or nationality. In fact, there are more people enslaved worldwide today than ever before, including slavery practiced by Muslims. Mohammad owned slaves. One wonders if American progressives will now call for banning all things Islamic.

Indeed, how far will this go? Historical monuments of the Confederacy are being removed in Memphis, Lexington, Baltimore, New Orleans and elsewhere to appease angry leftists. These fascists even desecrated an Atlanta monument dedicated to unity and reconciliation.

Violent leftists have rioted in recent years in Brooklyn, Baltimore, Chicago, Ferguson, Charlotte, Berkeley, DC, Oakland and other cities, destroying businesses, setting cars on fire, and dragging people from their cars and beating them, declaring their right to do so because of past and current injustices such as hearing words they dont like.

As detestable as the KKK and white supremacists are, they have a right to speak and to peaceably assemble. Our First Amendment was written specifically to protect unpopular speech, and we show our own intolerance by silencing those with whom we disagree. The violence in Charlottesville would not likely have occurred had not the leftist agitators shown up looking to pick a fight, though the murderous Nazi thug is obviously responsible for his own actions.

So again we ask, how far does this go?

Do we eliminate all monuments to Democrat/progressive hero Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who opposed anti-lynching legislation, turned a blind eye to the Nazi eradication of Jews, and imprisoned 100,000 Japanese-Americans? What about progressive icon and racist Woodrow Wilson, who re-segregated the federal workforce?

Progressives have already declared war on Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, who owned slaves but sought to prohibit slavery in the newly formed nation. They now call for taking down the Jefferson Memorial.

Even Lincoln, author of the Emancipation Proclamation, is not immune to leftist hatred. The Lincoln Memorial was desecrated Tuesday. Is that because Lincoln, a staunch opponent of slavery, was willing to save it in order to preserve the Union, or because he also believed in the superiority of the white race?

If we truly want to rid our nation of its shameful history regarding racism, lets start by abolishing the racist Democrat Party. After all, it was the Democrats who waged war to preserve slavery, founded the KKK, enacted Jim Crow laws, and fought against Republican efforts to pass the Civil Rights Act.

Democrat President Andrew Jackson owned slaves and signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

It was Harry Truman who wrote to his wife, I think one man is just as good as another so long as hes not a ner or a Chinaman.

It was the Democrat Party that praised Senator and former KKK Exalted Cyclops Robert Byrd until his death a few years ago, a man who filibustered the Civil Rights Act for 14 hours. It was Lyndon Johnson, a virulent racist but a political pragmatist, who told two Southern Democrat governors his signing of the Civil Rights Act would have those ners voting Democrat for 200 years. And its Johnsons Great Society that has yielded todays urban poverty plantations, where blacks slaughter other blacks without too much notice from the Leftmedia.

What about Bill Clinton, whining of the upstart Obama, A few years ago, this guy would have been carrying our bags? Or the absolute devotion of Democrats to Planned Parenthood, founded by eugenicist Margaret Sanger for the express purpose of exterminating blacks through abortion and sterilization? According to Tuskegee University, the KKK lynched 3,446 blacks in 86 years. Planned Parenthood is a white supremacists dream, killing more blacks in two weeks than the KKK killed in a century. And the Democrat Party fights to ensure that $500 million a year in taxpayer funds is funneled to Planned Parenthood to kill all of those black babies.

Surely we could at least agree to remove the Seattle monument to Vladimir Lenin? Anyone? Anyone?

How far do we go? Are we willing to engage in violence and oppression of opposing viewpoints? If so, then Charlottesville will only be the beginning.

Footnote: Longtime friend of The Patriot Post, distinguished George Mason University professor Walter Williams, has issued erudite warnings about the consequences of historical ignorance here and here, including the removal of historic markers to Confederate generals and the rewriting American history.

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Progressives Use Violence to Whitewash History - Patriot Post

Did you know that Dr. Seusss books are secretly racist? Prof. Philip Nel has been reading between the lines, and brings the news to woke parents. Excerpts:

Fattal:You argue that there is an imperative to keep reading these problematic childrens books. What would you say to those who ask why we wouldnt just stop reading them?

There is actually a very strong case for not reading them. Racist books inflict real damage on children of all races. So theres a very strong argument to be made for that, and I dont want to diminish that at all. The reason that I am not making that argument is that I dont think that ignoring the symptom cures the disease. People need to learn that this is one place that racism comes from. They need to learn it in context. You definitely shouldnt only teach racist childrens books. Theres a wealth of really thoughtful, historically oriented and carefully written books that can help us think about colonialism or racism or sexism more thoughtfully, and you would only want to teach these books in that context.

I think that to erase the crime does not erase its effects. Its still there and we still have to deal with it, and in some ways, the unvarnished awfulness of it, as painful as it is to look at, can be a way to do that, and can be a way to help make it visible elsewhere. If you dont know the history of minstrelsy, then you dont notice it in Mickey Mouse or Bugs Bunny or the Cat in the Hat. Its knowing the history that helps you say, this pop culture that I enjoy is way more racialized than I was aware of, and thats troubling.

Fattal:You talk about the need for a parent or teacher to facilitate discussions on the racist elements of childrens books with students who may be too young to do this kind of critical reading on their own. What might that conversation look like?

Nel:It will obviously depend on the individual child, the age of the child, et cetera, but the best way is to ask questions. When you notice something in a book, ask questions about it.Would you be happy working in a factory and being imprisoned there? What do you make of presenting the Oompa Loompas as happy? What are some of the assumptions of this work? Why is it presenting this character in this way? Why are all the characters in this book white? What do you make of that?You want children to think about power in the text, whose interests are represented in the text, who is not being heard in the text. And you can focus those on the specific work.

I think with children you have to have a conversationyou have to ask them critical questions, and you have to invite them to ask critical questions about the book that they are reading. Its a conversation thats going to be uncomfortable, a conversation in which you may have to admit you dont know all the answers. Its not an easy conversation to have, by any means. One of the things that I do when I teach [college students] in class is I acknowledge my own uncomfortableness. Because sometimes students dont want to talk about this. And so I acknowledge why theyre uncomfortable and that Im uncomfortable, too, and that its okay to be uncomfortable. I think thats the kind of tone to set when you have these conversations: that this is going to be uncomfortable.

Read the whole thing.Mom, would you mind reading our bedtime story tonight? Its no fun when Dad does it.

So, readers, lets have some fun here. What are some questions you could ask your child at bedtime to get them good and woke on familiar childrens stories? Not just Dr. Seuss books, but other classics. Is there a feministreading of Ramona the Pest? Does Goodnight Moon tell us anything about intersectionality?Come on, lets hear it.

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Story Time With Progressives - The American Conservative

BUCYRUS -- Emily Brown, daughter of U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, will speak at 6 p.m. Aug. 24 at the Bucyrus Public Library. Her talk is presented by the Mid-Ohio Progressives.

Brown is a Skadden Fellow at ABLE Advocates for Basic Legal Equality. She is a former judicial law clerk at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and a former law clerk at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Seeking his third term representing Ohio in the U.S. Senate, Democrat Sherrod Brown is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Ohio Secretary of State and member of the Ohio House of Representatives. The Mansfield native is expected to face Republican Josh Mandel in the November 2018 election.

Mid-Ohio Progressives, a local group that formed earlier this year, will also have redistricting reform petitions available for signing. MOP is working with the coalition trying to get a constitutional amendment that would eliminate or greatly reduce partisan gerrymandering in Ohio on the ballot.

For more information, contact Stephanie Surina at 419-562-8021, Pat Hargis at 419-562-6512 or Lisa Miller at 419-569-2346.

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Emily Brown to address Mid-Ohio Progressives on Aug. 24 in Bucyrus - Richland Source

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