When I travel to America (the moment I leave New York City), I see the American flag everywhere. I have been thinking over the reason for that in recent years. Why do people fly this flag? It’s because it represents OUR country. I know, I know… the rainbow flag represents Brooklyn, but the symbol that…
Read more#FeeltheBern of the Social Democrat, not a Democratic Socialist
An excerpt: Sanders, as everyone knows, calls himself a “democratic socialist.” The word “democratic” is fundamental here, because historically socialism has not, typically, come about as a result of free and fair elections. In most socialist countries, like the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic where your humble author was born, socialism was imposed at the point of…
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