Topic: Socialism
“Those who run our so-called American corporations have bent to the will of the woke agenda and care more for their foreign investors and organizations than their American workers and customers. Today, nearly every top-tier U.S. university president or Wall Street hedge fund manager has more in common with a socialist, European head of state than with the parents at a high school football game in Waco, Texas.”
That’s fairly rich, coming from the party who supports a “billionaire” who inherited his money and has absolutely nothing in common with average Americans. He goes on to shit on the UN and the EU, citing “signing international treaties on pharmaceutical patents, climate change, and childrens’ rights” as something he’s egregiously offended by. (Page 42, paragraph 6.)
He then baselessly claims that the Left supports open borders (they don’t, and Trump killed bipartisan legislation recently that would have alleviated problems at the border by telling Republicans not to vote for it so he could continue to campaign on the issue. [Source]
Full contextual analysis of the foreword here.
“Left to our own devices, the American people rejected European monarchy and colonialism just as we rejected slavery, second-class citizenship for women, mercantilism, socialism, Wilsonian globalism, Fascism, Communism, and (today) wokeism. To the Left, these assertions of patriotic self-assurance are just so many signs of our moral depravity and intellectual inferiority—proof that, in fact, we need a ruling elite making decisions for us.”
He seems to be saying that the Left supports women being second-class citizens. Which is ironic, given that the Right’s policies on women more or less afford them the same rights over their own bodies as livestock (and less bodily autonomy than we actually afford corpses in this country.)
Full contextual analysis of the foreword here.
“There is no such thing as “the government.” There are just people who work for the government and wield its power and who—at almost every opportunity—wield it to serve themselves first and everyone else a distant second. This is not a failing of one nation or socialist party, but inherent in human nature.”
I can agree in general terms with this statement. He then nonsensically equates the “Soviet Empire”, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, and Vermont (yes, really) when discussing failed socialist policies. (Most of those suffer/suffered under fascist policies, not socialist.) The Vermont mention was an unveiled dig at Bernie Sanders, whom he mentions by name in the paragraph.
Full contextual analysis of the Foreword here.