GOP Against Socialism, Dems Split

A House Resolution condemning socialism that was introduced by Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fla) passed with unanimous GOP support. Democrats, though were split on the issue with about half voting for it and half not. Salazar argued that the resolution was "intended as a message to our youth. Right now 40% of generation z and millennials see Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto as a better guide for government than the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness cited in our Declaration of Independence."

"As history has shown, Marx's ideas have led to tyranny and murder carried out by communist regimes," Salazar pointed out. "The freedoms that our youth take for granted would be snuffed out if socialist policies ruled America."

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) condemned the resolution, calling it "undemocratic. If our youth want communism, then so be it. The bourgeois freedoms promoted by Republicans are becoming less acceptable to the American people with each passing day. The enforced conformity of the Marxist system can provide a unifying theme for the next stage of human civilization. The House is out of line condemning it." Jeffries' justified his departure from his 2021 vow to "never bend a knee to hard-left democratic socialism," citing "the new responsibilities incumbent on a person in a leadership position."

In related news, interviews with 75 top media executives revealed that there is strong opposition to objectivity in news reporting. Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor-in-chief at the San Francisco Chronicle summed up the prevailing thinking, saying “objectivity has got to go." Stanford journalism professor, Ted Glasser, asserted that "journalism must free itself from this notion of objectivity to develop a sense of social justice.” The Washington Post's Leonard Downie warned that "allowing the notion that different perspectives ought to get a hearing to pollute the media's coverage of a topic will only slow down the transformation of America into the utopian progressive society that former President Obama promised would be our future."

By John Semmens