Sentences with phrase «democratic socialist who»

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In an Oct. 4 letter to acting Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy, Sen. Marco Rubio demanded the branch nullify the military commission of 2nd Lt. Spenser Rapone, the West Point graduate, Afghanistan combat veteran, and self - identified member of the Democratic Socialists of America who posted photos of himself wearing a Che Guevara shirt under his uniform and a «Communism Will Win» sign tucked into his cover on Sept. 24.

Some who speak from a Christian perspective still think that mildly socialist ideas such as anti - individualism, collectivist projects, income equality, and a vision of full state welfare benefits are closer to the mandate of the Gospel than are democratic capitalist institutions.

In terms of a secret agenda for collectivist authoritarianism, I admit a few liberal elites are that depraved — I was myself shocked by the degree to which the leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America, the ones who helped train our current President and whose leader (Michael Harrington) I myself read and admired in the 80s, were open to deception and smear - tactics, as revealed by Stanely Kurtz's Radical in Chief.

My personal belief is that democratic, free enterprise capitalism can provide a higher standard of living and more freedom than the socialist alternatives and can still be responsible in providing for those who are unable to provide for themselves.

But what of the liberationist, the democratic socialist and the other progressives who perceive King's accomplishments as small compared to their own achievements, and negligible in the light of America's need?

These insects included religious believers, the bourgeoisie, all the aristocracy, any property - owning peasants or «kulaks,» and the independent - minded socialists who refused to sever socialism's remaining connections with Western humanism and the liberal and democratic cause.

Teachout, meanwhile, who had drawn support from the left wing of the Democratic Party, was criticized as a «socialist» who has shallow roots in the district.

Now that we have been rushed into a leadership contest, there is an urgent need for those MPs who see themselves as democratic socialists (of whatever hue) to get together at a meeting in the Commons to agree on a candidate for the leadership election.

Philip Blonde takes an almost Democratic Republican ideology towards public service reform in advocating using social entreprises to manage schools, hospitals, sure start centres etc, which would be democratically connected to all other schools etc through out the country and collectively elect the central management who allocate budget spending to each and every school etc. http://www.respublica.org.uk/publications/ownership-state It sounds more like a radical libertarian socialist solution to public services than a free market conservative solution to public services.

But it's getting late: he's 38, and still claims the mantle of a revolutionary socialist, who scorns all social democratic compromises and accommodations, since left - of - center politicians are, like all the rest, «frauds and liars.»

Further, a tragic example was Salvador Allende who, in Victor Figueroa - Clark's account, despite his long political experience, miscalculated the chances of democratic socialist reform in Chile.

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), who have endorsed Sanders and established an independent expenditure to support his run, has seen its new membership rates double.

God forbidded people who call themselves democratic socialists like me though should demand that the majority population of these islands are treated EQUALLY with the others.

GOP consultant Ed Rollins quipped that «it's the Bernie Sanders campaign all over again,» referring to the socialist 2016 presidential also - ran, who raked in small - time donations but couldn't get the Democratic nomination.

With a huge groundswell of support from the several hundred thousand people who have joined the party since the last election, the radical democratic socialist has snatched Labour from under the noses of the establishment.

Brooklyn District 43 (Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights): Progressive Justin Brannan, a local activist and former staffer to termed - out Councilman Vincent Gentile, bested Palestinian - American Rev. Khader El - Yateem, who embraced the support of the Democratic Socialists of America.

More importantly, by entering the Democratic Party, Sanders broke with the socialist principle of independent working - class political action.1 He became the «sheepdog» herding progressives, who had the option of voting for the Green ticket of Jill Stein and Ajamu Baraka in the general election, back into a party run by the billionaire class he professes to oppose.2 Nevertheless, the broad liberal to radical American left is now discussing what socialism is and debating whether the Left should be inside or outside the Democratic Party — or both inside and outside.

The Vermont senator, who describes himself as a democratic socialist, has emerged as Clinton's strongest Democratic primdemocratic socialist, has emerged as Clinton's strongest Democratic primDemocratic primary rival.

Bronx Assemblyman Luis Sepulveda, who bucked his borough's party establishment and endorsed the democratic socialist in February, blamed this for the failure of his candidacy.

He stood on stage alongside Bernie Sanders, the Independent Vermont Senator who calls himself a «democratic socialist.»

It was only 32 years earlier, by contrast, that another Republican former Governor who narrowly lost the Presidency, Charles Evans Hughes, had won 42.6 % of the Bronx's 1916 vote against Democratic President Woodrow Wilson's 49.8 % and Socialist candidate Allan Benson's 7.3 %.)

Gov. Andrew Cuomo channeled his inner Bernie Sanders — the socialist Democratic US senator from Vermont who's challenging Hillary Clinton for the party's 2016 nod — at a NYC rally where he formally announced he'll convene a wage board to examine boosting the income of fast food workers in New York.

The party received fewer votes than the American Labor Party ticket, a Socialist Party splinter group, which endorsed Democratic incumbent Gov. Herbert Lehman who went on to win the election.

A few Seattle labor leaders have supported Socialist Alternative campaigns, and even those who still support Democratic incumbents speak favorably of the contributions this leftist electoral force has made in pushing the city's political conversation in a more progressive direction.

(Still, she said she had voted for Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders, who identifies as a democratic socialist, in the New York Democratic presidentialdemocratic socialist, in the New York Democratic presidentialDemocratic presidential primary.)

The Vermont senator and self - described «democratic socialist» is waging class warfare against millionaires and billionaires — the folks who pay the lion's share of taxes (he claims many pay nothing), bring jobs to the masses and engage in philanthropy (Bill Gates, anyone?).

And in a few years time select good left democratic socialist Parliamentary candidates who back Jeremy and grassroots opinion.

By the way, progressive socialists are now joining forces with «Islamic socialists», Code Pink (who are now calling for the murder of our soldiers), liberal democrats (some of whom are now supporting Code Pink and now the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt), and others to tear down our capitalistic democratic way of life.

By contrast, the Democratic machine has cleared the field for its own legacy candidate, ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has only to avoid stumbling over a socialist from Vermont and a governor from Maryland whose home city was in flames just months ago.

How democratic is a system where one person, who isn't necessarily a member of the Labour party, has a number of votes, depending on how many trade unions or socialist societies they are members of?

As a grassroots activist who organized for Bernie Sanders in four different states — and have since joined NYPAN and the Democratic Socialists of America — I've heard from hundreds of Americans who are fed up with way the country runs its elections.

NEA had not taken any formal steps to determine who its rank - and - file actually preferred for the Democratic nomination, but it's no secret that there were many in the union who favored Sanders over Clinton, citing the socialist's «opposition to charter schools, support for collective bargaining rights and free tuition at public higher education institutions.»

The Above case of Henderson concerned the case of a man who held left - wing democratic socialist views.