Resolution to Ask the “Squad,” Other House Members for Position on Socialism for Public Record
News Analysis
House GOP members ask their fellow Republicans to make their positions on socialism public.
26 January Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fla.), and House Majority leader Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) (R-La.) House Concurrent Resolution 9, Title “Denouncing the horrors of socialism.”
Salazar and Scalise plan to bring the resolution up for a vote in the House this week. It isn’t much of a stretch to imagine that the motion hopes to put any Republicans, Democrats, or Independents who identify either socially or economically with far-leftist ideals in an uncomfortable position with this legislative initiative.
What Say Ye Democrats
There is another subgroup within the Democrats that the Republicans might be interested in asking about socialism. It is the ultraprogressive nine. “Squad”: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.), Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.), Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Summer Lee (D-Penn.(D-Penn. Greg Casar (D-Texas).
It could be dangerous.
At the moment, all members of the Squad claim they are progressive and liberal; AOC and Tlaib declare openly that they are socialists.
Resolution Highlights the Horrific Lived Experiences Socialism Can Cause
Representatives Salazar, Scalise and the President issued a joint press statement announcing this resolution.
“The district I represent is one that knows the failures of socialism all too well,” Rep. Salazar said that his constituency includes many Cuban exiles. “My constituents understand firsthand the consequences [that] socialist ideology brought to our continent: misery, oppression, and exile. I am proud to introduce a resolution that makes it clear … socialism fails wherever it has been tried, and we don’t want it here.”
Rep. Scalise said, “The natural progression of socialist and communist policies is to a totalitarian state that deprives its citizens of basic freedoms and human rights. The American people know this—they’ve seen the horrors of communism and the tens of millions killed by regimes in China, the Soviet Union, North Korea, and elsewhere.
“Hundreds of thousands of Russians, Chinese, Cambodians, Koreans, Cubans, and Venezuelans have fled from murderous communist dictatorships and have legally resettled here in America. They are a living testament to the barbarity of these socialist regimes and the promise of the American dream.”
Currently, 75 House members including Salazar and Scalise have signed on to support the resolution.
This resolution exposes and describes in stark terms the violence, repression and killing that is imposed on socialist countries and nations.
“Whereas socialism has repeatedly led to famine and mass murders, and the killing of over 100,000,000 people worldwide,” Reads one clause.
The resolution declares that Socialism is possible “has repeatedly led to famine and mass murders, and the killing of over 100,000,000 worldwide,” That and more “many of the greatest crimes in history were committed by socialist ideologues, including Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot, Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un, Daniel Ortega, Hugo Chavez, and Nicolás Maduro.”
In the resolution, it also states that “tens of millions died in the Bolshevik Revolution, at least 10,000,000 people were sent to the gulags in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and millions more starved in the Terror-Famine (Holodomor) in Ukraine;” “between 15,000,000 and 55,000,000 people starved to death in the wake of famine and devastation caused by the Great Leap Forward in China.”
Correction: A previous version of this article misspelt a Representative’s surname. The Epoch Times regrets this error.
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