{"id":1830349,"date":"2023-01-31T12:05:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T17:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1830349"},"modified":"2023-01-31T12:08:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T17:08:18","slug":"resolution-to-ask-the-squad-other-house-members-for-position-on-socialism-for-public-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/resolution-to-ask-the-squad-other-house-members-for-position-on-socialism-for-public-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolution to Ask the &#8220;Squad,&#8221; Other House Members for Position on Socialism for Public Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fresolution-to-ask-the-squad-other-house-members-for-position-on-socialism-for-public-record%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1830349&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><em>News Analysis<\/em><\/p>\n<p>House GOP members ask their fellow Republicans to make their positions on socialism public.<\/p>\n<p>26 January\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/salazar.house.gov\/\"><span>Rep. Maria Salazar<\/span><\/a> (R-Fla.), and House Majority leader\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scalise.house.gov\/\"><span>Rep. Steve Scalise<\/span><\/a> (R-La.) (R-La.)\u00a0<a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/1849eea4801\/4c87fe2c-af86-4fe9-b254-04c6bf877161.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">House Concurrent Resolution 9,<\/a>\u00a0Title \u201cDenouncing the horrors of socialism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Salazar and Scalise plan to bring the resolution up for a vote in the House this week. It isn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n<h2>What Say Ye Democrats<\/h2>\n<p><span>There is another subgroup within the Democrats that the Republicans might be interested in asking about socialism. It is the ultraprogressive nine. \u201cSquad\u201d: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ocasio-cortez.house.gov\/\"><span>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez<\/span><\/a><span> (D-N.Y.), <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pressley.house.gov\/\"><span>Rep. Ayanna Pressley<\/span><\/a><span> (D-Mass.), <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tlaib.house.gov\/\"><span>Rep. Rashida Tlaib<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0(D-Mich.), <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bowman.house.gov\/\"><span>Jamaal Bowman<\/span><\/a><span> (D-N.Y.), <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bush.house.gov\/\"><span>Rep. Cori Bush<\/span><\/a><span> (D-Mo.), <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/omar.house.gov\/\"><span>Rep. Ilhan Omar<\/span><\/a><span> (D-Minn.), <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/summerlee.house.gov\/\"><span>Summer Lee<\/span><\/a><span> (D-Penn.(D-Penn. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/casar.house.gov\/\"><span>Greg Casar<\/span><\/a><span> (D-Texas).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It could be dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, all members of the Squad claim they are progressive and liberal; AOC and Tlaib declare openly that they are socialists.<\/p>\n<h2>Resolution Highlights the Horrific Lived Experiences Socialism Can Cause<\/h2>\n<p>Representatives Salazar, Scalise and the President issued a joint press statement announcing this resolution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe district I represent is one that knows the failures of socialism all too well,\u201d Rep. Salazar said that his constituency includes many Cuban exiles. \u201cMy 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 \u2026 socialism fails wherever it has been tried, and we don\u2019t want it here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Scalise said, \u201cThe 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\u2014they\u2019ve seen the horrors of communism and the tens of millions killed by regimes in China, the Soviet Union, North Korea, and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3829805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/05\/25\/GettyImages-1232982577-1200x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium_vertical wp-image-3829805\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-1232982577-525x350-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\"   style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium_vertical wp-image-3829805\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/GettyImages-1232982577-525x350-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) Speaking during the hearing of the House Select Subcommittee regarding the Coronavirus Crisis in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, May 19, 2021. (Susan Walsh\/Pool\/AFP via Getty Images<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHundreds 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Currently, 75 House members including Salazar and Scalise have signed on to support the resolution.<\/p>\n<p>This resolution exposes and describes in stark terms the violence, repression and killing that is imposed on socialist countries and nations.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2224156\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/The-cultural-revolution-1966-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy  wp-image-2224156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/The-cultural-revolution-1966-2.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"407\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2224156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/The-cultural-revolution-1966-2.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"407\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Placards hung by Communist Party cadres are placed around the necks of Chinese men. The words on the placard states the man\u2019s name and accuse him of being a member of the \u201cblack class.\u201d (Public Domain)<\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3678377\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2021\/01\/30\/GettyImages-4919706-30-1200x1088.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-3678377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-4919706-30-600x544-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"544\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3678377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-4919706-30-600x544-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"544\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Young Red Guards brandish copies of Chairman Mao\u2019s \u201cLittle Red Book\u201d Beijing during 1966&#8217;s Cultural Revolution. The Red Guards terrorized elderly people and took over Chinese towns. (Jean Vincent\/AFP via Getty Images).<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhereas socialism has repeatedly led to famine and mass murders, and the killing of over 100,000,000 people worldwide,\u201d Reads one clause.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution declares that Socialism is possible \u201chas repeatedly led to famine and mass murders, and the killing of over 100,000,000 worldwide,\u201d That and more \u201cmany 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 Nicol\u00e1s Maduro.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the resolution, it also states that \u201ctens 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;\u201d  \u201cbetween 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Correction: A previous version of this article misspelt a Representative\u2019s surname. The Epoch Times regrets this error.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Analysis House GOP members ask their fellow Republicans to make their positions on socialism public. 26 January\u00a0Rep. Maria Salazar (R-Fla.), and House Majority leader\u00a0Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) (R-La.)\u00a0House Concurrent Resolution 9,\u00a0Title \u201cDenouncing the horrors of socialism.\u201d Salazar and Scalise plan to bring the resolution up for a vote in the House this week. 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