Comments by "" (@thehumanity0) on "AOC’s Bernie Endorsement: HIGHLIGHTS" video.

  1. If MLK Jr. was alive he'd be stumping for Bernie at these campaign rallies and drinking beer on the sidelines with Dr. Cornel West
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  2.  @danielj4951  Buddy, MLK Jr. was a Democratic Socialist, he wanted an Economic Bill of Rights like Bernie is pushing. You need to do your research on MLK. He didn't have UBI for a cure-all, he mentioned it in one of his later works where he was literally touting his core policies of guaranteed housing, workers rights, free healthcare, and a guaranteed job. Things that Yang argues against even though he invokes MLK Jr. when politically convenient, even though King never held UBI as a core policy. It was called the "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom" not the "March on Washington for Federal Income and Freedom". He was far more serious about having a basic standard of living and a social safety net just like most European countries have today where they receive education for all, healthcare for all, far better worker's rights, and guaranteed housing. You seriously need to do your research before you start typing out your claims as "FACT:"
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  3.  mark navarro  Yes, I can imagine it now, the guy who said "In this country, we have socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for the poor" would have a MAGA hat on supporting the guy who gave a giant handout to the top 1% and corporations that led to the top 400 families paying a less effective tax rate than the bottom 50% of the country. Not to mention how he'd clearly be supporting Trump after Charlottesville. I don't know if this is just you trolling, but there are numerous people in this thread who need to learn their history.
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  4.  mark navarro  Factually incorrect, they pay, on average, 24% in taxes, while according to a new study, the top 400 families pay an average of 23%. Chances are you're in the bottom 50% and your comment is self-own.
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  5.  @mikek9488  It's Social Democracy aka "Democratic Socialism" as a non-literal label. The same thing that Franklin Roosevelt stood for when he defeated far-right fascism in his time. Bernie is trying to fulfill his legacy by implementing an Economic Bill of Rights.
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  6.  @lindacloudobserver9717  "Many feared", in other words the anti-New Dealers and the opposition power along with corrupt special interests that always hated FDR led a 13-year smear campaign against him for court packing simply so he could pass his New Deal reforms and fix the country when the opposing special interests were getting quite rich from the Great Depression while everyone else suffered. The truth is that Roosevelt served 3 terms and was elected 4 times because he couldn't stop getting reelected by the people who loved him as a president. FDR opposed the establishment at every angle, implemented the New Deal to lift everyone out of the Great Depression and put massive regulations on Wall Street that would last all the way up until the US started regularly suffering from Recessions every 6-10 years again. The Republicans at the time placed a 2-term restriction because they knew if another Social Democrat was ever elected, they would never stop getting reelected by the people. They screwed themselves though, because if they had not placed that restriction on the presidency, they might've had Ronald Reagan in office for 1 or 2 more terms, the same way they're going to screw themselves after they got rid of the filibuster in the Senate.
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  7.  @mikek9488  Germans understand the difference far better than you, they're taught it in their schools in detail so history never repeats itself. The difference is that, here in America, FDR is given credit for the New Deal and he is given credit for leading us to victory in WWII, but his politics and struggle towards fighting far right fascism in his own country is never addressed, and never fully acknowledged by history teachers. The year that Roosevelt was elected, there were Nazi rallies happening in Madison Square Garden. The threat of fascism was not only foreign, it was domestic. FDR proved that one of the cures to far right fascism was Social Democracy and a labor movement of the people that transcended party lines. Even after elected though, the corrupt special interests that opposed him and his New Deal, which in this case was a Morgan bank-centered cabal of powerful financial interests, teamed up with Nazi supporters who plotted a coup to remove Roosevelt and replace him with a puppet government that would be controlled by a cabal of wealthy financial plutocrats with the backing of the Nazis. As a report made clear, "the intention of the conspirators was to use the anarchy and chaos produced by the coup, to eliminate for all time the threat to their power represented by the U.S. Presidency and U.S. Constitution". The attempt had been close to succeeding and might have if not for Marine Corps Maj. General Smedley Butler and FDR himself. You don't have to agree with everything from FDR and you don't have to agree with the Social Democratic ideology of a mixed economy where healthcare, education and minimum guaranteed housing for the homeless are taken off the free market, but you should at least acknowledge American history and exactly what happened in the 1930s and 40s when Nazi fascism not only overtook Germany, but it had threatened to take over America, in some cases, by force. https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2006/eirv33n32-20060811/eirv33n32-20060811_046-the_morgan_fascist_coup_plot_and.pdf https://timeline.com/business-plot-overthrow-fdr-9a59a012c32a
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