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Rep. Allen West Says Up To 81 House Members Are Communists

by extreme far right ideologues with no sense of history or actual knowledge.

The actual Q & A is even more damaging that the OP suggests



Not just who is far too liberal or even socialist leaning.... oh no ..... this question was about as specific as one can be .... CARD CARRYING MARXISTS.

I once was a member of the Marx Brothers fan club. Would that make me a card carrying Marxist?

Do they still hand out cards for that?
 
Err you mean inside the borders of the US. Outside it is actually doing something.. inside there is no need for a military.. you got the police no?

Hence the military INSIDE the US nothing but a social program to keep people off the unemployment lines.

NO. The job of the US Military is (or at least should be) to secure the borders of this nation and to maintain readiness to respond to external threats to this nation on a moment's notice. The US Border Patrol is a social program because it's duplicating the work the US Military SHOULD be doing.
 
Yes they do have meaning. Of course those on the Left would like to ignore that most of the time.

Like how support of government run programs means you support a violent revolution and the establishment of a classless and stateless society? :lol:
 
Nope. Only reason ANY American ever needs to be outside this country is to undertake war against an enemy of this nation.

So you want to bar travel to foreign nations and restrict international trade? Your rampant authoritarian tendencies give you far more in common with actual communists than those you accuse.
 
Err you mean inside the borders of the US. Outside it is actually doing something.. inside there is no need for a military.. you got the police no?

Hence the military INSIDE the US nothing but a social program to keep people off the unemployment lines.

Just because our country commonly deploys its troops to other nations doesn't mean that is what a military is suppose to do. I am actually with Tigger on this one. I believe our military should remain as our shield, not our sword. We should have them within our borders. A strong military is a deterrent to invasion, and should not be used to invade sovereign nations in order to promote our political objectives.

I would even go as far to say that the Democratic Party's Mantra of using political power instead of military power to resolve differences outside our borders is correct.
 
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It seems that the leader of the US Communist Party, along with other leftists, is upset with Rep. West, though why he would feel this way is open to question.

Wouldn't the head of the US Communist Party be proud to have 80 or so Communists in Congress, to show that Americans are finally on the right track? Shouldn't the left be pleased if this were so? Optimistic anyway that they are finally making progress?
 
Just because our country commonly deploys its troops to other nations doesn't mean that is what a military is suppose to do. I am actually with Tigger on this one. I believe our military should remain as our shield, not our sword. We should have them within our borders. A strong military is a deterrent to invasion, and should not be used to invade sovereign nations in order to promote our political objectives.

I would even go as far to say that the Democratic Party's Mantra of using political power instead of military power to resolve differences outside our borders is correct.

There would be no political power without the military power to back it up.
 
And that would not effect American political power?

Of course it would. I am assuming you see it as a weakening, where I would see it as a strengthening. I realizing that this is off topic, and I will happily debate it the correct area of the forum with you, as soon as I figure out where that is.
 
The role of the US military is not part of the question.

In broad terms, the US military is in fact a social program. It's funded by tax payer money,and it serves the overall community (in this case the entire country).

Just as public education is tax payer funded, and it serves the overall community.

I do think it's quite pathetic to equate social programs with communism.
It does explain a lot though if people will openly make that jump.
 
a secret communist conspiracy could have least successfully pushed a workable health care reform compromise with a public option. i call BS.

the implied message you just gave is that communism is workable, and we need to move in that direction to fix our problems.

change your lean
 
Remember that Ubama was a member of a communist party called the "New Party" in 95 and 96.
 
In broad terms, the US military is in fact a social program. It's funded by tax payer money,and it serves the overall community (in this case the entire country).

Just as public education is tax payer funded, and it serves the overall community.

Regardless of the role of the military, there is a major difference between it and education, on the Constitutional front.....

The US Military is (for the most part) directly and specifically provided for in Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution. Nowhere in that section does the word "education", "school" or anything of the sort appear. In other words, the US Military has a Constitutional Mandate while the Department of Education DOES NOT.
 
Well, there goes any miniscule chance he had at being a VP nominee.

Seriously, his fellow Republicans had to have a face-palm moment when he said that.
 
Regardless of the role of the military, there is a major difference between it and education, on the Constitutional front.....

The US Military is (for the most part) directly and specifically provided for in Article I, Section 8 of the US Constitution. Nowhere in that section does the word "education", "school" or anything of the sort appear. In other words, the US Military has a Constitutional Mandate while the Department of Education DOES NOT.

So a Constitutionally approved social program is fine?
 
So a Constitutionally approved social program is fine?

If there was such a thing (which thankfully there is not), YES.

I would have much less trouble with MOST of the current budget if those items had been added to Article I, Section 8 via Constitutional Amendment rather than simply by legislative activism.
 
The liberals are just upset that someone actually recognized their true color. The color for the Democrats should be Red, not blue, as Red is the color of socialism/communism. They are upset because they have worked hard creating the liberal label to hide their socialist agenda since socialism/communism has created such a negative view of the true left. However, any reasonable comparison of the Democrats recent agendas and Marxist goals under socialism will show that the two match up very well.
 
The liberals are just upset that someone actually recognized their true color. The color for the Democrats should be Red, not blue, as Red is the color of socialism/communism. They are upset because they have worked hard creating the liberal label to hide their socialist agenda since socialism/communism has created such a negative view of the true left. However, any reasonable comparison of the Democrats recent agendas and Marxist goals under socialism will show that the two match up very well.

Just, just facepalm. Ignoring the history of using those two colors, thinking that democrats=communists, :doh
 
Man, I wish there were any Socialists in the House... Of course, I also wish that the majority of Americans actually understood what Socialism is and what Socialists like myself actually want and support. But we all wish for things that probably won't come true.
 
Man, I wish there were any Socialists in the House... Of course, I also wish that the majority of Americans actually understood what Socialism is and what Socialists like myself actually want and support. But we all wish for things that probably won't come true.

Don't be such a pessimist.

Barrack Obama wasn't.

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