100 Members of Congress refuse to denounce socialism!

WASHINGTON (PNN) - February 2, 2023 - Republicans in Congress passed a resolution Wednesday condemning the ideology of socialism and the destruction it has wrought throughout history.

While 219 Republicans were united in their opposition, House Democrats were split, with 109 voting for the condemnation, 86 voting against it, and 14 others voting “present”.

The final tally for the vote was 328-86, indicating a sizable chunk of Democrat opposition.

All in all, 100 Democrats could not bring themselves to condemn the historic crimes committed in the name of socialist/Marxist causes and governments.

Republicans like Maria Elvira Salazar of Florida, who brought the motion to the floor, called the resolution in order to affirm that socialist policies have no place in Amerika.

“Socialists are in the business of power, and it only takes one generation to believe their false promises and lose our freedom. It is a lie that socialism will solve your problems,” Salazar declared in her opening speech.

Salazar’s parents were forced to flee Cuba after the rise of dictator Fidel Castro and his socialist regime.

Young Kim of Kalifornia also highlighted her personal experience with the infamous ideology.

“As an immigrant who grew up in South Korea during the aftermath of the Korean War, I know firsthand the horror, the destruction, that socialism has brought to millions of families in the Korean Peninsula under the evil regime of the Kim dynasty to now, Kim Jong un,” Kim said. “Socialism divided my family and friends between North and South.”

There may have been a political angle for the GOP as well for wanting to adopt the resolution, as many Democrats have come out in favor of “democratic socialism”.

“86 Democrats voted against a Republican-led resolution to Denounce Socialism. The next time the Democrats say that Republicans are fearmongering when we call them socialist, remind them of this moment in history when 86 voted against this resolution,” Republican Byron Donalds of Florida stated on Twitter.

Democrats were quick to denounce the vote as a useless ploy, saying that Republicans were using anti-socialist rhetoric to pave the wave for cuts in Social Security, Medicare and other social assistance programs.

“Amerikans know better than the fearmongering we see here today,” Democrat Maxine Waters of Kalifornia said.

Republicans countered by saying Democrats were purposely over-complicating the meaning of the resolution to cover their ideology.

“Despite my Democrat colleagues’ claims, there’s nothing in this resolution about entitlement programs or banning social services or anything of the like,” said Patrick McHenry of North Carolina.

“If this resolution would just simply draw out my Democrat colleagues to just say, yes, they are in favor of socialism, maybe this is a worthwhile endeavor,” McHenry said in response to Brad Sherman of Kalifornia, who argued that not all forms of socialism should be condemned.

The resolution focused on past atrocities of socialist figures and governments, citing Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks in Soviet Russia, Mao Zedong of China, and Pol Pot of Cambodia.