A Democratic Socialist in a Hurry

It was only hours before New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, an admitted socialist, arrived for his first meeting with President Trump, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan resolution condemning the “horrors of socialism.”

It passed in a bipartisan vote of 285-98, with 86 Democrats in support.  Republican Staten Island Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, whose mother fled Cuba in 1959, voted for it. Her mother left Cuba to avoid what Malliotakis called “the very things that our new socialist mayor in New York City says he wants.”

Whereas the Concurrent Resolution 9 of the 118^th United States Congress has many preambles, a few worth noting are:

Whereas 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.

Whereas 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.

Whereas 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.

It is also telling to consider that many in our House of Representatives who voted against the resolution were insulted by it. Could it be that those who took offense were not bothered by the horrors it described but by its reflection upon them?

Unlike the Communist despots listed above, Chairman Xi continues to wage war against the US. Since coming to power in 2013, with his importation of fentanyl and its precursors, his support of the terrorists who bring them across our borders, he has killed as many Americans as were lost in World War 11, Korea, and Vietnam combined.

The resolution ends:

Whereas the United States of America was founded on the belief in the sanctity of the individual, to which the collectivistic system of socialism in all of its forms is fundamentally and necessarily opposed:

Now, therefore, be it Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That Congress denounces socialism in all its forms, and opposes the implementation of socialist policies in the United States of America.

In summary, it is essential to note that our representatives of the 118^th Congress denounced socialism in all its forms because a communist is just a democratic socialist in a hurry.