In 2011, no party with “Socialist” in its name placed any nominees on the ballot in any state for any regularly-scheduled federal or state elections. This was the first calendar year since 1886 for which that statement was true. However, there were Socialist Workers Party, and Socialist Party, nominees on the ballot in 2011 for a few elections for local office, and also the SWP had a nominee on the ballot in a 2011 New York special U.S. House election.
Usually, in odd years, either the Socialist Party, or the Socialist Workers Party, places nominees on the ballot in New Jersey for state office. New Jersey elects all its state offices in odd years, and has easy ballot access. But in 2011, neither party got on the ballot for state office in that state. Other states with odd year elections for state office are Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
The first state to have candidates from a party with the word “Socialist” in its name was Ohio, where the Socialist Labor Party ran a slate of statewide offices in 1877.
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Just the super obvious –
who needs any separate *socialist* stuff since the Donkeys in 1932 ???
How soon before the bonds, etc. of the U.S.A. regime are given JUNK ratings ???
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Democrats are Socialists?
You’re funny. And poorly informed.
TruFoe. How are “Democrats Socialists?”
I don’t think I’ve heard any serious Democratic candidate or read any official Democratic platforms advocating for total government ownership of the major industries of America?
However, I do understand that this is a basic tenet of the Socialists.
So again, how can “Democrats be Socialists?”
Which New Age Donkey in the 2011 gerrymander Congress is NOT a *socialist* — if not a closet communist ???
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All of them. Stop being silly.
“Silly” is indeed the word. That is what comes of what non-silly conservative David Frum wrote about recently:
“Backed by their own wing of the book-publishing industry and supported by think tanks that increasingly function as public-relations agencies, conservatives have built a whole alternative knowledge system, with its own facts, its own history, its own laws of economics. Outside this alternative reality, the United States is a country dominated by a strong Christian religiosity. Within it, Christians are a persecuted minority. Outside the system, President Obama—whatever his policy errors—is a figure of imposing intellect and dignity. Within the system, he’s a pitiful nothing, unable to speak without a teleprompter, an affirmative-action phony doomed to inevitable defeat. Outside the system, social scientists worry that the U.S. is hardening into one of the most rigid class societies in the Western world, in which the children of the poor have less chance of escape than in France, Germany, or even England. Inside the system, the U.S. remains (to borrow the words of Senator Marco Rubio) ‘the only place in the world where it doesn’t matter who your parents were or where you came from.'”
TrueFoe. You and Demo Rep calling all Democrats the same as Socialists if not Communists is why we 3rd partisans and Independents lose credibility with the general public. Yes, Democrats are liberal and often discard respect for the Constitution and other time-honored American values. But that does not automatically make them a Socialist or a Communist – unless of course they admit to being a closet Socialist or closet Communist.
I know a Democrat when I hear one.
I know a Socialist when I hear one.
I also know a Communist when I hear one.
I also know a Republican when I hear one.
If we want to be respected by the onlookers, then call people what they are and don’t call them what they are not.
How about looking at the ratings of the Congress monsters by the various leftwing/rightwing groups ???
ANY of the incumbent Donkeys or Elephants in the 25-75 percentile range ???
WHO looks any more at the National Donkey Platform and expects ANY less socialism/communism ???
ANY Marx-Lenin *socialists* who are NOT happy with the trend of things in the Donkey Party since 1932 ???
11. What happened to the 1917-1991 ex-U.S.S.R regime — with the 2nd S. being *Socialist* ???
A few of the top folks in the U.S.S.R. *Socialist* regime –
Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev (of the near end of the world 1962 Cuba Missle Crisis), etc.
Any closet folks in the gerrymander U.S.A. Congress mourn the death of such U.S.S.R. regime ???
Demo Rep. Do you know what Socialism is?
If so, tell us – not with your silly stuff like “Just the super obvious – who needs any separate *socialist* stuff since the Donkeys in 1932 ??? How soon before the bonds, etc. of the U.S.A. regime are given JUNK ratings ???”
Tell us what Socialism is!
Ballot Access News fails to mention that the Socialist Party had two candidates for local office in 2011.
I ran for Monmouth County Freeholder in New Jersey with the Socialist Party USA label. Brandon Collins ran for Charlottesville City Council in Virginia.
It’s true that we didn’t have state candidates this year, but it would have been nice to mention the local candidates.
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