The current iteration of the Democratic Party has moved increasingly toward the left in recent years. It has shifted far from the classic liberal positions it once held to an embrace of openly Marxist and socialist policies.
This was evident during the opening of a recent major forum for Democrats that was sponsored by numerous high-profile Democrat-affiliated groups and featured numerous high-profile Democratic speakers, including several top 2020 presidential candidates, according to a report from Mediaite.
That forum was the 2019 We The People Summit in Washington D.C. The event began with opening remarks from NAACP leader Jamal Watkins, in which he lead the crowd in a chanted quote from a convicted cop-killer who is also an avowed Marxist communist.
The chant led by Watkins stated, “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win. We must love each other and support each other. We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
That was a direct quote from convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard. Her quote was itself a mangled adaptation of a quote from Karl Marx, whose writings inspired the communist/socialist movement that has proven so deadly and destructive over the past century-plus.
That quote from Marx read, “Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”
In other words, a major Democratic Party political forum just kicked off with what was essentially a call to arms for a socialist revolution … not exactly something the Democratic Party of years past would have done.
As for Shakur, she was a member of the Black Panthers and Black Liberation Army in the 1970s when she shot and killed a New Jersey state trooper. She was eventually convicted of murder, but ultimately escaped and was granted asylum by Cuba’s communist...
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