Ted Cruz blasts Joel Webbon for saying MAGA should ’embrace socialism’ 

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Ted Cruz blasts Joel Webbon for saying MAGA should 'embrace socialism': Robby Soave | RISING

Ted Cruz blasts Joel Webbon for saying MAGA should 'embrace socialism': Robby Soave | RISING

When it comes to socialism, I always have at the ready a one-word response: No. No today, no tomorrow, no forever.  

Socialism is an ideology of impoverishment and authoritarianism. It is anti-progress, it is anti-human, it is anti-civilization. It always fails, every time some misguided group of ideologues gives it another try. Watch the experiment unfold: For instance, split Korea in half, have one side be capitalist and one side be socialist, and see what happens. You have South Korea, where humans flourish, and North Korea, a repressive hellscape with one of the worst human rights records in the world.  

In the U.S., for the most part it is the Democratic Party trying to resurrect this failed ideology. Look no further than the Democratic Socialists of America, a faction of the Democratic Party that is currently winning: DSA-backed candidates are beating moderates in Democratic primaries all over the country. These people run on a deeply radical platform: Abolish borders and prisons, overthrow capitalism, replace the Constitution. Scary stuff.  

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