Goofball Republican Proposes Resolution Declaring Capitalism Is Awesome

Republican U.S. Senator Steve Daines wants everyone to know that he loves capitalism, and he’s put forth a resolution in the Senate to prove it. Daines’ resolution would formally condemn “socialism” while also declaring that capitalism is the best economic system in the world, obviously ignoring all the glaring problems this country is facing thanks to unfettered capitalism. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.

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Republican Senator Steve Daines from Montana recently made headlines when he tweeted out the following. He said,

" Montanans are sick and tired of listening to anti-American, anti-Semite, radical Democrats trash our country and our ideals. This is America. We’re the greatest country in the world."

And He tweeted that out in response to Donald Trump's tweet about the squad telling them, uh, if you don't love America, you need to go back to where you came from. Steve Daines, who most people had never heard of prior to that tweeted out the following. He got himself in some headlines and now Steve Daines with a little bit of popularity on his face, introduced a resolution on Monday in the US Senate condemning socialism. Here is a specifically what Daines had to say.

“A radical, socialist, far-left movement is growing across this country. And it has taken root as the new voice of the Democratic Party ... Today we make a choice. Freedom or Socialism. I choose freedom.”

Such a patriotic speech, man almost belongs in Independence Day, right? Right after the president's moving speech, I choose freedom over socialism. Here's the thing, bud. You acknowledge in your little quote right there that there is this a far left movement growing across the United States. It's not just localized to the members of the House of Representatives. It's not just a few ultra-liberal cities here in the United States. It's across the board. Hell, we're even seeing it in some conservatives in this country. When you present them with a hugely progressive democratic socialist policy like Medicare for all or green new deal, they actually support it. So even your precious conservative base, they're starting to open up to the idea that, you know what? Capitalism's kind of screwed us all over. Maybe this isn't a great now that was just a quote from Daines that is not part of the official resolution, but the resolution calls capitalism quote, the greatest engine for human advancement in the history of the world, bringing more people out of poverty and end of prosperity than any economic model in the history of mankind.

Now those are words from the actual resolution itself the Daines has put forward to condemn socialism and praise is capitalism. Here's the thing though, Steve Daines doesn't understand what's actually happening in this country and what's happening in this country right now is that capitalism has failed us. That that's why we have one and a half trillion dollars of student loan debt. That's why we have health insurance companies out there writing letters saying, hey, sorry, your kid has cancer. We don't want to pay for that because it's going to be expensive. Uh, would you like a brochure of tiny baby coffins to look through because that's what you need. That's capitalism folks. Democratic Socialism, not the socialism that idiot Daines is describing of, oh, it's going to, we're going to lose all our property rights. He said, Daines is obviously trying to get a little bit more attention. He's trying to go out there and further condemn the word socialism to scare more people into voting for Republicans in 2020 but the truth is that most people in this country can look around them and understand that capitalism isn't working the way it's supposed to.

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