Steve Breen for February 20, 2019

Nonsense. Not supporting Bernie Sanders this time around (my first choice is Elizabeth Warren), but the hammer and sickle are the symbols of the now defunct USSR (Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics).

The old Soviet Union was not socialist, regardless of what was in the name. Neither is Cuba, North Korea or China.

There have been various systems that CALL themselves socialist, but they aren’t really. Just because it’s in a name does not make it so, or else you would have to conclude that the People’s Republic of China and the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea are “Republican populist” states.

Even Bernie is no communist, much less an actual socialist.

He is a solid New Deal Democrat who just doesn’t want to join the party unless he can be its nominee for president.

“Socialism” espoused by American PROgressives who call themselves “democratic socialists” is more akin to the kind of regulated Keynesian market economics practiced in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Canada, Finland New Zealand, Iceland or the Netherlands, and the United States under the New Deal until first Nixon and then Reagan started dismantling it.

In all of these countries, there are private businesses and for-profit corporations (IKEA, Nokia, Volvo, Skype, Ericsson, Saab), but they are extensively regulated to protect workers, consumers and our shared environment, as well as (except the U.S.) providing a comprehensive safety net to provide universal education through college and health care as public policy matters in the same way as we handle police, firefighters, emergency disaster relief and public education in K-12.

They are not free, but provided as a public good through taxes. Higher taxes are more than offset by not paying the costs of massive profits and overhead for corporate middlemen who siphon of dollars but contribute NOTHING to actual education or health care.

THAT is the kind of model American “democratic socialists” aspire to.

Uh, Steve? I think someone spiked your drink with the wrong kool-aid.

Just another LIE by a Trump Disciple cartoonist.

Excuse me, but just who is such cuddle buddies with Putin? Why, yes, it’s the human version of the Red Scare himself, DJT.

that’s brilliant

So, Breen’s back to the stupidity, I see…

But Bernie isn’t the one who sucks up to the ex-KGB agent, is he?

Bernie is America’s best hope.

Until I scrolled down and saw the name on the button I thought that was the Current Occupant.

I don’t think Steve realizes that we’re not afraid of Commies or Socialist. The new monster under the bed is Republicans.

I really don’t care what the member of the Boomer and Silent generation feel that Socialism is. I care more about the Millennials having such a tough time with the failing, bankrupt capitalist system that was handed down to them. It is hard to not notice that other OECD nations have much better standards of living.

My current students work harder than I ever had to … and most are working fulltime while carrying a full course load of engineering courses, giving up evenings and weekends. I was able to pay my tuition and book expenses with my summer job earnings.

Cute and sorta clever imagery, if a complete lie.

There is no such thing as “socialism”. It is a word, made up, to scare people. There is Communism and it is a problem. Communism implies the state owns all the national wealth. Hence, an oligarchy owns the national wealth. Only a small percentage of the people are able to distribute income and allocate wealth in that society.

Unfortunately, the same thing can occur in a capitalist society. An oligarchy can control the national wealth! That’s exactly what is currently occurring in the US with a concentration of wealth in the hands of 0.1% of the US population! This concentration, today, is a mirror image of the French economy prior to the French Revolution.We are creating more and more poverty every day.

Hence Breen is an ignoramus and fails to understand the situation.

Propaganda.

The hair color should be that gaudy orange, and Mr. Trump doesn’t wear glasses (at least in public).

Well, Well, look who’s back. Is it “Internet Day” at the Mental Hospital, IOTMS??

“You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means” — Inigo Montoya

Gosh, maybe you should learn some political science before you draw a political cartoon.

Breen, you have just shown me what I can only call “extreme ignorance.”

Mr. Breen, If you are going to make a living commenting on politics you should at least learn the differences between the various economic systems. This just makes you look like another knee jerk redneck.

trump is more likely to lead the US to Russia than Bernie.. But Bernie’s time is past and now is just a loud mouth.. much like the ex major of NY.. Rudy Giuliani

Golly—that’s a new one on me. Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Switzerland, are all Commie countries? Who knew??

Steve, not only are the Socialists on this forum disappointed by your infantile cartoon; I imagine the Communists are also!

If you are worried about the Communists, look at Trump and his pal Putin.

There is a big difference between Communism, and Socialism, and Democratic Socialism. I wish people would take the effort to learn.

Socialism has become the right’s new buzzword.

Breen ‘stubbed’ more than his toe on this one!

The 1990s called. They said your take on socialism is hack AF.

Saying “democratic socialism” is the same as “communism” is a flat lie, and it is being promulgated by liars or those who believe them.

Ah yes. Bernie Sanders. Honeymooned in the former Soviet Union (I mean who really does that?) and stated that bread lines were a sign of the government actually working because people in other countries went hungry.

The “Democratic Socialist” that rails against wealth inequality while he owns not 1, not 2, but 3 homes. Oh the hypocrisy.

Nope. Doesn’t look a bit like Ttump.

Lame Steve!

Hey, wait, I thought Russia was a Republic and the U.S. was supposed to be a Socialist State? Did I miss something?

Breen is a reactionary, (or plays one on TV,) and this is one of his standard reactions.