During the New hampshire debate, the remaining candidates were asked if they would have a problem with a socialist getting the Democratic nomination for president. Amy Klobuchar was the only candidate to raise her hand. That is scary to many Democrats across the country, including MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. Matthews says this about socialism, “It doesn’t frickin’ work.” It never has and I suspect it never will.
Matthews says he visited Cuba and Vietnam and he says he saw first hand the misery caused from socialism/communism. Of course, this is all about taking the nomination away from Bernie Sanders. The establishment was hoping that Joe Biden would win the nomination but now it looks like they are switching to mayor Pete Buttigieg. If he can’t defeat Sanders they don’t really have another candidate that has a chance to unseat President Trump.
Considering the issues the Democrats are running on, it’s tough to see anyone in the party being able to win in November. Open borders, free medical for illegal aliens, the $93 trillion Green New Deal and student loan forgiveness are just not high priorities for most voters.
“…the issue of this campaign, it is that word ‘socialism,’” Matthews said. “Some people like it, younger people like it, those of us like me, who grew up in the Cold War and saw some aspects of it, if there visiting places like Vietnam, like I have, [and seeing countries] like Cuba, being there, I’ve seen what socialism’s like, I don’t like it, OK?” Matthews said. “It’s not only not free, it doesn’t frickin work!”
“I think the Democratic Party has to figure out its ideology,” Matthews continued. “A lot us will be sorting things out if the Democratic Party runs a socialist candidate. That’s a change from the Democratic Party. The Democrat Party has been to the left of the Republican Party on the issue of mixed capitalism, more social programs, they push social security, Medicare, Medicaid, enormously popular programs.”
“I have my views on the word ‘socialist,’ and I’ll be glad to share them with you in private and they go back to the early 1950s. I have an attitude about them, I remember the Cold War, I have an attitude toward Castro,” Matthews contined. “I believe if Castro and the reds had won the Cold War there would have been executions in Central Park and I might have been one of the ones getting executed and certain other people would be there cheering, OK?”